compose

IPA: kʌmpˈoʊz

verb

  • (transitive) To make something by merging parts.
  • (transitive) To make up the whole; to constitute.
  • (transitive, nonstandard) To comprise.
  • (transitive or intransitive) To construct by mental labor; to think up; particularly, to produce or create a literary or musical work.
  • (sometimes reflexive) To calm; to free from agitation.
  • To arrange the elements of a photograph or other picture.
  • To settle (an argument, dispute etc.); to come to a settlement.
  • To arrange in proper form; to reduce to order; to put in proper state or condition.
  • (printing, dated) To arrange (types) in a composing stick for printing; to typeset.
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Examples of "compose" in Sentences

  • To comprise is to take in, embrace; to compose is to make up.
  • Third, tell MEF to actually go and compose, that is satisfy all imports.
  • When the paroxysms had passed I would again compose a few bars until the pain overwhelmed me again.
  • All this information is also available in compose mode as well, so you know exactly who you’re sending it to.
  • With these men, to compose is to hesitate; and to revise is to be mortified by fresh doubts and unsupplied omissions.
  • There is, between our body and other bodies, an arrangement like that of the pieces of glass that compose a kaleidoscopic picture.
  • But now the reality they do compose is not in some world over against the author but in the author's own articulated processes of sensation.
  • I like to work in bursts, when stuff “comes” to me because I’m lazy and making my brain focus and compose is annoying if I’m not in the mood.
  • Richter later spent some time in America, where, among other things, he collaborated with Jean Cocteau on the late surrealist romp 8x8: A Chess Sonata (portions of which are also online — check out this sequence featuring Paul Bowles awakening to compose from a slowly draining swimming pool.) posted by Matthew @ 10: 00 AM

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