Compose

Definition: Compose

Compose

Verb

1. Form the substance of; "Greed and ambition composed his personality.

2. Write music; "Beethoven composed nine symphonies".

3. Produce a literary work; "She composed a poem"; "He wrote four novels".

4. Put together out of existing material; "compile a list".

5. Calm (someone, esp. oneself); make quiet; "She had to compose herself before she could reply to this terrible insult".

6. Draw up the plans or basic details for; "frame a policy".

Source: WordNet 1.7.1 Copyright © 2001 by Princeton University. All rights reserved.
 

Date "compose" was first used in popular English literature: sometime before 1258. (references)

COMPOSE

Source: compiled by the editor, based on several corpora (additional references).

Synonyms: Compose

Component

Form, make, constitute, compose.

Composition

Compose, constitute, form, make; make up, fill up, build up; enter into the composition of; (be a component).

Excitability

Compose, appease; (moderate); propitiate; repress; (restrain); render insensible; overcome one's excitability, allay one's excitability, repress one's excitability; master one's feelings.

Moderation

Tranquilize, pacify, assuage, appease, swag, lull, soothe, compose, still, calm, calm down, cool, quiet, hush, quell, sober, pacify, tame, damp, lay, allay, rebate, slacken, smooth, alleviate, rock to sleep, deaden, smooth, throw cold water on, throw a wet blanket over, turn off; slake; curb; (restrain); tame; (subjugate); smooth over; pour oil on the waves, pour oil on the troubled waters; pour balm into, mattre de l'eau dans son vin.

Pacification

Verb: pacify, tranquilize, compose; allay; (moderate); reconcile, propitiate, placate, conciliate, meet halfway, hold out the olive branch, heal the breach, make peace, restore harmony, bring to terms.

Printing

Verb: print; compose; put to press, go to press; pass through the press, see through the press; publish; bring out; appear in print, rush into print; distribute, makeup, mortise, offset, overrun, rout.

Production

Verb: produce, perform, operate, do, make, gar, form, construct, fabricate, frame, contrive, manufacture; weave, forge, coin, carve, chisel; build, raise, edify, rear, erect, put together, set up, run up; establish, constitute, compose, organize, institute; achieve, accomplish; (complete).

Writing

Compose, indite, draw up, draft, formulate; dictate; inscribe, throw on paper, dash off; manifold.

Crosswords: Compose

French (composes).

This is my standard procedure for doing it. And while I compose it, I'm also reviewing it! (Yellow Submarine; writing credit: Al Brodax; Jack Mendelsohn)

But we also fall in love, we build cities, we compose symphonies, and we endure. (Quills; writing credit: Doug Wright)

Source: compiled by the editor from various references; see credits.

Books

• Begining to Compose Teachers Book (reference)

• Dinner Music: How to Compose the Permanently Perfect Diet (reference)

• How to Draw and Compose Pictures (reference)

• Improvise By Learning How To Compose Intermediate Level (reference)

• Learn To Compose And Notate Music (reference)

  (more book examples)

Music

• Poetic Champions Compose [ORIGINAL RECORDING REMASTERED] (reference)

  (more classical music examples; more popular music examples)

Source: compiled by the editor from various references; see credits.

Le femme révées Ideal beauties ; Contemplation = contemplation / / Compose & lithog. par M. Alophe ; Imp. lith. de Jacomme & Cie. Credit: Library of Congress.

Source: pictures compiled by the editor from various references; see picture credits.

Amendments to this Covenant will take effect when ratified by the Members of the League whose representatives compose the Council and by a majority of the Members of the League whose Representatives compose the Assembly. (reference)

Source: compiled by the editor from various references.

Time did not compose her.

This agony and this immortality are to mingle and compose our death.

Source: compiled by the editor from various references.

