Both Uses
compose
in
The Hunt for Red October
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- He had only one tape of a Russian composer, the Nutcracker Suite, and had brought that along with four Bachs.†
Chpt 15. *
- "Can you blame them, Comrade?" the driver asked, taking all of this in, filing, analyzing, composing his independent report to Moscow Center.†
Chpt 16.
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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(compose as in: compose myself) to calm someone or settle something
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(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.