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Longman Dictionary of Contemporary English
compound
I.noun
COLLOCATIONS FROM OTHER ENTRIES
compound an error (=make it worse)
▪ He refused to listen to our advice, which compounded the error.
compound fracture
compound interest
compound/exacerbate a problemformal (= make it worse)
▪ The country’s economic problems are compounded by its ageing population.
COLLOCATIONS FROM CORPUS
■ ADJECTIVE
chemical
▪ Their oxygen is kept not as a gas, but as a chemical compound.
▪ Vent water is enriched in reduced chemical compounds, especially hydrogen sulfide.
▪ The inert gases are so called because they do not readily form chemical compounds.
▪ In nature, the elements form stable chemical compounds with each other, usually involving oxygen.
▪ The criminals also sold a chemical compound they claimed the law mandated to make made wheelchair access ramps and floors slip resistant.
▪ About a hundred chemical compounds were continuously measured in the air, soil, and water throughout the whole structure.
▪ Like all chemical compounds, minerals are homogeneous: A mineral can not be separated mechanically into different substances.
inorganic
▪ Some inorganic compounds with covalent characteristics also have chain structures.
▪ Bones and teeth are made from quite simple inorganic compounds which in their normal crystalline and glassy forms are very brittle.
organic
▪ Activated carbon has the ability to remove a wide variety of organic compounds from water and wastewater, even in trace quantities.
▪ Oil, gas, and coal, composed of organic carbon compounds, are found as economic deposits in sedimentary rocks.
▪ Amines are a series of organic compounds related to ammonia.
▪ Paints traditionally were made with volatile organic compounds, which can pollute indoor and outdoor air.
▪ Paints today are getting safer as companies remove volatile organic compounds, but you still need to be careful.
▪ Volatile organic compounds come from a wide variety of sources, both man-made and natural.
▪ Having observed organic compounds in meteorites, these researchers believe the seeds of life may have been carried to earth preformed.
simple
▪ Among numerous negative results he found some quite simple compounds, aldehydes and fatty acids, which stimulated oxygen uptake.
▪ They present convex outlines in plan whether they are simple or compound deltas, composed virtually of a series of sub-deltas.
▪ New routes to simple compounds Chemists are hunting new ways to create basic compounds from simple substances such as synthesis gas.
▪ Table 4.22 gives examples of how valencies can be used to find the formulae of simple compounds.
▪ Thus all simple and all compound or complex subjects are listed.
▪ Bones and teeth are made from quite simple inorganic compounds which in their normal crystalline and glassy forms are very brittle.
▪ First, just as with the previous two categories, a doubt of this kind may well be simple or compound.
▪ If all subjects, simple or compound, are listed in schedules, then the list becomes very long.
volatile
▪ Industrial chemicals such as volatile organochlorine compounds can also find their way into groundwater, with serious implications for its quality.
▪ Paints traditionally were made with volatile organic compounds, which can pollute indoor and outdoor air.
▪ This last disadvantage can have serious cost and technology implications if the number and toxicity of the volatile compounds are high.
▪ Paints today are getting safer as companies remove volatile organic compounds, but you still need to be careful.
■ NOUN
fracture
▪ Case No. 8: 40 year-old woman sustained crushing compound fracture of two fingers in an automobile accident.
▪ Ward suffered a compound fracture of the left leg in Good Friday's derby match at Wigan.
▪ It is so-called because of the compound fracture of the leg which Pott himself suffered as the result of an accident in 1756.
interest
▪ The main problem with the simple yield to maturity, though, is that it does not take into account compound interest.
▪ The discounting calculation is the reverse of the compound interest calculation.
▪ The wolfish landlord used this chance to demand the usurious compound interest of 50% for three years.
palace
▪ She knew the meeting place; the pool in the little park on the south side of the palace compound.
▪ The family also live in the palace compound.
▪ It occurred to him as he walked that he had not seen Taheb since their visit to the palace compound.
▪ By the eighth hour, all the Medjays sent to the palace compound were back.
▪ It was a place for the very rich, indirectly managed by the priesthood, within the walls of the palace compound.
▪ Merymose clearly had orders to ignore any trail that led to the palace compound.
▪ He was some one from the palace compound.
■ VERB
