compounded
复式,复式的,复合的,复合型
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Definitions
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- : composed of two or more parts, elements, or ingredients: Soap is a compound substance.
- : having or involving two or more actions or functions: The mouth is a compound organ.
- : Grammar. of or relating to a compound sentence or compound-complex sentence.
- : 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, a base and a combining form, two combining forms, or a combining form and a noninflectional affix.
- : consisting of an auxiliary verb and a main verb, as are swimming, have spoken, or will write.
- : Botany. composed of several similar parts that combine to form a whole: a compound fruit.
- : Zoology. composed of a number of distinct individuals that are connected to form a united whole or colony, as coral.
- : Music. of or relating to compound time.
- : 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.
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- : something formed by compounding or combining parts, elements, etc.
- : Chemistry. a pure substance composed of two or more elements whose composition is constant.
- : a compound word, especially one composed of two or more words that are otherwise unaltered, as moonflower or rainstorm.
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- : to put together into a whole; combine:to compound drugs to form a new medicine.
- : to make or form by combining parts, elements, etc.; construct: to compound a new plan from parts of several former plans.
- : to make up or constitute: all the organs and members that compound a human body.
- : to settle or adjust by agreement, especially for a reduced amount, as a debt.
- : Law. to agree, for a consideration, not to prosecute or punish a wrongdoer for: to compound a crime or felony.
- : to pay on the accrued interest as well as the principal: My bank compounds interest quarterly.
- : to increase or add to: The misery of his loneliness was now compounded by his poverty.
- : Electricity. to connect a portion of the field turns of in series with the armature circuit.
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- : to make a bargain; come to terms; compromise.
- : to settle a debt, claim, etc., by compromise.
- : to form a compound.
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Examples
With Covid-19 compounding the health threat of wildfire smoke, this year’s fires are putting an unprecedented strain on communities.
This could release compounds that might move through the air — right to someone’s nose.
A leucine-rich diet may increase your risk of obesity or type 2 diabetes, in theory because the compound sends your body a “time to grow!”
At Towson University in Maryland, chemist Shannon Stitzel is tracing cocoa to its roots using organic compounds, which are mostly produced by the cocoa plant itself.
Local media reports that Beijing initiated the idea of universal testing, rather than Hong Kong’s Legislative Council, have compounded those concerns.
He scrambled outside to find a 25-foot-wide crater just beyond the mud wall surrounding his family compound.
Less than 30 minutes after the firefight started, commandos entered the compound and found the mortally wounded hostages.
They say that the Israelis framed him in order to light the powder keg of religious war over the al-Aqsa compound.
The Holy City, specifically the al-Aqsa compound, has been the flashpoint for the latest round of conflict.
Now the lead breacher explained how he cut through the steel doors bin Laden used to seal himself into the compound at night.
He, with others, thinking the miss-sahib had gone to church, was smoking the hookah of gossip in a neighboring compound.
They held the compound against repeated assaults, and lost several men in hand-to-hand fighting.
Passing a bungalow that was blazing furiously, he saw in the compound the corpses of two women.
The body of a young woman was found in the compound outside my bungalow, done to death in precisely the same way.
The compound was washed on the fifth of May, and a grain of gold weighing one and one-half reals was obtained.