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  2. Comprised of - Wikipedia

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    Nobody says *Brass is composed by copper and zinc. Instead we get Brass is composed of copper and zinc – and there is no understood by-phrase. [29] Specifically, the word comprised in the phrase comprised of is a participial adjective. [n 3] English has a number of adjectives that take as their complements preposition phrases headed by of.

  3. Synonym - Wikipedia

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    Synonym list in cuneiform on a clay tablet, Neo-Assyrian period [1] A synonym is a word, morpheme, or phrase that means precisely or nearly the same as another word, morpheme, or phrase in a given language. [2] For example, in the English language, the words begin, start, commence, and initiate are all synonyms of one another: they are ...

  4. Glossary of botanical terms - Wikipedia

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    Composed of several parts, e.g. a leaf composed of multiple leaflet s, a gynoecium composed of multiple carpel s, or an inflorescence made up of multiple smaller inflorescences. compound palmate Having leaflet s that radiate from a central point (usually at the top of a petiole), like spread-out fingers radiating from the palm of a hand ...

  5. List of forms of government - Wikipedia

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    Term Description Examples Autocracy: Autocracy is a system of government in which supreme power (social and political) is concentrated in the hands of one person or polity, whose decisions are subject to neither external legal restraints nor regularized mechanisms of popular control (except perhaps for the implicit threat of a coup d'état or mass insurrection).

  6. Musical composition - Wikipedia

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    Since the invention of sound recording, a classical piece or popular song may exist as a recording.If music is composed before being performed, music can be performed from memory (the norm for instrumental soloists in concerto performances and singers in opera shows and art song recitals), by reading written musical notation (the norm in large ensembles, such as orchestras, concert bands and ...

  7. English compound - Wikipedia

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    Bosnia-Herzegovina, for example, is the combined area of Bosnia and Herzegovina, but a fighter-bomber is an aircraft that is both a fighter and a bomber. Iterative or amredita compounds repeat a single element, to express repetition or as an emphasis. Day by day and go-go are examples of this type of compound, which has more than one head.

  8. Glossary of literary terms - Wikipedia

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    Also apophthegm. A terse, pithy saying, akin to a proverb, maxim, or aphorism. aposiopesis A rhetorical device in which speech is broken off abruptly and the sentence is left unfinished. apostrophe A figure of speech in which a speaker breaks off from addressing the audience (e.g., in a play) and directs speech to a third party such as an opposing litigant or some other individual, sometimes ...

  9. Music - Wikipedia

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    The elements of music feature prominently in the music curriculums of Australia, the UK, and the US. All three curriculums identify pitch, dynamics, timbre, and texture as elements, but the other identified elements of music are far from universally agreed upon. Below is a list of the three official versions of the "elements of music":