compose

IPA: kʌmpˈoʊz

(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.

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