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An enclosure within which workers, prisoners, or soldiers are confined

📖 Definitions of "Compounds"

noun
  1. 1

    An enclosure within which workers, prisoners, or soldiers are confined

  2. 2

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

noun
  1. 1

    Anything made by combining several things.

  2. 2

    A substance made from any combination elements.

  3. 3

    A substance formed by chemical union of two or more ingredients in definite proportions by weight.

  4. 4

    A lexeme that consists of more than one stem; compound word; for example laptop, formed from lap and top.

verb
  1. 1

    To form (a resulting mixture) by combining different elements, ingredients, or parts.

    "to compound a medicine"

  2. 2

    To assemble (ingredients) into a whole; to combine, mix, or unite.

  3. 3

    To modify or change by combination with some other thing or part; to mingle with something else.

  4. 4

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

    "to compound a debt"

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