Methodize and Compose
(v.t.) To reduce to method; to dispose in due order; to arrange in a convenient manner; as, to methodize one's work or thoughts.
Webster's Revised Unabridged Dictionary
verb
- Form the substance of.
- usage: "Greed and ambition composed his personality"
- Write music.
- usage: "Beethoven composed nine symphonies"
- synonyms: write
- Produce a literary work.
- usage: "She composed a poem"; "He wrote four novels"
- Put together out of existing material.
- usage: "compile a list"
- synonyms: compile
- Calm (someone, especially oneself); make quiet.
- usage: "She had to compose herself before she could reply to this terrible insult"
- Make up plans or basic details for.
- usage: "frame a policy"
WordNet 3.0 © 2006 by Princeton University
- (v.t.) To free from agitation or disturbance; to tranquilize; to soothe; to calm; to quiet.
- (v.t.) To construct by mental labor; to design and execute or put together, in a manner involving the adaptation of forms of expression to ideas or to the laws of harmony or proportion; as, to compose a sentence, a sermon, a symphony or a picture.
- (v.i.) To come to terms.
- (v.t.) To form by putting together two or more things or parts; to put together; to make up; to fashion.
- (v.t.) To form the substance of or part of the substance of; to constitute.
- (v.t.) To arrange (types) in a composing stick in order for printing; to set (type).
- (v.t.) To dispose in proper form; to reduce to order; to put in proper state or condition; to adjust; to regulate.
Webster's Revised Unabridged Dictionary