Composition

Noun

 * 1) The combining of different parts to make a whole.
 * 2) The general makeup of something.
 * 3) A mixture or compound; the result of composing.
 * 4) An essay.
 * 5)  The formation of compound words from separate words.
 * 6) A work of music, literature or art.
 * 7)  typesetting.
 * 8)  An agreement or treaty used to settle differences; later especially, an agreement to stop hostilities; a truce.
 * 9)  An agreement to pay money in order to clear a liability or obligation; a settling.

Adjectives for Composition
decorative; didactic; careless; pretentious; ludicrous; tragic; vile; dishonorable; artistic; unwieldy; monstrous; secular; monumental; reposeful; allegorical; touching; fugitive; orchestral; historical; intensive; feminine; studied; capricious; fantastic; motley; choral; essential; elaborate; crude; important; vital; grave; dramatic; humorous; graceful; striking; aesthetic; creative; realistic.

Verbs for Composition
adjust—; alter—; arrange—; compound—; deliver—; fashion—; form—; frame—; interpret—; order—; polish—; prepare—; print—; release—; reshape—; score—; toss off—; transpose—; versify—; vocalize—; —involves.

Related terms
composite; compositing

Thesaurus
adaptation, addition, adjustment, admixture, adobe, affiliation, agglomeration, aggregate, aggregation, agreement, air varie, aleatory, aleatory music, alliance, alloy, alloyage, amalgam, amalgamation, amends, anatomy, architectonics, architecture, arrangement, art object, article, artifact, artistry, assembly, assimilation, association, atmosphere, atonement, authorcraft, authorship, autograph, automatic writing, balance, bargain, blend, blending, body-build, brainchild, brand, brew, bric-a-brac, brushwork, build, building, cabal, cacoethes scribendi, cartel, cast, casting, cement, census, centralization, chamber music, chamber orchestra, character, characteristic, characteristics, child, chinking, choice of words, classic, clay, coalescence, coalition, coinage, cold-type typesetting, color, combination, combine, combo, comminglement, commingling, commixture, compensation, complexion, composing, composing stick, composite, compound, compromise, computer printout, computerized typesetting, concession, concoction, confection, confederacy, confederation, configuration, conformation, congeries, conglomeration, conjugation, conjunction, consolidation, conspiracy, constituents, constitution, construction, content, contents, conversion, cop-out, copy, crafting, craftsmanship, crasis, creation, creative writing, creature, crowning achievement, cultivation, deal, decoction, decoctum, descant, desertion of principle, design, devising, dharma, dialect, diathesis, diction, disposition, distillation, divisions, document, draft, draftsmanship, drama-writing, dummy, eclecticism, ecumenism, edited version, editorial-writing, effect, elaboration, electronic music, elements, embodiment, encompassment, end product, engrossment, enosis, ensemble, erection, essay, essay-writing, essence, ethos, etude, evasion of responsibility, exercise, expiation, expiatory offering, expository writing, expression, extract, extraction, fabric, fabrication, facility in writing, fair copy, fashion, fashioning, feature-writing, federalization, federation, fiber, fiction, final draft, finished version, first draft, flimsy, forging, form, format, formation, forming, formula, formulation, frame, framing, fruit, furniture, fusion, galley chase, genius, getup, give-and-take, giving way, grain, grammar, graphomania, graphorrhea, graphospasm, grotesque, grouping, grout, growing, guts, habit, handicraft, handiwork, harmonization, harmony, harvesting, holograph, hookup, hot-metal typesetting, hue, humor, humors, idiom, ilk, immixture, imposition, incidental music, inclusion, incorporation, indemnification, indemnity, index, inditement, ingredients, innards, insides, instrumental music, integration, interfusion, interlarding, interlardment, interminglement, intermingling, intermixture, invention, inventory, issue, items, journalism, junction, junta, justification, kind, kitsch, language, layout, league, letter, libretto-writing, line, line of type, list, literae scriptae, literary artefact, literary artistry, literary composition, literary power, literary production, literary talent, literature, locution, lucubration, machining, magma, make, makeup, making, making amends, making good, making right, making up, manufacture, manufacturing, manuscript, marriage, master, masterpiece, masterwork, mastic, matter, medley, melange, meld, melding, merger, milling, mingling, mining, mintage, mix, mixing, mixture, mobile, mold, molding, mortar, museum piece, mutual concession, nature, new mintage, nocturne, nonfiction, novel-writing, nude, offspring, old master, opera, opus, opuscule, orchestration, organic structure, organism, organization, original, origination, outcome, outgrowth, package, package deal, painterliness, paper, parchment, parget, parlance, part, parts, paste, pasticcio, pastiche, patching plaster, pattern, patterning, peace offering, pen, pencraft, penscript, perspective, photocomposition, photosetting, phototypesetter, phototypesetting machine, phrase, phraseology, phrasing, physique, piaculum, piece, piece of virtu, piece of writing, placement, placing, plan, play, playwriting, pluralism, poem, prefabrication, preparation, printed matter, printout, processing, producing, product, production, program music, property, propitiation, proportion, quality, quittance, quoin, raising, reading matter, ready pen, recension, reclamation, recompense, redemption, redress, refining, reparation, restitution, result, rewriting, rhetoric, ricercar, roughcast, satisfaction, score, screed, scrip, script, scrive, scroll, second draft, set-up, setting, settlement, setup, shading, shadow, shape, shaping, short-story writing, size, skill with words, slug, smelting, solidification, somatotype, sonata, sonatina, sort, spackling compound, speech, spirit, squaring, stabile, stamp, statue, still life, story, streak, string orchestra, string quartet, stripe, structure, structuring, stucco, study, suchness, surrender, syncretism, syndication, syneresis, synthesis, system, talk, technical writing, technique, tectonics, temper, temperament, tendency, tenor, texture, the written word, theme, theme and variations, tie-up, tissue, tone, transcript, transcription, treatment, trio, type, typescript, typesetting, typesetting machine, understanding, unification, union, usage, use of words, usus loquendi, values, variation, vein, verbiage, verse-writing, version, virtu, warp and woof, way, weave, web, wedding, whole, wordage, wording, work, work of art, workmanship, writing, yielding

