All 7 Uses of
compose
in
Main Street, by Sinclair Lewis
- When the baby was abed, and they sat composedly in canvas chairs on the porch, he experimented; "I had a hunch you thought Sam was kind of hard on that fellow they kicked out of Wakamin."†
Chpt 36 *composedly = in a calm manner
- On the screen, in the role of a composer, appeared an actor called Eric Valour.†
Chpt 38 *composer = someone who writes or creates
- Her enthusiasm had become watery even before thirteen women resolutely removed their overshoes, sat down meatily, ate peppermints, dusted their fingers, folded their hands, composed their lower thoughts, and invited the naked muse of poetry to deliver her most improving message.†
Chpt 11
- She read in the records of the Minnesota Territorial Pioneers that only sixty years ago, not so far back as the birth of her own father, four cabins had composed Gopher Prairie.†
Chpt 12
- His liturgy was composed of intoned and metrical road-comments: "They say there's a pretty good hike from Duluth to International Falls."†
Chpt 16
- The committee was composed of Carol, Vida Sherwin, Guy Pollock, Raymie Wutherspoon, and Juanita Haydock.†
Chpt 18 *
- They were composed of ornamented posts with clusters of high-powered electric lights along two or three blocks on Main Street.†
Chpt 35
Definitions:
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(1)
(compose as in: compose a poem) to write or create something with care
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(2)
(compose as in: composed of many parts) to create something by arranging parts
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(3)
(compose as in: compose myself) to calm someone or settle something
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(4)
(meaning too rare to warrant focus) meaning too rare to warrant focus:
Specialized senses of compose include typesetting (preparing text for printing). There are many specialized senses of composition where context tells what something is made up from. Finally, in classic literature, compose may have been used to indicate settling a dispute.