Compose

/kəmˈpəʊz/ · verb

Meaning

(transitive) To make something by merging parts..

Definitions by Sense

1. (transitive) To make something by merging parts.
2. (transitive) To make up the whole; to constitute.
3. (transitive, nonstandard) To comprise.
4. (transitive or intransitive) To construct by mental labor; to think up; particularly, to produce or create a literary or musical work.
5. (sometimes reflexive) To calm; to free from agitation.
6. To arrange the elements of a photograph or other picture.
7. To settle (an argument, dispute etc.); to come to a settlement.
8. To arrange in proper form; to reduce to order; to put in proper state or condition.

Example Sentences

The editor composed a historical journal from many individual letters.

December 22 1678, Thomas Sprat, A Sermon Preached before the King at White-Hall Zeal ought to be composed of the highest degrees of all pious affection.

A church is composed of its members.

A few useful things […] compose their intellectual possessions.

The orator composed his speech over the week prior.

Nine numbered symphonies, including the Fifth, were composed by Beethoven.

It's difficult to compose without absolute silence.

Let me […] compose / Something in Verse as true as Prose.

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Word Forms

• composes
• composing
• composed

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