contain
▪ Susceptible people experience flushing and feel unwell when they eat foods containing these compounds.
▪ They tried their idea out on a piece of glass which they dipped into a solution containing their compound.
▪ Yet more than 3,000 strains of bacteria have already been isolated, and may potentially contain useful new compounds.
▪ For the probabilistic syntax system compounds are troublesome since the window may not contain all of the compound.
▪ The work provided the foundation for the vaginal use of gels containing organic mercurial compounds as aids to contraception.
▪ One in every four purchases from your local chemist contains compounds derived from rainforest species.
form
▪ Inert gases such as helium have zero valencies. they do not normally form compounds.
▪ In nature, the elements form stable chemical compounds with each other, usually involving oxygen.
▪ The substrate and enzyme form an intermediate compound which is known as the enzyme-substrate complex.
▪ Rather than build the compound tree from the actual strings that form the compound, the tree is built from the root-indices.
▪ The cyanide forms a compound with the gold which can then be separated from the other wastes.
▪ They have an extraordinary capability to taint food where they form compounds with fats which are detectable in parts per billion.
▪ The inert gases are so called because they do not readily form chemical compounds.
produce
▪ However, there is little sign that it will ever produce compounds on the scale required by the heavy organic chemicals industry.
▪ It has produced a 25 percent compound growth in earnings per share in the last five years.
▪ Free radicals may also play a part in producing organic compounds with metallic properties.
▪ It also has the facility to produce compound reports.
use
▪ After being demolished and outgunned by some indifferent players, he attempted to use the new compounds, but to no avail.
▪ The results can be seen in Appendix C which shows the improved recognition when using information about compounds and phrases.
▪ I was very surprised when, following a phosphate surge in my tapwater, I used a phosphate-removing compound in my filter.
▪ Don't use jointing compound unless recommended Tighten the compression joints using a spanner at either end.
▪ They are left a few millimetres thick and lapped flat or polished, using a lapping compound with paraffin oil lubricant.
▪ There are a number of advantages to be gained from using an index-based compound tree.
▪ Do not use jointing compound on plastic cisterns - it can soften and crack them.
EXAMPLES FROM OTHER ENTRIES
▪ an organic compound
▪ Marines protect the U.S. Embassy compound.
▪ Seal all wall joints with joint compound and tape.
▪ Sulfur dioxide is a compound of sulfur and oxygen.
▪ Sulphur dioxide and carbon dioxide are two common chemical compounds.
▪ The soil was tested to make sure that it was free from ammonia or any other nitrogen compound.
EXAMPLES FROM CORPUS
▪ A binary compound contains two elements.
▪ Freebase is a compound that can be inhaled or smoked.
▪ It is probably very rare for consciousness to scan every component of a particular compound of limitation.
▪ She knew the meeting place; the pool in the little park on the south side of the palace compound.
▪ The second way was to find a compound which would compete for or block the inactivating enzyme.
▪ The Special Forces adviser compound in Pleiku had showers.
▪ The upshot: A decade later, this compound and some other persistent pesticides were banished.
▪ Then cover the filler wood with a thin layer of joint compound and paper joint-compound tape.
II.verb
COLLOCATIONS FROM CORPUS
■ NOUN
difficulty
▪ She felt a bit like some one caught in quicksand, whose every turn only succeeded in further compounding the difficulties.
▪ But Brandeis' status as a hybrid of an elite liberal arts college and a small research university compounds its difficulty.
▪ These shortcomings are clearly compounded by the difficulty of creating new titles.
▪ Paradoxically, the relative unimportance of money in Soviet society compounds these difficulties.
▪ To compound the difficulties, the track itself is a figure-of-eight, with a dizzying number of twists and turns.
▪ A serious decline of leadership in local affairs compounds the difficulty.
▪ Although these task demands can be identified, they may interact or compound the difficulty in particular tables.
▪ Their effect was to compound the difficulty the liberal leadership had in bringing pressure for reform to bear upon the regime.
error
▪ A concatenation of events particularly damaging Mrs Thatcher was subsequently compounded by errors of tactics and organisation by those running her campaign.
▪ Kennelly refused to call off the raids, and he was lofty about it, which was compounding his error.
