What's the difference between anthem and composition?

Anthem


Definition:

  • (n.) Formerly, a hymn sung in alternate parts, in present usage, a selection from the Psalms, or other parts of the Scriptures or the liturgy, set to sacred music.
  • (n.) A song or hymn of praise.
  • (v. t.) To celebrate with anthems.

Example Sentences:

  • (1) In that respect, it's difficult to see Allen's anthem as little more than same old same old, and it's probably why I ultimately feel she misses the mark.
  • (2) Like most anthems it’s intended to create unity in the face of adversity, coming from a time when America was a new country trying to forge its identity.
  • (3) Steve Bell on Jeremy Corbyn not singing the national anthem – cartoon Read more Admiral Lord West, former Labour security minister, said the decision not to sing the anthem was extraordinary.
  • (4) The national anthems Nothing to say about the Indian anthem, but the New Zealand one sounds like the theme tune for an 1960s ATV variety spectacular.
  • (5) When he finished his peroration, the congregants applauded and sang the Israeli national anthem, Hatikvah.
  • (6) It doesn't surprise me that a man whose hit song sounded like an assault anthem and featured a video full of naked models would attempt to get back his wife via public pressure and a threatening music video.
  • (7) King was 16th on an official programme that included the national anthem, the invocation, a prayer, a tribute to women, two sets of songs and nine other speakers.
  • (8) The best advertisement for the format came four hours before the final even started, when, in ITV1's coverage of the FA Cup Final, the teenager Faryl Smith, a 2008 runner-up, sang the national anthem solo and faultlessly in front of a full crowd at Wembley.
  • (9) We should strip our own national anthem back, and replace the lyrics with our own best-known meaningless word – “oi!” Unless of course Big Liz turns up, and then we can stick in those other words – but she’s not going to, is she?” Netherlands – Tinchy Stryder Facebook Twitter Pinterest Tinchy Stryder has had two UK No1 singles, Number 1 and Never Leave You.
  • (10) It was reported that the Greek tourist board had asked TV networks to keep the crowd volume low amid fears Greek fans in the stadium would drown out the German national anthem with jeers.
  • (11) wearefriendlyfires.com Ceremoniously slow and with a mood of solemn self-satisfaction and reflective pride, the most I can say about this is every note of it is archetypal national anthem fodder.
  • (12) Oleg Sentsov should make new films, not count years in prison.” Facebook Twitter Pinterest Oleg Sentsov sings the Ukrainian national anthem as he is sentenced to 20 years in a Russian penal colony Sentsov attracted the ire of the Russian authorities after helping to organise a campaign protesting at Russia’s occupation and annexation of Crimea in March 2014.
  • (13) One recipient responded: "Love it … who needs Handel to write their anthems.
  • (14) He was pictured standing silently with his hands clasped and holding his order of service as others around him sang God Save the Queen, and was later forced to confirm that he would sing the anthem at future events.
  • (15) Indeed, such parochialism would be downright frowned upon by today's World Cup mentality, considering that both the official anthem and slogan this time round is the typically Fifa-ishly nonsensical, and distinctly Benetton-esque, "We Are One".
  • (16) Ryan Nelsen appeared very emotional as his anthem was being played; Martin Skrtel looked like he was dreaming of guns.
  • (17) One participant blared Fuck tha Police , NWA’s anti-authority anthem, into the procession.
  • (18) A military band played the US and Malaysian national anthems twice and Obama inspected an elaborate honour guard in crisp green and white before the arrival ceremony came to a close.
  • (19) A security breach at Anthem, the US’s second largest health insurer, was revealed this month.
  • (20) Fifa and organisers have already said that they will ban the instrument if any are thrown onto the pitch or used as a weapon and urged fans not to blow them during national anthems.

