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Compose   /kəmpˈoʊz/   Listen
Compose

verb
(past & past part. composed; pres. part. composing)
1.
Form the substance of.
2.
Write music.  Synonym: write.
3.
Produce a literary work.  Synonyms: indite, pen, write.  "He wrote four novels"
4.
Put together out of existing material.  Synonym: compile.
5.
Calm (someone, especially oneself); make quiet.
6.
Make up plans or basic details for.  Synonyms: draw up, frame.



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"Compose" Quotes from Famous Books



... propositions expressing this relation, we can proceed to a conclusion. In an inductive series the terms differ by a constant diminution in the number of individualizing attributes—an individual term being expanded into an inductive series, by successively dropping the attributes which compose the individual term, until we reach the required ...
— The Philosophy of Evolution - and The Metaphysical Basis of Science • Stephen H. Carpenter

... glad to be interrupted by our two husbands. Lulu ran up-stairs,—I supposed, to bathe her eyes and compose herself. She, however, was down again in a minute, with some drapery which she wound about her after the fashion Lady Hamilton was said to do, and represented, like her, the Muses, and various statues. With the curtain and one light she ...
— The Atlantic Monthly, Vol. 12, No. 72, October, 1863 • Various

... noticed by a gentleman named Adams, who had a large collection of books, which he placed at the disposal of Franklin; among these were some volumes of poetry, which fired his emulation, and he began to compose little pieces in verse. Two of these were printed by his brother and sold as street-ballads, but they were, as he informs us, wretched doggerel, and the ridicule thrown on them by his father deterred him from similar attempts. ...
— Great Men and Famous Women. Vol. 4 of 8 • Various

... down under pretence of examining the shaft of the steering-wheel to collect his thoughts and compose his features, and then a ...
— With Haig on the Somme • D. H. Parry

... powerful limb will be perceived from the accompanying drawing of the skeleton of the Manis; in which it will be seen that the tail is equal in length to all the rest of the body, whilst the vertebrae which compose it are stronger by far ...
— Sketches of the Natural History of Ceylon • J. Emerson Tennent


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