Word Finder - composing

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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.

Jackson had not been composing much lately.

After composing himself, he found Sarah's room and knocked on the door.

Unfortunately, the new president was unequal to the task of composing the differences in his party.

Certain extremely aberrant Diptera, which, in consequence of the adoption of a parasitic mode of life, have undergone great structural modification, are further remarkable for their peculiar mode of reproduction, on account of which the families composing the group are often termed Pupipara.

Such, moreover, is the effect of different manures that the gross produce of the mixed herbage is totally different on the respective plots according to the manure employed, both as to the proportion of the various species composing it and as to their condition of development and maturity.

In 1854 he published The Charge of the Light Brigade, and was.busy composing Maud and its accompanying lyrics; and this volume was published in July 1855, just after he was made D.C.L.

On the contrary, many of them took pleasure in composing versicles to which Chinese words were admitted and which showed something of the parallelism peculiar to Chinese poetry, since the first ideograph of the last line was required to be identical with the final ideograph.

Now a worse thing befell him, for in February 1850, having collected into one "long ledger-like book" all the elegies on Arthur Hallam which he had been composing at intervals since 1833, he left this only MS. in the cupboard of some lodgings in Mornington Place, Hampstead Road.

Except for the number of buildings composing it, the palace had little to distinguish it from a noblemans mansion.

The ten-spined stickleback (Gastrosteus pungitius) is so called from the number of spines usually composing its first dorsal fin, which, however, may be sometimes reduced to eight or nine or increased to eleven.

When composing your objective statement for your resume, keep it simple and to the point.

It was obvious he was composing; staff paper littered the piano, and he held a pencil between his teeth.

On tall, roomy, cylindrical glasses they painted portraits of the emperor and electors of Germany, or the imperial eagle bearing on its wings the arms of the states composing the empire.

He remained there for several years, acting as curate in one of the lowest districts, preparing his Manual of Prayers for the use of the Scholars of Winchester College (first published in 1674), and composing hymns.

At times too a doubt may exist in regard to a name whose bearer was a Semite, whether the signs composing his name represent a phonetic reading or an ideographic compound.

Such alterations in temperature produce strains which frequently result in the chipping off of small fragments of the material composing the stone.

The amount and speed of movement of water by this means, and the distance to which it may be carried, depend largely upon the fineness of the particles composing the soil and the spaces left between each.

The chief of these was limestone of varying degrees of fineness, composing the cliffs which lined the valley from the apex of the Delta to the neighborhood of El Kab; the best quality was obtained on the east side opposite Memphis from the quarries of Turra and Masgra.

Different people have different comfort levels in regards to sexuality, and keep that in mind when composing your Valentine.

If you have a favorite ezine that you already read on a regular basis, you can contact the editor for submission guidelines and start composing content to send in.

The concept includes watching whole series, answering comprehension questions and composing essays based on the verbal and non-verbal cues the situational shows employ.

Make sure that you keep the reader in mind when you are composing the text for the letter so that the content is relevant for the situation.

Your goal when composing it is to make the employer want to take the time to review your resume.

You could continue composing parts and mixing up rhythms to keep your audience entertained!

You should especially consider composing a detailed listing if you own relatively expensive pieces of electronics, arts, or other costly items.

If you're composing lyrics without the music you can enjoy much more freedom with your words.

The story and lyrics for Hair - subtitled The American Tribal Rock/Love Musical - were penned by the writing team of James Rado and Gerome Ragni, with Galt MacDermot composing the music.

About a year and a half was utilized composing songs and rehearsing them 3 nights a week.

This experience includes equal amounts of on-stage performance, recording sessions, composing, and scoring.

The soundtrack to The Nightmare Before Christmas is a good primer if you want a decent introduction to his music and composing skills.

The Nightmare Before Christmas soundtrack was written almost entirely by composer Danny Elfman (of Oingo Boingo fame and later known for composing many TV and film scores, including Batman and Good Will Hunting).

By the age of ten, Tori Amos was composing instrumentals and writing lyrics.

Think about it this way, these artist make their living by composing music and writing lyrics for your listening pleasure.

The early composing career of John Williams was unspectacular.

Back up your images by composing thoughtful, well-written blog content that embodies the patriotic theme.

The only relief he found came from composing.

He also edited Hesiod and Pindar, Euripides and Aristophanes, besides composing brief introductions to the several plays, parts of which are still extant.

There was not at first among the writers any idea that they were composing an infallible narrative.

In this genus the number of segments composing the pygidium is obscured, as also it is in the genus Illaenus, which has as many as ten movable segments preceding the large semi-circular pygidium; but in such forms as Ogygia and Asaphus, which have about eight free segments, the sutural lines on the pygidium indicate that it is composed of about a dozen or more segments.

Meanwhile the reactionaries of Vienna were goading the Magyar Liberals into revolt, and Arany found a safety-valve for his growing indignation by composing a satirical poem in hexameters, entitled "The Lost Constitution."

In both periods, too, as we shall find in the sequel, he was already occupied in composing some of the extant writings which were afterwards to form parts of his final philosophical system.

Zeller supposes that, though Aristotle may have made preparations for his philosophical system beforehand, still the properly didactic treatises composing it almost all belong to the last period of his life, i.e.

It is far more probable that he was previously composing them at his leisure and in the vigour of manhood, precisely as his contemporary Demosthenes composed all his great speeches except the De Corona before he was fifty.

If then Aristotle was for some thirty-five years gradually and simultaneously composing manuscript discourses into treatises and treatises into a system, he was pursuing a process which solves beforehand the very difficulties which have since been found in his writings.

The rocks composing the cliffs are worn into caves, and around the island are many fantastic arches and columns.

The lais of Marie de France were written in England, and the greater number of the romances composing the matiere de Bretagne seem to have passed from England to France through the medium of Anglo-Norman.

In many cases there is a considerable difficulty in deciding whether a particular spectrum belongs to a compound body or to one of the elements composing the compound.

Buchner (q.v.) himself said that he owed to Moleschott the first impulse to composing his important Buchner.

Aristotle could not know enough, physically, about Nature to understand its matter, or its motions, or its forces; and consequently he fell into the error of supposing a primary matter with four contrary primary qualities, hot and cold, dry and moist, forming by their combinations four simple bodies, earth, water, air and fire, with natural rectilineal motions to or from the centre of the earth; to which he added a quintessence of ether composing the stars, with a natural circular motion round the earth.

The verification is sufficiently exact to establish the law of gravitation, as providing a statement of the motions of the bodies composing the solar system which is correct to a high degree of accuracy.