composeverb/kəmˈpəʊz/

• 1

  To make something by merging parts.

  • The editor composed a historical journal from many individual letters.
  • December 22 1678, Thomas Sprat, A Sermon Preached before the King at White-Hall Zeal ought to be composed of the highest degrees of all pious affection.
• 2

  To make up the whole; to constitute.

  • A church is composed of its members.
  • A few useful things […] compose their intellectual possessions.
• 3

  To comprise.

• 4

  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.
• 5

  To calm; to free from agitation.

  • Try to compose your thoughts.
  • The defendant couldn't compose herself and was found in contempt.
• 6

  To arrange the elements of a photograph or other picture.

• 7

  To settle (an argument, dispute etc.); to come to a settlement.

  • By trying his best to compose matters with the mullahs, he had sincerely shown that he did not seek a violent collision […]
• 8

  To arrange in proper form; to reduce to order; to put in proper state or condition.

  • In a peaceful grave my corpse compose.
  • How in safety best we may / Compose our present evils.