Difference between Compound and Combine

What is the difference between Compound and Combine?

Compound as a noun is an enclosure within which workers, prisoners, or soldiers are confined while Combine as a noun is a short form for combine harvester.

Compound

Part of speech: noun

Definition: an enclosure within which workers, prisoners, or soldiers are confined a group of buildings situated close together, eg. for a school or block of offices anything made by combining several things a substance made from the chemical combination of elements A lexeme that consists of more than one stem; for example , formed from and .

Part of speech: adjective

Definition: composed of elements; not simple

Part of speech: verb

Definition: to come together to come to terms of agreement to put together to add to to settle by agreeing on less than the claim

Example sentence: Public opinion is a compound of folly, weakness, prejudice, wrong feeling, right feeling, obstinacy, and newspaper paragraphs.

Combine

Part of speech: noun

Definition: A short form for combine harvester.A concern, consortium or syndicate.

Part of speech: verb

Definition: to bring (two or more things or activities) together; to uniteto have two or more things or properties that function together

Example sentence: We combine fiscal responsibility with social responsibility.

We hope you now know whether to use Compound or Combine in your sentence.

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