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composition

English

Etymology

From Middle English composicioun, from Old French composicion, from Latin compositi?, compositi?nem.

Pronunciation

  • (UK) IPA(key): /?k?mp??z???n/

Noun

composition (countable and uncountable, plural compositions)

  1. The act of putting together; assembly.
  2. A mixture or compound; the result of composing. [from 16th c.]
  3. The proportion of different parts to make a whole. [from 14th c.]
    • 1611, King James Version of the Bible, Exodus 30:37,[1]
      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.
  4. The general makeup of a thing or person. [from 14th c.]
    • c. 1595, William Shakespeare, Richard II, Act II, Scene 1,[2]
      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?
    • 1932, Frank Richards, The Magnet - Bunter's Night Out
      It seemed that the milk of human kindness had not been left out of his composition.
  5. (obsolete) An agreement or treaty used to settle differences; later especially, an agreement to stop hostilities; a truce. [14th-19th c.]
    • 1604, William Shakespeare, Measure for Measure, Act 1, Scene 2, Lines 1-3
      If the Duke, with the other dukes, come not to composition with the king of Hungary, why then all the dukes fall upon the king.
    • c. 1605, William Shakespeare, Macbeth, Act I, Scene 2,[3]
      That now
      Sweno, the Norways’ king, craves composition:
      Nor would we deign him burial of his men
      Till he disbursed at Saint Colme’s inch
      Ten thousand dollars to our general use.
    • 1630, John Smith, True travels, in Kupperman 1988, p.50:
      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.
    • 1754, David Hume, The History of England, London: T. Cadell, 1773, Volume I, p. 8,[4]
      [] the Britons, by rendering the war thus bloody, seemed determined to cut off all hopes of peace or composition with the enemy.
  6. (obsolete) A payment of money in order to clear a liability or obligation; a settling or fine. [16th-19th c.]
    • c. 1602, William Shakespeare, All’s Well That Ends Well, Act IV, Scene 3,[5]
      He hath perverted a young gentlewoman here in Florence, of a most chaste renown; and this night he fleshes his will in the spoil of her honour: he hath given her his monumental ring, and thinks himself made in the unchaste composition.
    • 1688, Parliament of England, Toleration Act 1688, section 3:
      That all and every person and persons already convicted or prosecuted in order to conviction of recusancy [] shall be thenceforth exempted and discharged from all the penalties, seizures, forfeitures, judgments, and executions, incurred by force of any of the aforesaid Statutes, without any composition, fee, or further charge whatsoever.
    • 1745, Edward Young, Night-Thoughts, II:
      Insidious death! should his strong hand arrest, / No composition sets the prisoner free.
  7. (law) an agreement or compromise by which a creditor or group of creditors accepts partial payment from a debtor.
  8. An essay. [from 16th c.]
  9. (linguistics) The formation of compound words from separate words. [from 16th c.]
  10. A work of music, literature or art. [from 17th c.]
    • 1818, Jane Austen, A letter dated 8 September 1818:
      [] 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.
  11. (printing) Typesetting. [from 19th c.]
  12. (mathematics) Applying a function to the result of another.
  13. (physics) The compounding of two velocities or forces into a single equivalent velocity or force.
  14. (obsolete) Consistency; accord; congruity.
    • c. 1604, William Shakespeare, Othello, Act I, Scene 3,[6]
      There is no composition in these news
      That gives them credit.
  15. Synthesis as opposed to analysis.
    • The investigation of difficult things by the method of analysis ought ever to precede the method of composition.
  16. (painting, photography) The arrangement and flow of elements in a picture.
  17. (object-oriented programming) Way to combine simple objects or data types into more complex ones.

Synonyms

  • (general makeup of a thing or person): configuration, constitution; see also Thesaurus:composition
  • (mixture or compound): blend, melange; see also Thesaurus:mixture
  • (work of music, literature or art): See also Thesaurus:musical composition

Derived terms

  • composition algebra
  • composition book, composition notebook
  • composition fee
  • letter of composition

Related terms

  • composite
  • compositing
  • compositionism
  • compositionist

Translations

Anagrams

  • monisotopic

French

Etymology

From Old French composicion, borrowed from Latin compositi?, compositi?nem.

