What's the difference between compilation and composition?

Compilation


Definition:

  • (n.) The act or process of compiling or gathering together from various sources.
  • (n.) That which is compiled; especially, a book or document composed of materials gathering from other books or documents.

Example Sentences:

  • (1) Photograph: Guardian The research also compiled data covered by a wider definition of tax haven, including onshore jurisdictions such as the US state of Delaware – accused by the Cayman islands of playing "faster and looser" even than offshore jurisdictions – and the Republic of Ireland, which has come under sustained pressure from other EU states to reform its own low-tax, light-tough, regulatory environment.
  • (2) On the tangential views the inclinations of the future implants were estimated and the part of the alveolar ridge having a width less than 5 mm, which is the minimum width for housing an implant, was compiled.
  • (3) A compilation of injuires sustained in an amateur ice hockey program over a tw0-year period revealed that the majority of those injuires were facial lacerations.
  • (4) The additional value of these methods, especially of the intensive monitoring, lies also in the possibility of compiling new knowledge about semiology and electro-clinical correlation of epileptic seizures, possible trigger mechanisms and long-term therapeutic effects.
  • (5) This report summarizes 1989 infant mortality data based on information from death certificates compiled through the Vital Statistics System of CDC's National Center for Health Statistics (NCHS) (1) and compares findings with those for 1988.
  • (6) The information compiled in the computers as databases together with its capability to handle complex statistical analysis also enables dermatologists and computer scientists to develop expert systems to assist the dermatologist in the diagnosis and prognostication of diseases and to predict disease trends.
  • (7) Meanwhile, data compiled by the Guttmacher Institute in December 2013 shows that unintended pregnancies are increasingly concentrated among poor and less educated women.
  • (8) The index, now in its third year, was compiled by the PR firm Portland Communications in conjunction with the University of Southern California school of public diplomacy.
  • (9) Compiled from data gathered at 14:00 on 3 April 2014.
  • (10) The use of the latter in compiling bibliographic databases and in content analysis of interview transcripts is described.
  • (11) Interspike time histograms were very similar and had a mode of about 280 ms. Peristimulus time histograms were compiled from 15 active MDN-LS neurons.
  • (12) In order to compile an accurate air-quality data base for use in estimating exposure via inhalation, raw data values were sought where possible, and the required calculations were performed on a computer with state-of-the-art algorithms.
  • (13) Over the last month, the company has released PR materials that highlight the Gulf’s resilience, as well as a report compiling scientific studies that suggest the area is making a rapid recovery.
  • (14) The EU report said that the MIT, Turkey’s intelligence service, had begun compiling lists of “troublesome individuals” years ago.
  • (15) An earlier version referred incorrectly to “an expert appointed by UNHCR” where it should have said “an expert taken from a list compiled by the UNHCR and appointed by the state”.
  • (16) An analysis of 401 gynecologic deaths occurring at the Charity Hospital of Louisianna in New Orleans from April 1961 to January 1969 was compiled for comparison with a similar study (401 fatalities) conducted at the same medical facility in 194 (Miller).
  • (17) The property website Zoopla, which compiled the data, found that there are 3,744 streets in London where the price of homes is on average higher than £1m, and 10,613 across the country.
  • (18) The Fifa ethics investigator who spent 18 months and £6m compiling a report into the controversial 2018 and 2022 World Cup bidding race has quit his post in disgust, departing with a broadside against the organisation’s culture and practices.
  • (19) Genetic markers in people of African ancestry and tables comparing Africans and Europeans are compiled to illustrate the blood differences.
  • (20) A main frame computer program SIMP, based on a simplex method using differential equations, was also operated using a microcomputer equipped with a FORTRAN compiler and a 8087 floating-point coprocessor.

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.