▪ To draw attention to that would compound the woman's error.
▪ Umpiring error all too often merely compounds cricketing error.
fact
▪ His feelings of restlessness were compounded by the fact that his own work seemed to be slipping away from him.
▪ All of these problems were compounded by the fact that few settlers had any experience with irrigation farming-nor were they required to.
▪ Such difficulty is compounded by the fact that Britten wrote the part of Grimes with Peter Pears in mind.
▪ This practical problem is compounded by the fact that we can not clearly see features that are located far from the equator.
▪ The problem is compounded by the fact that the term means different things to different people.
▪ The problems of the low paid are further compounded by the fact that their jobs are also frequently less secure.
▪ Uncertainty and scientific dispute is compounded by the fact that radioactive contamination is different from many other types of pollution.
fear
▪ Documentaries still seek the sensational and thus help to compound the fears of the public about mental handicap hospitals.
▪ Not understanding what the police were saying compounded my fear.
▪ It is a tangle of historic forces, compounded by present-day fear and pride and vexed by world ideological powers.
problem
▪ To compound the problem, drizzle and low cloud was firmly entrenched in the area.
▪ But this time the results have only compounded and exacerbated the problems of the Republican Party.
▪ What is more, the remedy advised is likely to compound the problem.
▪ But in this case, the director of field operations, abetted by other headquarters personnel, compounded the problem.
▪ Prisoners' confinement and lack of contact with the outside world compound their problems.
▪ You risk hugely compounding the problem by getting caught in half-truths.
▪ Land fragmentation, as a result of inheritance laws and social custom, compounds the widespread problem of small farm size.
▪ To compound the problem, a drop in battery power corrupted the software programme which controlled the radio itself.
situation
▪ Once the fish is affected, other pathogens, bacteria as well as protozoal parasites and fungi, will compound the overall situation.
▪ My Great Britain international all-in-one compounded the situation.
▪ Norman Lamont compounded the situation by ruling out an early cut in interest rates.
EXAMPLES FROM OTHER ENTRIES
▪ John and Val's domestic problems were compounded by stress at work.
▪ My bank compounds interest quarterly.
▪ Scientists are able to compound an increasing number of substances to produce new drugs.
▪ Strong nationalist sentiment is compounding the deep political problems faced by the President.
▪ The country's economic woes were compounded by a seven-year civil war.
▪ The effects of the East Coast snows this year were compounded by severe storms in the spring.
EXAMPLES FROM CORPUS
▪ Brian was lost in booze and drugs, compounded by paranoia and a deep sense of failure.
▪ But in this case, the director of field operations, abetted by other headquarters personnel, compounded the problem.
▪ It is rather as a precaution against compounding one media mistake with another.
▪ Mr Singh's letter compounded this.
▪ Suspicions raised by the Whitewater deal are compounded by two other events.
▪ This is compounded by point 2 to 4 following. 2.
III.adjective
COLLOCATIONS FROM CORPUS
■ NOUN
interest
▪ But the precise figure would be 10.7 per cent because of the effect of compound interest.
▪ The arithmetic of compound interest is such that delays in making contributions to trust funds tend to be quite costly.
▪ Present-value calculations provide a simple means of quantifying this time value of money by using the reciprocal of the compound interest formula.
▪ The present-value formula may be derived directly from the compound interest formula.
▪ Calculators and Personal Computers Very few people actually use compound interest and present-value tables to solve time value of money problems.
▪ Even relatively inexpensive hand-held calculators solve most compound interest and present-value problems quickly and easily.
▪ As previously indicated, the present-value factors are nothing more than the reciprocal of the compound interest factors introduced earlier.
▪ Trade deficits need to be financed and it is simply impossible to borrow enough to keep up with compound interest.
EXAMPLES FROM CORPUS
▪ But the precise figure would be 10.7 per cent because of the effect of compound interest.
▪ First, insects have compound eyes consisting of up to several thousand optical units called ommatidia, each with a single lens.
▪ The present-value formula may be derived directly from the compound interest formula.
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The Collaborative International Dictionary
Compound

