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Combining   /kəmbˈaɪnɪŋ/   Listen
Combining

noun
1.
An occurrence that results in things being united.  Synonym: combine.
2.
The act of combining things to form a new whole.  Synonyms: combination, compounding.


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.



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— Rolling Stones • O. Henry
... American phraseology, he is in doctrine what we should call a moderate New School man. He has been a most industrious writer; one of his principal works is his Commentary on the New Testament, in several volumes; a work most admirably adapted for popular use, combining practical devotion with critical accuracy to an uncommon degree. He has also published a work on the Evidences of Christianity, in which he sets forth some evidences of the genuineness of the gospel narrative, which ...
— Sunny Memories of Foreign Lands V2 • Harriet Beecher Stowe
... explanation would seem to be rather the absence than the presence of corruption. The English borough was not stimulated by any pressure from a central government; nor was it a semi-independent body in which every citizen had the strongest motives for combining to support its independence against neighbouring towns or invading nobles. The lower classes were ignorant, and probably would be rather hostile than favourable to any such modest interference with dirt and disorder as would commend themselves to the officials. Naturally, power was left ...
— The English Utilitarians, Volume I. • Leslie Stephen
... the same, but yet by combining their forces Become transformed into men and the numberless beings besides. These are now joined into one, love binding the many together, Now once again they are scattered, dispersing ...
— Christianity As A Mystical Fact - And The Mysteries of Antiquity • Rudolf Steiner
... that He shall be born holy. For we, though we are made holy, yet are not born holy, because by the mere condition of a corruptible nature we are tied . . . But He alone is truly born holy who . . . was not conceived by the combining of ...
— Summa Theologica, Part III (Tertia Pars) - From the Complete American Edition • Thomas Aquinas


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