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单词 compose
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compose
(kəmpz )
Word forms: composes , composing , composed
1. verb B2
The things that something is composed of are its parts or members. The separate things that compose something are the parts or members that form it.
The force would be composed of troops from NATO countries. [be VERB-ed + of]
Protein molecules compose all the complex working parts of living cells. [VERB noun]
They agreed to form a council composed of leaders of the rival factions. [VERB-ed]
Synonyms: put together, make up, constitute, comprise  
2. verb B2
When someone composes a piece of music, they write it.
Vivaldi composed a large number of very fine concertos. [VERB noun]
Cale also uses electronic keyboards to compose. [VERB]
3. verb
If you compose something such as an email, letter, poem, or speech, you write it, often using a lot of concentration or skill. [formal]
He started at once to compose a reply to Anna. [VERB noun]
The document composed in Philadelphia transformed the confederation of sovereign states into a national government. [VERB-ed]
Synonyms: create, write, produce, imagine  
4. verb
If you compose a picture or image, you arrange it in an attractive and artistic way. [formal]
Anthony dismounted with his camera and walked away from the walls to compose a shot. [VERB noun]
The drawing is beautifully composed. [VERB-ed]
Synonyms: arrange, make up, construct, put together  
5. verb
If you compose yourself or if you compose your features, you succeed in becoming calm after you have been angry, excited, or upset.
She quickly composed herself as the car started off. [VERB pronoun-reflexive]
Then he composed his features, took Godwin's hand awkwardly and began to usher him from the office. [VERB noun]
Collocations:
compose a letter
She helped me to compose a letter and I got an interview.
The Sun (2013)
It would have taken one person less than half a day's work to compose a letter and mail it out.
The Sun (2015)
Within a year, he could compose a letter.
Times, Sunday Times (2016)
Then offer to compose a letter to the council for him to sign.
The Sun (2012)
compose a melody
The second phase was a contest to compose the melody for the song, and lodge it with the judges within little more than a week!
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The video also invited viewers to compose a melody for the completed lyrics.
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He even composed the melody for a carol performed in front of his secondary school.
Times, Sunday Times
Ono watched as he composed the melody, chord structure and almost all the lyrics, nearly completing the song in one brief writing session.
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During the trip, he had composed a melody song.
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compose a poem
Customers are invited to pick one, and she will read or compose a poem appropriate to what they have chosen.
Times, Sunday Times
If the cup stopped beside one of the poets, he was obliged to drink it and then compose a poem.
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Blunt composed his poems in a locked room.
Times, Sunday Times
The process continues with me composing a poem, which expounds the biblical text and the painting.
Times, Sunday Times
Toward the end of his life he composed some poems that are centered on images from his childhood point of view.
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compose a score
I tried to compose a score which was contemporary and still compatible with the time of the film.
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He also wrote for modern ballet, and composed the scores of several feature films.
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Portman has composed the scores for dozens of feature films.
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compose a song
To her, this signaled that she had to compose a song about interrupting a wedding.
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The young people learned to play musical instruments, compose a song and set it to music.
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It uses a variety of different instruments, which are combined selectively in order to compose a song.
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He said that he made the song for the soldiers to sing in their bunkers, and it took seven-and-a-half minutes for him to compose the song.
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Exactly 570 days ago he set himself the task of composing a song a day and sharing them on his website.
Times, Sunday Times
compose a symphony
A person can compose a symphony or write a book while smoking - indeed, it might even be essential to the process.
Times, Sunday Times
They represent the hidden world of frontier research, and they are as unlike school mathematics as composing a symphony differs from playing scales on a piano.
Times, Sunday Times
He composed a symphony, a concert overture, a festival overture, an orchestral suite, a piano concerto, and a violin sonata.
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compose a text
Much greater risk was involved in writing and composing a text message than speaking on a mobile phone, he added.
The Sun
Finally, having composed your text, carefully delete it and think of some other way to broach the subject.
Times, Sunday Times
Most assignments simply require composing a text document or completing a downloaded worksheet and emailing it to a teacher.
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compose a tune
While most of the composers used harmonium or piano to compose the tune, he composed tunes using rhythm such as clapping hands.
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I'd like to introduce you to a man who composed a tune that you publish and gets played all the time.
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He typically composed the tune first, as he rode from place to place, then added words later.