Health

Normally, blasts compose less than 5 percent of the cells made by the bone marrow and grow to form mature white blood cells with certain typical features visible under the microscope. (references)

Business

The Association of Motor Vehicle Importers-Representatives (AMVIR) members compose a strong financial power in the Greek business world. (references)

Buses, coaches, HGVs and light commercial vehicles (LCVs) are the primary vehicles that compose the commercial vehicle sector of the automobile industry. (references)

Economic History

China

In addition, servers and peripherals compose a fast growing industry that now account for a $20 billion market. (references)

Saudi Arabia

Westerners compose less than two percent of the labor force, and the percentage is slowly dropping as they are replaced by Saudis and less-expensive expatriates from developing countries. (references)

Comoros

In a separate nod to pressure to restore civilian rule, the government organized several committees to compose a new constitution, including the August 2000 National Congress and November 2000 Tripartite Commission. (references)

Political Economy

Antigua and Barbuda

A prime minister, a cabinet, and a bicameral legislative assembly compose the Government. (references)

Slovak Rep

Several parliamentarians have since left their original parties, but parties that compose the ruling coalition still enjoy a comfortable majority. (references)

Malaysia

Chinese comprise about 26% of Malaysia's population and Indians about 7%. Other groups, including native peoples in Sarawak and Sabah in East Malaysia, compose the remainder of the population. (references)

Women

Pakistan

During the year, the Government held elections and installed local governments where women compose one-third of the members. (references)

Source: compiled by the editor from ICON Group International, Inc.; see credits.

Source: compiled by the editor from various references.

Expressions using "compose": compose music ♦ compose oneself ♦ compose out of one's own imagination ♦ compose poetry ♦ compose yourself!. Additional references.

Albanian

vendos (arrange, be determined, Canton, choose, conclude, dare, decide, determine, dispose, elect, elicit, emplace, establish, fix, house, induct, instal, install, instate, judge, lay, locate, make up one's mind, place, propose, put, quarter, recline, resolve, rule, seat, set, settle, situate, station, Stow, take the plunge, will), rregulloj (accommodate, adjust, amend, arrange, attemper, clear up, contrive, control, correct, debug, dispose, dispose of, do, fix up, model, modulate, order, patch up, rate, readjust, redress, regularize, regulate, repair, set right, set the tune, settle, shape, Spruce, straighten, tidy up, trim), rendit (calendar, collocate, dispose, enumerate, line, Marshal, rank, sort out), rendis (calendar, collocate, dispose, enumerate, line, Marshal, rank, sort out), radhit (align, Aline, range, rank, recapitulate, recite), përgatit (coach, concoct, cook up, dispense, dress, fit, fit up, get, get ready, get up, make, make ready, make up, mix up, mobilize, prepare, produce, qualify, stage-manage, train), përbëj (amount, comprise, constitute, form, make up), krijoj (brew, conceive, contract, create, develop, erect, establish, forge, form, found, institute, make, originate, pen, procreate, produce, raise, shape, sow, transact), kompozoj (put together, write), hartoj (compile, draw, draw up, frame, indite, make, redact), faqos (impose, page up). (various references)

Arabic 

‏كتب (compile, draft, draw up, enter, inscribe, note down, pen, prescribe, publication, record, register, write, write down), ‏نضد (set type), ‏نظم (adjust, arrange, array, bed, cast, code, codify, collocate, construct, control, dispose, fix, form, groom, lay, line, marshal, mastermind, measure, order, organize, plan, poetize, put in order, put things straight, reform, regiment, regulate, regulation, right, seed, settle, shape, shuffle, sort, spruce up, stage, streamline, systematize, verse), ‏تشكل (brew, form, formation, shape, take shape), ‏سوى (accommodate, adjust, but, compound, dispose, equalize, equate, even, flatten, normalize, patch, regularize, settle, smooth, straighten), ‏جمع (accumulate, add, addition, aggregate, ally, amass, assemblage, assemble, band, be gathered, cast, collect, collecting, collection, combination, combine, compile, congregate, connecting, corral, embody, fund, gather, gathering, glean, go berrying, grouping, herd, ingathering, joining up, lump, marshal, muster, pickup, piece together, pile, pile up, pool, put together, raise, rake, rally, reap, round up, scratch, scratch together, stack, sum, sum up, summation, summing up, tot, total, totalize, unite, uniting), ‏أنهى (call a halt, close, complete, conclude, cut, determine, dissolve, do, end, finish, fulfil, fulfill, last, last out, round off, terminate, top, wind up, wrap up), ‏ألف الألحان, ‏ركب (assemble, compact, construct, fabricate, frame, mount, prepare, put together, ride, rig up, set, set up, straddle, superimpose). (various references)

