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- verb Third-person singular simple present indicative form of
compose .
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Examples
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Besides his hosting gig on MTV, Lavin composes music and has appeared on Cribs.
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You could then bring in the concept of a machine that 'composes' two other machines together, creating a machine that 'contains' both machines wired together somehow, as the next step.... and you'd probably have to discuss polymorphism at this point too....
Teaching Functional Programming To Kids Jack Cough 2009
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I have seen at the resting places carriage loads of women of radiant beauty, and others mounted on a modest ass, such as composes the fortunes of the people of Montmorency.
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It was built of great blocks of hewn stone, on a vast, square foundation of rough, agglomerated material, such as composes the mass of all the other ruinous tombs.
The Marble Faun - Volume 2 The Romance of Monte Beni Nathaniel Hawthorne 1834
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I have seen at the resting places carriage loads of women of radiant beauty, and others mounted on a modest ass, such as composes the fortunes of the people of Montmorency.
The Physiology of Taste 1755-1826 Brillat-Savarin 1790
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It was a cavern in the side of a mountain, overshadowed with palm trees, at such a distance from the cataract that nothing more was heard than a gentle uniform murmur, such as composes the mind to pensive meditation, especially when it was assisted by the wind whistling among the branches.
Rasselas, Prince of Abyssinia Samuel Johnson 1746
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It is not so much that one "composes" a story as one stumbles upon it by trial and error.
Serendip's Exchange xhan 2010
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And while most cameras today adequately handle exposure and sharpness, they can't command how the shooter "composes" the picture.
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If the brain "composes" the music, the first job of scientists is to take down the notes, and that is exactly what Human Bionics LLC of Purcellville, VA does.
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If the brain 'composes' the music, the first job of scientists is to take down the notes.
RxPG News : Latest Medical, Healthcare and Research News 2009
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