compound
Part of speech: noun
adj
verb
Morphological type: simple
Topics: business
entertainment
finance
hobbies
horse-racing
horseracing
horses
law
lifestyle
mathematics
music
pets
racing
sciences
sports
Etymology: Etymology tree
Malay kampungder.?
English compound
Possibly from Malay kampong, kampung (“group of buildings, village”), via Dutch or Portuguese, altered under the influence of Etymology 2. Doublet of kampung.
Inflected forms:
form: compounds
pos: noun
tags: plural
form: compounds
pos: verb
tags: present
singular
third-person
form: compounding
pos: verb
tags: participle
present
form: compounded
pos: verb
tags: participle
past
form: compounded
pos: verb
tags: past
Senses:
gloss: An enclosure within which workers, prisoners, or soldiers are confined.
pos: noun
gloss: An enclosure for secure storage.
pos: noun
examples: A separate building on the west side will house a standby powerhouse and a workshop, and there will be an unroofed compound for compressed air cylinders and water tanks.
A total of 75 cycle spaces are being installed at three Greater Anglia stations - [...]. And a secure compound for bicycles is being built at Cambridge North.
gloss: A group of buildings situated close together, e.g. for a school or block of offices.
pos: noun
examples: Shepard: What kind of proof do you have that the major is dangerous?
Transmission: Three days ago, we sent two Alliance representatives to meet with him at his compound. They have disappeared. We believe Kyle and his followers killed them.
Transmission: That compound is a cult, Shepard. They call him 'Father Kyle' now. He's set himself up as some kind of religious leader.
Some 20 supporters managed to get inside the court compounds. About half an hour after the verdict was delivered, they gathered near the Constitutional Court entrance and shouted: "On March 24, use your pen to oust the dictator."
gloss: A group of buildings where members of the same extended family live together.
pos: noun
tags: Philippines
broadly
gloss: Composed of elements; not simple.
pos: adj
tags: not-comparable
examples: a compound word
Compound substances are made up of two or more simple substances.
gloss: Dealing with numbers of various denominations of quantity, or with processes more complex than the simple process.
pos: adj
tags: not-comparable
examples: compound addition
compound proportion
gloss: An octave higher than originally (i.e. a compound major second is equivalent to a major ninth).
pos: adj
tags: not-comparable
gloss: To form (a resulting mixture) by combining different elements, ingredients, or parts; to mingle with something else.
pos: verb
tags: transitive
examples: to compound a medicine
Only compound me with forgotten dust.
We have the power of altering[…] and compounding those images[…] into all the varieties of picture.
incapacitating him from successfully compounding a tale of this sort
In eighteenth century France, many aphrodisiac dishes and pastries were compounded with chocolate.
gloss: To settle by agreeing on less than the claim, or on different terms than those stipulated.
pos: verb
tags: transitive
examples: to compound a debt
gloss: To settle amicably; to adjust by agreement.
pos: verb
tags: transitive
examples: I pray, my lords, let me compound this strife.
No! no—if Charles has done nothing false or mean, I shall compound for his extravagance
gloss: To come to terms of agreement; to settle by a compromise.
pos: verb
tags: intransitive
examples: to compound with someone / for something
Here's a fellow will help you to-morrow; […] compound with him by the year.
They were at last glad to compound for his bare commitment to the Tower.
[Cornwall] compounded to furnish ten oxen after Michaelmas for thirty pounds.
Compound for sins they are inclined to / By damning those they have no mind to.
gloss: To compose; to constitute.
pos: verb
tags: obsolete
transitive
examples: his pomp and all what state compounds
gloss: To increase in value with interest, where the interest is earned on both the principal sum and prior earned interest.
pos: verb
tags: intransitive
gloss: To worsen a situation.
pos: verb
tags: transitive
examples: […] This latest example of nationalistic self-interest compounded anger across the EU over Trump’s travel ban, imposed last month without consultation or scientific justification.
gloss: Of a horse: to fail to maintain speed.
pos: verb
tags: intransitive
examples: At the hill, the Warrior must have been at least ten lengths in front of Wild Dayrell; but he compounded about 200 yards on the T. Y. C. side of the Red House.
Derived words: compound animal
compound attack
compound balloon
compound bow
compound butter
compound chocolate
compound common time
compound control
compound crystal
compound curve
compound duple
compound engine
compound eye
compound fracture
compound fruit
compound householder
compound hyperopia
compound imperative
compound interest
compound interval
compound key
compound labour
compound larceny
compound leaf
compoundly
compound machine
compound meter
compound microscope
compound modifier
compound myopia
compoundness
compound pattern
compound pendulum
compound point
compound predicate word
compound proportion
compound sentence
compound symbol
compound tense
compound time
noncompound
decompound
compoundable
compounder
compounding pharmacy
recompound
Translations:
lang: Bulgarian
word: смесвам
roman: smesvam
lang: Bulgarian
word: съединявам
roman: sǎedinjavam
lang: Finnish
word: yhdistää
lang: Finnish
word: liittää
lang: French
word: composer
lang: German
word: zusammenstellen
lang: German
word: mischen
lang: German
word: zusammensetzen
lang: German
word: verbinden
lang: German
word: zusammenmischen
lang: German
word: zusammenreiben
lang: Greek
word: αναμιγνύω
roman: anamignýo
lang: Greek
word: μιγνύω
roman: mignýo
lang: Greek
word: συνθέτω
roman: synthéto
lang: Greek
word: παρασκευάζω
roman: paraskevázo
lang: Hebrew
word: שִׁלֵּב
roman: shilév
lang: Italian
word: mettere insieme
lang: Italian
word: comporre
lang: Portuguese
word: compor
lang: Russian
word: соединя́ть
roman: sojedinjátʹ
lang: Russian
word: объединя́ть
roman: obʺjedinjátʹ
lang: Russian
word: сме́шивать
roman: sméšivatʹ
lang: Slovene
word: sestaviti
lang: Swedish
word: blanda (ihop, till, tillsammans)
lang: Swedish
word: sätta (ihop, samman)
lang: Tamil
word: கல
roman: kala