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composed

[kuhm-pohzd]

Example Sentences Origin

adjective

calm; tranquil; serene: His composed face reassured the nervous passengers.

Origin:
1475–85; compose + -ed²

Related forms

com·pos·ed·ly

[kuhm-poh-zid-lee] , adverb

com·pos·ed·ness, noun

un·com·posed, adjective

well-com·posed, adjective

Synonyms
See calm.

Antonyms
agitated, perturbed.

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Example Sentences

Each brigade was composed of four regiments, in all fifty-six regiments of infantry.

Most people learned in school that these particles are atoms, composed of neutrons, protons and electrons.

Beckett's world is composed of characters buried up to their necks in earth, stuck in urns or legless in bins.

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Each brigade was composed of four regiments, in all fifty-six regiments of infantry.

Most people learned in school that these particles are atoms, composed of neutrons, protons and electrons.

Beckett's world is composed of characters buried up to their necks in earth, stuck in urns or legless in bins.

Galaxies are sprawling space systems composed of dust, gas, and countless stars.

They are extremely dim and composed mostly of dark matter.

Each song is composed of anywhere from two to nine themes, and the themes are sung in a specific order.

All that last-minute stirring may make for great risotto, but it hardly makes for a composed host.

Its atmosphere is composed of hydrogen and small amounts of helium and methane.

Guillot had composed what seemed to many a song of no commercial value.

We are a community composed of faculty, staff and students from a wide range of culturally diverse backgrounds.

He suspected, long before others proved it, that light was composed of both waves and particles.

The air that accomplishes all of this is composed of five major layers.

Yet no one denies that toddlers are composed of particles that behave according to deterministic laws.

They are composed not of keratin, the stuff of fingernails, but of bone.

Roasted beets and a crisp medley of raw vegetables make a beautiful composed salad.

It appears to be composed of extraordinarily deep oceans, surrounding a rocky core.

The paper will now be managed by a board composed of students, faculty members, and professional journalists.

He also convened a second military tribunal, this time composed of the general's friends, who cleared him of all charges.

The stairway's railings are composed of sugars and phosphates.

Surface-penetrating radar reveals features composed of ice, not rock.

Fractals are a kind of geometric shape that looks incredibly complex but is actually composed of repeating patterns.

We live in a world of chemicals, with nearly every man-made object composed of hundreds of synthetic substances.

It formed a bipartisan council composed of business.

They attempted their own form of financial chemistry, producing fresh compounds composed of long strings of companies.

The rings surrounding the planet are composed of dust and ice.

Fingerprint powder is composed of many different ingredients that can vary greatly depending on the formula used.

He always liked to write, and he sometimes composed poems or limericks on a tennis theme.

Victor went the extra mile and composed a song using each of the apps he reviewed.

Canada is a federation composed of ten provinces and three territories.

His point was that both are, in part, composed of networks for transporting stuff from one place to another.

But new observations suggest it may actually be composed of two gaseous disks nearly perpendicular to each other.

Each link in the chain is composed of one sugar molecule, one phosphate molecule and one nucleotide molecule.

Our strength is often composed of the weaknesses we're damned if we're going to show.

He also wrote well and composed a number of memorable phrases.

The worms are covered in a hairy, gray fleece composed of bacteria.

Clouds are composed primarily of small water droplets and, if it's cold enough, ice crystals.

Soot, for example, is composed of carbon nanoparticles.

Photo was composed shooting up the canyon walls towards the sun-lit opening, in horizontal mode.

Rather they are composed of myriad bits and pieces of ice, rock and dust.

Some were delivered so late that their first lines were being typeset before the last had been composed.

Comets are essentially dirty snowballs, composed of dust and ice that circle the sun.

Graphene is composed of carbon atoms in a single layer, that form a pattern similar to a honeycomb.

Instead, he identified places where the ridges of which fingerprints are composed either end or split.

Their simulated craft is composed of four sealed interconnected cylinders.

The fibres in feathers are almost entirely composed of keratin, a protein also found in hair and nails.

Blue whales reach these mind-boggling dimensions on a diet composed nearly exclusively of tiny shrimplike animals called krill.

Some were composed of family and friends whereas others brought together complete strangers.

The fuel cell itself is composed of layers of metal plates fitted with membranes and electrodes.

Some composed careful tableaux of empty clothing and abandoned dinners.

All matter is made of atoms, and atoms are composed of smaller particles.

Hoiby composed operas and songs that balance unabashed lyricism and careful craftsmanship.

The rustic fence is composed mostly of bitter cherry saplings joined with wood screws.

The planet itself is composed largely of hydrogen, helium and methane, with a rock and ice core.

The second group was largely composed of technological innovators.

Imagine a landscape composed of microscopic triangular structures that constantly rearrange themselves.

The vehicle is unique in that the design team was composed entirely of women.

The two students appeared before two separate committees composed of students, faculty members, and administrators.

Some sections are composed of spongy bone, giving it an elasticity that, not unlike a.

Not many people can say that they ave ever composed at such a young age, so you should be proud.

The cake itself is mostly composed of boxed cake mixes and fondant.