Composition


Definition:

  • (n.) The act or art of composing, or forming a whole or integral, by placing together and uniting different things, parts, or ingredients.
  • (n.) The invention or combination of the parts of any literary work or discourse, or of a work of art; as, the composition of a poem or a piece of music.
  • (n.) The art or practice of so combining the different parts of a work of art as to produce a harmonious whole; also, a work of art considered as such. See 4, below.
  • (n.) The act of writing for practice in a language, as English, Latin, German, etc.
  • (n.) The setting up of type and arranging it for printing.
  • (n.) The state of being put together or composed; conjunction; combination; adjustment.
  • (n.) A mass or body formed by combining two or more substances; as, a chemical composition.
  • (n.) 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.
  • (n.) Consistency; accord; congruity.
  • (n.) Mutual agreement to terms or conditions for the settlement of a difference or controversy; also, the terms or conditions of settlement; agreement.
  • (n.) 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.
  • (n.) Synthesis as opposed to analysis.

Example Sentences:

  • (1) The resulting dose distribution is displayed using traditional 2-dimensional displays or as an isodose surface composited with underlying anatomy and the target volume.
  • (2) The urine compositions of the European mole Talpa europaea and of the white rat Rattus norvegicus (albino) kept on a carnivore's diet were compared.
  • (3) To determine the influence of cetylpyridinium chloride (CPC) adsorption on the wettability and elemental surface composition of human enamel, with and without adsorbed salivary constituents, surface-free energies and elemental compositions were determined.
  • (4) Abruptly changing cows from one feeding system to another did not influence milk yield, milk composition, or body weight gain.
  • (5) In spite of important differences in size, chemical composition, polymer density, and configuration, biological macromolecules indeed manifest some of the essential physical-chemical properties of gels.
  • (6) Protein composition was determined in mesenteric lymph chylomicrons from fat-fed rats.
  • (7) In vitro transcription products were analyzed for their 5' end sequences and their oligonucleotide compositions.
  • (8) The antigenic composition of an extract of rat dust, as a source of aeroallergens for rat-sensitive individuals, has been investigated and compared to the antigenic composition of rat saliva and urine.
  • (9) With better understanding of metabolic and compositional requirements, great advances have been made in the area of total parenteral nutrition.
  • (10) The usefulness of the proposed method is obvious in cases where the composition of a precipitate on LM scale is to be compared with the LM appearance of the surrounding tissue.
  • (11) This study examined the association between diet composition, particularly dietary fat intake, and body-fat percentage in 205 adult females.
  • (12) The specific rates of degradation of L-arginine-AMC, gly-proline-AMC, N-alpha-benzoyl-L-arginine-AMC and N-[p-toluene-sulphonyl]gly-pro-arginine-AMC were significantly greater in that group, indicating that the composition of their gingival crevicular fluid was different from that of the gingivitis group.
  • (13) Variations in light chain composition, particularly fast and slow myosin light chain 1, appeared to occur independently of the variations in heavy chain composition, suggesting that some myosin molecules consist of mixtures of slow- and fast-type subunits.
  • (14) Changes in the plasma lipid composition are observed in patients and animals with malignancy and certain other diseases that are consistent with peroxidation of plasma lipoprotein lipids.
  • (15) These two crystallins were compared with respect to their native molecular masses, subunit structures, peptide mapping and amino acid compositions in order to establish the identity of each crystallin.
  • (16) Essential characteristics of the composite bone cement included a homogeneous and uniform fiber distribution, and a minimal increase in apparent viscosity of the polymerizing cement.
  • (17) Histochemical and immunocytochemical staining of the outgrowths with reagents that depict epithelial, myoepithelial, and lactating alveolar cells (peanut lectin alone, monoclonal and polyclonal antibodies to rat caseins) indicate similar cell compositions and arrangements for all outgrowths irrespective of their source; these are also similar to the mammary glands of the perphenazine-stimulated or lactating hosts.
  • (18) The PC modification was affected by the fatty acid composition of the exogenous PC species.
  • (19) Intrinsic bending of the 527-bp fragment (bend center approximately at bp 240) was represented as a composite of at least two components located near bp 170 and near bp 260.
  • (20) It is inferred that in this experimental model (1) high-density lipoproteins are probably excreted in the glomerular filtrate, (2) alterations in the composition of the excreted lipoproteins may occur during their passage through the nephron.