Bulgarian 

съставям (compile, compound, design, draw, draw up, form, frame, indite, make, make out, plot, strike), съчинявам (excogitate, indite, invent, make, make up, mint, pen, put together), успокоявам (allay, appease, assuage, becalm, calm, calm down, comfort, conciliate, cool, ease, hush, lull, mitigate, mollify, pacify, palliate, placate, quiet, quiet down, quieten, reassure, relieve, salve, settle, silence, sleek, soothe, still, tranquilize, tranquillize, unbend), уреждам (acquit, arrange, atone, deal, dispose of, fix up, ground, negotiate, organize, patch, patch up, pay, quit, regulate, set right, settle, sew up, tee up, work out, wrap, wrap up), скицирам картина, творя (create), композирам (write), образувам (come, form, lump, make, margin, strike), набирам (dial, gather, maturate, muster, muster up, pucker, quill, raise, set, set up, shirr), помирявам (accommodate, appease, bring together, heal, placate, reconcile), подреждам (adjust, arrange, assort, dispose, do up, plash, pleach, preen, process, put in order, seriate, snug, sort out, tidy, trim). (various references)

Chinese 

�" (compile, discourse in praise), 編 (arrange, compile, edit, fabricate, group, organize, plait, weave, write), 組 (cord, group, make up, to form, to organize), 组成 (Composed, Composing), 篹 (compile, delicacies, food), �'�寫 (write), �'� (compile). (various references)

Czech

složit (close, deposit, fold, indite, lay down, make out, pack, piece together, pile up, put down, put together, set down, tackle, take, take down, throw), skládat (stack, take, write), napsat (author, chalk up, do, endorse, inscribe, report, set down, write, write down), komponovat. (various references)

Danish

udarbejde, sætte (lay down, place, put, put down), komponere (compound), forfatte. (various references)

Dutch

componeren (create, write), samenstellen (compile, put together). (various references)

Esperanto

verki (create, write), komponi, findecidi (conclude, dispatch, settle). (various references)

Faeroese

skriva (create, write), seta saman (assemble, create, link, mount, put together, write). (various references)

Farsi 

تصنیف کردن (Make), ساختن (Build, Establish, Form, Invent, Make, Manufacture, Mint, Model, Move, Prepare, Upbuild, Weave), سرودن (Sing), درست کردن (Adapt, Address, Agree, Build, Clean, Concoct, Devise, Emend, Fix, Gully, Integrate, Make, Mend, Organize, Redd, Regulate, Right, Straighten, Trim, Weave). (various references)

Finnish

säveltää (set to music, write music), laatia (compile, create, draw up, make, prepare, work out, write). (various references)

French

composer (comprise, concoct). (various references)

German

zusammenstellen (arrange, assemble, assort, collect together, collocate, compilate, compile, concoct, draft, draw up, lump together, make out, pick, put together, set, to assemble, to assort, to compilate, to compose), zusammensetzen (assemblage, assemble, compound, fit up, put together, seat together, to compose, to compound, to frame, unfragment), setzen (assume, back, bed, bet, build, cross, erect, gamble, lay, lay down, move, picked, place, placement, plant, posit, put, put back, put down, seat, seed, set, setting, ship, sit, typeset), komponieren (construct, to compose), abfassen (couch, create, draft, indite, to compose, to indite, write). (various references)

Greek 

συγκροτώ (constitute, form), συνθέτω (compound, make, synthesize, write), στοιχειοθετώ (set type). (various references)

Hebrew 

ל�"לחין (set to music), ל�"תאים (adjust, conform, fit, match, mate, meet, modify, peer, suit, tailor, tally), ל�"חביר (join, string together), ל�"רכיב (assemble, build, combine, compound, fabricate, place on, put together, set up). (various references)

