different between eyewitness vs compositry

English

Alternative forms

• eye-witness
• eye witness

Etymology

eye +? witness

Noun

eyewitness (plural eyewitnesses)

1. Someone who sees an event and can report or testify about it. [from 16th c.]

Translations

Verb

eyewitness (third-person singular simple present eyewitnesses, present participle eyewitnessing, simple past and past participle eyewitnessed)

1. To be present at an event, and see it

English

Etymology

composite +? -ry

Noun

compositry (plural compositries)

1. (illustration) The use, especially in law enforcement, of ready-made images of portions of an object to compose a picture of the entire object, such as the face of a person described by eyewitnesses.
   • 1988, F. J. Domingo, "Forensic Art: Concepts and Approaches in Composite Interviewing," Journal of Forensic Identification, vol. 38, no. 6, p. 259, annotation:

     This article examines issues in composite drawing and examines different methods for conducting witness interviews necessary to compositry.

   • 2001, Karen T. Taylor, Forensic Art and Illustration, CRC Press, ?ISBN, p. 206:

     In recent decades, other attempts have been made at three-dimensional compositry, most notably by Fernado Poncé of the Los Angeles Police Department.

Related terms

• composite
• composite sketch