(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 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. t.) To dispose in proper form; to reduce to order; to put in proper state or condition; to adjust; to regulate.
(v. t.) To free from agitation or disturbance; to tranquilize; to soothe; to calm; to quiet.
(v. t.) To arrange (types) in a composing stick in order for printing; to set (type).
(v. i.) To come to terms.
Example Sentences:
(1) At consolidation, the distraction area was composed of lamellar trabecular and partly woven bone.
(2) The myofibrils composed 60%, 70% and 83% in the same fibres.
(3) The myocardium was assumed to be composed of a nonlinear viscoelastic, inhomogeneous, anisotropic (transversely isotropic) and incompressible material operating under adiabatic and isothermal conditions.
(4) In investigation of AMLR composed of peripheral blood cells and spleen cells of gastric cancer patient, AMLR on splenic non-T cells as a stimulator was significantly suppressed compared with peripheral blood non-T cells as a stimulator.
(5) SDS-PAGE analysis of the immunoprecipitates under reducing conditions revealed that the cardiac channel is mainly composed of two large polypeptides of 190 and 150 kDa, and five smaller polypeptides of 60, 55, 35, 30, and 25 kDa.
(6) By external deletion, we have identified RXE composed of 205 nucleotides.
(7) Electron microscopy revealed the presence of a hitherto unreported peculiar "pilovacuolar" inclusion in numerous mitochondria, composed of an electron dense pile or rod within a vacuole, while globular or crystalline inclusions were absent.
(8) The presence of a previously unreported dipeptide transport mechanism within blood leukocytes and the selective enrichment of the granule enzyme, DPPI, within cytotoxic effector cells of lymphoid or myeloid lineage appear to afford a unique mechanism for the targeting of immunotherapeutic reagents composed of simple dipeptide esters or amides.
(9) It is shown that, by comparison of a reacting mixture at chemical equilibrium with a non-reacting but equally composed one, the sum of the mean concentrations of the reaction products can immediately be taken from optical absorption or from interferometric measurements.
(10) The crystallographic parameters of four different unit cells, all of which are based on hexagonal packing arrangements, indicate that the fundamental unit of the complex is composed of six gene 5 protein dimers.
(11) Ten of 11 diffuse poorly differentiated lymphocytic lymphomas were composed of cells with large amounts of surface immunoglobulin, whereas only 1 of 5 diffuse well differentiated lymphocytic tumors contained such abundant surface immunoglobulin.
(12) A significant proportion of the soluble protein of the organic matrix of mollusk shells is composed of a repeating sequence of aspartic acid separated by either glycine or serine.
(13) Thus, multiparae had very thick border zones composed predominantly of large nodules and, additionally, of vacuolated cells and fibrous tissue.
(14) Reversible chemical cross-linking with dithiobis(succinimidyl propionate) and analysis of cross-linked and cleaved complexes in sodium dodecyl sulfate-polyacrylamide gel electrophoresis confirmed that the C proteins exist as tetramers, most or all of which are composed of (C1)3C2.
(15) When we arrived, he would instruct us to spend the morning composing a song or a poem, or inventing a joke or a charade.
(16) Acini in the parotid gland of the North American mink (Mustela vision) are composed of seromucous cells that contain secretory granules of peculiar morphology.
(17) The acetohydroxy acid synthase (AHAS) isozymes from enterobacteria are each composed of a large and small subunit in an alpha 2 beta 2 structure.
(18) Close van der Waals' contacts between the Cys22-Cys63 and Cys51-Cys75 disulfide bridges and the central hydrophobic core composed of the Trp25, Leu46, His48a and Trp62 side-chains are among the distinguishing features of the kringle 2 fold.
(19) The surface of the ovary has been found to be composed of two types of epithelial cells called A and B cells which are found in their own respective zones, the A and B zones.
(20) The examination of the elution pattern of the triglyceride and cholesterol revealed that this large LDL was composed of a large amount of triglyceride.
Paraphrase
Definition:
(n.) A restatement of a text, passage, or work, expressing the meaning of the original in another form, generally for the sake of its clearer and fuller exposition; a setting forth the signification of a text in other and ampler terms; a free translation or rendering; -- opposed to metaphrase.
(v. t.) To express, interpret, or translate with latitude; to give the meaning of a passage in other language.
(v. i.) To make a paraphrase.
Example Sentences:
(1) Ron Hogg, the PCC for Durham says that dwindling resources and a reluctance to throw people in jail over a plant (I paraphrase slightly) has led him to instruct his officers to leave pot smokers alone.
(2) But this was an occasion to exhale or, to paraphrase Advocaat, let it all hang out.
(3) Even towards the end of her life, Taylor, despite near incapacitation, still not only understood the increasingly ridiculous celebrity world, but proved that – to paraphrase a quote from her most photographed role – age could not wither her.
(4) more to respond affirmatively to "implicit" sentences than to ones that quoted or paraphrased the passage.
(5) With it was a covering letter from a senior MI5 officer, who explained that “we had obtained sight, by secret and delicate means, of a long and reasoned denunciation of the leadership of the British Communist party by one of their best-known intellectuals”, and asking that it not be used without being paraphrased.
(6) In addition, task-related behavior seems to be more important in medical technical behavior, whereas socio-emotional behavior, and especially the psychotherapeutic categories like reflecting, paraphrasing, showing agreement, and others, seem to be more important in the other quality measures.
(7) There were no difficulties in comprehension, dysarthria, or phonemic paraphrasing, but speech and graphic expression were incoherent.
(8) What is truly remarkable is that, as your correspondent paraphrased it, "it is an arrestable offence to refuse to answer any question" ( Letters , 20 August).
(9) The BMJ entered the statin debate in 2013, publishing an article that said (I paraphrase) that the benefits of statins were overstated, while their side-effects were undercooked.
(10) There are hundreds of thousands of us out there living with dementia who – to paraphrase the song in the advert – every now and again really could do with a little help from a friend.
(11) In a statement released later on Wednesday by China’s foreign ministry about the meeting, Li was paraphrased as saying China was willing to work with Asean countries in “dispelling interference ... and properly handling the South China Sea issue”.
(12) Heidi N. Moore (@moorehn) Paraphrasing Bernanke answer to Q1: we're not saying how much QE we're going to do because, really, who knows how this sh*t works?
(13) That's the one where Alexi turns up at family businesses, with amazing biceps in a Max Mara frock and says (I'm paraphrasing) "If you lot weren't such a bunch of pass-agg douchebags, you wouldn't need to expand into sex phonelines.
(14) A wise academic once said, (I paraphrase) public service consumers have three options: exit, voice and loyalty.
(15) To paraphrase a famous quote, one could say that today we have the "new Pole" and the "old Pole".
(16) The patriarchy isn't going to smash itself, to paraphrase Habermas (sort of), but nor is it so entrenched that it cannot be overturned by sustained, informed argumentation.
(17) For instance, if a student asked you which way you voted in a general election, you could simply state that you don’t want to bias their opinion, and could even paraphrase the 1996 act.
(18) As the febrile arguments raged on the internet, some observers may have been tempted to paraphrase Henry Kissinger: the politics are vicious precisely because the stakes are so small.
(19) To paraphrase the revolutionary writer Thomas Paine, these politicians are simply sunshine opportunists, who expect Latino voters to support them in good times, but when the going gets tough, they abandon Latinos and their issues as fast as you can say ‘piñata’.
(20) To paraphrase Winston Churchill, the genome project was not the end.