Compound vs. Mansion — What's the Difference?

To combine so as to form a whole; mix

A mansion is a large dwelling house. The word itself derives through Old French from the Latin word mansio "dwelling", an abstract noun derived from the verb manere "to dwell".

To produce or create by combining two or more ingredients or parts; compose or make up

A large, impressive house.

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

A large stately house.

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

A manor house.

To add to or intensify so as to make worse

A dwelling; an abode.

To make worse by being an additional or intensifying factor

A separate dwelling in a large house or structure.

To combine in or form a compound.

See house.

To come to terms; agree.

Any one of the 28 divisions of the moon's monthly path.

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

A large house or building, usually built for the wealthy.

(Botany) Composed of more than one part

(UK) A luxurious flat (apartment).

A combination of two or more elements or parts.

An apartment building.

(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."

(obsolete) A house provided for a clergyman; a manse.

(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.

(obsolete) A stopping-place during a journey; a stage.

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

(historical) An astrological house; a station of the moon.

An enclosed area used for confining prisoners of war.

(Chinese astronomy) One of twenty-eight sections of the sky.

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

An individual habitation or apartment within a large house or group of buildings. (Now chiefly in allusion to John 14:2.)

An enclosure for secure storage.

Any of the branches of the Rastafari movement.

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

A dwelling place, - whether a part or whole of a house or other shelter.

Anything made by combining several things.

The house of the lord of a manor; a manor house; hence: Any house of considerable size or pretension.

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

A twelfth part of the heavens; a house. See 1st House, 8.

A substance made from any combination of ingredients.

The place in the heavens occupied each day by the moon in its monthly revolution.

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

To dwell; to reside.

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

(astrology) one of 12 equal areas into which the zodiac is divided

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

A large and imposing house

Composed of elements; not simple.

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

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

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

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

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

(intransitive) To come to terms of agreement; to settle by a compromise.

To compose; to constitute.

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

To worsen a situation.

Of a horse: to fail to maintain speed.

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

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.

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.

To form or make by combining different elements, ingredients, or parts; as, to compound a medicine.

To put together, as elements, ingredients, or parts, in order to form a whole; to combine, mix, or unite.

To modify or change by combination with some other thing or part; to mingle with something else.

To compose; to constitute.

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.

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.

Composed of two or more elements, ingredients, parts; produced by the union of several ingredients, parts, or things; composite; as, a compound word.

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

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

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

Make more intense, stronger, or more marked;

Put or add together;

Calculate principal and interest

Create by mixing or combining

Combine so as to form a whole; mix;

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

Consisting of two or more substances or ingredients or elements or parts;

Composed of many distinct individuals united to form a whole or colony;