composed

UK/kəmˈpəʊzd/US/kəmˈpoʊzd/

adjectiveB23 meanings Common in everyday speech and writing · #6,058 of 15,258mostly written

Composed means calm and in control of yourself when everything around you says panic. The pilot's voice over the intercom with one engine gone: flat, unhurried, composed.

It is about how you appear, not what you feel inside — someone can be terrified and still look composed. The noun is composure, which you keep, regain, or lose. Composed has a second job that has nothing to do with calm: composed of means made up of, and it always takes OF and always sits in the passive. The committee is composed of six members; water is composed of hydrogen and oxygen. Do not write the committee composes of six members. And a piece of music that has been written is composed as well, by a composer.

Definitions of composed

1adjectivecomposedCalm and in control of your feelings, especially in a situation where others would panic.B2~2%
“She stayed composed while everyone around her shouted.”
synonyms: calm, collected, unruffled
2adjectivenamedMade up of the parts named — always followed by of.B2~60%
“The panel is composed of three judges and a lawyer.”
3verbpastPast form of compose: wrote a piece of music, or put a text together.B2~38%
“The march was composed for the queen's birthday.”

Shares are an estimate: a language model read 13 sentences found in the wild and placed 13 of them on a sense — a count of our sample, not a measurement of English.

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composed in the wild

Since the 1980s, Zimmer has composed music for over 150 films.
Hans Zimmer
Sagas are prose stories and histories, composed in Iceland and to a lesser extent elsewhere in Scandinavia.
Saga
Gold produced, composed, performed on, and wrote tracks for films, commercials, and television soundtracks.
Andrew Gold
Giacchino also composed the score for the video game series Medal of Honor and Call of Duty and the television series Alias, Lost, and Fringe.
Michael Giacchino
A field army (also known as numbered army or simply army) is a military formation in many armed forces, composed of two or more corps.
Field army

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Definitions of composed

1adjectivecomposedCalm and in control of your feelings, especially in a situation where others would panic.B2~2%

“She stayed composed while everyone around her shouted.”

synonyms: calm, collected, unruffled

2adjectivenamedMade up of the parts named — always followed by of.B2~60%

“The panel is composed of three judges and a lawyer.”

3verbpastPast form of compose: wrote a piece of music, or put a text together.B2~38%

“The march was composed for the queen's birthday.”

Shares are an estimate: a language model read 13 sentences found in the wild and placed 13 of them on a sense — a count of our sample, not a measurement of English.