Compound \Com"pound\ (k[o^]m"pound), n. [Malay kompung a village.] In the East Indies, an inclosure containing a house, outbuildings, etc.

Compound

Compound \Com*pound"\ (k[o^]m*pound"), v. t. [imp. & p. p. Compounded; p. pr. & vb. n. Compounding.] [OE. componen, compounen, L. componere, compositum; com-+ ponere to put set. The d is excrescent. See Position, and cf. Compon['e].]

  1. To form or make by combining different elements, ingredients, or parts; as, to compound a medicine.

    Incapacitating him from successfully compounding a tale of this sort.
    --Sir W. Scott.

  2. To put together, as elements, ingredients, or parts, in order to form a whole; to combine, mix, or unite.

    We have the power of altering and compounding those images into all the varieties of picture.
    --Addison.

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

    Only compound me with forgotten dust.
    --Shak.

  4. To compose; to constitute. [Obs.]

    His pomp and all what state compounds.
    --Shak.

  5. To settle amicably; to adjust by agreement; to compromise; to discharge from obligation upon terms different from those which were stipulated; as, to compound a debt.

    I pray, my lords, let me compound this strife.
    --Shak.

    To compound a felony, to accept of a consideration for forbearing to prosecute, such compounding being an indictable offense. See Theftbote.

Compound

Compound \Com"pound\,

  1. [OE. compouned, p. p. of compounen. See Compound, v. t.] Composed of two or more elements, ingredients, parts; produced by the union of several ingredients, parts, or things; composite; as, a compound word.

    Compound substances are made up of two or more simple substances.
    --I. Watts.

    Compound addition, subtraction, multiplication, division (Arith.), the addition, subtraction, etc., of compound numbers.

    Compound crystal (Crystallog.), a twin crystal, or one seeming to be made up of two or more crystals combined according to regular laws of composition.

    Compound engine (Mech.), a form of steam engine in which the steam that has been used in a high-pressure cylinder is made to do further service in a larger low-pressure cylinder, sometimes in several larger cylinders, successively.

    Compound ether. (Chem.) See under Ether.

    Compound flower (Bot.), a flower head resembling a single flower, but really composed of several florets inclosed in a common calyxlike involucre, as the sunflower or dandelion.

    Compound fraction. (Math.) See Fraction.

    Compound fracture. See Fracture.

    Compound householder, a householder who compounds or arranges with his landlord that his rates shall be included in his rents. [Eng.]

    Compound interest. See Interest.

    Compound larceny. (Law) See Larceny.

    Compound leaf (Bot.), a leaf having two or more separate blades or leaflets on a common leafstalk.

    Compound microscope. See Microscope.

    Compound motion. See Motion.

    Compound number (Math.), one constructed according to a varying scale of denomination; as, 3 cwt., 1 qr., 5 l

  2. ; -- called also denominate number.

    Compound pier (Arch.), a clustered column.

    Compound quantity (Alg.), a quantity composed of two or more simple quantities or terms, connected by the sign + (plus) or - (minus). Thus, a + b - c, and bb - b, are compound quantities.

    Compound radical. (Chem.) See Radical.

    Compound ratio (Math.), the product of two or more ratios; thus ab:cd is a ratio compounded of the simple ratios a:c and b:d.

    Compound rest (Mech.), the tool carriage of an engine lathe.

    Compound screw (Mech.), a screw having on the same axis two or more screws with different pitch (a differential screw), or running in different directions (a right and left screw).

    Compound time (Mus.), that in which two or more simple measures are combined in one; as, 6-8 time is the joining of two measures of 3-8 time.