Hungarian

zenét szerez, szed (glean, to disjoint, to drug, to glean, to pick, to pull), fogalmaz (drawn, drew, to draw, to pen), összeállít (assemble, collocate, compile, edit, frame, make out, piece together, shook, to aggregate, to compile, to erect, to make up, to patch, to piece together, to refit). (various references)

Indonesian

mengubah (amend, distort, modify, sway), menganggit (lace, thread), mencipta (create), membentuk (fashion), gubah (arrange). (various references)

Italian

comporre (arrange, compound, dial, form, frame, indite, make, make out, make up, score, settle). (various references)

Japanese Kanji 

落ち着ける (to calm down, to compose oneself, to quiet), � る (to build, to coin, to commit, to compose, to construct, to create, to cultivate, to draw up, to establish, to fabricate, to make, to make up, to manufacture, to organize, to prepare, to trim, to write), 詩歌�'綴る (to compose poetry), 詩�'作る (to compose a poem), 苦吟 (laborious composition, struggling to compose a poem), 獺祭 (arraying a number of reference books in order to compose poetry), 綴る (to compose, to spell), 組み上�'る (to compose, to put together), 気�'静める (to becalm one's feelings, to compose oneself), 作る (to build, to coin, to commit, to compose, to construct, to create, to cultivate, to draw up, to establish, to fabricate, to make, to make up, to manufacture, to organize, to prepare, to trim, to write), 句�'作る (to compose a haiku poem), 口遊む (to compose impromptu, to hum, to sing to oneself), 口号む (to compose impromptu, to hum, to sing to oneself), �'�歌�'� む (to compose a waka). (various references)

Japanese Katakana 

おちつける (to calm down, to compose oneself, to quiet), くぎ�" (laborious composition, struggling to compose a poem), しいか�'つずる (to compose poetry), き�'しずめる (to becalm one's feelings, to compose oneself), し�'つくる (to compose a poem), く�'つくる (to compose a haiku poem), くみあ�'る (to compose, to draw, to put together), くちずさむ (to compose impromptu, to hum, to hum something, to sing to oneself), つくる (to build, to coin, to commit, to compose, to construct, to create, to cultivate, to draw up, to establish, to fabricate, to make, to make up, to manufacture, to organize, to prepare, to trim, to write), つづる (to compose, to spell), わか�'よむ (to compose a waka), � っさい (arraying a number of reference books in order to compose poetry). (various references)

Korean 

구성하십시�". (various references)

Malay

karang ... mengarang. (various references)

Manx

kiunaghey (allay, appease, appeasement, becalm, calm, calming, die down, hush, hush as child, lull, pacification, pacify, quell, quiet, quieten, sedate, sedation, soothe, steady down, tranquillization, tranquillize), jannoo (accomplish, accomplishment, act, build, cast, coalesce, commit, committal, conferment, conformation, construct, construction, create, deal, deed, do, effect, execute, fabricate, fashion, fend, fill, follow out, formation, goings on, keep, make, manufacture, perform, performance, performing, perpetrate, perpetration, persuance, practise, produce, production, render; doing, structure, style, transact, transaction, transactions). (various references)

Papago

ne'it (to compose music). (various references)

Papiamen

komponé. (various references)

Pig Latin

omposecay

Polish

tworzyć dzieło, pisać, komponować. (various references)

Portuguese

compor (concoct, constitute, create, dash, draw up, indite, make, make up, set, spin, typeset, write, write off). (various references)

Romanian

scrie (be spelt, create, flourish, inscribe, produce, spell, write), crea (build, coin, construct, create, devise, engender, father, found, give forth, organize, originate, produce, write), compune (compact, compound, constitute, create, draw, form, frame, indite, Marshal, set, write). (various references)

Russian 

составлять (amount, amounted, amounting, be, come, constitute, draw up, form, make, reach, totalled, totalling), составить (draw up, make up, put together), сочинять музыку (compose music, melodize), набирать (assemble, collect, dial, gather). (various references)

Serbo-Croatian

sročiti, srediti (arrange, collate, put in order), sastaviti (assemble, compile, compound, indite, join, piece, put together, scribe, seam, sew together), komponovati. (various references)

