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{
"term": "compound",
"partOfSpeech": "noun",
"academic": true,
"ox5000": true,
"cefr": "b2",
"definitions": [
{
"senseNumber": 1,
"definition": "a thing consisting of two or more separate things combined together",
"cefr": "b2",
"examples": [
{
"text": "compounds derived from rainforest plants"
},
{
"text": "The air smelled like a compound of diesel and petrol fumes."
}
]
},
{
"senseNumber": 2,
"definition": "a substance formed by a chemical reaction of two or more elements in fixed amounts relative to each other",
"labels": "(chemistry)",
"cefr": "b2",
"examples": [
{
"text": "Common salt is a compound of sodium and chlorine."
},
{
"text": "Dalton believed that the simplest compound of two elements must have one atom of each."
},
{
"text": "Scientists have produced a new chemical compound."
},
{
"text": "a compound of oxygen and hydrogen"
},
{
"text": "Proteins and fats are organic compounds."
}
],
"topics": ["Physics and chemistry"],
"collocations": {
"adjective": ["chemical", "inorganic", "organic"],
"verb + compound": ["form", "make", "produce"],
"compound + verb": [
"contain something",
"be derived from something",
"be found in something"
],
"preposition": ["compound of"]
}
},
{
"senseNumber": 3,
"definition": "a noun, an adjective or a verb made of two or more words or parts of words, written as one or more words, or joined by a hyphen. Travel agent, dark-haired and bathroom are all compounds.",
"labels": "(grammar)",
"cefr": "b2",
"examples": [
{
"text": "Most **compound nouns** form their plurals in the usual way."
}
],
"topics": ["Language"]
},
{
"senseNumber": 4,
"definition": "an area surrounded by a fence or wall in which a factory or other group of buildings stands",
"examples": [
{
"text": "life inside the prison compound"
},
{
"text": "Police are investigating a raid on a secure compound."
},
{
"text": "Angry crowds stormed the presidential palace compound."
}
],
"collocations": {
"adjective": ["military", "palace", "prison"],
"preposition": ["in a/the compound", "inside a/the compound"]
}
}
],
"pronunciations": {
"uk": [
{
"pronunciation": "/ˈkɒmpaʊnd/",
"audio": "co/compound/compound__gb_1.mp3"
}
],
"us": [
{
"pronunciation": "/ˈkɑːmpaʊnd/",
"audio": "co/compound/compound__us_1.mp3"
}
]
},
"wordOrigin": "noun senses 1 to 3 late Middle English compoune (verb), from Old French compoun-, present tense stem of compondre, from Latin componere ‘put together’. The final -d was added in the 16th cent. on the pattern of expound and propound. noun sense 4 late 17th cent. (referring to such an area in SE Asia): from Portuguese campon or Dutch kampoeng, from Malay kampong ‘enclosure, hamlet’."
}