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I just composed the tune in three weeks and was done with it.
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compose an image
In the dark space created by the dark cloth, the image appears as bright as it can, so the photographer can view, focus, and compose the image.
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Every few years they composed an image showing how she might have grown up.
Times, Sunday Times
When composing an image from pieces of other images, feathering helps make added features look in place with the background image.
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compose music
Do you need to meet the cast of the film before composing music?
The Sun (2014)
She's also composed music for my poetry and we do a lot of shows together.
The Sun (2012)
He was also composing music that was no less original.
The Times Literary Supplement (2014)
He also composed music for the theatre and film.
Times, Sunday Times (2008)
Her new album, for which she has composed the music, will be released in the spring.
Times, Sunday Times (2016)
compose poetry
The creator of one eighteenth-century treatise prematurely quit officialdom to compose poetry at home and to travel.
The Times Literary Supplement
She declared herself pleased with the outcome and, despite her severe infirmities, was inspired to compose poetry once more.
Times,Sunday Times
There are computers that can write code, mark their own homework and compose poetry and photographs.
Times, Sunday Times
He began to compose poetry and his work would frequently perform well in competitions.
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He could compose poetry as well as solve problems of inheritance.
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composed entirely of
His very own universe composed entirely of comets.
The Times Literary Supplement
It boasted extensive forests composed entirely of stands of birch trees and covering 30 per cent of the area.
Globe and Mail
Unlike sea ice, icebergs are composed entirely of freshwater.
Times, Sunday Times
One was composed entirely of bungalows.
Times, Sunday Times
These ranged from an amiably exaggerated physical essay on the differing ways people walk, to a sedentary trio whose character-filled conversation was composed entirely of onomatopoeic nonsense syllables.
Times, Sunday Times
composed largely of
Hastily, they've constructed a grand historical narrative in the last couple of weeks, composed largely of overarching myths that are in danger of hardening into conventional wisdom.
Times, Sunday Times
As mammals are composed largely of water, we are technically close to them, but in practically every other sense they are a world away from us.
Times, Sunday Times
It has a very tight-knit senior management team composed largely of company lifers.
Times, Sunday Times
The draft tube discharged the crankcase gases, composed largely of unburnt hydrocarbons, directly into the air.
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It was composed largely of veterans from the war, specifically the officer corps.
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composed mainly of
They will be required to paint an original work in 90 minutes in front of a commission composed mainly of art experts.
Times, Sunday Times
Local nobility organised a strong defence composed mainly of their private forces.
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The album was composed mainly of semi-ballads with much of the same themes as her previous releases such as youth.
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Stars are composed mainly of the light elements hydrogen and helium.
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Around the river has dug a wide channel up to across, composed mainly of sand banks and pebble banks.
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composed mostly of
The committee was composed mostly of senators from western states devoted to fulfilling their constituents’ dreams of a home and ever-increasing affluence.
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If you remember kipper ties and flares from the first time round, you're probably old enough to remember when gardens were composed mostly of shrubs.
Times, Sunday Times
The tunnel runs through an area composed mostly of gneiss, phyllite and greenstone.
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In a war composed mostly of sieges rather than battles, he proved his mettle.
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The district in 1986 was composed mostly of single-family homes built between 1908 and 1936.
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composed primarily of
Cellulosic ethanol can be made from plant matter composed primarily of inedible cellulose fibers that form the stems and branches of most plants.
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Rations were composed primarily of ship biscuit (the main staple, rationed at 2 lb per person per day).
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This first squad was composed primarily of transfer athletes from small schools and junior colleges around the nation.
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Nascent chylomicrons are composed primarily of triglycerides (85%) and contain some cholesterol and cholesteryl esters.
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These forests are composed primarily of pines and firs, which begin to grow at these elevations.
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group composed of
He favors a group composed of individuals within and without the congregation.
Christianity Today
Their health status was compared with a control group composed of 2,916 of their siblings.
Globe and Mail
In 2001, a small development group composed of two fans of the game assumed responsibility for maintenance.
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In 1991, he formed his own group composed of his brothers, cousins and musician friends.
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The agency has an expert group composed of famous political scientists who analyze publications from research centers and diplomatic corps.
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Translations:
Chinese: 组成
Japanese: 構成する
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