Spanish

componer (arrange, compound, consist in, dispose, integrate, make up, order, reconcile, refit, repair, set, set up, snap out of it, throw in, trim, trim up, vamp, write). (various references)

Swedish

komponera (create, write), utarbeta (develop, evolve, frame, work out). (various references)

Turkish

yazmak (clock up, commit to paper, conceive, draw, draw up, enroll, enter, grind out, indite, inscribe, note, note down, pen, put down, put on paper, record, reduce to writing, register, set, set down, take down, write, write down, write out), yatıştırmak (abate, allay, alleviate, appease, assuage, attemper, becalm, calm, comfort, conciliate, defuse, disarm, ease, hush, lull, mitigate, moderate, mollify, pacify, placate, propitiate, quell, quiet, quieten, remit, salve, sedate, settle, smooth down, smother up, soften, soothe, still, tranquilize, tranquillize), yaratmak (beget, call into being, conceive, create, father, incur, originate, procreate), toparlamak (clean up, collect, do out, find one's legs, make up, pick up, piece together, put together, rake together, rally, re-collect, round off, sum up, tidy out, tidy up), oluşturmak (carve out, constitute, create, effectuate, forge, form, generate, make up), meydana getirmek (achieve, bring about, bring forth, bring to pass, create, do, effect, effectuate, generate, spawn, turn out), eser yaratmak, düzenlemek (arrange, calendar, collocate, construct, coordinate, dispose, do, do out, draw, draw up, engineer, execute, fix up, forge, form, frame, get things square, get up, give, grade, lay out, line up, methodize, Mount, order, organize, promote, put up, regularize, regulate, scheme, set, set out, shape, stage, string, whack up, work up), bestelemek (melodize, set to music, write), şiir yazmak (compose poetry, poetize, verse, write poetry), ara buluculuk yapmak (go between). (various references)

Turkmen 

taяyarlamak (cook, prepare). (various references)

Ukrainian

створювати (build, charter, coin, construct, create, erect, found, mint, originate, produce, raise up), улагоджувати (accommodate, adjust, arrange, patch up, reconcile), складати (accumulate, aggregate, amount, bolt, congregate, make, make up, number, redact, tot, wage), задумувати (agitate, conceive, design). (various references)

Welsh

cysodi (set type), cyfansoddi (constitute). (various references)

