compound
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1. compound - Noun
2. compound - Adjective
3. compound - Verb
4. compound - Adjective Satellite
Meaning
In the East Indies, an inclosure containing a house, outbuildings, etc.
To form or make by combining different elements, ingredients, or parts; as, to compound a medicine.
To put together, as elements, ingredients, or parts, in order to form a whole; to combine, mix, or unite.
To modify or change by combination with some other thing or part; to mingle with something else.
To compose; to constitute.
To settle amicably; to adjust by agreement; to compromise; to discharge from obligation upon terms different from those which were stipulated; as, to compound a debt.
To effect a composition; to come to terms of agreement; to agree; to settle by a compromise; -- usually followed by with before the person participating, and for before the thing compounded or the consideration.
Composed of two or more elements, ingredients, parts; produced by the union of several ingredients, parts, or things; composite; as, a compound word.
That which is compounded or formed by the union or mixture of elements ingredients, or parts; a combination of simples; a compound word; the result of composition.
A union of two or more ingredients in definite proportions by weight, so combined as to form a distinct substance; as, water is a compound of oxygen and hydrogen.
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The car has become an article of dress without which we feel uncertain, unclad and incomplete in the urban compound.
All human power is a compound of time and patience.
Both a priori reasoning and experience teach us that as as these funds grow larger the geometrical rate of growth by compound interest ultimately defeats itself.
To say that man is a compound of strength and weakness, light and darkness, smallness and greatness, is not to indict him, it is to define him.
A drug is not bad. A drug is a chemical compound. The problem comes in when people who take drugs treat them like a license to behave like an asshole.
Ah how shameless - the way these mortals blame the gods. From us alone they say come all their miseries yes but they themselves with their own reckless ways compound their pains beyond their proper share.