Essay vs. Composition

Essaynoun

(authorship) A written composition of moderate length, exploring a particular issue or subject.

Essaynoun

(obsolete) A test, experiment; an assay.

Essaynoun

An attempt.

Essaynoun

A proposed design for a postage stamp or a banknote.

Essayverb

To try.

Essayverb

(intransitive) To move forth, as into battle.

Essaynoun

An effort made, or exertion of body or mind, for the performance of anything; a trial; attempt; as, to make an essay to benefit a friend.

Essaynoun

A composition treating of any particular subject; - usually shorter and less methodical than a formal, finished treatise; as, an essay on the life and writings of Homer; an essay on fossils, or on commerce.

Essaynoun

An assay. See Assay, n.

Essayverb

To exert one's power or faculties upon; to make an effort to perform; to attempt; to endeavor; to make experiment or trial of; to try.

Essayverb

To test the value and purity of (metals); to assay. See Assay.

Essaynoun

an analytic or interpretive literary composition

Essaynoun

a tentative attempt

Essayverb

make an effort or attempt;

Essayverb

put to the test, as for its quality, or give experimental use to;

Essay

An essay is, generally, a piece of writing that gives the author's own argument, but the definition is vague, overlapping with those of a letter, a paper, an article, a pamphlet, and a short story. Essays have traditionally been sub-classified as formal and informal.

Compositionnoun

The act of putting together; assembly.

Compositionnoun

A mixture or compound; the result of composing.

Compositionnoun

The proportion of different parts to make a whole.

Compositionnoun

The general makeup of a thing or person.

Compositionnoun

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

Compositionnoun

(obsolete) An agreement to pay money in order to clear a liability or obligation; a settling.

Compositionnoun

(legal) an agreement or compromise by which a creditor or group of creditors accepts partial payment from a debtor.

Compositionnoun

An essay.

Compositionnoun

(linguistics) The formation of compound words from separate words.

Compositionnoun

A work of music, literature or art.

Compositionnoun

(printing) Typesetting.

Compositionnoun

(mathematics) Applying a function to the result of another.

Compositionnoun

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

Compositionnoun

(obsolete) Consistency; accord; congruity.

Compositionnoun

Synthesis as opposed to analysis.

Compositionnoun

The arrangement and flow of elements in a picture.

Compositionnoun

(object-oriented programming) Way to combine simple objects or data types into more complex ones.

Compositionnoun

The act or art of composing, or forming a whole or integral, by placing together and uniting different things, parts, or ingredients.

Compositionnoun

The state of being put together or composed; conjunction; combination; adjustment.

Compositionnoun

A mass or body formed by combining two or more substances; as, a chemical composition.

Compositionnoun

A literary, musical, or artistic production, especially one showing study and care in arrangement; - often used of an elementary essay or translation done as an educational exercise.

Compositionnoun

Consistency; accord; congruity.

Compositionnoun

Mutual agreement to terms or conditions for the settlement of a difference or controversy; also, the terms or conditions of settlement; agreement.

Compositionnoun

The adjustment of a debt, or avoidance of an obligation, by some form of compensation agreed on between the parties; also, the sum or amount of compensation agreed upon in the adjustment.

Compositionnoun

Synthesis as opposed to analysis.

Compositionnoun

a mixture of ingredients

Compositionnoun

the way in which someone or something is composed

Compositionnoun

the spatial property resulting from the arrangement of parts in relation to each other and to the whole;

Compositionnoun

a musical work that has been created;

Compositionnoun

musical creation

Compositionnoun

the act of creating written works;

Compositionnoun

art and technique of printing with movable type

Compositionnoun

an essay (especially one written as an assignment);

Compositionnoun

something that is created by arranging several things to form a unified whole;