Word Finder - compose

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To make something by merging parts.

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The editor composed a historical journal from many individual letters.

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To make up the whole; to constitute.

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A church is composed of its members.

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To comprise.

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To construct by mental labor; to think up; particularly, to produce or create a literary or musical work.

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It's difficult to compose without absolute silence.

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(sometimes reflexive) To calm; to free from agitation.

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The defendant couldn't compose herself and was found in contempt.

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To arrange the elements of a photograph or other picture.

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To settle (an argument, dispute etc.); to come to a settlement.

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To arrange in proper form; to reduce to order; to put in proper state or condition.

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To arrange (types) in a composing stick for printing; to typeset.

Lisa tried to compose her thoughts and expression.

She needed time to compose herself before sharing the bad news with him.

She made an effort to compose herself, taking deep breaths.

Not till then did he compose this letter.

He often thought, If Beethoven or Chopin had centuries to compose music, imagine the treasures we would have.

She glanced down, taking a moment to compose herself, and then placed her hand over Jackson's.

Jessi did her best to compose herself as she returned to the food court.

After abolishing the cabinet council system in favour during the rule of the two Annes, and reconstituting the senate as it had been under Peter the Great, - with the chiefs of the departments of state, all of them now Russians again, as ex-officio members under the presidency of the sovereign, - the first care of the new empress was to compose her quarrel with Sweden.

We stopped for an ice cream to compose our guest though I disliked taking the time from calling Daniel Brennan to run the license plate number we'd recorded.

He said himself that he was unable to compose a picture, and he never sought to produce anything that he would call a work of original art.

You are flurried--compose yourself!

The general assembly elects the five judges who compose the high court.

The three went to Fred's temporary quarters in Martha's small first-floor room to compose the message.

The observation of the existence of an analogy between the series of gradations presented by the species which compose any great group of animals or plants, and the series of embryonic conditions of the highest members of that group.

On the other hand, faith has no special interest in claiming that we can compose a biographical study of the development of Jesus.

He began to compose both in prose and verse as soon as he had learned to read and write, both of which arts he taught himself by the eye.

Compositae compose a quarter of the Andean flora, which is a greater proportion than in any in the world.

The second and third together compose the created universe, which is the manifestation of God, God in processu, Theophania.

He then went on to compose symphonies performed by a ' guitar orchestra ' of multiple players.

It is his duty to act as regent; it is his duty to compose the dissensions in the principality of Antioch, and to repress the violences of the prince towards his patriarch (1154); it is his duty to reconcile Antioch with Edessa, when the two fall to fighting.

The memoir is remarkable inasmuch as it roused Lagrange, after an interval of inactivity, to compose in his old age one of the greatest of his memoirs, viz.

The bond of affinity between the various peoples who compose the Pathan community is simply the bond of a common language.

William Molyneux, in his Dioptrica Nova (1692), p. 256, declares his opinion that Roger Bacon (who died c. 12 9 4) "did perfectly well understand all kinds of optic glasses, and knew likewise the method of combining them so as to compose some such instrument as our telescope."

The same rhythm should be found in the membra which compose the sentence.

These ideas compose a whole or inseparable unity, but we are able in a dim way to think of them as a system logically arranged.

Syllogism is no instrumental method by which we compose our knowledge, but an ideal to the form of which it should be brought.

The divisions of the stigma mark the number of carpels which compose the pistil.

In the past the bride 's bouquet was compose of white flowers to symbolize purity.

Write in your journal, compose a song, or take up painting.

Macro shots of body parts, such as tiny hands or feet, are good shots to take when other shots won't work, since they are easy to compose and light.

Fledgling writers may find it tedious to compose an entire novel in a word processing program.

Some doctrinal differences having arisen in the church at Poitiers, Antoine de Chandieu, First minister at Paris, went to compose them, and, as the General .

In the year 207, when he must have been of a great age, he was appointed to compose a hymn of thanksgiving, sung by maidens, for the victory of the Metaurus and an intercessory hymn to the Aventine Juno.

He was not taught to compose either in Latin or in Greek, and he was never an exact scholar; it was for the subject matter that he was required to read, and by the age of ten he could read Plato and Demosthenes with ease.

He found time, even during the campaign, to translate part of Horace and to compose two poems, the Poeme des Alpes and the Chant de guerre.

How otherwise, we wonder, could one man writing alone and with so few predecessors compose the first systematic treatises on the psychology of the mental powers and on the logic of reasoning, the first natural history of animals, and the first civil history of one hundred and fifty-eight constitutions, in addition to authoritative treatises on metaphysics, biology, ethics, politics, rhetoric and poetry; in all penetrating to the very essence of the subject, and, what is most wonderful, describing more facts than any other man has ever done on so many subjects ?

There was to be, under this plan, an executive chosen by the national legislature, to be ineligible for a second term, to have general authority to execute the national laws and to have the executive rights vested in Congress by the Confederation; and the executive with a convenient number of the national judiciary was to compose a Council of Revision, with a veto power on acts of the national legislature and on the national legislature's vetoes of acts of state legislatures - but the national legislature might pass bills (or vetoes of state legislation) over the action of the Council of Revision.

The trustees of each penal institution are appointed by the governor, and the commissioners of the two penitentiaries and the managers of the state reformatory compose a Board of Prison Industries.

Thenceforth it is not the contingents of the Arabic tribes which compose the army, and on whom the government depends; the new dynasty relies on a standing army, consisting for the greater part of non-Arabic soldiers.

The relation between the advance and the rotation, which compose the motion of a screw working in contact with a fixed screw or helical guide, has already been demonstrated in 32; and the same relation exists between the magnitudes of the rotation of a screw about a fixed axis and the advance of a shifting nut in which it rotates.

It would be going too far in the other direction to claim that all the elements which compose the heavenly bodies are found on the earth.

Decide which type of composition suits you best and compose your scene aroud that pose.

If the person you are asking is a talented writer, you could consider asking him/her to compose an original verse to read.

Even if you aren't feeling inspired at the moment, taking a few minutes to think about love, marriage, and your own experiences will help you compose a message full of wisdom.

As adults, most of us can compose a simple letter without too much trouble.

It may seem simple to compose a letter, but once you sit down to start writing, you might struggle to hit on every important topic while still keeping it brief and readable.

When you compose your own poetry, you express your feelings through literary references, metaphors, allegories or just plain verse.

Does this mean you should compose your own sonnet or Haiku?

Many major and lesser-known greeting card companies use contract writers to compose copy for their lines.

He recorded his first album at the age of seven and went on to compose his own work, writing and recording 70 songs by the age of 17.