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Associations to the word «Compose»

Wiktionary

COMPOSE, verb. (transitive) To make something by merging parts. [from later 15th c.]
COMPOSE, verb. (transitive) To make up the whole; to constitute.
COMPOSE, verb. (transitive) (nonstandard) To comprise.
COMPOSE, verb. (transitive or intransitive) To construct by mental labor; to think up; particularly, to produce or create a literary or musical work.
COMPOSE, verb. (sometimes reflexive) To calm; to free from agitation.
COMPOSE, verb. To arrange the elements of a photograph or other picture.
COMPOSE, verb. To settle (an argument, dispute etc.); to come to a settlement.
COMPOSE, verb. To arrange in proper form; to reduce to order; to put in proper state or condition.
COMPOSE, verb. (printing) (dated) To arrange (types) in a composing stick for printing; to typeset.

Dictionary definition

COMPOSE, verb. Form the substance of; "Greed and ambition composed his personality".
COMPOSE, verb. Write music; "Beethoven composed nine symphonies".
COMPOSE, verb. Produce a literary work; "She composed a poem"; "He wrote four novels".
COMPOSE, verb. Put together out of existing material; "compile a list".
COMPOSE, verb. Calm (someone, especially oneself); make quiet; "She had to compose herself before she could reply to this terrible insult".
COMPOSE, verb. Make up plans or basic details for; "frame a policy".

Wise words

Words are always getting conventionalized to some secondary meaning. It is one of the works of poetry to take the truants in custody and bring them back to their right senses.
William Butler Yeats