Commentary: COMPOSITION[+entity][+structure][+mixture][+ingredient]
Examples:
The driveway was a composition of sand and gravel.
The composition of this glaze provides a lot of open time for working it over the paint.
The cake batter should be a fairly thin composition after you add the milk and fruit juice.
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WordNet 3.0 Sense Numbers: 3
Commentary: COMPOSITION[+quality][+nature][+makeup][+of_somethng]
Examples:
The social composition of village life is rather different than that of the cities.
The composition of the man's frame was sturdy and well-muscled, typical of the men of that region.
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WordNet 3.0 Sense Numbers: 2
Commentary: COMPOSITION[+relation][+spatial][+arrangement][+of_components]
NOTE: refers to the static arrangement, not the act of creating it (Sense 7)
Examples:
The room's composition was spoiled by an overly-large chair stuck in one corner.
His abstract oils exhibit harmonious composition of color and texture across the canvas.
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WordNet 3.0 Sense Numbers: 1
Commentary: COMPOSITION[+entity][+creation][+opus][+artistic]
NOTE: refers to the thing itself, not the act of creating it (Sense 5)
Examples:
The composer has written a new composition for flute and piano.
These are early still life compositions by the artist that were drawn in charcoal.
The students had to write a 5-page composition for the final exam.
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WordNet 3.0 Sense Numbers: 4, 8
Commentary: COMPOSITION[+event][+creation][+artistic]
Examples:
We watched the composition of sand paintings by local artists at the annual town fair.
His composition of that symphony only took five weeks.
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WordNet 3.0 Sense Numbers: 5, 6
Commentary: COMPOSITION[+activity][+endeavor][+craft][+typesetting]
Examples:
John learned composition from an old newspaper typesetter.
Traditional composition for a daily newspaper was a time-consuming process.
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WordNet 3.0 Sense Numbers: 7
Commentary: COMPOSITION[+event][+arrangement][+of_components][+into_whole]
Examples:
His composition of a theory from these scanty facts seems quite premature.
The composition of an interim government occurred quickly after the coup was thwarted.
Mary's composition of the wild flowers into a bridal bouquet was astonishingly fast.
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WordNet 3.0 Sense Numbers: 9
Commentary: COMPOSITION[+event][+settlement][+legal][+of_deb][+previous] [+quantity][+amount][+money][+settlement][+for_debt]
Examples:
The plaintiff agreed to the company's composition of $35,000.
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WordNet 0.0 Sense Numbers: 4
Commentary: Automatically generated NOTA sense (bbn)
Examples:
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