compound

Tanımlar (İngilizce)

1. isim An enclosure within which workers, prisoners, or soldiers are confined.
2. isim An enclosure for secure storage.

   “A separate building on the west side will house a standby powerhouse and a workshop, and there will be an unroofed compound for compressed air cylinders and water tanks.”

3. isim A group of buildings situated close together, e.g. for a school or block of offices.

   “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."”

4. isim A group of buildings where members of the same extended family live together.
5. sıfat Composed of elements; not simple.

   “a compound word”

6. sıfat Dealing with numbers of various denominations of quantity, or with processes more complex than the simple process.

   “compound addition”

7. sıfat An octave higher than originally (i.e. a compound major second is equivalent to a major ninth).
8. isim Anything made by combining several things.
9. isim A substance formed by chemical bonding of two or more elements in definite proportions by weight.
10. isim A substance made from any combination of ingredients.

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

11. isim 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.
12. isim A lexeme that consists of more than one stem.

    “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.”

13. isim A lexeme that consists of more than one stem or affix, e.g. "bookshop", "high school" or "non-standard".

    “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.”

14. isim A compound locomotive, a steam locomotive with both high-pressure and low-pressure cylinders.

    “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!”

15. isim Ellipsis of compound exercise.
16. fiil To form (a resulting mixture) by combining different elements, ingredients, or parts; to mingle with something else.

    “to compound a medicine”

17. fiil To settle by agreeing on less than the claim, or on different terms than those stipulated.

    “to compound a debt”

18. fiil To settle amicably; to adjust by agreement.

    “I pray, my lords, let me compound this strife.”

19. fiil To come to terms of agreement; to settle by a compromise.

    “to compound with someone / for something”

20. fiil To compose; to constitute.

    “his pomp and all what state compounds”

21. fiil To increase in value with interest, where the interest is earned on both the principal sum and prior earned interest.
22. fiil To worsen a situation.

    “[…] This latest example of nationalistic self-interest compounded anger across the EU over Trump’s travel ban, imposed last month without consultation or scientific justification.”

23. fiil Of a horse: to fail to maintain speed.

    “At the hill, the Warrior must have been at least ten lengths in front of Wild Dayrell; but he compounded about 200 yards on the T. Y. C. side of the Red House.”