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compose

Pronunciation: /kəmˈpəʊz/

The English word “compose” has 9 meanings listed here.

verb

  1. To make something by merging parts.
  2. To make up the whole; to constitute.
  3. To comprise.
  4. To construct by mental labor; to think up; particularly, to produce or create a literary or musical work.
  5. To calm; to free from agitation.
  6. To arrange the elements of a photograph or other picture.
  7. To settle (an argument, dispute etc.); to come to a settlement.
  8. To arrange in proper form; to reduce to order; to put in proper state or condition.
  9. To arrange (types) in a composing stick for printing; to typeset.

Etymology

From Middle English composen, from Old French composer (“to compose, compound, adjust, settle”), from com- + poser, as an adaptation of Latin componere (“to put together, compose”), from com- (“together”) + ponere (“to put, place”).

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