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Alloy vs. Compound — What's the Difference?

Alloy vs. Compound — What's the Difference?

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Alloy

An alloy is an admixture of metals, or a metal combined with one or more other elements. For example, combining the metallic elements gold and copper produces red gold, gold and silver becomes white gold, and silver combined with copper produces sterling silver.

Compound

To combine so as to form a whole; mix
Tin was often compounded with lead to make pewter.

Alloy

A metallic solid or liquid that is composed of a homogeneous mixture of two or more metals or of metals and nonmetal or metalloid elements, usually for the purpose of imparting or increasing specific characteristics or properties
Brass is an alloy of zinc and copper.

Compound

To produce or create by combining two or more ingredients or parts; compose or make up
Pharmacists compounding prescriptions.

Alloy

A mixture; an amalgam
"Television news has ... always been an alloy of journalism and show business" (Bill Moyers).
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Compound

To settle (a debt, for example) by agreeing on an amount less than the claim; adjust.

Alloy

The relative degree of mixture with a base metal; fineness.

Compound

To compute (interest) on the principal and accrued interest.

Alloy

Something added that lowers value or purity.

Compound

To add to or intensify so as to make worse
"The university authorities ... compounded their crime in dismissing [the professor] by denying that their action ... reflected any abridgment of academic freedom" (John Kenneth Galbraith).

Alloy

To combine (metals) to form an alloy.

Compound

To make worse by being an additional or intensifying factor
High winds compounded the difficulties of the firefighters.

Alloy

To combine; mix
Idealism that was alloyed with political skill.

Compound

To combine in or form a compound.

Alloy

To debase by the addition of an inferior element.

Compound

To come to terms; agree.

Alloy

A metal that is a combination of two or more elements, at least one of which is a metal.

Compound

Consisting of two or more substances, ingredients, elements, or parts.

Alloy

(archaic) A metal of lesser value, mixed with a metal of greater value.
Gold without alloy

Compound

(Botany) Composed of more than one part
A compound pistil.

Alloy

An admixture; something added which stains, taints etc.

Compound

A combination of two or more elements or parts.

Alloy

(figurative) Fusion, marriage, combination.

Compound

(Linguistics) A word that consists either of two or more elements that are independent words, such as loudspeaker, self-portrait, or high school, or of specially modified combining forms of words, such as Greek philosophia, from philo-, "loving," and sophia, "wisdom."

Alloy

To mix or combine; often used of metals.

Compound

(Chemistry) A pure, macroscopically homogeneous substance consisting of atoms or ions of two or more different elements in definite proportions that cannot be separated by physical means. A compound usually has properties unlike those of its constituent elements.

Alloy

To reduce the purity of by mixing with a less valuable substance.
To alloy gold with silver or copper, or silver with copper

Compound

A building or buildings, especially a residence or group of residences, set off and enclosed by a barrier.

Alloy

(figurative) To impair or debase by mixture.
To alloy pleasure with misfortunes

Compound

An enclosed area used for confining prisoners of war.

Alloy

Any combination or compound of metals fused together; a mixture of metals; for example, brass, which is an alloy of copper and zinc. But when mercury is one of the metals, the compound is called an amalgam.

Compound

An enclosure within which workers, prisoners, or soldiers are confined.

Alloy

The quality, or comparative purity, of gold or silver; fineness.

Compound

An enclosure for secure storage.

Alloy

A baser metal mixed with a finer.
Fine silver is silver without the mixture of any baser metal. Alloy is baser metal mixed with it.

Compound

A group of buildings situated close together, e.g. for a school or block of offices.

Alloy

Admixture of anything which lessens the value or detracts from; as, no happiness is without alloy.

Compound

Anything made by combining several things.

Alloy

To reduce the purity of by mixing with a less valuable substance; as, to alloy gold with silver or copper, or silver with copper.

Compound

(chemistry) A substance formed by chemical bonding of two or more elements in definite proportions by weight.

Alloy

To mix, as metals, so as to form a compound.

