Compound

Definition

compound 1 /'kɒmpaƱnd/ n ၁။ (က) ေပါင္းစပ္ထားေသာ အရာ။ The play was an odd mixture, a compound of humour and appalling insensitivity. (ခ) ( techn ) ျဒပ္ေပါင္း။ Common salt is a compound of sodium and chlorine. Compare MIXTURE ၁ , ELEMENT ၄ ၂။ ( grammar ) ေပါင္းစပ္ပုဒ္။ ‘Travel agent’, ‘dark-haired’ and ‘policeman’ are compounds. adj ေပါင္းစပ္ထားေသာ။ compound words ❍ an insect's compound eye. /kǝm'paƱnd/ v ၁။ ပိုဆိုးေစသည္။ Initial planning errors were compounded by the careless way in which the plan was carried out. ၂။ (က) (fml or techn) ေရာေႏွာသည္။ ေရာစပ္သည္။ the vat in which the chemicals are compounded. (ခ) ~ sth (of/from sth) ( fml ) (usu passive) ေဆးစပ္သည္။ ေဆးေဖာ္သည္။ a medicine compounded from (ie made of) various herbs ❍ ( fig ) Her character was compounded in equal parts of meanness and generosity. ❏ compound fracture n အသားကို ထိုးေဖာက္ထြက္ေအာင္ အ႐ိုးက်ဳိးျခင္း။ ❏ compound interest n [U] ႏွစ္ထပ္တိုး။ Compare SIMPLE INTEREST compound 2 /'kɒmpaƱnd/ n ၿခံဝင္း။ ၿခံဝိုင္း။ a prison compound.

Examples

1. Why do chemical compounds behave as they do?
2. Water is a compound of hydrogen and oxygen.
3. A herbal compound used for treating headaches
4. John and Steve working together? That’s a lethal compound.