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compound | image |

As adjectives the difference between compound and image

is that compound is composed of elements; not simple while image is figurative (of sense of term or discourse).

As verbs the difference between compound and image

is that compound is to form (a resulting mixture) by combining different elements, ingredients, or parts while image is .

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.

compound

English

(wikipedia compound)

Etymology 1

Possibly from (etyl) kampong, .

Noun

(en noun)
  • 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
    • Synonyms
    * gaol/jail, pen, pound, prison

    Etymology 2

    From (etyl) compounen, from (etyl) componre, .

    Adjective

    (-)
  • composed of elements; not simple
    • a compound word
  • * I. Watts
    • Compound substances are made up of two or more simple substances.
  • (music) An octave higher than originally (i.e. a compound major second is equivalent to a major ninth).
    • Synonyms
    * (composed of elements) composite
    Antonyms
    * (composed of elements) simple
    Derived terms
    * compound chocolate * compound interest

    Noun

    (en noun)
  • 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).
    • Synonyms
    * (anything made by combining several things) amalgam, blend, combination, composite, mix, mixture * (word) compound word
    Hyponyms
    * (word) closed compound * (word) hyphenated compound * (word) open compound

    Verb

    (en verb)
  • To form (a resulting mixture) by combining different elements, ingredients, or parts.
    • to compound a medicine
  • * Sir Walter Scott
    • incapacitating him from successfully compounding a tale of this sort
  • To assemble (ingredients) into a whole; to combine, mix, or unite.
  • * Addison
    • We have the power of altering and compounding those images into all the varieties of picture.
  • To modify or change by combination with some other thing or part; to mingle with something else.
  • * Shakespeare
    • Only compound me with forgotten dust.
  • (legal) To settle by agreeing on less than the claim, or on different terms than those stipulated.
    • to compound a debt
  • To settle amicably; to adjust by agreement; to compromise.
  • * Shakespeare
    • I pray, my lords, let me compound this strife.
  • 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
    • Here's a fellow will help you to-morrow; compound with him by the year.
  • * Clarendon
    • They were at last glad to compound for his bare commitment to the Tower.
  • * R. Carew
    • Cornwall compounded to furnish ten oxen after Michaelmas for thirty pounds.
  • * Hudibras
    • Compound for sins they are inclined to / By damning those they have no mind to.
  • (obsolete) To compose; to constitute.
  • * Shakespeare
    • his pomp and all what state compounds
  • To worsen a situation or thing state
  • * New Family Structure Study
    • This problem is compounded when these studies compare data from the small convenience samples of gay parenting with data on heterosexual parenting
    Synonyms
    * (to come to terms of agreement) agree * (to put together) assemble, blend, combine, join, join together, mix, put together, unite * (to add to) augment, increase * settle
    Derived terms
    * compoundable

    References

    External links

    * English heteronyms

    image

    English

    (wikipedia image)

    Noun

    (en noun)
  • An optical or other representation of a real object; a graphic; a picture.
    • The Bible forbids the worship of graven images .
  • * {{quote-magazine, date=2012-03
    • , author=, title=Pixels or Perish , volume=100, issue=2, page=106, magazine=(American Scientist) citation , passage=Drawings and pictures are more than mere ornaments in scientific discourse. Blackboard sketches, geological maps, diagrams of molecular structure, astronomical photographs, MRI images , the many varieties of statistical charts and graphs: These pictorial devices are indispensable tools for presenting evidence, for explaining a theory, for telling a story.}}
  • A mental picture of something not real or not present.
  • * {{quote-magazine, date=2013-08-03, volume=408, issue=8847, magazine=(The Economist)
    • , title= Revenge of the nerds , passage=Think of banking today and the image is of grey-suited men in towering skyscrapers. Its future, however, is being shaped in converted warehouses and funky offices in San Francisco, New York and London, where bright young things in jeans and T-shirts huddle around laptops, sipping lattes or munching on free food.}}
  • (computing) A file that contains all information needed to produce a live working copy. (see disk image, executable image and image copy)
    • Most game console emulators do not come with any ROM images for copyright reasons.
  • A characteristic of a person, group or company etc., style, manner of dress, how one is, or wishes to be, perceived by others.
  • (mathematics) Something mapped to by a function.
    • The number 6 is the image of 3 under ''f'' that is defined as f(x) = 2*x.
  • (mathematics) The subset of a codomain comprising those elements that are images of something.
    • The image of this step function is the set of integers.
  • (obsolete) Show; appearance; cast.
  • * Dryden
    • The face of things a frightful image bears.

    Synonyms

    * (representation) picture * (mental picture) idea * (something mapped to) value * (subset of the codomain) range

    Derived terms

    * imagery * image magic * inverse image * macroimage * mental image * microimage * mirror image * preimage * real image * reimage * spitting image * virtual image

    Related terms

    * imaginary * imaginable * imagination * imaginative * imagine

    Descendants

    * German: (l)

    Verb

    (imag)
  • To represent symbolically.
  • To reflect, .
  • * 1843 , (Thomas Carlyle), '', book 2, chapter 2, ''St. Edmundsbury :
    • we look into a pair of eyes deep as our own, imaging our own, but all unconscious of us; to whom we for the time are become as spirits and invisible!.
  • To create an image of.
  • * {{quote-magazine, year=2013, month=July-August, author= Fenella Saunders
    • , title= Tiny Lenses See the Big Picture, magazine=(American Scientist) , passage=The single-imaging optic of the mammalian eye offers some distinct visual advantages. Such lenses can take in photons from a wide range of angles, increasing light sensitivity. They also have high spatial resolution, resolving incoming images in minute detail.}}
  • (computing) To create a complete backup copy of a file system or other entity.

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