compose

Meaning

Verb

• To make something by merging parts.
• To make up the whole; to constitute.
• To comprise.
• To construct by mental labor; to think up; particularly, to produce or create a literary or musical work.
• To calm; to free from agitation.
• To arrange the elements of a photograph or other picture.
• To settle (an argument, dispute etc.); to come to a settlement.
• To arrange in proper form; to reduce to order; to put in proper state or condition.
• To arrange (types) in a composing stick for printing; to typeset.

Origin

• From Middle English composen, from Old French composer ("to compose, compound, adjust, settle"), from com- + poser, as an adaptation of Latin componere ("to put together, compose"), from com- + ponere