Abate vs Compose - What's the difference?

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Abate is a related term of compose.

As nouns the difference between abate and compose

is that abate is while compose is compound.

As a verb compose is

abate

English

Etymology 1

From (etyl) abaten, from (etyl) . Cognate to modern French abattre .

Verb

(abat)

(transitive, obsolete, outside, legal) To put an end to; to cause to cease.

to abate a nuisance

To become null and void.

The writ has abated .

(legal) To nullify; make void.

to abate a writ

(obsolete) To humble; to lower in status; to bring someone down physically or mentally.

The hyer that they were in this present lyf, the moore shulle they be abated and defouled in helle.

(obsolete) To be humbled; to be brought down physically or mentally.

(obsolete) To curtail; to deprive.

Order restrictions and prohibitions to abate an emergency situation.

* 1605 , , King Lear , II.ii:

She hath abated me of half my train.

To reduce in amount, size, or value.

Legacies are liable to be abated entirely or in proportion, upon a deficiency of assets.

His eye was not dim, nor his natural force abated .

To decrease in size, value, or amount.

To moderate; to lessen in force, intensity, to subside.

* 1597 , , [http://www.gutenberg.org/ebooks/575 Essays or Counsels, Civil and Morall] :

Not that they feel it so, but only to abate the edge of envy.

* 1855 , , History of England from the Accession of James II, Part 3 , [http://books.google.com/books?id=MN5CNdgbSTYC&pg=PA267 page 267]:

The fury of Glengarry rapidly abated .

To decrease in intensity or force; to subside.

* :

To deduct or omit.

We will abate this price from the total.

* 1845 , , The Church History of Britain , Volume 3, [http://books.google.com/books?id=OfefAAAAMAAJ&pg=PA100 page 100]:

Allowing nine thousand parishes (abating the odd hundreds) in England and Wales

To bar or except.

Abating his brutality, he was a very good master.

To cut away or hammer down, in such a way as to leave a figure in relief, as a sculpture, or in metalwork.

(obsolete) To dull the edge or point of; to blunt.

(archaic) To destroy, or level to the ground.

* 1542 , , The Union of the Noble and Illustre Famelies of Lancastre and York :

The kynge of Scottes planted his siege before the castell of Norham, and sore abated the walls.

Synonyms

* (bring down or reduce) lessen; diminish; contract; moderate; cut short; decrease * (diminish in force or intensity) diminish; subside; decline; wane; ebb * (bring someone down) humble; depress * (come to naught) fall through; fail

Antonyms

* augment; accelerate; intensify; rise; revive

Derived terms

* abatable * abatement * abater * unabated * abate of

Noun

(en noun)

Abatement.

Etymology 2

From (etyl) abatre, an alteration of enbatre, from (etyl) en + .

Verb

(abat)

(legal) To enter a tenement without permission after the owner has died and before the heir takes possession.

Etymology 4

From (etyl) abate, from (etyl) .

Alternative forms

* abbate

Noun

(en noun)

An Italian abbot, or other member of the clergy.

References

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compose

English

(Composition)

Verb

(compos)

To make something by merging parts.

The editor composed a historical journal from many individual letters.

Try to compose your thoughts.

* Bishop Sprat

Zeal ought to be composed of the highest degrees of all pious affection.

To make up the whole; to constitute.

A church is composed of its members.

* I. Watts

A few useful things compose their intellectual possessions.

(nonstandard) To comprise.

(transitive, or, intransitive) To construct by mental labor; to think up; particularly, to produce or create a literary or musical work.

The orator composed his speech over the week prior.

Nine numbered symphonies, including the Fifth, were composed by Beethoven.

It's difficult to compose without absolute silence.

* Alexander Pope

Let me compose / Something in verse as well as prose.

* B. R. Haydon

the genius that composed such works as the "Standard" and "Last Supper"

(sometimes, reflexive) To calm; to free from agitation.

The defendant couldn't compose herself and was found in contempt.

* Dryden

Compose thy mind; / Nor frauds are here contrived, nor force designed.

To arrange the elements of a photograph or other picture.

To settle (an argument, dispute etc.); to come to a settlement.

* 2010 , (Christopher Hitchens), Hitch-22 , Atlantic 2011, p. 280:

By trying his best to compose matters with the mullahs, he had sincerely shown that he did not seek a violent collision

To arrange in proper form; to reduce to order; to put in proper state or condition.

* Dryden

In a peaceful grave my corpse compose .

* Milton

How in safety best we may / Compose our present evils.

(printing, dated) To arrange (types) in a composing stick for printing; to typeset.

Derived terms

* composer * composite * composing stick * composition * compositor * composure * decompose