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Combine   /kˈɑmbaɪn/  /kəmbˈaɪn/   Listen
Combine

verb
(past & past part. combined; pres. part. combining)
1.
Have or possess in combination.  Synonym: unite.
2.
Put or add together.  Synonym: compound.
3.
Combine so as to form a whole; mix.  Synonym: compound.
4.
Add together from different sources.
5.
Join for a common purpose or in a common action.
6.
Gather in a mass, sum, or whole.  Synonym: aggregate.
7.
Mix together different elements.  Synonyms: blend, coalesce, commingle, conflate, flux, fuse, immix, meld, merge, mix.
noun
1.
Harvester that heads and threshes and cleans grain while moving across the field.
2.
A consortium of independent organizations formed to limit competition by controlling the production and distribution of a product or service.  Synonyms: cartel, corporate trust, trust.
3.
An occurrence that results in things being united.  Synonym: combining.



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"Combine" Quotes from Famous Books



... if my pink silk was too much. Something a little more austere, in the velvet or alpaca line, might have been more appropriate to the occasion. Still, there was a rosy brightness about my silk that had a tendency to give a glow of youthful thoughtlessness to intelligence, and combine an idea of ...
— Phemie Frost's Experiences • Ann S. Stephens
... halls, where the lights, the gowns, the jewels, the sparkling eyes, the natural beauty and the beauty of enamel, the vague perfumes, the low murmur of voices, the soft rustle of silks, the music of ringing gold, all combine to produce a picture and ensemble as beautiful as a mirage and as false. Nothing is real in Monte Carlo but the little pieces of gold and the passion to win them. The two renewed their tickets of admission and passed ...
— The Lure of the Mask • Harold MacGrath
... this view to beget offspring is to communicate to two pieces of protoplasm (which afterwards combine) certain rhythmic vibrations which, though too feeble to generate visible action until they receive accession of fresh similar rhythms from exterior objects, yet on receipt of such accession set the game of development ...
— The Note-Books of Samuel Butler • Samuel Butler
... those they rode openly. But the countryside could offer them nothing in the way of forage. Two armies had stripped it bare during the past few months. Sometimes foraging parties on opposite sides had been known to combine forces under a private truce, or had fought brisk, bitter skirmishes to decide which would collect the spoils. If there remained a hog or chicken still running loose, it certainly ...
— Ride Proud, Rebel! • Andre Alice Norton
... But it would be doing it extremely scant justice to allow any one to suppose that its attractions consist solely, or even mainly, in 'valuable thoughts' and expressions of sense, satire, and scholarship (to combine Wordsworth with Warrington). In lighter respects, in respects of form and movement, and it is absolutely impossible that he should have been ...
— Gryll Grange • Thomas Love Peacock


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