Word Meanings - COMPO - Book Publishers vocabulary database

Short for Composition; -- used, esp. in England, colloq. in various trade applications; as : A mortar made of sand and cement. A carver's mixture of resin, whiting, and glue, used instead of plaster of Paris for ornamenting walls and cornices.

Additional info about word: COMPO

Short for Composition; -- used, esp. in England, colloq. in various trade applications; as : A mortar made of sand and cement. A carver's mixture of resin, whiting, and glue, used instead of plaster of Paris for ornamenting walls and cornices. A composition for billiard balls. A preparation of which printer's rollers are made. A preparation used in currying leather. Composition paid by a debtor.

Possible synonyms: (Same meaning words of COMPO)

• Elementary
• Physical
• material
• natural
• elementary
• primary
• rudimental
• simple
• inchoate
• compo
• constituent
• ultimate

Related words: (words related to COMPO)

• COMPOSITOUS
  Belonging to the Compositæ; composite. Darwin.
• NATURALIST
  1. One versed in natural science; a student of natural history, esp. of the natural history of animals. 2. One who holds or maintains the doctrine of naturalism in religion. H. Bushnell.
• NATURAL STEEL
  Steel made by the direct refining of cast iron in a finery, or, as wootz, by a direct process from the ore.
• INCHOATE
  Recently, or just, begun; beginning; partially but not fully in existence or operation; existing in its elements; incomplete. -- In"cho*ate*ly, adv. Neither a substance perfect, nor a substance inchoate. Raleigh.
• COMPONENT
  Serving, or helping, to form; composing; constituting; constituent. The component parts of natural bodies. Sir I. Newton.
• COMPOSURE
  1. The act of composing, or that which is composed; a composition. Signor Pietro, who had an admirable way both of composure and teaching. Evelyn. 2. Orderly adjustment; disposition. Various composures and combinations of these corpuscles.
• COMPOUNDER
  A Jacobite who favored the restoration of James II, on condition of a general amnesty and of guarantees for the security of the civil and ecclesiastical constitution of the realm. (more info) 1. One who, or that which, compounds or mixes; as, a
• COMPOSSIBLE
  Able to exist with another thing; consistent. Chillingworth.
• COMPOUNDABLE
  That may be compounded.
• ULTIMATE
  come to an end, fr. ultimus the farthest, last, superl. from the same 1. Farthest; most remote in space or time; extreme; last; final. My harbor, and my ultimate repose. Milton. Many actions apt to procure fame are not conductive to this
• COMPOSE
  To arrange in a composing stick in order for printing; to set . (more info) 1. To form by putting together two or more things or parts; to put together; to make up; to fashion. Zeal ought to be composed of the hidhest degrees of all
• COMPOUND CONTROL
  A system of control in which a separate manipulation, as of a rudder, may be effected by either of two movements, in different directions, of a single lever, etc.
• COMPOSER
  1. One who composes; an author. Specifically, an author of a piece of music. If the thoughts of such authors have nothing in them, they at least . . . show an honest industry and a good intention in the composer. Addison. His most brilliant and
• PHYSICAL
  1. Of or pertaining to nature ; in accordance with the laws of nature; also, of or relating to natural or material things, or to the bodily structure, as opposed to things mental, moral, spiritual, or imaginary; material; natural; as, armies and
• NATURAL
  Belonging to, to be taken in, or referred to, some system, in which the base is 1; -- said or certain functions or numbers; as, natural numbers, those commencing at 1; natural sines, cosines, etc., those taken in arcs whose radii are 1. (more info)
• NATURALIZE
  1. To make natural; as, custom naturalizes labor or study. 2. To confer the rights and privileges of a native subject or citizen on; to make as if native; to adopt, as a foreigner into a nation or state, and place in the condition of
• MATERIALNESS
  The state of being material.
• COMPOSITE
  Belonging to a certain order which is composed of the Ionic order grafted upon the Corinthian. It is called also the Roman or the Italic order, and is one of the five orders recognized by the Italian writers of the sixteenth century. See Capital.
• CONSTITUENT
  1. Serving to form, compose, or make up; elemental; component. Body, soul, and reason are the three parts necessarily constituent of a man. Dryden. 2. Having the power of electing or appointing. A question of right arises between the constituent
• SIMPLE
  simplus, or simplex, gen. simplicis. The first part of the Latin words is probably akin to E. same, and the sense, one, one and the same; cf. L. semel once, singuli one to each, single. Cg. Single, a., 1. Single; not complex; not infolded
• ANTEPENULTIMATE
  Of or pertaining to the last syllable but two. -- n.
• INDECOMPOSABLENESS
  Incapableness of decomposition; stability; permanence; durability.
• SUPERNATURALNESS
  The quality or state of being supernatural.
• PRETERNATURALITY
  Preternaturalness. Dr. John Smith.
• HYPERPHYSICAL
  Above or transcending physical laws; supernatural. Those who do not fly to some hyperphysical hypothesis. Sir W. Hamilton.
• DECOMPOSE
  To separate the constituent parts of; to resolve into original elements; to set free from previously existing forms of chemical combination; to bring to dissolution; to rot or decay.
• CATAPHYSICAL
  Unnatural; contrary to nature. Some artists . . . have given to Sir Walter Scott a pile of forehead which is unpleassing and cataphysical. De Quincey.
• IMMATERIALIST
  One who believes in or professes, immaterialism.
• METAPHYSICALLY
  In the manner of metaphysical science, or of a metaphysician. South.
• DECOMPOSITION
  1. The act or process of resolving the constituent parts of a compound body or substance into its elementary parts; separation into constituent part; analysis; the decay or dissolution consequent on the removal or alteration of some of