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compound English

Meaning compound meaning

What does compound mean?
Definitions in simple English

compound Noun

— A compound is a material made of a number of other materials. The new chemical compound has far less smell than the original substance. There is a group of gases that do not easily form chemical compounds. — A compound is a mixture. The new CD is a compound of North American rock music and Middle Eastern religious songs. — A compound is a group of buildings surrounded by a fence or wall.

compound Verb

— If something is compounded, it is added to. Her troubles were now compounded by the rain. — If interest is compounded, it is paid on earlier interest payments. Interest is compounded monthly.

compound

— verb (= intensify, heighten, deepen) make more intense, stronger, or more marked The efforts were intensified Her rudeness intensified his dislike for her Pot smokers claim it heightens their awareness This event only deepened my convictions — verb (= combine) put or add together combine resources — noun a whole formed by a union of two or more elements or parts — noun an enclosure of residences and other building (especially in the Orient) — noun (chemistry) a substance formed by chemical union of two or more elements or ingredients in definite proportion by weight — adjective consisting of two or more substances or ingredients or elements or parts soap is a compound substance housetop is a compound word a blackberry is a compound fruit — adjective composed of more than one part; compound flower heads" compound leaves are composed of several lobes; — verb (= combine) combine so as to form a whole; mix compound the ingredients — verb create by mixing or combining — verb calculate principal and interest — adjective (= colonial) composed of many distinct individuals united to form a whole or colony coral is a colonial organism

Synonyms compound synonyms

What other words have the same or similar meaning as compound?

compound English » English

mixture mix composite blend complex combine combination chemical compound mingle composition courtyard yard mixed jumble house alloy admixture unite mix up medley make up join intermixture intensify hybrid home heighten compose combined bring together aggregate worsen village variety union substance shuffle put together prepare precinct motley mix together miscellaneous immingle enclosure deepen compromise compounding compound word compost

Topics compound topics

What do people use compound to talk about?
Person Healthy

Injure
Social behavior Relationships

Neighbor
Work and occupation Working with buildings Building

House
Work and occupation Working with buildings Building

Yard
Work and occupation Occupation Working with minerals

Working with chemicals
Physical actions Arrange

Join, attach
Physical actions Arrange

Mix

Grammar
Universe, creation Animal Parts of an animal

Parts of an insect

Conjugation compound conjugation

How do you conjugate compound?

compound · verb

Examples compound examples

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Simple sentences

Water is a compound of hydrogen and oxygen.
In German, compound words are written as one word!
Bus ticket, handbag, and children's playground are examples of compound nouns.
Salicylic acid is an organic compound.

Movie subtitles

This photograph is of the central examination compound in Nanjing.
I agree, which brings us to chemical compound number two.
Compound transmission of the pandemonium with percussion and spasmodic frantic disintegration!
Professor Gurkakoff has been trying to reconstruct it by compound fractions.
As manhood shall compound.
If for thy ransom thou wilt now compound before thy most assured overthrow.
In our compound, there were about 630 of us.
As Compound Chief, I protest at the way these bodies are left lying in the mud.
Hey! New dames in the Russian compound.
New dames in the Russian compound!
Sure, I'll get you into the Russian compound.
Harry and the Animal are trying to sneak into the Russian compound!
The one your friend mit-out the leg is smuggling in the compound.
We need a lot of commotion in the compound.
He won't come within a hundred yards of the compound.
Her grave is on the hill at the far edge of the compound.
Lay out a course for best drainage, then throw up a bridge over the creek and cut through a road leading back to the compound, for shortest and easiest hauling.
No, that bullet's 50 yards out in the compound.
Coming through the compound.
It so happens his nibs is at my employer's compound checking out a shipment of wild animals.
I'll raise horses tall and strong eagles into the compound, bears into the courtyard and a French cook into the kitchen.
Compound transmission of the pandemonium with percussion. and spasmodic frantic disintegration.
The sulpha compound.
A sulpha-type compound made of coal tar. that would check certain bacterial growth in body fluids. and at the same time be as harmless to take as water.
An equally complex compound of equations is used by our anthropological researcher.
We couldn't get her across the compound!
I knew it! Compound transmission of the pandemonium with percussion and spasmodic frantic disintegration!
Once more I come to know of thee, King Harry, if for thy ransom thou wilt now compound, before thy most assured overthrow.
I had to keep him in that wing until the compound was ready.
You approach the entrance gate 'to the United States army compound, 'undergo the ever vigilant inspection, 'and proceed to something you won't forget.
Just a compound fracture of the skull.
A COMPOUND HENDERSON MADE FOR FURY.
I'D LIKE TO COLLECT THE COMPOUND.
THE COMPOUND.
AS A MATTER OF FACT, I ALSO CALLED TO COLLECT THE REMAINS OF THE COMPOUND THAT I MADE UP FOR FURY SOME TIME AGO.
COMPOUND?
They're feeding the creature a compound of sulphur.
The exact compound ratio isn't in the chemistry book.

News and current affairs

Over two or three decades, substantial differences in compound growth rates quickly generate huge changes in economic size or per capita income.
Meanwhile, a blind human-rights activist escapes from illegal house arrest, finds refuge in the United States' embassy in Beijing, and leaves the compound only after claims that Chinese authorities in his hometown had threatened his family.
It had been assumed that thousands of Hezbollah rockets fired in concentrated barrages - which cancel out the inaccuracy of unguided rockets and powerfully compound blast effects - would kill many civilians, perhaps hundreds each day.
Efforts to predict predisposition to behavior (as opposed to disease) will only compound these conflicts.
This would be unhealthy and make the transatlantic compound unsustainable.
The long-term effects should not be underestimated, given the helpful impact of compound savings.
If adopted, these measures will further compound America's fiscal mess.
In a worst-case scenario, falling property prices or diminishing faith in implicit government guarantees would compound the risks generated by the shadow-banking system, severely undermining China's financial stability.
A sharp spike in US casualties would compound the pressure to get out.
Committing more soldiers will only compound the error.
Currently proposed agreements with India compound this quagmire and further undermine the global pact for peace represented by the nuclear nonproliferation regime.
Indeed, they compound other threats: food insecurity, volatile energy and commodity markets, and the terrible persistence of poverty.
Last July, on another national holiday, they hit three tourist spots not far from the Mubarak family compound in Sharm el-Sheikh.
Market pressures compound this worry.
In an era of extraordinarily high unemployment, political pressures only compound the problem.
He also visited the UN compound in the center of Gaza to express the UN's grave concern over its bombing.
Malthus postulated a geometric rate of population growth (like compound interest on a bank deposit) and an arithmetic rate of growth (simple interest on a bank account) of food production.
In the background of this legal and moral failure is major cheerleading about the Bin Laden raid, in which a US Navy SEAL team swarmed a compound in a residential Pakistani neighborhood and assassinated a lot of people.
Thanks to a combination of intense heat and periodic Sahelian rains, Madi consistently produces clean, high-quality cotton on the gently sloping hills that surround his walled compound.
During the last harvest, when 100-degree heat forced him, his wives, and his mother to stop picking cotton after a few hours, he returned to his compound to tend to his ducks.
To compound the situation, the political border between Afghanistan and Pakistan has now ceased to exist in practice.

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