What's the difference between composition and constituent?

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.

Constituent


Definition:

  • (a.) Serving to form, compose, or make up; elemental; component.
  • (a.) Having the power of electing or appointing.
  • (n.) The person or thing which constitutes, determines, or constructs.
  • (n.) That which constitutes or composes, as a part, or an essential part; a component; an element.
  • (n.) One for whom another acts; especially, one who is represented by another in a legislative assembly; -- correlative to representative.
  • (n.) A person who appoints another to act for him as attorney in fact.

Example Sentences:

  • (1) With NaCl as the major constituent of the bathing solution (potassium-free pipette and external solutions) the reversal potential (Er) of the noradrenaline-evoked current was about 0 mV.
  • (2) As the percentage of rabbit feed is very small compared to the bulk of animal feeds, there is a fair chance that rabbit feed will be contaminated with constituents (additives) of batches previously prepared for other animals.
  • (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) Labour MP Jamie Reed, whose Copeland constituency includes Sellafield, called on the government to lay out details of a potential plan to build a new Mox plant at the site.
  • (5) Both Types I and II collagen are important constituents of the affected tissues, and thus defective collagens are reasonable candidates for the primary abnormality in adolescent idiopathic scoliosis (AIS).
  • (6) Although no anatomical 'barrier' has been described, it has been suggested that the gel mucus and epithelial phospholipids are constituents.
  • (7) Voters would have to collect the signatures of 10% of constituents to force a byelection.
  • (8) Concentrations of each constituent were correlated with the growth inhibitions of Bacillus subtilis (IP-5832).
  • (9) If we’re waiting around for the Democratic version to sail through here, or the Republican version to sail through here, all those victims who are waiting for us to do something will wait for days, months, years, forever and we won’t get anything done.” Senator Bill Nelson, whose home state of Florida is still reeling from the Orlando shooting, said he felt morally obligated to return to his constituents with results.
  • (10) The different hydrolytic, fermentative and methanogenic activities of these populations ensure the efficient degradation of cell wall constituent in forages (cellulose, hemicellulose, pectin) ingested by ruminants.
  • (11) The aim was to clarify the nature of their constituent cells, specifically the giant ganglion-like cells and spindle cells, and to discuss the implications for histogenesis.
  • (12) For application to mammalian cells, however, two serious problems require resolution: (1), correction of TPP+ binding to intracellular constituents and (2), estimation of the considerable TPP+ accumulation in mitochondria.
  • (13) The review will now be delayed for five years, leaving the next election to be fought on the existing constituency boundaries, and seriously damaging David Cameron's chances of winning an overall majority in 2015.
  • (14) Laminin is a constituent of the basement membrane in both chicken and quail blastoderms.
  • (15) Later Downing Street elaborated on its position, pointing out that Brooks was a constituent of Cameron's and, in any case, "the prime minister regularly meets newspaper executives from lots of different companies".
  • (16) But Berlusconi and Sarkozy, seeking to curry favour with the strong far-right constituencies in both countries, sought to bury their differences by urging the rest of Europe to buy into their anti-immigration agenda.
  • (17) The cultivation of embryos in shell-less culture did not affect the normal macroscopic or histological appearance of the membrane, or the rate of proliferation of its constituent cells, as assessed by tritiated thymidine incorporation.
  • (18) It was because MPs have to face their constituents."
  • (19) We have already had the failure of House of Lords reform, the failure to change constituencies and the imbalance of MPs between England and the devolved assemblies.
  • (20) The test subjects ate up their food appraising the gustatory qualities of the diet constituents.