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Realm vs Compounder - What's the difference?

realm | compounder |

As nouns the difference between realm and compounder

is that realm is an abstract sphere of influence, real or imagined while compounder is a person who compounds (mixes ingredients, and tests the result).

realm

English

Noun

(en noun)
  • An abstract sphere of influence, real or imagined.
  • * 1907 , Tada Kanai, translated by Arthur Lloyd, Seven Buddhist Sermons , ""
    • Why should we despise anything in the realm of Buddha?
  • * 2006 , Christian Neef, " Diary of a Collapsing Superpower", Spiegel Magazine , November 22,
    • At home in Moscow, Mikhail Sergeyevitch Gorbachev, who had launched a campaign to rejuvenate the Soviet realm  
  • * {{quote-magazine, date=2013-05-17
    • , author=George Monbiot, authorlink=George Monbiot , title=Money just makes the rich suffer , volume=188, issue=23, page=19 , magazine=(The Guardian Weekly) citation , passage=In order to grant the rich these pleasures, the social contract is reconfigured. […]  The public realm is privatised, the regulations restraining the ultra-wealthy and the companies they control are abandoned, and Edwardian levels of inequality are almost fetishised.}}
  • The domain of a certain abstraction.
  • * 1922 , Judson Eber Conant,The Church The Schools and Evolution , "",
    • One thing more which the scientific man does is to accord primacy to that realm of truth which is primary in importance.
  • (formal, or, legal) A territory or state, as ruled by a specific power, and particularly those territories ruled by a king.
  • * 1874 , ,
    • And, of this island realm , he and his companion were the undisputed sovereigns.
  • * 1913 , Leslie Alexander Toke, Catholic Encyclopedia , "",
    • Then seeing his life was threatened he fled the realm and crossed over to Flanders,

    Synonyms

    * (A territory or state) country, land, kingdom * (A sphere of activity or influence) field, province

    Derived terms

    * abstract realm * Commonwealth realm * custom of the realm * Eastern Realm * experience realm * floristic realm * Ice Realm * in the realm of shades * Northern Realm * realm of banking * realm of fantasy * realm of the dead * realm of possibility * Snow Realm * Southern Realm * Western Realm

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    compounder

    English

    Noun

    (en noun)
  • A person who compounds (mixes ingredients, and tests the result)
    • a compounder of medicines
  • One who attempts to bring persons or parties to terms of agreement, or to accomplish ends by compromises.
  • * Burke
    • Compounder in politics.
  • One who compounds a debt, obligation, or crime.
  • * Hudibras
    • Religious houses made compounders / For the horrid actions of their founders.
  • (UK, archaic) One at a university who pays extraordinary fees for the degree he is to take.
  • (UK, historical) A Jacobite who favoured the restoration of (James II), on condition of a general amnesty and of guarantees for the security of the civil and ecclesiastical constitution of the realm.