Combination
[kɒmbɪ'neɪʃ(ə)n] or [,kɑmbɪ'neʃən]
Definition
(noun.) the act of combining things to form a new whole.
(noun.) the act of arranging elements into specified groups without regard to order.
(noun.) a collection of things that have been combined; an assemblage of separate parts or qualities.
(noun.) an alliance of people or corporations or countries for a special purpose (formerly to achieve some antisocial end but now for general political or economic purposes).
(noun.) a group of people (often temporary) having a common purpose; 'they were a winning combination'.
(noun.) a sequence of numbers or letters that opens a combination lock; 'he forgot the combination to the safe'.
(noun.) a coordinated sequence of chess moves.
Typist: Rudy--From WordNet
Definition
(n.) The act or process of combining or uniting persons and things.
(n.) The result of combining or uniting; union of persons or things; esp. a union or alliance of persons or states to effect some purpose; -- usually in a bad sense.
(n.) The act or process of uniting by chemical affinity, by which substances unite with each other in definite proportions by weight to form distinct compounds.
(n.) The different arrangements of a number of objects, as letters, into groups.
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Synonyms and Synonymous
n. [1]. Union, conjunction, connection, association.[2]. Alliance, coalition, confederacy, league, complot, conspiracy, cabal.[3]. Mixture, compound, amalgamation.
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Synonyms and Antonyms
SYN:Union, association, consortment, concert, confederacy, alliance, league,coalition, cabal, synthesis, co-operation
ANT:Division, disunion, disruption, dissolution, dispersion, analysis, opposition,resistance, non-location, removal,
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Examples
- Speak up like a man, since you are a man, and tell us about yourself and this Combination. Charles Dickens. Hard Times.
- These revolutions require a rare combination of personal audacity and social patience. Walter Lippmann. A Preface to Politics.
- The art of manufacturing gems synthetically, that is, by the combination of chemical elements present in the real stone, has reached a high degree of success. Various. The Wonder Book of Knowledge.
- This was a combination of state library and state publishing upon a scale hitherto unheard of. H. G. Wells. The Outline of History_Being a Plain History of Life and Mankind.
- Did I feel like a dark combination of traitor and pickpocket when I thought of that girl? Charles Dickens. Our Mutual Friend.
- But, according to the success with which you put this and that together, you get a woman and a fish apart, or a Mermaid in combination. Charles Dickens. Our Mutual Friend.
- As boracic acid is but slightly soluble in water and other common solvents this combination with glycerine--which is also a useful agent in arresting the growth of germs--is peculiarly valuable. William K. David. Secrets of Wise Men, Chemists and Great Physicians.
- The Niagara Bridge is a combination of cast steel and iron. William Henry Doolittle. Inventions in the Century.
- Ordinarily a combination of products best serves the ends of the physician. Bertha M. Clark. General Science.
- The air, the movement in the court, the lapse of time, or the combination of these things recovers him. Charles Dickens. Bleak House.
- A combination of red and yellow will give orange. Bertha M. Clark. General Science.
- Upon my word, mother, I wish the old combination-laws were in force. Elizabeth Cleghorn Gaskell. North and South.
- We do something to the thing and then it does something to us in return: such is the peculiar combination. John Dewey. Democracy and Education.
- Dalton thus introduced into the study of chemical combination a very definite idea of quantitative relationship. Walter Libby. An Introduction to the History of Science.
- It was then only by a combination of talents that any of these three important inventions was enabled to achieve remarkable success. William Henry Doolittle. Inventions in the Century.
- Man was binding himself into new and larger and more efficient combinations indeed, but at a price. H. G. Wells. The Outline of History_Being a Plain History of Life and Mankind.
- By using combinations of two or more lenses of various kinds, it is possible to have an image of almost any desired size, and in practically any desired position. Bertha M. Clark. General Science.
- They entered into general combinations to eat no more lamb; and very few lambs were killed last year. Benjamin Franklin. Memoirs of Benjamin Franklin.
- The symbols are thus made by deviations from the straight line, of different lengths and of varied combinations. Frederick C. Bakewell. Great Facts.
- Thus there is practice in prompt making of new combinations with the focus of activity shifted to meet change in subject matter. John Dewey. Democracy and Education.
- If such objects could not be produced, ideas were explained as the result of false associations and combinations. John Dewey. Democracy and Education.
- Whereas you couldn't be more occupied with your day's calculations and combinations than you habitually show yourself to be, if you were a carpenter. Charles Dickens. Little Dorrit.
- But all machines, however complicated in appearance, are in reality but modifications and combinations of one or more of four simple machines devised long ago by our remote ancestors. Bertha M. Clark. General Science.
- Masters, too, sometimes enter into particular combinations to sink the wages of labour even below this rate. Adam Smith. An Inquiry into the Nature and Causes of the Wealth of Nations.
- Some combinations of metals possess the quality of relatively great expansibility. Various. The Wonder Book of Knowledge.
- The trades which employ but a small number of hands, run most easily into such combinations. Adam Smith. An Inquiry into the Nature and Causes of the Wealth of Nations.
- In certain genera of star-fishes, the very combinations needed to show that the pedicellariae are only modified branching spines may be found. Charles Darwin. On the Origin of Species by Means of Natural Selection.
- He arranged strips of bone, on which were figures, so that they could be brought into various fixed combinations. Various. The Wonder Book of Knowledge.
- They are, Miss Eyre, though they absolutely require a new statute: unheard-of combinations of circumstances demand unheard-of rules. Charlotte Bronte. Jane Eyre.
- We rarely hear, it has been said, of the combinations of masters, though frequently of those of workmen. Adam Smith. An Inquiry into the Nature and Causes of the Wealth of Nations.
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