Compound vs Composition - What's the difference?
compound | composition |
an enclosure within which workers, prisoners, or soldiers are confined
a group of buildings situated close together, e.g. for a school or block of offices
composed of elements; not simple
* I. Watts
(music) An octave higher than originally (i.e. a compound major second is equivalent to a major ninth).
Anything made by combining several things.
(chemistry, dated) A substance made from any combination elements.
(chemistry) A substance formed by chemical union of two or more ingredients in definite proportions by weight.
(linguistics) A lexeme that consists of more than one stem; compound word; for example (laptop), formed from (lap) and (top).
To form (a resulting mixture) by combining different elements, ingredients, or parts.
* Sir Walter Scott
To assemble (ingredients) into a whole; to combine, mix, or unite.
* Addison
To modify or change by combination with some other thing or part; to mingle with something else.
* Shakespeare
(legal) To settle by agreeing on less than the claim, or on different terms than those stipulated.
To settle amicably; to adjust by agreement; to compromise.
* Shakespeare
To come to terms of agreement; to agree; to settle by a compromise; usually followed by with'' before the person participating, and ''for before the thing compounded or the consideration.
* Shakespeare
* Clarendon
* R. Carew
* Hudibras
(obsolete) To compose; to constitute.
* Shakespeare
To worsen a situation or thing state
* New Family Structure Study
The proportion of different parts to make a whole.
The general makeup of something.
(obsolete) An agreement or treaty used to settle differences; later especially, an agreement to stop hostilities; a truce.
* , I.40:
* 1630 , John Smith, True travels , in Kupperman 1988, p.50:
(obsolete) An agreement to pay money in order to clear a liability or obligation; a settling.
* 1745 , Edward Young, Night-Thoughts , II:
(legal) an agreement or compromise by which a creditor or group of creditors accepts partial payment from a debtor.
A mixture or compound; the result of composing.
An essay.
(linguistics) The formation of compound words from separate words.
A work of music, literature or art.
* 1818 , (Jane Austen), A letter dated 8 September 1818:
(printing) Typesetting.
(label) Applying a function to the result of another.
(obsolete) Consistency; accord; congruity.
* Shakespeare
Synthesis as opposed to analysis.
* Sir Isaac Newton
In lang=en terms the difference between compound and composition
is that compound is an octave higher than originally (i.e. a compound major second is equivalent to a major ninth) while composition is an agreement or compromise by which a creditor or group of creditors accepts partial payment from a debtor.In linguistics terms the difference between compound and composition
is that compound is a lexeme that consists of more than one stem; compound word; for example {{term|laptop}}, formed from {{term|lap}} and {{term|top}} while composition is the formation of compound words from separate words.As nouns the difference between compound and composition
is that compound is an enclosure within which workers, prisoners, or soldiers are confined while composition is the proportion of different parts to make a whole.As an adjective compound
is composed of elements; not simple.As a verb compound
is to form (a resulting mixture) by combining different elements, ingredients, or parts.compound
English
(wikipedia compound)Etymology 1
Possibly from (etyl) kampong, .Noun
(en noun)Synonyms
* gaol/jail, pen, pound, prisonEtymology 2
From (etyl) compounen, from (etyl) componre, .Adjective
(-)- a compound word
- Compound substances are made up of two or more simple substances.
Synonyms
* (composed of elements) compositeAntonyms
* (composed of elements) simpleDerived terms
* compound chocolate * compound interestNoun
(en noun)Synonyms
* (anything made by combining several things) amalgam, blend, combination, composite, mix, mixture * (word) compound wordHyponyms
* (word) closed compound * (word) hyphenated compound * (word) open compoundVerb
(en verb)- to compound a medicine
- incapacitating him from successfully compounding a tale of this sort
- We have the power of altering and compounding those images into all the varieties of picture.
- Only compound me with forgotten dust.
- to compound a debt
- I pray, my lords, let me compound this strife.
- Here's a fellow will help you to-morrow; compound with him by the year.
- They were at last glad to compound for his bare commitment to the Tower.
- Cornwall compounded to furnish ten oxen after Michaelmas for thirty pounds.
- Compound for sins they are inclined to / By damning those they have no mind to.
- his pomp and all what state compounds
- This problem is compounded when these studies compare data from the small convenience samples of gay parenting with data on heterosexual parenting
Synonyms
* (to come to terms of agreement) agree * (to put together) assemble, blend, combine, join, join together, mix, put together, unite * (to add to) augment, increase * settleDerived terms
* compoundableReferences
External links
* English heteronymscomposition
English
(wikipedia composition)Noun
(en noun)- It will stoope and yeeld upon better compositions to him that shall make head against it.
- with an incredible courage they advanced to the push of the Pike with the defendants, that with the like courage repulsed, that the Turks retired and fled into the Castle, from whence by a flag of truce they desired composition .
- Insidious death! should his strong hand arrest, / No composition sets the prisoner free.
- and how good Mrs. West could have written such books and collected so many hard words, with all her family cares, is still more a matter of astonishment. Composition seems to me impossible with a head full of joints of mutton and doses of rhubarb.
- There is no composition in these news / That gives them credit.
- The investigation of difficult things by the method of analysis ought ever to precede the method of composition .