Dictionary Definition
compose
Verb
1 form the substance of; "Greed and ambition
composed his personality"
2 write music; "Beethoven composed nine
symphonies" [syn: write]
4 put together out of existing material; "compile
a list" [syn: compile]
5 calm (someone, especially oneself); make quiet;
"She had to compose herself before she could reply to this terrible
insult"
User Contributed Dictionary
English
Pronunciation
- kəm-pōz', /kəmˈpəʊz/, /k@m"p@Uz/
- Rhymes: -əʊz
Etymology
From composer.Verb
- To make something by
merging parts.
- The editor composed a historical journal from many individual
letters.
- Try to compose your thoughts.
- The editor composed a historical journal from many individual
letters.
- To make
up the whole; to constitute.
- A church is composed of its members.
- The members compose the church.
- A church is composed of its members.
- transitive nonstandard To comprise.
- To construct by
mental labor; to think up;
particularly, to produce or create a literary or musical work.
- The orator composed his speech over the week prior.
- Nine numbered symphonies, including the Fifth, were composed by Beethoven.
- It's difficult to compose without absolute silence.
- Nine numbered symphonies, including the Fifth, were composed by Beethoven.
- The orator composed his speech over the week prior.
- To calm oneself down.
- The defendant couldn't compose herself and was found in contempt.
- To arrange the elements of a photograph or other picture.
Derived terms
Translations
to make something by merging parts
to make up the whole; to constitute
- Finnish: muodostaa
- German: besteht
- Greek: συνθέτω
- Russian: составлять (sostavl'át') , составить (sostávit') ; состоять (sostoj'át')
to comprise
- Finnish: käsittää, muodostaa
- German: enthalten, umfasst, einschliessen
to construct by mental labor; to think up
to calm oneself down
- Finnish: rauhoittua
- German: sich fassen, sich beruhigen
- Russian: собираться (sobirát's'a) , собраться (sostávit's'a)
to arrange the elements of a picture
- Finnish: sommitella
- German: zusammenstellen, bilden
French
Verb
composeItalian
Verb form
composeExtensive Definition
Composition can refer to:
- Composition (logical fallacy), a fallacy of ambiguation in which one assumes that a whole has a property solely because its various parts have that property
- Composition (visual arts), the plan, placement or arrangement of the elements of art in a work
- Composition (language), in literature, oratory, and rhetoric, producing a work of spoken tradition or written literature
- Compounding is also known as composition in linguistic literature
- in computer science
- Object composition, combining simpler data types into more complex data types, or function calls into calling functions
- Function composition (computer science), an act or mechanism to combine simple functions to build more complicated ones
- in mathematics
- Composition (number theory), a way of writing a positive integer as a sum of positive integers
- Function composition, an operation that takes functions and gives a single function as the result
- Relation composition, an operation that takes relations and gives a single relation as the result
- A law of composition, usually called a binary function
- Musical composition, an original piece of music
- Composition studies, the professional field of writing instruction
- MIDI composition
See also
- Early Germanic law, concerning the use of the term composition, or making a payment instead of receiving a punishment. With reference to the modern period, see Ausgleich, also called the Composition of 1867.
- Compose key, a key on a computer keyboard
compose in Catalan: Composició
compose in German: Komposition
compose in Estonian: Kompositsioon
compose in Spanish: Composición
compose in French: Composition
compose in Hebrew: קומפוזיציה
compose in Dutch: Compositie
compose in Portuguese: Composição
compose in Russian: Композиция
compose in Slovak: Kompozícia
compose in Serbian: Композиција
compose in Finnish: Kompositio
compose in Yiddish: קאמפאזיציע
Synonyms, Antonyms 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 to,
author, balm, be guided by, becalm, bemingle, bend, blend, bottle up, brew, bring to terms, bring
together, build, build up,
calm, calm down, cast, check, chime in with, close, close with, coalesce, coauthor, collaborate, collect, collocate, combine, comfort, commingle, commix, comply, comply with, compose
oneself, compound,
comprise, compromise, conclude, concoct, conform, conglomerate, consist in,
consist of, console,
constitute, construct, contain, contrive, control, cool, cop out, correct, correspond, cradle, create, dash off, deal, deal out, decoct, devise, discipline, dispose, distribute, down, dream up, duck
responsibility, dulcify,
ease, ease up, editorialize, elaborate, embody, emulsify, enter into, erect, evade responsibility, even
out, evolve, extrude, fabricate, fall in with,
fashion, fit, fix, fix up, follow, form, formulate, frame, free-lance, fudge together,
fuse, gear to, gentle, get up, ghost, ghostwrite, give and take,
give way, go by, go fifty-fifty, go into, harmonize, hash, heal the breach, hold in,
homogenize, hush, imagine, immingle, immix, impose, incorporate, indite, instrument, instrumentate, integrate, interblend, interlace, interlard, intermingle, intermix, intertwine, interweave, invent, join, jumble, justify, knead, knock off, knock out,
lessen, let up, line, line up, lull, make, make a deal, make an
adaptation, make an adjustment, make concessions, make conform,
make one easy, make up, manufacture, marshal, mature, mediate, meet, meet halfway, melodize, merge, merge in, mingle, mingle-mangle, mitigate, mix, mix up, moderate, modulate, mold, mollify, musicalize, novelize, observe, orchestrate, organize, originate, overrun, pacify, pamphleteer, parcel out,
patch things up, patch together, pi, pi a form, piece together,
place, play politics,
pocket, pour balm into,
prefabricate,
prepare, produce, put in tune, put to
music, put together, put up, quell, quiet, quiet down, raise, rally, range, reach a compromise,
rear, reconcile, rectify, regiment, rein, relax, repress, resolve, rest, restore harmony, restrain, reunite, rock, rock to sleep, rub off
corners, run up, scenarize, score, scramble, set, set in print, set out, set to
music, set up, settle,
settle differences, settle with, shape, shuffle, simmer down, slacken, smooth, smooth down, smooth it
over, smooth over, smoothen, smother, soften, solace, soothe, space, split the difference,
stabilize, steady, still, stir up, straighten, straighten out,
strike a balance, strike a bargain, structure, subdue, suit, suppress, surrender, syncretize, synthesize, take the mean,
tally with, temper, think
up, throw on paper, throw together, toss together, tranquilize, transcribe, transpose, tune down, unite
in, weave peace between, whomp up, work, work out, write, yield