Picture separate pieces being placed together to make one whole — and then two questions you can ask about that. Looking backwards: what pieces is this made of? Looking forwards: who put them there, and how are they arranged? The word answers both, which is why it covers the make-up of a committee, a piece of music, and where the mountain sits in a photograph.
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原始詞典資料20 筆記錄
以下是外部詞典記錄的用法，摘錄並精簡格式，我們還沒有寫成教學內容。上面的說明才是我們自己寫的；有些用法可能上面已經講過了。
compositionnoun/ˌkɒmpəˈzɪʃən/
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The act of putting together; assembly.
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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.
- The firſt day of November was dedicated to the angel preſiding over fruits, ſeeds, &c. and was therefore named la mas ubhal, that is, the day of the apple fruit, and being pronounced lamasool, the English have corrupted the name to lambswool, a name they give to a compoſition made on this eve of roaſted apples, ſugar, and ale.
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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.
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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?
- It seemed that the milk of human kindness had not been left out of his composition.
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board-gameschessgamesA puzzle created by the composer using chess pieces on a chessboard, which presents the solver with a particular task.
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obsoleteAn 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.
- 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.
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obsoleteA payment of money in order to clear a liability or obligation; a settling or fine.
- 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.
- 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.
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obsoletelawA payment of money in order to clear a liability or obligation; a settling or fine.
另外 12 個記錄的用法
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lawan agreement or compromise by which a creditor or group of creditors accepts partial payment from a debtor.
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An essay.
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human-scienceslinguisticssciencesThe formation of compound words from separate words.
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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.
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mediaprintingpublishingTypesetting.
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mathematicssciencesApplying a function to the result of another.
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natural-sciencesphysical-sciencesphysicsThe compounding of two velocities or forces into a single equivalent velocity or force.
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obsoleteConsistency; accord; congruity.
- There is no composition in these news That gives them credit.
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Synthesis as opposed to analysis.
- The investigation of difficult things by the method of analysis ought ever to precede the method of composition.
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artshobbieslifestyleThe arrangement and flow of elements in a picture.
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Way to combine simple objects or data types into more complex ones.
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video-gamesThe characters, roles, weapons, etc. being used by a team.
- team composition
- weapon composition
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