I. noun
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compound an error (= make it worse )
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He refused to listen to our advice, which compounded the error.
compound fracture
compound interest
compound/exacerbate a problem formal (= make it worse )
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The country’s economic problems are compounded by its ageing population.
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■ ADJECTIVE
chemical
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Their oxygen is kept not as a gas, but as a chemical compound .
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Vent water is enriched in reduced chemical compounds , especially hydrogen sulfide.
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The inert gases are so called because they do not readily form chemical compounds .
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In nature, the elements form stable chemical compounds with each other, usually involving oxygen.
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The criminals also sold a chemical compound they claimed the law mandated to make made wheelchair access ramps and floors slip resistant.
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About a hundred chemical compounds were continuously measured in the air, soil, and water throughout the whole structure.
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Like all chemical compounds , minerals are homogeneous: A mineral can not be separated mechanically into different substances.
inorganic
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Some inorganic compounds with covalent characteristics also have chain structures.
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Bones and teeth are made from quite simple inorganic compounds which in their normal crystalline and glassy forms are very brittle.
organic
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Activated carbon has the ability to remove a wide variety of organic compounds from water and wastewater, even in trace quantities.
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Oil, gas, and coal, composed of organic carbon compounds , are found as economic deposits in sedimentary rocks.
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Amines are a series of organic compounds related to ammonia.
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Paints traditionally were made with volatile organic compounds , which can pollute indoor and outdoor air.
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Paints today are getting safer as companies remove volatile organic compounds , but you still need to be careful.
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Volatile organic compounds come from a wide variety of sources, both man-made and natural.
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Having observed organic compounds in meteorites, these researchers believe the seeds of life may have been carried to earth preformed.
simple
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Among numerous negative results he found some quite simple compounds , aldehydes and fatty acids, which stimulated oxygen uptake.
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They present convex outlines in plan whether they are simple or compound deltas, composed virtually of a series of sub-deltas.
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New routes to simple compounds Chemists are hunting new ways to create basic compounds from simple substances such as synthesis gas.
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Table 4.22 gives examples of how valencies can be used to find the formulae of simple compounds .
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Thus all simple and all compound or complex subjects are listed.
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Bones and teeth are made from quite simple inorganic compounds which in their normal crystalline and glassy forms are very brittle.
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First, just as with the previous two categories, a doubt of this kind may well be simple or compound .
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If all subjects, simple or compound , are listed in schedules, then the list becomes very long.
volatile
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Industrial chemicals such as volatile organochlorine compounds can also find their way into groundwater, with serious implications for its quality.
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Paints traditionally were made with volatile organic compounds , which can pollute indoor and outdoor air.
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This last disadvantage can have serious cost and technology implications if the number and toxicity of the volatile compounds are high.
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Paints today are getting safer as companies remove volatile organic compounds , but you still need to be careful.
■ NOUN
fracture
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Case No. 8: 40 year-old woman sustained crushing compound fracture of two fingers in an automobile accident.
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Ward suffered a compound fracture of the left leg in Good Friday's derby match at Wigan.
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It is so-called because of the compound fracture of the leg which Pott himself suffered as the result of an accident in 1756.
interest
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The main problem with the simple yield to maturity, though, is that it does not take into account compound interest .
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The discounting calculation is the reverse of the compound interest calculation.
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The wolfish landlord used this chance to demand the usurious compound interest of 50% for three years.
palace
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She knew the meeting place; the pool in the little park on the south side of the palace compound .
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The family also live in the palace compound .
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It occurred to him as he walked that he had not seen Taheb since their visit to the palace compound .
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By the eighth hour, all the Medjays sent to the palace compound were back.
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It was a place for the very rich, indirectly managed by the priesthood, within the walls of the palace compound .
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Merymose clearly had orders to ignore any trail that led to the palace compound .
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He was some one from the palace compound .
■ VERB
contain
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Susceptible people experience flushing and feel unwell when they eat foods containing these compounds .
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They tried their idea out on a piece of glass which they dipped into a solution containing their compound .
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Yet more than 3,000 strains of bacteria have already been isolated, and may potentially contain useful new compounds .
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For the probabilistic syntax system compounds are troublesome since the window may not contain all of the compound.
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The work provided the foundation for the vaginal use of gels containing organic mercurial compounds as aids to contraception.
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One in every four purchases from your local chemist contains compounds derived from rainforest species.
form
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Inert gases such as helium have zero valencies. they do not normally form compounds .
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In nature, the elements form stable chemical compounds with each other, usually involving oxygen.
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The substrate and enzyme form an intermediate compound which is known as the enzyme-substrate complex.
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Rather than build the compound tree from the actual strings that form the compound, the tree is built from the root-indices.
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The cyanide forms a compound with the gold which can then be separated from the other wastes.
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They have an extraordinary capability to taint food where they form compounds with fats which are detectable in parts per billion.
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The inert gases are so called because they do not readily form chemical compounds .
produce
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However, there is little sign that it will ever produce compounds on the scale required by the heavy organic chemicals industry.
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It has produced a 25 percent compound growth in earnings per share in the last five years.
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Free radicals may also play a part in producing organic compounds with metallic properties.
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It also has the facility to produce compound reports.
use
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After being demolished and outgunned by some indifferent players, he attempted to use the new compounds , but to no avail.
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The results can be seen in Appendix C which shows the improved recognition when using information about compounds and phrases.
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I was very surprised when, following a phosphate surge in my tapwater, I used a phosphate-removing compound in my filter.
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Don't use jointing compound unless recommended Tighten the compression joints using a spanner at either end.
