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# compose

«compose» in Mova's school dictionary: **to write or create it** — its meaning for a pupil, its sense in the lessons and examples, with 2 sentences of Mova's corpora that use it.

### part of speech

verb (compose, composes, composed, composing)

### meaning for a pupil

1) To compose music, a poem or a letter is to write or create it. [tree →](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/school/C/compose/#m1)

2) To be composed of means to be made of parts: «Water is composed of hydrogen and oxygen». [tree →](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/school/C/compose/#m2)

3) To compose yourself is to calm down and control your feelings. [tree →](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/school/C/compose/#m3)

### sense in the lessons

In music lessons pupils compose tunes; in English lessons they compose poems and letters. In science, «composed of» tells what something is made of. In stories, «she composed herself» means she calmed down. Phrases: composed of, compose yourself, compose a letter.

### examples

- Mozart composed music when he was very young. [tree →](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/school/C/compose/#x1)
- Our class composed a poem about the sea. [tree →](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/school/C/compose/#x2)
- Air is composed mainly of nitrogen and oxygen. [tree →](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/school/C/compose/#x3)
- She took a deep breath and composed herself. [tree →](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/school/C/compose/#x4)
- Compose a letter to your local council. [tree →](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/school/C/compose/#x5)
- The team is composed of eleven players. [tree →](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/school/C/compose/#x6)
- There was nothing that she did not seem to know, and as for songs she not only could sing those from every part of Brittany, but could compose them herself. [tree →](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/school/C/compose/#x7)

### note

«Composed of» = made up of (not «composed from»). A person who composes music is a «composer». «Composed» as an adjective means calm.

### In the corpora

- [The book calls it «perhaps the most conceited song that any animal ever composed».](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/school/books/63-willows-ch10-part3-the-conceited-song/2/)
- [BY TOAD. (Composed by himself.)», and «OTHER COMPOSITIONS.](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/school/books/72-willows-ch12-part3-no-speeches-and-no-songs/27/)

### Trees and pragmatics

[Every meaning and example of «compose» parsed by Mova](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/school/C/compose/), each sentence with its dependency tree and frames.