✅ Write means to produce something in text or some type of notation (write a song; write a letter).
✅ Compose means to create something, especially something literary or musical (compose a symphony; compose a book of poems).
✅ Write is the more general word. Compose particularly suggests combining different parts or sections together to create an organized whole. In a literary or textual context, compose can also sound more formal than write.
✅ Often compose suggests paying particular attention to how the end product comes across in terms of etiquette or politics (I spent hours composing the speech I was going to give to the Board of Directors).
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✅ Daydream means to spend time imagining a pleasant and engaging fantasy to the degree that you’re not engaged with the world around you (He tends to daydream in class).
✅ Woolgather means to daydream or to be otherwise lost in your own head to the point of absentmindedness (Could you repeat that? I was woolgathering).
✅ Daydream and woolgather both mean to imagine or fantasize about something, especially when you should be paying attention to something else.
✅ Woolgather is a less common word than daydream and suggests drifting from one thought to another, as if gathering sheep's wool caught on branches, while daydream suggests focusing on a particular fantasy.
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✅ Imagine means to form a mental image of something that isn’t present or to picture events that aren’t happening (She imagined a dragon appearing over the city).
✅ Fantasize means to think up fanciful, unlikely, and extravagant things and events (Fantasize about the mansion you would build if you won the lottery).
✅ Fantasize and imagine both mean to think about fictional or unlikely scenarios and situations, especially to pass time or to entertain yourself.
✅ Imagine is more general. Fantasize especially suggests thinking about an unlikely situation that is in some way linked to reality rather than wholly fictional.
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