compose
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(verb) put together out of existing material; "compile a list" |
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Synonyms: compile |
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Related Words: anthologize, catalog, catalogue, cobble together, cobble up, make |
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(verb) write music; "Beethoven composed nine symphonies" |
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Synonyms: write |
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Related Words: arrange, create, harmonize, instrument, instrumentate, make, melodize, score, set, set to music |
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(verb) calm (someone, esp. oneself); make quiet; "She had to compose herself before she could reply to this terrible insult" |
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Related Words: calm, calm down, lull, quiet, quieten, still, tranquilize, tranquillize |
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(verb) form the substance of; "Greed and ambition composed his personality |
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Related Words: be, comprise, constitute, make up, represent |
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(verb) produce a literary work; "She composed a poem"; "He wrote four novels" |
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Synonyms: indite, pen, write |
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Related Words: adapt, adopt, annotate, author, cite, create verbally, dash off, draft, dramatise, dramatize, draw, fling off, footnote, knock off, lyric, outline, paragraph, poetize, profile, reference, rewrite, rough, script, toss off, verse, versify, write about, write copy, write of, write off, write on, write out, write up |
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(verb) draw up the plans or basic details for; "frame a policy" |
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Synonyms: draw up, frame, outline |
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Related Words: plan |
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