composeverb
uk/kəmˈpəʊz/us/kəmˈpoʊz/compose verb (PRODUCE ART)
B2 [ I or T ] to produce music, poetry, or formal writing:
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Writing, reading & studying music
- composition
- follow
- harmonize
- music
- music-making
- musical
- musicology
- orchestrate
- pentatonic scale
- recompose
- setting
- sheet music
- sight-read
- sol-fa
- songwriter
- tone-deaf
- transpose
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compose verb (FORM)
B2 to be formed from various things:
[ T ] to be the parts that something is made of:
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Comprising and consisting of
- be
- composition
- comprise
- consist in sth
- consist of sth
- constituent
- constitute
- constitution
- constitutive
- form
- from
- make
- make up
- make up sth
- of
compose verb (BECOME CALM)
to make yourself calm again after being angry or upset:
to try to make yourself look or feel calm after being angry or upset:
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Calming and relaxing
- assuage
- balls-to-the-wall
- bask
- bread
- bread and circuses idiom
- calm
- chill
- humour
- lie down
- lighten sth up
- lighten up
- lull
- lull sb into sth
- relaxation
- settle
- simmer down
- slow down
- soften
- steady
- take/need a cold shower idiom
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compose verb (ARRANGE TEXT)
[ T ] specialized publishing to arrange words, sentences, pages, etc. in preparation for printing
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Publishing: printing & word processing
- bed
- bold
- Braille
- bullet
- bullet point
- CMYK
- indentation
- inline
- intaglio printing
- italic
- italicize
- landscape
- plate
- printer
- publication
- publish
- put sth to bed idiom
- reissue
- reprint
- roman
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