Chinese sur names, which are but limited in number, are as a rule composed of but one character.

The challenge has been to devise algorithms that can interpret such numbers as scenes composed of different objects in space.

Antimatter is composed of electrons and protons, the raw materials of atoms, but with a whopping difference-the electrical charge.

The molecules are composed of atoms, which in turn are composed of electrons and clusters of proton particles.

The intriguing image, an optical illusion composed of objects found within the game, generated a lot of interest online.

Gorman of this place was seriously injured last night during a game of basket ball between two teams composed largely of.

The commission administers the country's civil service, which is composed of government employees not in the military.

One bat is composed of a stun gun, baseball bat and axe, while the other is built with a samurai sword in lieu of the axe.

It included drawings composed of sequences of numbers and.

It reminded me of the adages about genius being composed of some large percentage of perspiration.

But a bird wing is vastly more sophisticated than anything composed of sheet metal and rivets.

The predictive text entry method changed how people composed messages and allowed us to type faster than ever on tiny keyboards.

It is composed of little glops of what are supposedly mushrooms, in a matrix of goo, vaguely resembling cream sauce.

I've always wondered if there may be a large portion of the universe that is composed of anti-matter.

The forest floor, composed of layer on layer of organic material, is a wet sponge underfoot.

The carriers of the strong interactions are the binary systems of loops composed of the binary systems of.

Before, the town was largely composed of low-resolution.

Lincoln's work is that she often composed her own music.

The result, as might be expected for an image composed of more than a billion pixels, is stunningly detailed.

The seamstress then sewed ten quilts, each composed of one of the code's patterns.

Mulch is composed of large chunky material such as wood chips and bark.

Nabokov routinely composed on such cards, shuffling and reshuffling the deck as he wrote.

Early stars partially composed of dark matter may have been too bloated for fusion.

The drug is composed of a virus that delivers an immune system-suppressing gene into the cells of arthritic joints.

Boback theorizes that the island boas could be smaller because their diet is composed chiefly of birds.

The spokes are thought to be composed of small icy particles about the size of the wavelength of visible light.

Metals are composed of crystals that have their atoms lined up in neat rows.

Plasma clouds are composed of charged particles that recombine into atoms and glow with light.

The nature is composed of mindless particules, atoms, molecules etc.

The consequence is that a material composed of histidine-rich proteins and zinc is extremely strong.

Lascelles submitted a nicely composed picture showing a scruffy dog backed by jets inscribing trails in a blue sky.

These clouds form in rapidly rising air and are composed of many small water droplets.

One of the electrodes is composed of metallic lead, the other of porous lead dioxide.

It's a world body composed of scientists and diplomats, actually, and the.

On the other hand the music seemed too good to have been composed by an amateur, however enthusiastic.

The outer layer of the epidermis, called the stratum corneum, is thus composed of these alternating bands.

The second was composed of individuals diagnosed as bulimic.

The body is believed to be composed mostly of rock and ice and has an unusual shiny red color to.

The results are single-layer films composed of many platelets.

When he composed them, he would dream of the dead lying on the ground.

By all appearances, our group seems to be composed of ordinary citizens.

The egg case silk was shown to be composed of nearly identical, repeating sequences.

Supplements composed of insect protein could be added to processed food and perhaps also to animal feed.

The arms are composed almost entirely of muscle, with no bone or external skeleton-a structure known as a muscular hydrostat.

The second layer is composed of a semiconducting polymer.

It's composed of horizontal, vertical or oblique strokes with triangular ends.

The explosive he described was composed of six parts of saltpetre to five parts of charcoal and five parts of sulphur.

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Dictionary.com Unabridged

verb (used with object)

to make or form by combining things, parts, or elements: He composed his speech from many research notes.

to be or constitute a part or element of: a rich sauce composed of many ingredients.

to make up or form the basis of: Style composes the essence of good writing.

to put or dispose in proper form or order: to compose laws into a coherent system.

Art. to organize the parts or elements of (a picture or the like).

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to create (a musical, literary, or choreographic work).

to end or settle (a quarrel, dispute, etc.): The union and management composed their differences.

to bring (oneself, one's mind, etc.) to a condition of calmness, repose, etc.; calm; quiet.

Printing.

to set (type).

to set type for (an article, book, etc.).

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verb (used without object)

10.

to engage in composition, especially musical composition.

11.

to enter into composition; fall into an arrangement: a scene that composes well.

Origin:
1375–1425; late Middle English < Middle French composer. See com-, pose¹

Related forms

com·pos·a·ble, adjective

un·com·pos·a·ble, adjective

Can be confused: compose, comprise, constitute (see usage note at comprise).

Synonyms
8. settle, collect.

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World English Dictionary

composed (kəmˈpəʊzd)

—*adj*
	(of people) calm; tranquil; serene

composedly

—*adv*

com'posedness

—n

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Word Origin & History

compose

late 15c., from O.Fr. composer "put together, arrange" (12c.), from com- "with" + poser "to place," from L.L. pausare "to cease, lay down," ultimately from L. ponere "to put, place" (see position). Meaning infl. in O.Fr. by componere (see composite). Musical sense is from 1590s.

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