    Compound word, a word composed of two or more words; specifically, two or more words joined together by a hyphen.

Compound

Compound \Com*pound"\, v. i. To effect a composition; to come to terms of agreement; to agree; to settle by a compromise; -- usually followed by with before the person participating, and for before the thing compounded or the consideration.

Here's a fellow will help you to-morrow; . . . compound with him by the year.
--Shak.

They were at last glad to compound for his bare commitment to the Tower.
--Clarendon.

Cornwall compounded to furnish ten oxen after Michaelmas for thirty pounds.
--R. Carew.

Compound for sins they are inclined to By damning those they have no mind to.
--Hudibras.

Compound

Compound \Com"pound\, n.

  1. That which is compounded or formed by the union or mixture of elements ingredients, or parts; a combination of simples; a compound word; the result of composition.
    --Shak.

    Rare compound of oddity, frolic, and fun.
    --Goldsmith.

    When the word ``bishopric'' was first made, it was made as a compound.
    --Earle.

  2. (Chem.) A union of two or more ingredients in definite proportions by weight, so combined as to form a distinct substance; as, water is a compound of oxygen and hydrogen.

    Note: Every definite chemical compound always contains the same elements, united in the same proportions by weight, and with the same internal arrangement.

    Binary compound (Chem.). See under Binary.

    Carbon compounds (Chem.). See under Carbon.

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Douglas Harper's Etymology Dictionary
compound

"to put together," late 14c., compounen "to mix, combine," from Old French compondre, componre "arrange, direct," from Latin componere "to put together" (see composite). The -d appeared 1500s in English on model of expound, etc. Related: Compounded; compounding.

compound

"a compound thing," mid-15c., from compound (adj.).

compound

1670s, via Dutch (kampoeng) or Portuguese, from Malay kampong "village, group of buildings." Spelling influenced by compound (v.). Originally, "the enclosure for a factory or settlement of Europeans in the East," later used of South African diamond miners' camps (1893), then of large fenced-in spaces generally (1946).

compound

late 14c., originally compouned, past participle of compounen (see compound (v.)). Compound eye is attested from 1836; compound sentence is from 1772.

Wiktionary
compound

Etymology 1 n. 1 an enclosure within which workers, prisoners, or soldiers are confined 2 a group of buildings situated close together, e.g. for a school or block of offices 3 A pure chemical substance consisting of two or more different chemical elements that can be separated into simpler substances by chemical reactions. Etymology 2

  1. 1 composed of elements; not simple 2 (context music English) An octave higher than originally (i.e. a compound major second is equivalent to a major ninth). n. 1 Anything made by combining several things. 2 (context chemistry dated English) A substance made from any combination elements. 3 (context chemistry English) A substance formed by chemical union of two or more ingredients in definite proportions by weight. 4 (context linguistics English) A lexeme that consists of more than one stem; compound word; for example (term: laptop), formed from (term: lap) and (term: top). v

  2. 1 (context transitive English) To form (a resulting mixture) by combining different elements, ingredients, or parts. 2 (context transitive English) To assemble (ingredients) into a whole; to combine, mix, or unite. 3 (context transitive English) To modify or change by combination with some other thing or part; to mingle with something else. 4 (context transitive legal English) To settle by agreeing on less than the claim, or on different terms than those stipulated. 5 (context transitive English) To settle amicably; to adjust by agreement; to compromise. 6 (context intransitive English) To come to terms of agreement; to agree; to settle by a compromise; usually followed by ''with'' before the person participating, and ''for'' before the thing compounded or the consideration. 7 (context transitive obsolete English) To compose; to constitute. 8 (context transitive English) To worsen a situation

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WordNet
compound

  1. adj. of leaf shapes; of leaves composed of several similar parts or lobes [ant: simple]

  2. consisting of two or more substances or ingredients or elements or parts; "soap is a compound substance"; "housetop is a compound word"; "a blackberry is a compound fruit"

