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单词 compose
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composeverb

uk/kəmˈpəʊz/us/kəmˈpoʊz/

compose verb (PRODUCE ART)

B2 [ I or T ] to produce music, poetry, or formal writing:

Prokofiev started composing at the age of five.
The music was specially composed for the film.
a piece of music composed for the flute
He composed this poem for his wife.
formal My lawyer is going to compose a letter of complaint.

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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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Writing & typing

compose verb (FORM)

be composed of sth

B2 to be formed from various things:

Air is composed mainly of nitrogen and oxygen.
The committee is composed of MPs, doctors, academics and members of the public.
The audience was composed largely of young people.

[ T ] to be the parts that something is made of:

At that time, women composed only 1.6 percent of the US forces.

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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)

compose yourself

to make yourself calm again after being angry or upset:

She finally stopped crying and composed herself.
compose your features/thoughts

to try to make yourself look or feel calm after being angry or upset:

I tried to compose my features into a smile.
He took a minute or two to compose his thoughts before he replied.

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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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Controlling emotions

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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