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UK
/kəmpˈəʊz/
]
[ US /kəmˈpoʊz/ ]
[ US /kəmˈpoʊz/ ]
VERB
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write music
Beethoven composed nine symphonies -
put together out of existing material
compile a list -
form the substance of
Greed and ambition composed his personality -
calm (someone, especially oneself); make quiet
She had to compose herself before she could reply to this terrible insult -
make up plans or basic details for
frame a policy -
produce a literary work
He wrote four novels
She composed a poem
How To Use compose In A Sentence
- Band leader, Ray Blue, is also a composer, arranger and performer on tenor, alto and soprano saxophones.
- The white plates are composed of a very tough but light titanium alloy that provides a good deal of extra protection to the body's vitals.
- Unlike anything else in his catalog, Aura is a ten-part suite composed by Danish flugelhornist Palle Mikkelbourg as a tribute. Fulldls.com
- The inner reef, where we do walk, is actually composed of coralline algae, calcium-rich plants that form rock-hard ledges.
- Each was composed of interwoven strands, themselves composed of up to a dozen more. Tuning the Rig: A Journey to the Arctic
- Fontaine has prettily set it off, and an anonymous writer has composed it in Latin Anacreontic verses; and at length our Prior has given it with equal gaiety and freedom. Curiosities of Literature, Vol. 1 (of 3)
- The ensemble playing is lock tight, the soloists are eloquent; the seven pieces (five of them composed by group members) are literate and stimulating.
- The upper layer of a plate is composed of either oceanic or continental crust or both.
- They had divers arsenals, or piratic harbors, as likewise watch towers and beacons, all along the sea-coast; and fleets were here received that were well manned with the finest mariners, and well served with the expertest pilots, and composed of swift sailing and light-built vessels adapted for their special purpose. The Lives of the Noble Grecians and Romans
- He went on to scarify the same companies for being only interested in putting on the tried and the tested to the exclusion of modern works by Irish writers and composers.