  3. composed of many distinct individuals united to form a whole or colony; "coral is a colonial organism" [syn: colonial]

compound

  1. v. make more intense, stronger, or more marked; "The efforts were intensified", "Her rudeness intensified his dislike for her"; "Potsmokers claim it heightens their awareness"; "This event only deepened my convictions" [syn: intensify, heighten, deepen]

  2. put or add together; "combine resources" [syn: combine]

  3. calculate principal and interest

  4. create by mixing or combining

  5. combine so as to form a whole; mix; "compound the ingredients" [syn: combine]

compound

  1. n. (chemistry) a substance formed by chemical union of two or more elements or ingredients in definite proportion by weight [syn: chemical compound]

  2. a whole formed by a union of two or more elements or parts

  3. an enclosure of residences and other building (especially in the Orient)

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Wikipedia
Compound

Compound may refer to:

  • Chemical compound, combination of two or more elements
  • Compounding, the mixing of drugs in pharmacy
  • Compound (enclosure), a cluster of buildings having a shared purpose, usually inside a fence or wall
  • Compound (fortification), a version of the above fortified with defensive structures
  • Compound bow, a type of bow for archery
  • Compound leaf, a type of leaf being divided into smaller leaflets
  • Compound (linguistics), a word that consists of more than one radical element
  • Compound (migrant labour), a hostel for migrant workers such as those historically connected with mines in South Africa
  • Compound (music), an attribute of an interval or time signature
  • Polyhedral compound, a polyhedron composed of multiple polyhedra sharing the same centre of attention
  • Committee for Compounding with Delinquents, an English Civil War institution that allowed Parliament to compound the estates of Royalists
  • Composition (fine)

Compound may also refer to:

  • Compound chocolate, a chocolate substitute
  • Compound fracture, complete fractures of bone where at least one fragment has damaged the skin, soft tissue or surrounding body cavity
  • Compound interest, unpaid interest that is added to the principal so that subsequent interest is calculated on the grossed amount
  • Compound engine, a steam engine in which steam is expanded through a series of two or three cylinders before exhaust
  • Turbo-compound engine, an internal combustion engine where exhaust gases expand through power-turbines
  • Compound sentence (linguistics), a type of sentence made up of two or more independent clauses and no subordinate (dependent) clauses
  • Compound, a former US automobile make with a unique compound gasoline engine; exhausts of 2 cylinders were expanded in a larger third one
  • The Compound (book), a 2008 young adult novel by S. A. Bodeen
  • Compounding pressure
  • Compounding treason
Compound (linguistics)

In linguistics, a compound is a lexeme (less precisely, a word) that consists of more than one stem. Compounding or composition is the process of word formation that creates compound lexemes. That is, in familiar terms, compounding occurs when two or more words are joined to make one longer word. The meaning of the compound may be similar to or different from the meanings of its components in isolation. The component stems of a compound may be of the same part of speech—as in the case of the English word footpath, composed of the two nouns foot and path—or they may belong to different parts of speech, as in the case of the English word blackbird, composed of the adjective black and the noun bird. With very few exceptions, English compound words are stressed on their first component stem.

Compound (fortification)

In military science, a compound is a type of fortification made up of walls or fences surrounding several buildings in the center of a large piece of land. The walls can either serve the purpose of being tall, thick, and impenetrable, in which case they would be made of wood, stone, or some other like substance; or dangerous to attempt to scale, in which case they could be made of barbed wire or electrified. Compounds can be designed to double as living spaces and military structures in the middle of hostile territory or as a military area within a country's territory; they are also used by the extremely wealthy, powerful, paranoid or criminal to protect against threats to themselves or their property.

A number of survivalists own fortified compound-like structures as a means of protection in case civilization breaks down or their government becomes abusive.

The term compound is also used to refer to an unfortified enclosure, especially in Africa and Asia. See compound (enclosure).

Compound (enclosure)

Compound when applied to a human habitat refers to a cluster of buildings in an enclosure, having a shared or associated purpose, such as the houses of an extended family (e.g. the Kennedy Compound for the Kennedy family). The enclosure may be a wall, a fence, a hedge or some other structure, or it may be formed by the buildings themselves, when they are built around an open area or joined together.

