compose

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From Old French composer (to compose, compound, adjust, settle) < Latin componere (to put together, compose) < com- (together) + ponere (to put, place)

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Infinitive
to compose

Third person singular
composes

Simple past
composed

Past participle
composed

Present participle
composing

to compose (third-person singular simple present composes, present participle composing, simple past and past participle composed)

  1. (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.
  2. (transitive) To make up the whole; to constitute.
    A church is composed of its members.
    The members compose the church.
  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.
    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.
  5. (reflexive) To calm oneself down.
    The defendant couldn't compose herself and was found in contempt.
  6. To arrange the elements of a photograph or other picture.

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compose

  1. First-person singular indicative present form of composer.
  2. Third-person singular indicative present form of composer.
  3. Second-person singular imperative present form of composer.
  4. First-person singular subjunctive present form of composer.
  5. Third-person singular subjunctive present form of composer.

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compose

  1. third person singular past historic of comporre