Barrack vs Compound - What's the difference?
barrack | compound |
(military, chiefly, in the plural) A building for soldiers, especially within a garrison; originally referred to temporary huts, now usually to a permanent structure or set of buildings .
* 1829 , , The History of the Decline and Fall of the Roman Empire , Volume 4,
* 1919 , , Army Reorganization: Hearings Before the Committee on Military Affairs, House of Representatives, 66th Congress, 1st Session, on H.R. 8287, H.R. 8068, H.R. 7925, H.R. 8870, Sept. 3, 1919-Nov. 12, 1919 , Parts 23-43,
* 1996 , ,
(chiefly, in the plural) primitive structure resembling a long shed or barn for (usually temporary) housing or other purposes
(chiefly, in the plural) any very plain, monotonous, or ugly large building
(US, regional) A movable roof sliding on four posts, to cover hay, straw, etc.
(Ireland, colloquial, usually, in the plural) A police station.
To house military personnel; to quarter.
* 1825 , , The Republican , Volume 11,
To live in barracks.
(British) To jeer and heckle; to attempt to disconcert by verbal means.
* 1934 , , Herbert Chapman on Football ,
* 2006 , Ramsay Burt, Judson Dance Theater: Performative traces ,
* 2009 , , The Heart of the Game ,
(Australia, New Zealand, intransitive) To cheer for a team; to jeer at the opposition team or at the umpire (after an adverse decision).
* 1988 , J. A. Mangan (editor), Pleasure, Profit, Proselytism: British Culture and Sport at Home and Abroad 1700-1914 ,
* 2009 , Roger Averill, Boy He Cry: An Island Odyssey ,
* 2010 , John Cash, Joy Damousi, Footy Passions ,
an enclosure within which workers, prisoners, or soldiers are confined
a group of buildings situated close together, e.g. for a school or block of offices
composed of elements; not simple
* I. Watts
(music) An octave higher than originally (i.e. a compound major second is equivalent to a major ninth).
Anything made by combining several things.
(chemistry, dated) A substance made from any combination elements.
(chemistry) A substance formed by chemical union of two or more ingredients in definite proportions by weight.
(linguistics) A lexeme that consists of more than one stem; compound word; for example (laptop), formed from (lap) and (top).
To form (a resulting mixture) by combining different elements, ingredients, or parts.
* Sir Walter Scott
To assemble (ingredients) into a whole; to combine, mix, or unite.
* Addison
To modify or change by combination with some other thing or part; to mingle with something else.
* Shakespeare
(legal) To settle by agreeing on less than the claim, or on different terms than those stipulated.
To settle amicably; to adjust by agreement; to compromise.
* Shakespeare
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.
* Shakespeare
* Clarendon
* R. Carew
* Hudibras
(obsolete) To compose; to constitute.
* Shakespeare
To worsen a situation or thing state
* New Family Structure Study
As a proper noun barrack
is (male).As a noun compound is
an enclosure within which workers, prisoners, or soldiers are confined or compound can be anything made by combining several things.As an adjective compound is
composed of elements; not simple.As a verb compound is
to form (a resulting mixture) by combining different elements, ingredients, or parts.barrack
English
Etymology 1
From (etyl) baraque; from (etyl) barraca.Noun
(en noun)page 67,
- Before the gates of Bari, he lodged in a miserable hut or barrack , composed of dry branches, and thatched with straw; a perilous station, on all sides open to the inclemency of the winter and the spears of the enemy.
page 1956,
- How do you distinguish between the disciplinary barracks' and the penitentiary? Where are the disciplinary ' barracks ?
page 129,
- I know the barracks at the training camp out on the moors.
Verb
(en verb)page 276,
- Where the men were barracked' alone, unnatural crime prevailed : where the women were ' barracked , contrivances were made to render such a place a brothel.
Etymology 2
Verb
(en verb)page 140,
- I knew that he had been barracked at times, but I did not realise that he was so sensitive.
page 192,
- Some people stopped concentrating on the piece altogether, some started barracking and heckling, while others began chatting to one another.
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- Its basic tenet was to say that if those Arsenal supporters who barracked' the board at home games could do any better, let them come forward, put some money in the club, and have a go at being directors themselves. In short, ‘Put up or shut up’, which, of course, only encouraged Johnny and One-armed Lou to heckle the Arsenal board even more. Dear old Dennis, he had no idea the ' barracking he and his fellow Arsenal directors suffered at every home game came from Spurs supporters.
page 266,
- The only really unique aspect of Australian barracking is its idiom, the distinctive language and humour involved.
page 115,
- I had by then explained to him my custom of occasionally listening to Australian Rules Football on our shortwave radio of a Saturday afternoon; how, despite my barracking for Essendon, I thought a player from Geelong, Gary Ablett, the best I had ever seen.
page 75,
- ‘So to me barracking' for the footy I identified with my father, although nobody ' barracked for Essendon.’
Synonyms
* (jeer and heckle) badger, jeer, tease, make fun of * (cheer) cheer, root for (US)compound
English
(wikipedia compound)Etymology 1
Possibly from (etyl) kampong, .Noun
(en noun)Synonyms
* gaol/jail, pen, pound, prisonEtymology 2
From (etyl) compounen, from (etyl) componre, .Adjective
(-)- a compound word
- Compound substances are made up of two or more simple substances.
Synonyms
* (composed of elements) compositeAntonyms
* (composed of elements) simpleDerived terms
* compound chocolate * compound interestNoun
(en noun)Synonyms
* (anything made by combining several things) amalgam, blend, combination, composite, mix, mixture * (word) compound wordHyponyms
* (word) closed compound * (word) hyphenated compound * (word) open compoundVerb
(en verb)- to compound a medicine
- incapacitating him from successfully compounding a tale of this sort
- We have the power of altering and compounding those images into all the varieties of picture.
- Only compound me with forgotten dust.
- to compound a debt
- I pray, my lords, let me compound this strife.
- Here's a fellow will help you to-morrow; compound with him by the year.
- They were at last glad to compound for his bare commitment to the Tower.
- Cornwall compounded to furnish ten oxen after Michaelmas for thirty pounds.
- Compound for sins they are inclined to / By damning those they have no mind to.
- his pomp and all what state compounds
- This problem is compounded when these studies compare data from the small convenience samples of gay parenting with data on heterosexual parenting
