Element vs Composure - What's the difference?
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One of the simplest or essential parts or principles of which anything consists, or upon which the constitution or fundamental powers of anything are based.
* (Benjamin Jowett) (1817-1893) ((Thucydides))
# (label) Any one of the simplest chemical substances that cannot be decomposed in a chemical reaction or by any chemical means and made up of atoms all having the same number of protons.
# One of the four basic building blocks of matter in theories of ancient philosophers and alchemists: water, earth, fire, and air.
# (label) A required aspect or component of a cause of action. A deed is regarded a violation of law only if each element can be proved.
# (label) One of the objects in a set.
A small part of the whole.
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A place or state of being that an individual or object is better suited towards.
The bread and wine taken at Holy Communion.
A group of people within a larger group having a particular common characteristic.
A short form of heating element, a component in electrical equipment, often in the form of a coil, having a high resistance, thereby generating heat when a current is passed through it.
(label) One of the conceptual objects in a markup language, usually represented in text by a matching pair of tags.
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Calmness of mind or matter, self-possession.
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* I. Watts
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(obsolete) The act of composing, or that which is composed; a composition.
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(obsolete) Orderly adjustment; disposition.
* Woodward
(obsolete) frame; make; temperament
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(obsolete) A combination; a union; a bond.
As nouns the difference between element and composure
is that element is element (part of a whole) while composure is calmness of mind or matter, self-possession.element
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(wikipedia element)Noun
(en noun)- The simplicity which is so large an element in a noble nature was laughed to scorn.
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- The div element was introduced into HTML as a solution to the layout problem.
Synonyms
* (in chemistry) chemical element * (in set theory) memberDerived terms
* chemical element * data element * heating elementSee also
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* English terms derived from Etruscan ----composure
English
Noun
- We seek peace and composure .
- When the passions are all silent, the mind enjoys its most perfect composure .
- “Did you want anything, ma’am?” I enquired, still preserving my external composure , in spite of her ghastly countenance and strange exaggerated manner.
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- Signor Pietro, who had an admirable way both of composure [in music] and teaching.
- Various composures and combinations of these corpuscles.
- His composure must be rare indeed / Whom these things can not blemish.
- (Shakespeare)