compose
- IPA[kəmˈpəʊz]
英式
- write or create (a work of art, especially music or poetry)；phrase (a letter or piece of writing) with great care and thought
verb: compose, 3rd person present: composes, gerund or present participle: composing, past tense: composed, past participle: composed
- 釋義
動詞
- 1. write or create (a work of art, especially music or poetry) he composed the First Violin Sonata four years earlier 同義詞
- ▪ phrase (a letter or piece of writing) with great care and thought the first sentence is so hard to compose
- ▪ form (a whole) by ordering or arranging the parts, especially in an artistic way compose and draw a still life 同義詞
- 2. (of elements) constitute or make up (a whole, or a specified part of it) the National Congress is composed of ten senators Christians compose 40 per cent of the state's population 同義詞
- 3. calm or settle (oneself or one's features or thoughts) she tried to compose herself
- ▪ archaic settle (a dispute) the king, with some difficulty, composed this difference
- 4. 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
