English Dictionary

composition

/ˌkɒmpəˈzɪʃən/

名詞

可算名詞 不可算名詞 廃用 シンガポール英語

The act of putting together; assembly. / A mixture or compound; the result of composing. / The proportion of different parts to make a whole. / The general makeup of a thing or person.

日本語の意味

各部分を組み合わせる行為、またはその結果としてできたもの / 複数の要素からなる混合物または合成物 / 全体を構成する各部分のバランスや割合 / 物や人の全体的な構成や組み立て状態

The composition of the painting is truly remarkable.

意味（1）

The act of putting together; assembly.

意味（2）

A mixture or compound; the result of composing.

Ste. What do'st thou know me for? Kent. A Knave, a Rascall, … one that would'st be a Baud in way of good service, and art nothing but the composition of a Kave, Begger, Coward, Pandar, and the Sonne and Heire of a Mungrill Bitch, one whom I will beate in to clamours whining, if thou deny'st the least sillable of thy addition.

意味（3）

The proportion of different parts to make a whole.

And as for the perfume which thou shalt make, ye shall not make to yourselves according to the composition thereof: it shall be unto thee holy for the Lord.

意味（4）

The general makeup of a thing or person.

John of Gaunt. O how that name befits my composition! Old Gaunt indeed, and gaunt in being old: Within me grief hath kept a tedious fast; And who abstains from meat that is not gaunt?

意味（5）

(obsolete) An agreement or treaty used to settle differences; later especially, an agreement to stop hostilities; a truce.

It will stoope and yeeld upon better compositions to him that shall make head against it.

意味（6）

(obsolete) A payment of money in order to clear a liability or obligation; a settling or fine.

意味（7）

(Singapore, law) A payment of fine in order to settle a (usually minor) criminal charge.

意味（8）

(law) an agreement or compromise by which a creditor or group of creditors accepts partial payment from a debtor.

意味（9）

An essay.

意味（10）

(linguistics) The formation of compound words from separate words.

意味（11）

A work of music, literature or art.

[…] 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.

意味（12）

(printing) Typesetting.

意味（13）

(mathematics) Applying a function to the result of another.

意味（14）

(physics) The compounding of two velocities or forces into a single equivalent velocity or force.

意味（15）

(obsolete) Consistency; accord; congruity.

There is no composition in these news That gives them credit.

意味（16）

Synthesis as opposed to analysis.

The investigation of difficult things by the method of analysis ought ever to precede the method of composition.

意味（17）

(painting, photography) The arrangement and flow of elements in a picture.

意味（18）

(object-oriented programming) Way to combine simple objects or data types into more complex ones.

compositions （ plural ）