compose
verb
[ kəmˈpəʊz ]
• write or create (a work of art, especially music or poetry).
• "he composed the First Violin Sonata four years earlier"
Similar:
write,
create,
devise,
make up,
think up,
frame,
formulate,
fashion,
produce,
originate,
invent,
contrive,
concoct,
pen,
author,
draft,
rhyme,
sing,
verse,
indite,
• (of elements) constitute or make up (a whole, or a specified part of it).
• "the National Congress is composed of ten senators"
• calm or settle (oneself or one's features or thoughts).
• "she tried to compose herself"
Similar:
calm down,
settle down,
control oneself,
regain/recover one's composure,
pull oneself together,
get control of oneself,
collect oneself,
steady oneself,
keep one's head,
simmer down,
get a grip,
keep one's cool,
keep one's shirt on,
decompress,
stay loose,
Opposite:
get worked up,
• prepare (a text) for printing by manually, mechanically, or electronically setting up the letters and other characters in the order to be printed.
• "in offices where close-set text was composed both men and women pieceworkers were normally employed"
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’.
