Meaning of Compound | Babel Free

Definitions

1. An enclosure within which workers, prisoners, or soldiers are confined.
2. Anything made by combining several things.
3. Composed.
4. An enclosure for secure storage.
5. A substance formed by chemical bonding of two or more elements in definite proportions by weight.
6. A group of buildings situated close together, e.g. for a school or block of offices.
7. A substance made from any combination of ingredients.
   dated
8. A group of buildings where members of the same extended family live together.
   Philippines, broadly
9. A legal procedure whereby a criminal or delinquent avoids prosecution in a court in exchange for his payment to the authorities of a financial penalty or fine.
10. A lexeme that consists of more than one stem.
11. A lexeme that consists of more than one stem or affix, e.g. "bookshop", "high school" or "non-standard".
12. A compound locomotive, a steam locomotive with both high-pressure and low-pressure cylinders.
13. Ellipsis of compound exercise.
    abbreviation, alt-of, ellipsis

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Examples

“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.”

“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."”

“A compound of spurge, cardamom, cinnamon of Mecca, pellitory, ginger, nettle seed is an Arab specific for sexual weakness.”

“Compositionally there is no great distinction between cell wall and cell surface, both are relatively transparent compounds, but both parts of the cell are of high significance in Biology due to their central role in cell functioning.”

“In the majority of the compounds of non- the hyphen is usually retained; but it is commonly omitted in the case of a few, such as nonconformist, nonentity, nonsense, in which the etymology has been to some extent lost sight of.”

“From a dead stand, with regulator full open and the lever at about 50 per cent we got up to about 60 m.p.h. by the top of the bank. The big compound was making plenty of noise - but what musical and wonderful noise!”

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