[kəmˈpəʊz], (Verb)

Definitions:
- write or create (a work of art, especially music or poetry)
(e.g: he composed the First Violin Sonata four years earlier)

- (of elements) constitute or make up (a whole, or a specified part of it)
(e.g: the National Congress is composed of ten senators)

- calm or settle (oneself or one's features or thoughts)
(e.g: she tried to compose herself)

- prepare (a text) for printing by manually, mechanically, or electronically setting up the letters and other characters in the order to be printed
(e.g: in offices where close-set text was composed both men and women pieceworkers were normally employed)


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Origin:
late Middle English (in the general sense ‘put together, construct’): from Old French composer, from Latin componere (see component), but influenced by Latin compositus ‘composed’ and Old French poser ‘to place’