Compose
[kəm'pəʊz] or [kəm'poz]
解釋/意思:
(verb.) put together out of existing material; 'compile a list'.
(verb.) write music; 'Beethoven composed nine symphonies'.
(verb.) calm (someone, especially oneself); make quiet; 'She had to compose herself before she could reply to this terrible insult'.
(verb.) form the substance of; 'Greed and ambition composed his personality'.
奥罗拉編輯--From WordNet
解釋/意思:
(v. t.) To form by putting together two or more things or parts; to put together; to make up; to fashion.
(v. t.) To form the substance of, or part of the substance of; to constitute.
(v. t.) To construct by mental labor; to design and execute, or put together, in a manner involving the adaptation of forms of expression to ideas, or to the laws of harmony or proportion; as, to compose a sentence, a sermon, a symphony, or a picture.
(v. t.) To dispose in proper form; to reduce to order; to put in proper state or condition; to adjust; to regulate.
(v. t.) To free from agitation or disturbance; to tranquilize; to soothe; to calm; to quiet.
(v. t.) To arrange (types) in a composing stick in order for printing; to set (type).
(v. i.) To come to terms.
錄入:特德
同義詞及近義詞:
v. a. [1]. Constitute, form, make, compound, put together, make up.[2]. Indite, write, frame, draw up, put or set down in writing, express by writing.[3]. Adjust, settle, regulate.[4]. Tranquillize, assuage, soothe, appease, pacify, calm, still, quiet, quell.
整理:默娜
同義詞及反義詞:
SYN:Construct, compile, soothe, allay, calm, put_together, constitute, draw_up,frame, form, pacify, mitigate, settle, adjust, write
ANT:Analyze, awaken, stir, dissect, criticise, irritate, excite
卡洛整理
解釋/意思:
v.t. to form by putting two or more parts or things together: to place in proper order to put together to arrange artistically the elements of a landscape for painting: to settle or set at rest: to soothe: to set up or place types in order for printing: to originate or write as author to set to music.—p.adj. Composed′ settled quiet calm.—adv. Compos′edly.—ns. Compos′edness; Compos′er a writer an author esp. of a piece of music.—adj. Com′posite made up of two or more distinct parts: (archit.) a blending of the Ionic and the Corinthian orders: (bot.) belonging to the natural order Composit having compound or composite flowers—heads of flowers composed of a number of florets on a common receptacle surrounded by bracts forming a leafy involucre like single flowers.—adv. Com′positely.—ns. Com′positeness; Compos′ing-stick an instrument with a sliding adjustment used for holding printing-types before they are put on the galley; Compos′ition the act of putting together or that which is put together: the thing composed as a work in literature music or painting: mental constitution: artistic manner style in writing or painting: a coming together or agreement an arrangement or compromise: a certain percentage which creditors agree to accept in lieu of the full payment of a bankrupt's debts: (mech.) the compounding of two velocities or forces into a single velocity or force which shall be their equivalent.—adj. Compos′itive.—ns. Compos′itor one who puts together or sets up types for printing; Com′post Compost′ure (Shak.) a mixture for manure: a kind of plaster; Compō′sure calmness: self-possession: tranquillity.—Composite candle one made of a mixture of stearic acid and the stearin of coco-nut oil; Composite carriage a railway-carriage with compartments of different classes; Composite portrait a single portrait produced by combining those of a number of persons; Composition of a felony the act of abstaining from prosecution for some consideration—itself punishable by fine and imprisonment.
伊莱扎錄入
例句/造句/用法:
- We all draw a little and compose a little, and none of us have any idea of time or money. 查理斯·狄更斯. 荒涼山莊.
- Let me compose myself, let me think, if I can. 威爾基·柯林斯. 白衣女人.
- Try to compose yourself, or you will make me alter my opinion of you. 威爾基·柯林斯. 白衣女人.
- Mrs. Cluppins,' said Serjeant Buzfuz, 'pray compose yourself, ma'am. 查理斯·狄更斯. 匹克威克外傳.
- It was the best way I could have taken to compose her. 威爾基·柯林斯. 白衣女人.
- I walked to the window to compose myself. 威爾基·柯林斯. 月亮寶石.
- You must compose yourself,' said the doctor supporting her. 查理斯·狄更斯. 霧都孤兒.
- Somewhat as a house is composed of a group of bricks, or a sand heap of grains of sand, the human body is composed of small divisions called cells. 伯莎M.克拉克. 科學通論.
- When I spoke again I was composed enough to treat his impertinence with the silent contempt that it deserved. 威爾基·柯林斯. 白衣女人.
- The councils, which, in the colony legislatures, correspond to the house of lords in Great Britain, are not composed of a hereditary nobility. 亞當·斯密. 國富論.
- Although carbon dioxide is very injurious to health, both of the substances of which it is composed are necessary to life. 伯莎M.克拉克. 科學通論.
- If the atmosphere were composed of oxygen alone, the merest flicker of a match would set the whole world ablaze. 伯莎M.克拉克. 科學通論.
- Why should the brain be enclosed in a box composed of such numerous and such extraordinarily shaped pieces of bone apparently representing vertebrae? 查理斯·達爾文. 物種起源.
- She was soon in the room, and recommended that Arthur, whom she had left calm and composed, should not be visited that night. 查理斯·狄更斯. 小杜麗.
- The surgeon gave him a composing draught, and ordered us to leave him undisturbed. 瑪麗·雪萊. 弗蘭肯斯坦.
- I had caused a printer's composing case to be set up with the idea that if we could get editors and publishers in to see it, we should show them the advantages of the electric light. 弗蘭克·路易斯·戴爾. 愛迪生的生平和發明.
- Immediately some of the gentlemen composing that body wrote out a call for a meeting and had it published in their papers. 尤利西斯·格蘭特. U.S.格蘭特的個人回憶錄.
- At Palmer's I was employed in composing for the second edition of Woollaston's Religion of Nature. 本傑明·佛蘭克林. 佛蘭克林自傳.
- The necessity of composing her appearance so that it should attract no special notice in the streets, was another relief. 查理斯·狄更斯. 雙城記.
- WilliaMs. Generals Logan and Blair commanded the two corps composing the right wing. 尤利西斯·格蘭特. U.S.格蘭特的個人回憶錄.
- It was impossible to put Mr. Franklin off with the excuse of the Sergeant being in my room, composing his mind. 威爾基·柯林斯. 月亮寶石.
- Silence composes the nerves; and as an unbroken hush now reigned again through the whole house, I began to feel the return of slumber. 夏洛蒂·勃朗特. 簡·愛.
- After which he composes himself for an easy ride and takes note of the fittings of the carriage in case he should ever find such knowledge useful. 查理斯·狄更斯. 荒涼山莊.
- Mrs. Chadband composes herself grimly by the fire and warms her knees, finding that sensation favourable to the reception of eloquence. 查理斯·狄更斯. 荒涼山莊.
錄入:弗农