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    com·pose
    [kəmˈpōz]
    verb
    compose (verb) · composes (third person present) · composed (past tense) · composed (past participle) · composing (present participle)
    1. write or create (a work of art, especially music or poetry):
      "he composed the First Violin Sonata four years earlier"
      • write or phrase (a letter or piece of writing) with care and thought:
        "the first sentence is so hard to compose"
      • form (a whole) by ordering or arranging the parts, especially in an artistic way:
        "compose and draw a still life"
      • order or arrange (parts) to form a whole, especially in an artistic way:
        "make an attempt to compose your images"
    2. (of elements) constitute or make up (a whole):
      "the system is composed of a group of machines"
      • be (a specified number or amount) of a whole:
        "women compose 49 percent of that group"
    3. calm or settle (oneself or one's features or thoughts):
      "she tried to compose herself"
      • archaic
        settle (a dispute):
        "the king, with some difficulty, composed this difference"
    4. prepare (a text) for printing by manually, mechanically, or electronically setting up the letters and other characters in the order to be printed:
      "in offices where close-set text was composed both men and women pieceworkers were normally employed"
      • set up (letters and characters) of a text in preparation for printing.
    Origin
    late Middle English (in the general sense ‘put together, construct’): from Old French composer, from Latin componere (see component), but influenced by Latin compositus ‘composed’ and Old French poser ‘to place’.
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    verb
    1. write or create (a work of art, especially music or poetry):
    2. (of elements) constitute or make up (a whole):
      • calm or settle (oneself or one's features or thoughts):
        calm down
        settle down
        control oneself
        regain/recover one's composure
        get control of oneself
        collect oneself
        steady oneself
        simmer down
        keep one's shirt on
        stay loose
        Opposite:
        get worked up
       
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