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They are left a few millimetres thick and lapped flat or polished, using a lapping compound with paraffin oil lubricant.
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There are a number of advantages to be gained from using an index-based compound tree.
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Do not use jointing compound on plastic cisterns - it can soften and crack them.
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an organic compound
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Marines protect the U.S. Embassy compound .
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Seal all wall joints with joint compound and tape.
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Sulfur dioxide is a compound of sulfur and oxygen.
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Sulphur dioxide and carbon dioxide are two common chemical compounds.
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The soil was tested to make sure that it was free from ammonia or any other nitrogen compound .
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A binary compound contains two elements.
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Freebase is a compound that can be inhaled or smoked.
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It is probably very rare for consciousness to scan every component of a particular compound of limitation.
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She knew the meeting place; the pool in the little park on the south side of the palace compound .
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The second way was to find a compound which would compete for or block the inactivating enzyme.
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The Special Forces adviser compound in Pleiku had showers.
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The upshot: A decade later, this compound and some other persistent pesticides were banished.
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Then cover the filler wood with a thin layer of joint compound and paper joint-compound tape.
II. verb
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difficulty
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She felt a bit like some one caught in quicksand, whose every turn only succeeded in further compounding the difficulties .
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But Brandeis' status as a hybrid of an elite liberal arts college and a small research university compounds its difficulty .
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These shortcomings are clearly compounded by the difficulty of creating new titles.
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Paradoxically, the relative unimportance of money in Soviet society compounds these difficulties .
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To compound the difficulties , the track itself is a figure-of-eight, with a dizzying number of twists and turns.
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A serious decline of leadership in local affairs compounds the difficulty .
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Although these task demands can be identified, they may interact or compound the difficulty in particular tables.
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Their effect was to compound the difficulty the liberal leadership had in bringing pressure for reform to bear upon the regime.
error
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A concatenation of events particularly damaging Mrs Thatcher was subsequently compounded by errors of tactics and organisation by those running her campaign.
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Kennelly refused to call off the raids, and he was lofty about it, which was compounding his error .
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To draw attention to that would compound the woman's error .
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Umpiring error all too often merely compounds cricketing error.
fact
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His feelings of restlessness were compounded by the fact that his own work seemed to be slipping away from him.
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All of these problems were compounded by the fact that few settlers had any experience with irrigation farming-nor were they required to.
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Such difficulty is compounded by the fact that Britten wrote the part of Grimes with Peter Pears in mind.
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This practical problem is compounded by the fact that we can not clearly see features that are located far from the equator.
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The problem is compounded by the fact that the term means different things to different people.
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The problems of the low paid are further compounded by the fact that their jobs are also frequently less secure.
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Uncertainty and scientific dispute is compounded by the fact that radioactive contamination is different from many other types of pollution.
fear
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Documentaries still seek the sensational and thus help to compound the fears of the public about mental handicap hospitals.
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Not understanding what the police were saying compounded my fear .
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It is a tangle of historic forces, compounded by present-day fear and pride and vexed by world ideological powers.
problem
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To compound the problem , drizzle and low cloud was firmly entrenched in the area.
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But this time the results have only compounded and exacerbated the problems of the Republican Party.
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What is more, the remedy advised is likely to compound the problem .
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But in this case, the director of field operations, abetted by other headquarters personnel, compounded the problem .
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Prisoners' confinement and lack of contact with the outside world compound their problems .
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You risk hugely compounding the problem by getting caught in half-truths.
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Land fragmentation, as a result of inheritance laws and social custom, compounds the widespread problem of small farm size.
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To compound the problem , a drop in battery power corrupted the software programme which controlled the radio itself.
situation
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Once the fish is affected, other pathogens, bacteria as well as protozoal parasites and fungi, will compound the overall situation .
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My Great Britain international all-in-one compounded the situation .
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Norman Lamont compounded the situation by ruling out an early cut in interest rates.
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John and Val's domestic problems were compounded by stress at work.
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My bank compounds interest quarterly.
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Scientists are able to compound an increasing number of substances to produce new drugs.
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Strong nationalist sentiment is compounding the deep political problems faced by the President.
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The country's economic woes were compounded by a seven-year civil war.
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The effects of the East Coast snows this year were compounded by severe storms in the spring.
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Brian was lost in booze and drugs, compounded by paranoia and a deep sense of failure.
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But in this case, the director of field operations, abetted by other headquarters personnel, compounded the problem.
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It is rather as a precaution against compounding one media mistake with another.
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Mr Singh's letter compounded this.
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Suspicions raised by the Whitewater deal are compounded by two other events.
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This is compounded by point 2 to 4 following. 2.
III. adjective
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■ NOUN
interest
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But the precise figure would be 10.7 per cent because of the effect of compound interest .
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The arithmetic of compound interest is such that delays in making contributions to trust funds tend to be quite costly.
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Present-value calculations provide a simple means of quantifying this time value of money by using the reciprocal of the compound interest formula.
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The present-value formula may be derived directly from the compound interest formula.
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Calculators and Personal Computers Very few people actually use compound interest and present-value tables to solve time value of money problems.
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Even relatively inexpensive hand-held calculators solve most compound interest and present-value problems quickly and easily.
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As previously indicated, the present-value factors are nothing more than the reciprocal of the compound interest factors introduced earlier.
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Trade deficits need to be financed and it is simply impossible to borrow enough to keep up with compound interest .
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But the precise figure would be 10.7 per cent because of the effect of compound interest.
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First, insects have compound eyes consisting of up to several thousand optical units called ommatidia, each with a single lens.
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The present-value formula may be derived directly from the compound interest formula.