All 8 Uses
compose
in
Zen and the Art of Motorcycle Maintenance
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- I say for the sake of convenience that I've money in the bank and say for the sake of convenience that substances compose the cycle I'm riding on.†
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- No more wonderful critical schools of experts to determine rationally where each composer had succeeded or failed.†
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- This "something else" opened up into a huge area of classic scientific belief which stated that "what you like" is unimportant because it's all composed of irrational emotions within yourself.†
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- Scientific materialism, which is commoner among lay followers of science than among scientists themselves, holds that what is composed of matter or energy and is measurable by the instruments of science is real.†
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- Let's examine, he said, what follows from the premise that anything not composed of mass...energy is unreal or unimportant.†
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- The world now, according to Phaedrus, was composed of three things: mind, matter, and Quality.†
Part 3
- I keep my face composed so that he sees no change of expression in it, then carefully get up and go over and methodically turn the socks on the rock.†
Part 3
- Now everyone's face becomes carefully composed in defense against more of this sort of questioning.†
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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) 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.