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COMPOSE

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 I. (verb) 

Sense 1

Meaning:

Make up plans or basic details for

Example:

frame a policy

Synonyms:

compose; draw up; frame

Classified under:

Verbs of thinking, judging, analyzing, doubting

Hypernyms (to "compose" is one way to...):

plan (make plans for something)

Sentence frame:

Somebody ----s something

Sense 2

Meaning:

Put together out of existing material

Example:

compile a list

Synonyms:

compile; compose

Classified under:

Verbs of sewing, baking, painting, performing

Hypernyms (to "compose" is one way to...):

make (make by shaping or bringing together constituents)

Troponyms (each of the following is one way to "compose"):

cobble together; cobble up (put together hastily)

anthologise; anthologize (compile an anthology)

catalog; catalogue (make a catalogue, compile a catalogue)

Sentence frames:

Somebody ----s something
Somebody ----s something PP

Derivation:

compositor (one who sets written material into type)

Sense 3

Meaning:

Produce a literary work

Example:

He wrote four novels

Synonyms:

compose; indite; pen; write

Classified under:

Verbs of sewing, baking, painting, performing

Hypernyms (to "compose" is one way to...):

create verbally (create with or from words)

"Compose" entails doing...:

spell; write (write or name the letters that comprise the conventionally accepted form of (a word or part of a word))

Domain category:

authorship; composition; penning; writing (the act of creating written works)

Troponyms (each of the following is one way to "compose"):

script (write a script for)

write out; write up (put into writing; write in complete form)

cite; reference (refer to)

annotate; footnote (add explanatory notes to or supply with critical comments)

author (be the author of)

poetise; poetize; verse; versify (compose verses or put into verse)

draft; outline (draw up an outline or sketch for something)

adopt; dramatise; dramatize (put into dramatic form)

write copy (write for commercial publications)

rewrite (rewrite so as to make fit to suit a new or different purpose)

dash off; fling off; knock off; scratch off; toss off (write quickly)

write off (write something fluently, and without hesitation)

paragraph (write about in a paragraph)

paragraph (write paragraphs; work as a paragrapher)

profile (write about)

write about; write of; write on (write about a particular topic)

lyric (write lyrics for (a song))

draw (write a legal document or paper)

Sentence frame:

Somebody ----s something

Sentence examples:

Did he compose his major works over a short period of time?

They will compose the duet

Derivation:

composition (the act of creating written works)

Sense 4

Meaning:

Write music

Example:

Beethoven composed nine symphonies

Synonyms:

compose; write

Classified under:

Verbs of sewing, baking, painting, performing

Hypernyms (to "compose" is one way to...):

create; make (make or cause to be or to become)

Domain category:

music (an artistic form of auditory communication incorporating instrumental or vocal tones in a structured and continuous manner)

Troponyms (each of the following is one way to "compose"):

counterpoint (write in counterpoint)

set to music (write (music) for (a text))

arrange; set (adapt for performance in a different way)

score (write a musical score for)

melodise; melodize (supply a melody for)

harmonise; harmonize (write a harmony for)

instrument; instrumentate (write an instrumental score for)

Sentence frames:

Somebody ----s
Somebody ----s something

Sentence example:

Did he compose his major works over a short period of time?

Derivation:

composer (someone who composes music as a profession)

composing; composition (musical creation)

composition (a musical work that has been created)

Sense 5

Meaning:

Calm (someone, especially oneself); make quiet

Example:

She had to compose herself before she could reply to this terrible insult

Classified under:

Verbs of feeling

Hypernyms (to "compose" is one way to...):

calm; calm down; lull; quiet; quieten; still; tranquilize; tranquillise; tranquillize (make calm or still)

Sentence frames:

Somebody ----s somebody
Something ----s somebody

Derivation:

composure (steadiness of mind under stress)

Sense 6

Meaning:

Form the substance of

Example:

Greed and ambition composed his personality

Classified under:

Verbs of being, having, spatial relations

Hypernyms (to "compose" is one way to...):

be; comprise; constitute; make up; represent (form or compose)

Sentence frame:

Something ----s something

Derivation:

component (an abstract part of something)

Credits

 Context examples: 

It is composed of neoplastic meningothelial (arachnoidal) cells.

(Meningioma, NCI Thesaurus/Adapted from WHO)

The tumor is composed of small round cells with scanty cytoplasm arranged in a trabecular pattern, or in ill-defined nodules or in a diffuse pattern.

(Merkel cell carcinoma, NCI Thesaurus)

It is composed of cells with the immunophenotypic and electron microscopic features of Schwann cells which contain melanosomes and are positive for melanoma markers.

(Melanotic Schwannoma, NCI Thesaurus)

A neoplasm composed of melanocytes that usually appears as a dark spot on the skin.

(Melanocytic Nevus, NCI Thesaurus)

A malignant neoplasm composed of melanocytes.

(Melanoma, NCI Thesaurus/CDISC)

An epithelial neoplasm composed of malignant glandular and malignant squamous cells.

(Adenosquamous carcinoma, NCI Thesaurus/CDISC)

They formed scaffold structures composed of the nanoparticles embedded in a non-toxic gel often used in biomedical applications.

(3-D gel-nanoparticle device detoxifies blood, NIH)

Limestone surfaces are also more likely to harbor lichens — symbiotic communities composed of fungi and photosynthesizing cyanobacteria or algae.

(Tales from the crypt: Life after death in a graveyard, National Science Foundation)

A rare morphologic variant of acinar adenocarcinoma of the prostate gland with unfavorable prognosis, composed of both malignant glandular and sarcomatous components.

(Acinar Prostate Adenocarcinoma, Sarcomatoid Variant, NCI Thesaurus)

They are composed chiefly of actin.

(Actin Filament, NLM, Medical Subject Headings)