Opus vs Composition - What's the difference?
opus | composition | Synonyms |
A work of music or set of works with a specified rank in an ordering of a composer's complete published works.
A work, especially of art.
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
Opus is a synonym of composition.
As nouns the difference between opus and composition
is that opus is a work of music or set of works with a specified rank in an ordering of a composer's complete published works while composition is the proportion of different parts to make a whole.opus
English
Noun
(en-noun)- Beethoven's ''opus'' eighteen quartets are considered by many to be the beginning of the Romantic era.
- The painter's last opus was a dedication to all things living, in a surprising contrast to all of his prior work.
Usage notes
The most common plural of opus'' in English is ''opuses''. Some people use the Latin plural, ''opera''. ''Opi'' is fairly common in the field of classical music, though mostly in informal contexts. The use of any of these three pluralizations may result in the speaker being corrected, though ''opi'' above all should be avoided in formal contexts. Outside of music, the word ''opus'' sees particularly frequent use in the expression ''magnum opus .Anagrams
* * English nouns with irregular plurals ----composition
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 .
