Hew vs Compose - What's the difference?

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Hew is a related term of compose.

As a proper noun hew

is .

As a verb compose is

As a noun compose is

compound.

hew

English

Etymology 1

From (etyl) hewen, from (etyl) . See also (l).

Verb

To chop away at; to whittle down; to mow down.

* Shakespeare

Hew them to pieces; hack their bones asunder.

* 1912 : (Edgar Rice Burroughs), (Tarzan of the Apes), Chapter 6

Among other things he found a sharp hunting knife, on the keen blade of which he immediately proceeded to cut his finger. Undaunted he continued his experiments, finding that he could hack and hew splinters of wood from the table and chairs with this new toy.

To shape; to form.

to hew out a sepulchre

* Bible, Is. li. 1

Look unto the rock whence ye are hewn .

* Alexander Pope

rather polishing old works than hewing out new

(US) To act according to, to conform to; usually construed with (to).

* 1905 , Albert Osborn, : A Biography ,^] Jennings & Graham, [http://books.google.com/books?id=I3UEAAAAYAAJ&pg=RA1-PA428&dq=hewed page 428,

Few men measured up to his standard of righteousness; he hewed to the line.

* 1998 , and Lawrence Davidson, Pulp Culture: The Art of Fiction Magazines , Collectors Press, Inc., ISBN 1-888054-12-3, page 103,

Inside the stories usually hewed to a consistent formula: no matter how outlandish and weird the circumstances, in the end everything had to have a natural, if not plausible, ending—frequently, though not always, involving a mad scientist.

* 2008 , , Troublemaker: A Personal History of School Reform Since Sputnik , Princeton University Press, ISBN 0-691-12990-8, page 28,

Faculty members and students alike were buzzing with the fashionable nostrums that dominated U.S. education discourse in the late sixties,

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*:King recovered the rights on the condition that he'd stop publicly disparaging Kubrick's version. "For a long time I hewed that line," he told CBS News in June. "And then Mr. Kubrick died. So now I figured, what the hell. I've gone back to saying mean things about it."

Derived terms

* hewer * rough-hew

Etymology 2

Noun

(en noun)

(obsolete) hue; colour

(Chaucer)

(obsolete) shape; form

(Spenser)

Destruction by cutting down.

* Spenser

Of whom he makes such havoc and such hew .

(Webster 1913) English irregular verbs

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