compound
part of speech
noun (a compound, compounds); adjective (compound); verb (compound, compounds, compounded, compounding)
meaning for a pupil
1) (science) A substance made of two or more elements joined chemically: water is a compound of hydrogen and oxygen. tree →
2) (grammar) A word made from two or more words: "football" is a compound word. tree →
3) An area of buildings surrounded by a fence or wall: a prison compound. tree →
4) (adjective) Made of several parts: a compound sentence. tree →
5) (verb, formal) To make a problem worse: the cold compounded our troubles. tree →
6) (maths, adjective) Compound interest: interest earned on the interest too, not just on the starting money. tree →
7) To be compounded of several things means to be made by mixing them together. tree →
sense in the lessons
In the Tanakh and Jewish tradition: In the Torah, to compound means to mix spices or ingredients together by a craftsman's art. Interpretation: The anointing oil was used to make priests, kings and Tabernacle objects holy. Tradition lists its exact spices. In the primary lessons: In science, compounds are made of elements bonded together. In English lessons compound words and compound sentences are taught. In maths, compound interest grows faster than simple interest; compound shapes are made of rectangles joined together and you find their area part by part. Phrases: chemical compound, compound word, compound interest, compound shape.
examples
- And thou shalt make it a holy anointing oil, a perfume compounded after the art of the perfumer; it shall be a holy anointing oil. (Torah EXO.30.25, JPS 1917) tree →
- Water is a compound of hydrogen and oxygen. tree →
- "Sunflower" is a compound word. tree →
- Find the area of the compound shape by splitting it into two rectangles. tree →
- A compound sentence joins two sentences with "and", "but" or "so". tree →
- The soldiers lived in a fenced compound. tree →
- (formal) The rain compounded the problems after the flood. tree →
- With compound interest, 100 at 10% becomes 110, then 121. tree →
- The first part is compounded of a comic and a serious theme. tree →
note
Noun said COM-pound; the verb is often said com-POUND. In science, a compound is different from a mixture: a compound needs a chemical change to separate it. In maths, compound interest each year adds a percentage of the new total.
In the corpora
- Interest that grows on interest is called compound interest.
- Io's yellow, orange and red patches come from sulphur and sulphur compounds spread by its volcanoes.
- Many insects have compound eyes made of hundreds or thousands of tiny lenses, very good at seeing movement all around them.
Trees and pragmatics
Every meaning and example of «compound» parsed by Mova, each sentence with its dependency tree and frames.