A Quick and Simple Dictionary

compose

1. Verb.  (transitive) To make something by merging parts. (defdate, from later 15th c.) .
2. Verb.  (transitive) To make up the whole; to constitute.
3. Verb.  (transitive, nonstandard) To comprise.
4. Verb.  (transitive, or) To construct by mental labor; to think up; particularly, to produce or create a literary or musical work.
5. Verb.  (reflexive) To calm oneself down.
6. Verb.  To arrange the elements of a photograph or other picture.
7. Verb.  To settle (an argument, dispute etc.); to come to a settlement.