Inn vs Compound - What's the difference?
inn | compound |
Any establishment where travellers can procure lodging, food, and drink.
* Washington Irving
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A tavern.
One of the colleges (societies or buildings) in London, for students of the law barristers.
(UK, dated) The town residence of a nobleman or distinguished person.
(obsolete) A place of shelter; hence, dwelling; habitation; residence; abode.
* Spenser
(obsolete) To house; to lodge.
(obsolete) To take lodging; to lodge.
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 an initialism inn
is international nonproprietary name - the official non-proprietary or generic name given to a pharmaceutical substance, as designated by the world health organization (who).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.inn
English
Noun
(wikipedia inn) (en noun)- the miserable fare and miserable lodgment of a provincial inn
- the Inns''' of Court; the '''Inns''' of Chancery; Serjeants' '''Inns
- Leicester Inn
- (Chaucer)
- Therefore with me ye may take up your inn / For this same night.
Synonyms
* See alsoSee also
* bed and breakfast * guesthouse * hostel * hotel * motelVerb
(en verb)- (Chaucer)
- (Addison)
Anagrams
* English terms with homophones ----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
