Dictionary Entry
compose
compose is a 7-letter English word with 13 senses as transitive verb, intransitive verb, and verb in the JumbleFix dictionary. One common meaning is: To form by putting together two or more things or parts; to put together; to make up; to fashion. Face value is 13 in Scrabble and 16 in Words With Friends. Use the entries below when you need a playable sense, a nearby word, or another arrangement of the same letters.
7 letters · Scrabble 13 · Words With Friends 16 · 13 senses
Definitions
- 1transitive verb
To form by putting together two or more things or parts; to put together; to make up; to fashion.
- 2transitive verb
To form the substance of, or part of the substance of; to constitute.
- 3transitive verb
To construct by mental labor; to design and execute, or put together, in a manner involving the adaptation of forms of expression to ideas, or to the laws of harmony or proportion; as, to compose a sentence, a sermon, a symphony, or a picture.
- 4transitive verb
To dispose in proper form; to reduce to order; to put in proper state or condition; to adjust; to regulate.
- 5transitive verb
To free from agitation or disturbance; to tranquilize; to soothe; to calm; to quiet.
- 6transitive verb
To arrange (types) in a composing stick in order for printing; to set (type).
- 7intransitive verb
To come to terms.
- 8verb
make up plans or basic details for
"frame a policy"
Synonyms
- 9verb
put together out of existing material
"compile a list"
Synonyms
- 10verb
produce a literary work
"She composed a poem"
"He wrote four novels"
- 11verb
write music
"Beethoven composed nine symphonies"
Synonyms
- 12verb
calm (someone, especially oneself); make quiet
"She had to compose herself before she could reply to this terrible insult"
- 13verb
form the substance of
"Greed and ambition composed his personality"
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