compose
verb (used with object), com·posed, com·pos·ing.
verb (used without object), com·posed, com·pos·ing.
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He then enlisted the help of New York City musician Carlo Nicolau to compose the music.
“One can no more write good English than one can compose good music by merely keeping to the rules,” he wrote.
But Google grumble grumble makes me compose new messages in a tiny window, you say.
After defense explained that it did not consider the document intelligence, Lind compose herself and let defense proceed.
The charge was to compose a story on it—a story that would justifiably appear on a napkin.
Historical Examples of compose
In the nearer ranks we may discern the variety of ingredients that compose the mass.
Biographical SketchesNathaniel Hawthorne
It need hardly be said that in any case it was not Handel's practice to compose his works on an organ.
HandelEdward J. Dent
Little Dorrit was deeply anxious that he should lie down to compose himself.
Little DorritCharles Dickens
Sometimes all the bells which compose a peal tell their various uses.
English VillagesP. H. Ditchfield
A proof of each of the songs that I compose or amend I shall receive as a favour.
The Letters of Robert BurnsRobert Burns