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Compose vs Incorporate - What's the difference?

compose | incorporate |

As verbs the difference between compose and incorporate

is that compose is while incorporate is to include (something) as a part.

As a noun compose

is compound.

As an adjective incorporate is

(obsolete) corporate; incorporated; made one body, or united in one body; associated; mixed together; combined; embodied.

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

    incorporate

    English

    Verb

    (incorporat)
  • To include (something) as a part.
  • The design of his house incorporates a spiral staircase.
    to incorporate another's ideas into one's work
  • * Addison
  • The Romans did not subdue a country to put the inhabitants to fire and sword, but to incorporate them into their own community.
  • To mix (something in) as an ingredient; to blend
  • Incorporate air into the mixture.
  • To admit as a member of a company
  • To form into a legal company.
  • The company was incorporated in 1980.
  • (US, legal) To include (another clause or guarantee of the US constitution) as a part (of the , such that the clause binds not only the federal government but also state governments).
  • To form into a body; to combine, as different ingredients, into one consistent mass.
  • * Shakespeare
  • By your leaves, you shall not stay alone, / Till holy church incorporate two in one.
  • To unite with a material body; to give a material form to; to embody.
  • * Bishop Stillingfleet
  • The idolaters, who worshipped their images as gods, supposed some spirit to be incorporated therein.

    Derived terms

    * incorporated

    Adjective

    (en adjective)
  • (obsolete) Corporate; incorporated; made one body, or united in one body; associated; mixed together; combined; embodied.
  • * Shakespeare
  • As if our hands, our sides, voices, and minds / Had been incorporate .
  • * Francis Bacon
  • a fifteenth part of silver incorporate with gold
  • Not consisting of matter; not having a material body; incorporeal; spiritual.
  • * Sir Walter Raleigh
  • Moses forbore to speak of angels, and things invisible, and incorporate .
  • Not incorporated; not existing as a corporation.
  • an incorporate banking association

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