compono, conclude, concludens, concludent, concluderet, concludes, concludi, concluditur, conclusae, concluserant, concluserat, concluserint, concluseris, concluserunt, conclusi, conclusis, conclusisset, conclusisti, conclusit, conclusus, conclususque, condasque, condat, condatur, condentur, condere, conderet, condiderunt, condidit, condita, conditae, condite, condito, conditor, conditorum, conditum, conditus, condunt, confecta, confectaeque, confectum, confectus, confici, conficiat, conficiente, conficiet, confla, conflabimini, conflabitur, conflabo, conflandum, conflans, conflasti, conflata, conflatae, conflator, conflatur, conflatus, conflaverunt, conflavit, confletur, conponam, conponamus, conpone, conponens, conponentes, conponere, conponeris, conpones, conponet, conponis, conponunt, conposita, conpositae, conpositam, conpositis, conposito, conpositum, conpositus, conposuerit, conposueritis, conposuerunt, conposuit, conseres, conseretur, conservi, dicta, dictaverit, dictaverunt, dicto, eser, fac, facere, facerem, faceremus, facerent, faceres, faceret, faceretis, faceretque, faciam, faciamque, faciamus, faciant, faciantque, facias, faciat, faciatis, faciebant, faciebat, faciebatis, faciebatque, faciemus, facienda, faciendam, faciendas, faciendi, faciendo, faciendum, faciens, facient, faciente, facientem, facientes, facienti, facientia, facientibus, facientis, facientque, facies, faciesque, faciet, facietis, facietisque, facietque, facimus, facio, facis, facit, facite, facitis, facito, faciunt, facque, facta, factae, factaeque, factam, factaque, factas, facti, factique, factis, facto, factorum, factos, factum, factumque, factura, facturi, facturum, facturus, factus, factusque, feceram, feceramus, fecerant, feceras, fecerat, feceratis, fecere, fecerim, fecerimus, fecerint, feceris, fecerit, feceritis, feceritque, fecero, fecerunt, feceruntque, feci, fecimus, fecique, fecisse, fecissem, fecissent, fecisset, fecisti, fecistis, fecit, fecitque, iesser, inconposita, inconpositos, ordinabis, ordinabuntur, ordinant, ordinantes, ordinare, ordinasti, ordinata, ordinatae, ordinati, ordinatione, ordinationi, ordinatis, ordinatores, ordinatus, ordinaverunt, ordinavit, ordinem, ordines, pacti, pacto, pactum, pactus, pepigeram, pepigerant, pepigerat, pepigi, pepigique, pepigisti, pepigit, pepigitque, ponere, praeordinati, praeordinatis, praeordinavit, scribam, scribamus, scribantur, scribas, scribat, scribatur, scribe, scribebam, scribebant, scribebat, scribendi, scribendum, scribens, scribentes, scribentur, scribere, scribes, scribesque, scribet, scribetque, scribi, scribimus, scribis, scribite, scribo, scribo, scripsi scriptum, scribo; scripsi scriptum, scripserat, scripseris, scripserit, scripserunt, scripseruntque, scripsi, scripsimus, scripsissem, scripsisset, scripsisti, scripsistis, scripsit, scripsitque, scripta, scriptae, scriptam, scriptas, scripti, scriptum, scriptura, scripturae, scripturam, scripturarum, scripturas, scripturis, scripturus, scriptus, ser, seram, seras, serat, seratur, serent, serenti, serere, seres, sereser, seret, seretis, seretisque, seri, seris, serit, serite, seritur, sero, sertum, seruerimus, serueris, seruit, serunt, servi, servimus, servique, servistis, servit, superscribam, superscribes, superscriptio. (various references)

composer. (various references)

Derivations

Words beginning with "compose": composed, composedly, composedness, composednesses, composer, composers, composes. (additional references)

Words ending with "compose": decompose, discompose, photocompose, recompose. (additional references)

Words containing "compose": cocomposer, cocomposers, decomposed, decomposer, decomposers, decomposes, discomposed, discomposes, noncomposer, noncomposers, photocomposed, photocomposer, photocomposers, photocomposes, recomposed, recomposes, undecomposed. (additional references)

Misspellings

"Compose" is suggested in spellcheckers for the following: Cenbose, compasse, compense, Compesso, compize, composa, composee, composium, Compson, compusa, compuse, comroe, Comtois, Comtoise, conose, copiosa, Coposa, copose, Coposu, Kimpese. (additional references)

Source: compiled by the editor (additional references); see credits.

Scrabble® Enable2K-Verified Anagrams

-1 letter: comose, compos.

-2 letters: comes, compo, comps, coops, copes, copse, moose, mopes, poems, pomes, scoop, scope.

-3 letters: ceps, come, comp, coop, coos, cope, cops, epos, mocs, moos, mope, mops, oops, opes, pecs, peso, poco, poem, pome, poms, pose, scop, some, spec.

-4 letters: cep, coo, cop, cos, ems, moc, moo, mop, mos, oes, oms, ope, ops.

+1 letter: composed, composer, composes, compotes, myoscope.

+2 letters: coemploys, composers, composite, composted, composure, decompose, moonscape, myoscopes, picomoles, pomaceous, recompose.

+3 letters: cocomposer, components, composedly, composited, composites, composures, compressor, compromise, copolymers, decomposed, decomposer, decomposes, discompose, ectomorphs, micropores, microscope, microspore, moonscapes, recomposed, recomposes.

+4 letters: cocomposers, compendious, compensator, competitors, completions, complexions, compositely, compounders, compradores, compression, compressors, compromised, compromiser, compromises, copromoters, cosmopolite, decomposers, decomposing, discomposed, discomposes, mesomorphic, mesotrophic, microcopies, microphones, microprobes, microscopes, microspores, noncomposer, outcompetes, pleochroism, polychromes, recomposing, scopolamine, thermoscope.