ALL meanings of compound noun
com·pound noun
C c - adjective compound noun composed of two or more parts, elements, or ingredients: Soap is a compound substance. 1
- adjective compound noun having or involving two or more actions or functions: The mouth is a compound organ. 1
- adjective compound noun Grammar. of or relating to a compound sentence or compound-complex sentence. 1
- adjective compound noun 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). 1
- adjective compound noun (of a verb tense) consisting of an auxiliary verb and a main verb, as are swimming, have spoken, or will write (opposed to simple). 1
- adjective compound noun Botany. composed of several similar parts that combine to form a whole: a compound fruit. 1
- adjective compound noun Zoology. composed of a number of distinct individuals that are connected to form a united whole or colony, as coral. 1
- adjective compound noun Music. of or relating to compound time. 1
- adjective compound noun 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. 1
- noun compound noun something formed by compounding or combining parts, elements, etc. 1
- noun compound noun Chemistry. a pure substance composed of two or more elements whose composition is constant. 1
- noun compound noun a compound word, especially one composed of two or more words that are otherwise unaltered, as moonflower or rainstorm. 1
- verb with object compound noun to put together into a whole; combine: to compound drugs to form a new medicine. 1
- verb with object compound noun to make or form by combining parts, elements, etc.; construct: to compound a new plan from parts of several former plans. 1
- verb with object compound noun to make up or constitute: all the organs and members that compound a human body. 1
- verb with object compound noun to settle or adjust by agreement, especially for a reduced amount, as a debt. 1
- verb with object compound noun Law. to agree, for a consideration, not to prosecute or punish a wrongdoer for: to compound a crime or felony. 1
- verb with object compound noun to pay (interest) on the accrued interest as well as the principal: My bank compounds interest quarterly. 1
- verb with object compound noun to increase or add to: The misery of his loneliness was now compounded by his poverty. 1
- verb with object compound noun Electricity. to connect a portion of the field turns of (a direct-current dynamo) in series with the armature circuit. 1
- verb without object compound noun to make a bargain; come to terms; compromise. 1
- verb without object compound noun to settle a debt, claim, etc., by compromise. 1
- verb without object compound noun to form a compound. 1