Word Finder - compositions

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The act of putting together; assembly.

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A mixture or compound; the result of composing.

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The proportion of different parts to make a whole.

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The general makeup of a thing or person.

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

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

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An 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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The formation of compound words from separate words.

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A work of music, literature or art.

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Typesetting.

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Applying a function to the result of another.

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

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Consistency; accord; congruity.

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Synthesis as opposed to analysis.

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The arrangement and flow of elements in a picture.

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Way to combine simple objects or data types into more complex ones.

He played all his most personal compositions, and continued to create new works inspired by her.

The book is one of the most natural and unaffected compositions ever written.

RingOPhone has the original Star Wars theme as well as a list of other John Williams compositions that you might want to have on your phone.

Not reckoning scattered notices, we depend principally upon five later compositions, Diodorus, book xvii.

The best edition of his works is The Compositions in Prose and Verse of Mr John Oldham..

Among the principal examples are " Roman Triumphs " (not the same compositions as the Hampton Court pictures), " A Bacchanal Festival," " Hercules and Antaeus," " Marine Gods," " Judith with the Head of Holophernes," the " Deposition from the Cross," the " Entombment," the " Resurrection," the " Man of Sorrows," the " Virgin in a Grotto."

The Japanese have produced few books of importance, and their compositions are chiefly remarkable as being lighter and more secular than is usual in Asia, but the older Chinese works take high rank both for their merits and the effect they have had.

The Falls of Princes alone comprises 7000 stanzas; and his authentic compositions reach the enormous total of 150,000 lines.

According to this the figures of combatants do not all face towards the centre, but are broken up, as in other early compositions, into a series of groups of two or three figures each.

At Dijon his compositions attracted the attention of an inspector, who had him placed (1814) in the normal school, Paris.

These superbly invented and designed compositions, gorgeous with all splendour of subject-matter and accessory, and with the classical learning and enthusiasm of one of the master-spirits of the age, have always been accounted of the first rank among Mantegna's works.

Eliezer, of the 8th or 9th century, a sort of history of creation and of the patriarchs, and the Tanna debe Eliyahu (an ethical work of the 10th century but containing much that is old), besides a large number of minor compositions.'

His works can scarcely be entitled original compositions, his labour having consisted chiefly in the arrangement of his materials, but on this very account they are of considerable value as convenient books of reference, easier of access and almost as trustworthy as the original documents.

But his most famous compositions in this kind are the personal invectives which he discharged against Filelfo and Valla.

These compositions belonged to a species which, since Petrarch set the fashion, were very popular among Italian scholars.

So far as they are Latin versions of Arabico-Greek treatises, they must have been much remodelled in the course of translation; but there is reason to suppose that many of them, even when pretending to be translations, are really original compositions.

All these laws may in general be described as codes of procedure and tariffs of compositions.

The law abounds in contradictions and repetitions, and the compositions are calculated in different moneys.

At the same time he was accused of "introducing into the church and service at the altar compositions of psalms and hymns not inspected or authorized by any proper judicature."

Only in familiar letters, prolegomena, and prefaces do we find the man Ficino, and learn to know his thoughts and sentiments unclouded by a mist of citations; these minor compositions have therefore a certain permanent value, and will continually be studied for the light they throw upon the learned circle gathered round Lorenzo in the golden age of humanism.

Such is the intentional obscurity in many of the compositions of these two authors that every sentence becomes a puzzle, over which even a scholarly Ottoman must pause before he can be sure he has found its true meaning.

In making up a charge, the ores and fluxes, whose chemical compositions have been determined, are mixed so as to form out of the components, not to be reduced to the metallic or sulphide state, typical slags (silicates of ferrous and calcium oxides, incidentally of aluminium oxide, which have been found to do successful work).

She appointed panegyrics to be composed in his honour, and offered valuable prizes for the best oratorical and tragic compositions.

No one of these works is now known to be in existence; the only example we possess of Zarlino's compositions on a grand scale is a MS. mass for four voices, in the library of the Philharmonic Lyceum at Bologna.

Wolf likewise gives selections from Silva's various compositions.

Kohnt, "Bibliography of Works relating to Antonio Jose da Silva and Bibliography of Don Antonio's Compositions" in the Publ.

There is only one passage which seems in some degree to make up for the aesthetic drawbacks of the greater part of these late compositions.

Several conversions and compositions followed, interest being paid irregularly.

Its vapour produces violent headache, and the same effect is often caused by handling compositions containing it.

It was Guru Arjan who compiled the Granth or Sikh Bible, out of his own and his predecessors' compositions.

Among the musical compositions of Allegri were two volumes of concerti, published in 1618 and 1619; two volumes of motets, published in 1620 and 1621; besides a number of works still in manuscript.

The system of "compositions" or fines, paid in many cases with the help of kinsmen, finds its natural place in the ancient, tribal period of English history and loses its vitality later on in consequence of the growth of central power and of the scattering of maegths.

The chief motives were landscapes of a peculiarly wild and romantic type, animal life, trees and flowers, and figtire compositions drawn from Chinese and Buddhist history and Taoist legend; and these, together with the grand aims and strange shortcomings of its principles and the limited range of its methods, were adopted almost without change by Japan.

The pillars, architraves, ceilings, panels, and almost every available part of the structure, are covered with arabesques and sculptured figures of dragons, lions, tigers, birds, flowers, and even pictorial compositions with landscapes and figures, deeply carved in solid or open workthe wood sometimes plain, sometimes overlaid with pigment and gilding, as in the panelled ceiling of the chapel of Iyeyasu in Tokyo.

Of his decorative paintings, the best known are the elegant compositions (in spirit fresco) on the walls of the Victoria and Albert Museum, representing "The Industrial Arts of War and Peace."

There are thus two eutectic alloys B and D, and the alloys with compositions between B and D have higher melting-points.

It is probable that all the alloys of compositions between B and D, when they begin to solidify, deposit crystals of the compound; the lower eutectic B probably corresponds to a solid complex of mercury and the compound.

Windham in explanation of his position, generally considered one of his finest compositions, but not published till 1753 after his death.

Further, Caesarius was in the habit of putting some words of a distinguished writer at the head of his compositions, which would account for the fact that the name of Athanasius was subsequently attached to the creed.

Though for many centuries they have thus been treated as separate compositions, we have abundant evidence that they were anciently regarded as forming but one book, and a careful examination proves that together with the book of Chronicles they constitute one single work.

I imagine a celebratory gathering at which a large number of individuals hear modest compositions or songs created specifically for them.

Within this new context, Dave's guitar histrionics work well adding considerable flavor to the original compositions.

Performing ten " compositions " and two completely improvised pieces, there is a complete abandonment of anything approaching melody.

Sir Peter Maxwell Davies, Master of the Queen's Music, has used magic squares in several of his compositions.

Stanza creates participatory digital artworks that invite viewers to guide data flows or to simply observe self-generating compositions.

Ringing compositions are notoriously prone to subtle transcription errors, and over a quarter of the submissions we receive contain errors of some sort.

You can also create your own compositions from scratch with the internal 16-track sequencer.

Although his output was largely symphonic and orchestral, his religious upbringing played a significant role in influencing his choral compositions.

Some new compositions of significant colors were also discovered, which had not been reported previously in Coptic textiles.

We can therefore predict that all oxides of carbon will have compositions represented by the ratio of 8m parts of oxygen to 6n parts of carbon, where m and n are whole numbers.