According to the Oxford English Dictionary, the word compound in this sense is thought to be etymologically derived ultimately from the Malay word kampung or kampong, meaning 'enclosure' or 'village', probably entering English via Dutch or Portuguese.

In the United Kingdom, "compound" is not generally used in the sense of an unfortified enclosure, and not for homes. There, as in North American English, if used for a place, it is most likely to be taken to mean a fortified military compound. The unfortified enclosure usage was developed by the British Empire in Asia and Africa. Now it has slightly different meanings among English-speaking people in those continents:

  • In Asia it refers to a collection of business establishments or living quarters, especially those used by Europeans.
  • In Africa it used to mean a collection of workers' houses, but is now used for any cluster of related or linked homes, especially residences for members of the same family or those working for the same employer, or those belonging to a farm, or the cluster of houses known in Africa as a homestead. The term can also be applied to an establishment such as a school or business, as in "the school compound" or "the factory compound". In the English dialects of some African countries, "compound" may refer to a much larger collection of dwellings, as a synonym for a homogeneous township or suburb comprising homes of similar character usually built as public housing projects, or for a shantytown. An example is Chawama Compound, Lusaka, Zambia.
Compound (migrant labour)

A migrant worker compound is a key institution in a system such as that which regulated labour on mines in South Africa from the later nineteenth century. The tightly controlled closed compound which came to typify the phenomenon in that country originated on the diamond mines of Kimberley from about 1885 and was later replicated on the gold mines. This labour arrangement, regulating the flow of male workers from rural homes in Bantustans or Homelands to the mines and jobs in urban settings generally, became one of the major cogs in the apartheid state. The single-sex hostels that became flash points for unrest in the last years of apartheid were a later form of compound.

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Usage examples of "compound".

It is often compounded with the term above, and rendered Abor, Aborus, Aborras: and it is otherwise diversified.

Yuuzhan Vong warrior casually walked out of the compound, wearing his starfish breathing adaptor, for he could not bring himself to trust the mechanical breathing apparatus of the enviro-suits.

So sure was I that all the statements of Agassiz were correct and all his conclusions sound, that any doubts or criticisms upon the part of my acute and unprejudiced friend shocked me as a reprehensible compound of heresy and lese-majesty.

And it was an outlandish idea, akh was a compound made of the hottest peppers, the strongest garlic, and a brew of aged fish stock.

I have already secured the Compound: two homes with a 50-meter pool on the edge of the sea on Alii Drive in Kona, where the sun always shines.

Other dye-stuffs, such as fustic, Persian berries and Alizarine yellow, are best dyed on a basic chrome mordant, which is effected when tartar or oxalic acid is the assistant mordant used, or when some other form of chrome compound than bichrome is employed.

All, that is, except this red dust, which is an allomorphic precipitate of the radioactive bromine compounds used in the fuel.

Sandpaper, calking material and calking compound, antifouling marine hull paint, deck paint and varnish.

It was very long, made up of rites which however gorgeous, to me were but mummeries, ending in a kind of sacramental feast whereat all of us from Pharaoh down, must touch with our lips a broth compounded from the flesh of the dead Apis, the smell of which broth--for taste it I did not--revolted me.

Its ramp lowered and the three Dragons roared out, splashed into the water, and raced toward the Aquarius Station compound, forming a line three abreast as they went.

He came off the couch with the swiftness of a powerful animal and gripped the wall as though he would leap over it to the dirt compound below.

On the contrary, his idea was significant because it was a theory that explained how chemical compounds are formed and because the idea of atoms with different relative weights made it possible to turn chemistry into a quantitative science.

Leeds had dropped by the Aussie compound in Quivira Basin on Thursday morning and promised to join a hundred other sailing-stupids who were not supposed to know the location of the boozer bash.

Space and Prinz squatted near the campfire, too excited to drinking balche, the Mayan drink compound of bark and honey fermented in water, and they were slightly intoxicated.

Humvee just past the barbed wire fence, then led her across the grounds of the compound.