Pronunciation

  • IPA(key): /k??.po.zi.sj??/

Noun

composition f (plural compositions)

  1. composition, makeup
  2. essay
  3. composition, work of art
  4. (linguistics) composition, formation of compound words
  5. (printing) composition, typesetting
  6. (sports) lineup
  7. (object-oriented programming) composition

Synonyms

  • (essay): essai, dissertation, rédaction
  • (work of art): œuvre

Related terms

  • composer
  • compositeur

Descendants

  • ? Turkish: kompozisyon

References

  • “composition” in Trésor de la langue française informatisé (The Digitized Treasury of the French Language).

Middle French

Etymology

From Old French composicion.

Noun

composition f (plural compositions)

  1. agreement; accord; pact

Descendants

  • French: composition

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story

English

Pronunciation

  • IPA(key): /?st??.?i/
  • Rhymes: -???i

Etymology 1

From Middle English storie, storye, from Anglo-Norman estorie, from Latin historia, from Ancient Greek ??????? (historí?, learning through research), from ??????? (historé?, to research, inquire (and) record), from ????? (híst?r, the knowing, wise one), from Proto-Indo-European *weyd- (to see, know). Doublet of history and storey.

Alternative forms

  • storie (obsolete)

Noun

story (plural stories)

  1. A sequence of real or fictional events; or, an account of such a sequence.
    Synonym: tome
    • 1673, William Temple, An Essay upon the Advancement of Trade in Ireland
      it must be exploded for fabulous, with other relics of ancient story.
    • June 1861, Edinburgh Review, The Kingdom of Italy
      Venice, with its unique city and its impressive story
  2. A lie, fiction.
    Synonyms: see Thesaurus:lie
  3. (US, colloquial, usually pluralized) A soap opera.
    Synonym: serial
    • 1991, Stephen King, Needful Things
      He stood on the doorstep for a minute, listening for sounds inside the house — a radio, a TV tuned to one of the stories []
  4. (obsolete) History.
    • 1644, John Milton, Aeropagitica:
      [] who is so unread or so uncatechis'd in story, that hath not heard of many sects refusing books as a hindrance, and preserving their doctrine unmixt for many ages, only by unwritt'n traditions.
  5. A sequence of events, or a situation, such as might be related in an account.
    Synonym: narrative
  6. (social media) A chronological collection of pictures or short videos published by a user on an application or website that is typically only available for a short period.
Usage notes
  • (soap opera): Popularized in the 1950s, when soap operas were often billed as "continuing stories", the term "story" to describe a soap opera fell into disuse by the 21st century and is now used chiefly among older people and in rural areas. Other English-speaking countries used the term at its zenith as a "loaned" word from the United States.
Derived terms
Descendants
  • ? Welsh: stori
Translations

Verb

story (third-person singular simple present stories, present participle storying, simple past and past participle storied)

  1. To tell as a story; to relate or narrate about.
    • 1648, John Wilkins, Mathematical Magick
      It is storied of the brazen colossus in Rhodes, that it was seventy cubits high.

Etymology 2

Probably as etymology 1, since historia already had this meaning in medieval Anglo-Latin. An alternative suggestion derives it from Old French *estoree (a thing built, a building), from estoree (built), feminine past participle of estorer (to build), from Latin instauro (to construct, build, erect).

Alternative forms

  • storey (UK)

Noun

story (plural stories)

  1. (obsolete) A building or edifice.
  2. (chiefly US) A floor or level of a building; a storey.
    Synonyms: floor, level
    • 1900, Charles W. Chesnutt, The House Behind the Cedars, chapter I:
      The lower story of the market-house was open on all four of its sides to the public square.
  3. (typography) Alternative form of storey
Translations
Usage notes

See storey.

References

Anagrams

  • ryots, stroy, tyros

Middle English

Etymology 1

Borrowed from Old French estoree, past participle of estorer. Alternatively, the same word as storie.

Pronunciation

  • IPA(key): /?st?ri?(?)/, /?st??ri?(?)/

Noun

story (plural storyes) (rare)

  1. A level of a building.
  2. A line of paddles on a ship.
Descendants
  • English: story, storey
References
  • “st?r?(e, n.(2).”, in MED Online, Ann Arbor, Mich.: University of Michigan, 2007, retrieved 2019-04-05.

Etymology 2

From Old French estorie, estoire.

Verb

story

  1. Alternative form of storie

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