- Now the sophistication of the device has authorities pretty rattled, especially as a unique mixture of explosive compounds was involved.
- Also, the relative amounts of the different compounds of the mixture tend to be more even, which is reflected in lower dominance values.
- If the different compounds of a mixture act synergistically, greater toxicity or deterrence may result.
- The layers of plants and animals slowly broke down into simple substances called hydrocarbons, compounds of hydrogen and carbon.
- These substances are compounds because the molecules that make it up have two kinds of atoms.
- Exhaust gases include harmful volatile organic compounds or hydrocarbons, chemicals such as nitrogen oxide and carbon monoxide.
- The orthography was developed by Nance from the surviving texts, and vocabulary is extended by analogizing from Breton and Welsh and forming compounds from existing words.
- Lexicalisation doesn't have to involve making up a new word, it could be a compound, or an existing word could be broadened.
- Terms like megastore or hypertext are also called compounds, because they are combinations of free-standing words with prefixes or suffixes.
- Our experts are in accord: Nothing builds legs like squats because they're a compound movement that stimulates all major muscles of the legs.
- The final stained embryos were mounted on slides and examined under a digital compound microscope.
- Try doing extensions before doing dips or close-grip benches; in this way, you pre-exhaust your tris and focus the compound lifts more on your arms.
- The new company about to be born will have a compound name.
- When you have two different elements, there are usually only two words in the compound name.
- He did so by combining two complex ideas - or at least two abstract compound nouns - in a new way.
- Under private accounts, saving at younger ages counts more than saving at older ages because early savings have more years to accumulate compound interest.
- The bank rate, which garners much attention as an indicator of the health and direction of the economy, is a compound interest rate.
- Taxpayers, however, run into problems because of the city's high compound interest rate applied to unpaid amounts - a steep 18 per cent a year.
- These specialized plants generally have spike-like compound inflorescences, comprised of paired cymules of tiny flowers that are sessile within succulent free or fused bracts.
- The buckwheat inflorescence is a compound raceme that produces laterally flowered cymose clusters, the number of which was affected by the position of the inflorescence along the main stem.
- The female reproductive structures of flowers are the carpels, which are either free, or are fused to form a compound ovary.
- The horrifying scene was compounded of darkness, silhouettes of mountains, and beyond the mountains, a red glow which rose to the sky, from remote fires.
- That illusion, like the touching belief that one party is always better than the other, is compounded of near-equal parts naiveté and cynicism.
- The renouncers' attitude was compounded of dark bitterness and bright hope.
- The pharmacist then compounds the necessary ingredients and dispenses the medication to the patient.
- We compound various strengths and combinations of thyroid hormone.
- When we compound prescriptions, we mix ingredients specific to each patient's needs.
- The AER shows what the notional interest rate would be if the interest was compounded and paid once a year.
- Interest on these bonds is accumulated monthly and compounded every six months.
- While I'm puttering around playing with words, other people are investing and accumulating and feathering their nests and compounding their interest.
- Major problems in agriculture and structural difficulties in the eurozone compounded the negative effects from slower global trade.
- Little or no analysis is done and poor planning is compounded by even worse implementation strategies.
- The paper also points out that individual land uses often interact synergistically, compounding their negative effect on habitats and birds.
The sense of the verb compound that means ‘worsen,’ as in this compounds their problems, has an interesting history. It arose through a misinterpretation of the phrase compound a felony, which, strictly speaking, means ‘forbear from prosecuting a felony in exchange for money or other consideration.’ The ‘incorrect’ sense has become the usual one in legal uses and, by extension, in general senses too, and is now accepted as part of standard English.
- Example sentences
- In all probability, and in most cases - assuming the offence were to be made compoundable - the husband and the woman's in-laws would offer reconciliation so that the woman withdraws the case.
- As per the provisions of the law, this is not a compoundable offence and amounts to attempt to murder.
- Only the compoundable violations could be regularized.
Words that rhyme with compoundabound, aground, around, astound, bound, confound, dumbfound, expound, found, ground, hound, impound, interwound, mound, pound, profound, propound, redound, round, sound, stoneground, surround, theatre-in-the-round (US theater-in-the-round), underground, wound
- The villages are rather compact, consisting of groups of compounds enclosed by millet-stalk fences.
- Within an enclosed compound, you discover a pristine, high-ceilinged exhibition space that occupies a renovated factory building.
- Sensitive areas within compounds have also been given extra protection while electronic scanning of staff, visitors and vehicles entering sites has been stepped up.
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