compose🔊

To make something by merging parts.

To make up the whole; to constitute.

(nonstandard) 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.

(printing, dated) To arrange (types) in a composing stick for printing; to typeset.