Etymology
From compositio:.

Translations

 * Albanian: kompozim
 * Bulgarian: съединение, смесване
 * Chinese:
 * Mandarin:
 * Dutch:
 * French:
 * German:
 * Greek: ,


 * Irish: comhdhéanamh
 * Italian:
 * Korean: 작곡
 * Portuguese:
 * Romanian: compunere, compoziție, alcătuire
 * Swahili:
 * Vietnamese:


 * Armenian: բաղադրություն, ,
 * Bulgarian: състав,
 * Czech:
 * Danish: sammensætning, komposition
 * Dutch:


 * French:
 * Greek:
 * Italian: ,
 * Portuguese: composição
 * Swahili:


 * Armenian: բաղադրություն
 * Bulgarian: смес,,  композит
 * Danish:
 * Dutch:
 * Finnish:, , ,
 * French:
 * Greek: ,


 * Irish: comhdhéanamh
 * Italian:
 * Latin: compositio
 * Portuguese: composição
 * Romanian: compoziție
 * Swahili:


 * Albanian: kompozim
 * Arabic: تأليف
 * Armenian: կոմպոզիցիա
 * Bulgarian: композиция
 * Czech: skladba (music)
 * Dutch:
 * French: ,
 * German:
 * Greek:


 * Irish: comhdhéanamh
 * Italian: ,
 * Latin: compositio
 * Portuguese: composição
 * Romanian: compoziție, compunere
 * Serbian:
 * Spanish:
 * Swahili:


 * Bulgarian: съчинение, есе
 * Danish:
 * Dutch:
 * Finnish: essee, aine, ainekirjoitus
 * French:


 * Greek: σύγγραμα
 * Italian:
 * Portuguese:
 * Swahili:


 * Bulgarian: