compose
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English [edit]
Pronunciation [edit]
Etymology [edit]
From Old French composer (“to compose, compound, adjust, settle”), from Latin componere (“to put together, compose”), from com- (“together”) + ponere (“to put, place”)
Verb [edit]
compose (third-person singular simple present composes, present participle composing, simple past and past participle composed)
- (transitive) To make something by merging parts. [ from later 15th c.]
- The editor composed a historical journal from many individual letters.
- Try to compose your thoughts.
- (transitive) To make up the whole; to constitute.
- A church is composed of its members.
- The members compose the church.
- (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.
- 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.
- (reflexive) To calm oneself down.
- The defendant couldn't compose herself and was found in contempt.
- To arrange the elements of a photograph or other picture.
- To settle (an argument, dispute etc.); to come to a settlement.
- 2010, Christopher Hitchens, Hitch-22, Atlantic 2011, p. 280:
- By trying his best to compose matters with the mullahs, he had sincerely shown that he did not seek a violent collision [...].
- 2010, Christopher Hitchens, Hitch-22, Atlantic 2011, p. 280:
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Translations [edit]
to make something by merging parts
to make up the whole; to constitute
to comprise
to construct by mental labor; to think up
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to calm oneself down
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to arrange the elements of a picture
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French [edit]
Verb [edit]
compose
- First-person singular indicative present form of composer.
- Third-person singular indicative present form of composer.
- Second-person singular imperative present form of composer.
- First-person singular subjunctive present form of composer.
- Third-person singular subjunctive present form of composer.
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Verb form [edit]
compose