Compound

A substance made from any combination of ingredients.

Alloy

To abate, impair, or debase by mixture; to allay; as, to alloy pleasure with misfortunes.

Compound

(linguistics) A lexeme that consists of more than one stem.

Alloy

To form a metallic compound.
Gold and iron alloy with ease.

Compound

(linguistics) A lexeme that consists of more than one stem or an affix, e.g. bookshop, high school or non-standard.

Alloy

A mixture containing two or more metallic elements or metallic and nonmetallic elements usually fused together or dissolving into each other when molten;
Brass is an alloy of zinc and copper

Compound

(rail) A compound locomotive, a steam locomotive with both high-pressure and low-pressure cylinders.

Alloy

The state of impairing the quality or reducing the value of something

Compound

Composed of elements; not simple.
A compound word

Alloy

Lower in value by increasing the base-metal content

Compound

(math) Dealing with numbers of various denominations of quantity, or with processes more complex than the simple process.
Compound addition
Compound proportion

Alloy

Make an alloy of

Compound

(music) An octave higher than originally (i.e. a compound major second is equivalent to a major ninth).

Compound

(transitive) To form (a resulting mixture) by combining different elements, ingredients, or parts; to mingle with something else.
To compound a medicine

Compound

To settle by agreeing on less than the claim, or on different terms than those stipulated.
To compound a debt

Compound

(transitive) To settle amicably; to adjust by agreement.

Compound

(intransitive) To come to terms of agreement; to settle by a compromise.
To compound with someone / for something

Compound

To compose; to constitute.

Compound

To increase in value with interest, where the interest is earned on both the principal sum and prior earned interest.

Compound

To worsen a situation.

Compound

Of a horse: to fail to maintain speed.

Compound

In the East Indies, an inclosure containing a house, outbuildings, etc.

Compound

That which is compounded or formed by the union or mixture of elements ingredients, or parts; a combination of simples; a compound word; the result of composition.
Rare compound of oddity, frolic, and fun.
When the word "bishopric" was first made, it was made as a compound.

Compound

A union of two or more ingredients in definite proportions by weight, so combined as to form a distinct substance; as, water is a compound of oxygen and hydrogen.

Compound

To form or make by combining different elements, ingredients, or parts; as, to compound a medicine.
Incapacitating him from successfully compounding a tale of this sort.

Compound

To put together, as elements, ingredients, or parts, in order to form a whole; to combine, mix, or unite.
We have the power of altering and compounding those images into all the varieties of picture.

Compound

To modify or change by combination with some other thing or part; to mingle with something else.
Only compound me with forgotten dust.

Compound

To compose; to constitute.
His pomp and all what state compounds.

Compound

To settle amicably; to adjust by agreement; to compromise; to discharge from obligation upon terms different from those which were stipulated; as, to compound a debt.
I pray, my lords, let me compound this strife.

Compound

To effect a composition; 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.
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 toBy damning those they have no mind to.

Compound

Composed of two or more elements, ingredients, parts; produced by the union of several ingredients, parts, or things; composite; as, a compound word.
Compound substances are made up of two or more simple substances.

Compound

(chemistry) a substance formed by chemical union of two or more elements or ingredients in definite proportion by weight

Compound

A whole formed by a union of two or more elements or parts

Compound

An enclosure of residences and other building (especially in the Orient)

Compound

Make more intense, stronger, or more marked;
The efforts were intensified
Her rudeness intensified his dislike for her
Potsmokers claim it heightens their awareness
This event only deepened my convictions

Compound

Put or add together;
Combine resources

Compound

Calculate principal and interest

Compound

Create by mixing or combining

Compound

Combine so as to form a whole; mix;
Compound the ingredients

Compound

Of leaf shapes; of leaves composed of several similar parts or lobes

Compound

Consisting of two or more substances or ingredients or elements or parts;
Soap is a compound substance
Housetop is a compound word
A blackberry is a compound fruit

Compound

Composed of many distinct individuals united to form a whole or colony;
Coral is a colonial organism

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