Composition and Pattern

composition

The spatial property resulting from the arrangement of parts in relation to each other and to the whole.
- usage: "harmonious composition is essential in a serious work of art"
- synonyms: composing
The way in which someone or something is composed.
- synonyms: constitution, physical composition, makeup, make-up
A mixture of ingredients.
A musical work that has been created.
- usage: "the composition is written in four movements"
- synonyms: musical composition, opus, piece, piece of music
Musical creation.
- synonyms: composing
The act of creating written works.
- usage: "writing was a form of therapy for him"; "it was a matter of disputed authorship"
- synonyms: writing, authorship, penning
Art and technique of printing with movable type.
- synonyms: typography
An essay (especially one written as an assignment. )
- usage: "he got an A on his composition"
- synonyms: paper, report, theme
Something that is created by arranging several things to form a unified whole.
- usage: "he envied the composition of their faculty"

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

Webster's Revised Unabridged Dictionary

Voluntary arrangement to restructure a firm's debt, under which payment is reduced.

pattern

A perceptual structure.
- usage: "the composition presents problems for students of musical form"; "a visual pattern must include not only objects but the spaces between them"
- synonyms: form, shape
A customary way of operation or behavior.
- usage: "it is their practice to give annual raises"; "they changed their dietary pattern"
- synonyms: practice
A decorative or artistic work.
- usage: "the coach had a design on the doors"
- synonyms: design, figure
Something regarded as a normative example.
- usage: "the convention of not naming the main character"; "violence is the rule not the exception"; "his formula for impressing visitors"
- synonyms: convention, normal, rule, formula
A model considered worthy of imitation.
- usage: "the American constitution has provided a pattern for many republics"
Something intended as a guide for making something else.
- usage: "a blueprint for a house"; "a pattern for a skirt"
- synonyms: blueprint, design
The path that is prescribed for an airplane that is preparing to land at an airport.
- usage: "the traffic patterns around O'Hare are very crowded"; "they stayed in the pattern until the fog lifted"
- synonyms: traffic pattern, approach pattern
Graphical representation (in polar or Cartesian coordinates) of the spatial distribution of radiation from an antenna as a function of angle.
- synonyms: radiation pattern, radiation diagram

Plan or create according to a model or models.
- synonyms: model
Form a pattern.
- usage: "These sentences pattern like the ones we studied before"

(n.) A diagram showing the distribution of the pellets of a shotgun on a vertical target perpendicular to the plane of fire.
(n.) Figure or style of decoration; design; as, wall paper of a beautiful pattern.
(n.) Anything cut or formed to serve as a guide to cutting or forming objects; as, a dressmaker's pattern.
(v.t.) To serve as an example for; also, to parallel.
(n.) Stuff sufficient for a garment; as, a dress pattern.
(n.) A full-sized model around which a mold of sand is made, to receive the melted metal. It is usually made of wood and in several parts, so as to be removed from the mold without injuring it.
(n.) A part showing the figure or quality of the whole; a specimen; a sample; an example; an instance.
(v.t.) To make or design (anything) by, from or after, something that serves as a pattern; to copy; to model; to imitate.
(n.) Anything proposed for imitation; an archetype; an exemplar; that which is to be or is worthy to be, copied or imitated; as, a pattern of a machine.
(n.) Something made after a model; a copy.

Webster's Revised Unabridged Dictionary

Pattern is a technical chart formation used to make market predictions by following the price movements of securities.