Definitions for compounds

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compounds com·pound

Spelling: [adjective kom-pound, kom-pound; noun

IPA: /adjective ˈkɒm paʊnd, kɒmˈpaʊnd; noun ˈkɒm paʊnd; verb kəmˈpaʊnd, ˈkɒm paʊnd/

Compounds is a 9 letter English word. It's valid Scrabble word worth 15 points. It's valid Words with friends word worth 20 points.

You can make 312 anagrams from letters in compounds (cdmnoopsu).

Definitions for compounds

noun

1. something formed by compounding or combining parts, elements, etc.
2. Chemistry. a pure substance composed of two or more elements whose composition is constant.
3. a compound word, especially one composed of two or more words that are otherwise unaltered, as moonflower or rainstorm.
4. (in the Far East) an enclosure containing residences, business offices, or other establishments of Europeans.
5. (in Africa) a similar enclosure for native laborers.
6. any enclosure, especially for prisoners of war.
7. any separate cluster of homes, often owned by members of the same family.

adjective

1. composed of two or more parts, elements, or ingredients:
2. having or involving two or more actions or functions:
3. Grammar. of or relating to a compound sentence or compound-complex sentence.
4. consisting of two or more parts that are also bases, forming a compound noun, compound adjective, compound verb, or compound preposition, as housetop, many-sided, playact, or upon. consisting of any two or more parts that have identifiable meaning, as a base and a noninflectional affix (return, follower), a base and a combining form (biochemistry), two combining forms (ethnography), or a combining form and a noninflectional affix (aviary, dentoid).
5. (of a verb tense) consisting of an auxiliary verb and a main verb, as are swimming, have spoken, or will write (opposed to simple).
6. Botany. composed of several similar parts that combine to form a whole:
7. Zoology. composed of a number of distinct individuals that are connected to form a united whole or colony, as coral.
8. Music. of or relating to compound time.
9. Machinery. noting an engine or turbine expanding the same steam or the like in two successive chambers to do work at two ranges of pressure.

verb (used with object)

1. to put together into a whole; combine:
2. to make or form by combining parts, elements, etc.; construct:
3. to make up or constitute:
4. to settle or adjust by agreement, especially for a reduced amount, as a debt.
5. Law. to agree, for a consideration, not to prosecute or punish a wrongdoer for:
6. to pay (interest) on the accrued interest as well as the principal:
7. to increase or add to:
8. Electricity. to connect a portion of the field turns of (a direct-current dynamo) in series with the armature circuit.

verb (used without object)

1. to make a bargain; come to terms; compromise.
2. to settle a debt, claim, etc., by compromise.
3. to form a compound.

Origin of compounds

1350-1400; (v.) Middle English compounen Middle French compon- (stem of compondre) Latin compōnere, equivalent to com- com- + pōnere to put; (adj.) Middle English comp

Examples for compounds

There's a compound fracture above the knee, and a dislocation below.

Less than 30 minutes after the firefight started, commandos entered the compound and found the mortally wounded hostages.

Our Pashto interpreter explained how he had pretended to be a Pakistani policeman when interested crowds approached the compound.

The griffin was itself a compound creature, half lion and half eagle.

They say that the Israelis framed him in order to light the powder keg of religious war over the al-Aqsa compound.

The Holy City, specifically the al-Aqsa compound, has been the flashpoint for the latest round of conflict.

He whiffed the compound of scents away, as he put down his smoked-out pipe.

Now the lead breacher explained how he cut through the steel doors bin Laden used to seal himself into the compound at night.

The result is a compound of vulgar rascalities and impotent Byronics.

Outside the compound they found, at last, the trail of his passing.