compo
See also: Compo
English edit
Pronunciation edit
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compo (countable and uncountable, plural compos)
- Abbreviation of compensation.
- Abbreviation of composition.
- (military, slang, historical, attributive) Compo ration.
- 1992, Martin Walker, Oxford Symposium on Food and Cookery 1991: Public Eating:
- Sometimes supplies of food might be a little short in certain areas but attempts were made to ensure that all men had some rations, compo and fresh, available to them.
- A mixture of whiting, resin, and glue for ornamenting walls and cornices.
- Lime cement mortar.
- Lime-cement mortar is also known as composition or "compo" mortar, guarded or gauged mortar. The mix contains, lime, cement and sand in proportions depending on the requirements of the work.
- (cricket) A type of practice cricket ball made of cork and rubber.
- (military, slang, historical, attributive) Compo ration.
- Abbreviation of competition.
- 2013, Cynthia Chris, David A. Gerstner, Media Authorship, page 162:
- Some Demosceners claim, however, that the Demoscene is no longer a vital community, and that commercial sponsors of compos (competitions) have corrupted the community's original ethos.
Derived terms edit
Chinese edit
Etymology edit
From English composition.
Pronunciation edit
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compo
- (Hong Kong Cantonese) composition (written essay) (especially in language exams)
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Finnish edit
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compo
- Alternative form of kompo
Declension edit
Inflection of compo (Kotus type 1/valo, no gradation) | ||||
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nominative | compo | compot | ||
genitive | compon | compojen | ||
partitive | compoa | compoja | ||
illative | compoon | compoihin | ||
singular | plural | |||
nominative | compo | compot | ||
accusative | nom. | compo | compot | |
gen. | compon | |||
genitive | compon | compojen | ||
partitive | compoa | compoja | ||
inessive | compossa | compoissa | ||
elative | composta | compoista | ||
illative | compoon | compoihin | ||
adessive | compolla | compoilla | ||
ablative | compolta | compoilta | ||
allative | compolle | compoille | ||
essive | compona | compoina | ||
translative | compoksi | compoiksi | ||
abessive | compotta | compoitta | ||
instructive | — | compoin | ||
comitative | See the possessive forms below. |
French edit
Etymology edit
Shortening of composition.
Pronunciation edit
Noun edit
compo f (plural compos)
Further reading edit
- “compo”, in Trésor de la langue française informatisé [Digitized Treasury of the French Language], 2012.