To Compose

1. (transitive) To make something by merging parts. [from later 15th c.]
2. (transitive) To make up the whole; to constitute.
3. (transitive, nonstandard) To comprise.
4. (transitive or intransitive) To construct by mental labor; to think up; particularly, to produce or create a literary or musical work.
5. (sometimes reflexive) To calm; to free from agitation.
6. To arrange the elements of a photographor other picture.
7. To settle (an argument, dispute etc.); to come to a settlement.
8. To arrange in proper form; to reduce to order; to put in proper state or condition.
9. (printing, dated) To arrange (types) in a composing stick for printing; to typeset.

Synonyms

• (make up the whole): constitute, form