Compose vs Writes - What's the difference?
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To make something by merging parts.
* Bishop Sprat
To make up the whole; to constitute.
* I. Watts
(nonstandard) To comprise.
(transitive, or, intransitive) To construct by mental labor; to think up; particularly, to produce or create a literary or musical work.
* Alexander Pope
* B. R. Haydon
(sometimes, reflexive) To calm; to free from agitation.
* Dryden
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:
To arrange in proper form; to reduce to order; to put in proper state or condition.
* Dryden
* Milton
(printing, dated) To arrange (types) in a composing stick for printing; to typeset.
(write)
(lb) To form letters, words or symbols on a surface in order to communicate.
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(lb) To be the author of (a book, article, poem, etc.).
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*:Thus, when he drew up instructions in lawyer language; his clerks, however, understood him very well. If he had written a love letter, or a farce, or a ballade , or a story, no one, either clerks, or friends, or compositors, would have understood anything but a word here and a word there.
(lb) To send written information to.
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(lb) To show (information, etc) in written form.
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(lb) To be an author.
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To record (data) mechanically or electronically.
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To fill in, to complete using words.
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To impress durably; to imprint; to engrave.
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To make known by writing; to record; to prove by one's own written testimony; often used reflexively.
*(John Milton) (1608-1674)
*:He who writes himself by his own inscription is like an ill painter, who, by writing on a shapeless picture which he hath drawn, is fain to tell passengers what shape it is, which else no man could imagine.
(computing) The operation of storing data, as in memory or onto disk.
* 2006 , MySQL administrator's guide and language reference (page 393)
As verbs the difference between compose and writes
is that compose is while writes is (write).As a noun compose
is compound.compose
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(Composition)Verb
(compos)- The editor composed a historical journal from many individual letters.
- Try to compose your thoughts.
- Zeal ought to be composed of the highest degrees of all pious affection.
- A church is composed of its members.
- A few useful things compose their intellectual possessions.
- 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.
- Let me compose / Something in verse as well as prose.
- the genius that composed such works as the "Standard" and "Last Supper"
- The defendant couldn't compose herself and was found in contempt.
- Compose thy mind; / Nor frauds are here contrived, nor force designed.
- By trying his best to compose matters with the mullahs, he had sincerely shown that he did not seek a violent collision
- In a peaceful grave my corpse compose .
- How in safety best we may / Compose our present evils.
Derived terms
* composer * composite * composing stick * composition * compositor * composure * decomposewrites
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(head)Anagrams
*write
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Synonyms
* inscribe, scrawl (indistinctly), scribble (quickly or imprecisely) * (be the author of) author, pen * to post * display, indicate, mark, show * save, store * See alsoAntonyms
* load, read, retrieveDerived terms
* bewrite * co-write * hand-written * nothing to write home about * overwrite * rewrite * that's all she wrote * underwrite * who writes this stuff? * write down, write-down * write head * write in, write-in * write off, write-off * write once * * write one's own ticket * write-only * write out * writer * write up, write-up * writingNoun
(en noun)- How many writes per second can this hard disk handle?
- In other words, the system can do 1200 reads per second with no writes , the average write is twice as slow as the average read, and the relationship is linear.