Compose

  • 31compose — verb 1) a poem composed by Shelley Syn: write, devise, make up, think up, produce, invent, pen, author 2) how to compose a photograph Syn: organize, arrange, construct …

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  • 32compose — v. 1 a tr. construct or create (a work of art, esp. literature or music). b intr. compose music (gave up composing in 1917). 2 tr. constitute; make up (six tribes which composed the German nation). Usage: Preferred to comprise in this sense. 3 tr …

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  • 33composé 2 — (сложный | composé) см. словосложение и время …

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  • 34compose — composable, adj. /keuhm pohz /, v., composed, composing. v.t. 1. to make or form by combining things, parts, or elements: He composed his speech from many research notes. 2. to be or constitute a part or element of: a rich sauce composed of many… …

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  • 35compose — verb /kəmˈpəʊz/ a) To make something by merging parts. The editor composed a historical journal from many individual letters. b) To make up the whole; to constitute. Try to compose your thoughts. See Also: compound …

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  • 36compose — See compose, comprise, include …

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  • 37compose — Synonyms and related words: accommodate, accommodate with, accord, adapt, adapt to, adjust, adjust to, admix, agree with, align, allay, allocate, allot, alloy, amalgamate, appease, apportion, arrange, arrange matters, array, assemble, assimilate… …

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  • 38compose — [15] Etymologically, compose means simply ‘put together’; it comes, via Old French composer, from compos , the perfect stem of Latin compōnere, a compound verb formed from the prefix com ‘with’ and pōnere ‘place, put’, source of English position …

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  • 39compose*/ — [kəmˈpəʊz] verb 1) [I/T] to write a piece of music The song was composed for their wedding.[/ex] 2) [T] formal to write something after thinking carefully about it He sat down and composed a letter of resignation.[/ex] • be composed of sth to… …

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  • 40compose — com•pose [[t]kəmˈpoʊz[/t]] v. posed, pos•ing 1) to be or constitute the parts, elements, or materials of; make up; form the basis of: a sauce composed of many ingredients[/ex] 2) to make or form by combining things, parts, or elements: to compose …

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