compose
- (transitive) To make something by merging parts.
- (transitive) To make up the whole; to constitute.
- (nonstandard, transitive) To comprise.
- (intransitive, transitive) To construct by mental labor; to think up; particularly, to produce or create a literary or musical work.
- (reflexive, sometimes) To calm; to free from agitation.
- To arrange the elements of a photograph or other picture.
- To settle (an argument, dispute etc.); to come to a settlement.
- To arrange in proper form; to reduce to order; to put in proper state or condition.
- (dated) To arrange (types) in a composing stick for printing; to typeset.
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Pronounced as (IPA)
/kəmˈpoʊz/
Etymology
In summary
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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συνθέτω
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