Combine
[kəm'baɪn]
Definition
(noun.) harvester that heads and threshes and cleans grain while moving across the field.
(verb.) add together from different sources; 'combine resources'.
(verb.) join for a common purpose or in a common action; 'These forces combined with others'.
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Definition
(v. t.) To unite or join; to link closely together; to bring into harmonious union; to cause or unite so as to form a homogeneous substance, as by chemical union.
(v. t.) To bind; to hold by a moral tie.
(v. i.) To form a union; to agree; to coalesce; to confederate.
(v. i.) To unite by affinity or natural attraction; as, two substances, which will not combine of themselves, may be made to combine by the intervention of a third.
(v. i.) In the game of casino, to play a card which will take two or more cards whose aggregate number of pips equals those of the card played.
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Synonyms and Synonymous
v. a. [1]. Unite, join together.[2]. Mix, blend, incorporate, amalgamate, compound, put together.
v. n. Coalesce, be united.
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Definition
v.t. to join two together: to unite intimately.—v.i. to come into close union: to co-operate: (chem.) to unite and form a new compound.—n. a trading syndicate a trust.—adj. Com′binate combined: betrothed.—ns. Combinā′tion the act of combining: union of individual things: persons united for a purpose; Combinā′tion-room the college-parlour at Cambridge for the fellows of a college after dinner a common-room.—n.pl. Combinā′tions a women's and children's garment consisting of chemise and drawers combined.—adjs. Com′binātive; Combī′natory; Combined′; Combin′ing.
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Examples
- It is modernly used as a luxury by those who are able to combine with it other means for heating. William Henry Doolittle. Inventions in the Century.
- The latter is the element that we breathe and which passes into the body, there to combine with the impurities resulting from the various life activities. Various. The Wonder Book of Knowledge.
- In the words of Dalton, oxygen may combine with a certain portion of nitrous gas [as he called nitric oxide], or with twice that po rtion, but with no intermediate portion. Walter Libby. An Introduction to the History of Science.
- But whoever imagines, upon this account, that masters rarely combine, is as ignorant of the world as of the subject. Adam Smith. An Inquiry into the Nature and Causes of the Wealth of Nations.
- Barff of Kilburn, England, it seems was the first to combine boracic acid with glycerine, and to produce a preservative compound known as boroglyceride, which is soluble in water and alcohol. William K. David. Secrets of Wise Men, Chemists and Great Physicians.
- The inhabitants of the country, dispersed in distant places, cannot easily combine together. Adam Smith. An Inquiry into the Nature and Causes of the Wealth of Nations.
- Who but Selden could thus miraculously combine the skill to save Bertha with the obligation of doing so? Edith Wharton. The House of Mirth.
- Gay-Lussac found that two volumes of h ydrogen combined with one volume of oxygen to produce two volumes of water vapor. Walter Libby. An Introduction to the History of Science.
- Jethro Tull in England shortly after invented and introduced a combined system of drilling, ploughing and cultivating. William Henry Doolittle. Inventions in the Century.
- Circumstances, of late, had combined to cut her off more and more from her few remaining friends. Edith Wharton. The House of Mirth.
- For example, the pictograph for mouth combined with pictograph for vapour expressed words. H. G. Wells. The Outline of History_Being a Plain History of Life and Mankind.
- By force of circumstance, because all the world combined to make the cage unbreakable, he had been too strong for her, he had kept her prisoner. D. H. Lawrence. Women in Love .
- Intelligence and spirit are not often combined with steadiness; the stolid, fearless, nature is averse to intellectual toil. Plato. The Republic.
- Gold is seldom used for any purpose in a state of perfect purity on account of its softness, but is combined with some other metal to render it harder. Various. The Wonder Book of Knowledge.
- A fuse is made by combining a number of metals in such a way that the resulting substance has a low melting point and a high electrical resistance. Bertha M. Clark. General Science.
- He drew diagrams combining an a tom of oxygen with an atom of nitrogen and an atom of aqueous vapor. Walter Libby. An Introduction to the History of Science.
- We have no acts of parliament against combining to lower the price of work, but many against combining to raise it. Adam Smith. An Inquiry into the Nature and Causes of the Wealth of Nations.
- Preece, of England, by combining the two, signaled in this way as far as forty miles. Various. The Wonder Book of Knowledge.
- By combining these pictographs, a second order of ideas is expressed. H. G. Wells. The Outline of History_Being a Plain History of Life and Mankind.
- Combination plates are made by combining the halftone and line negatives together and making one complete print on the metal. Various. The Wonder Book of Knowledge.
- In the second case, the heat is produced by a kind of fermentation; and in the third, by the pyrites of the coal rapidly absorbing and combining with the oxygen of the air. Various. The Wonder Book of Knowledge.
- Its rule combines the disadvantage of absolute monarchy with the impersonality and irresponsibility of democratic officialdom. H. G. Wells. The Outline of History_Being a Plain History of Life and Mankind.
- The manganese itself combines with part of the chlorine originally in the acid, but not with all. Bertha M. Clark. General Science.
- Iron, for example, burns when it rusts, because it slowly combines with the oxygen of the air and is transformed into new substances. Bertha M. Clark. General Science.
- During the operation the oxygen of the air combines with the carbon and forms carbonic acid gas, which, in escaping from the metal, appears to make it boil. Edward W. Byrn. The Progress of Invention in the Nineteenth Century.
- Washing soda combines with calcium and magnesium and prevents them from uniting with soap. Bertha M. Clark. General Science.
- This combines sulphate of aniline and bichromate of potash to produce an exquisite lilac, or purple color. Edward W. Byrn. The Progress of Invention in the Nineteenth Century.
- When soap is put into water containing one or both of these, it combines with the salts to form sticky insoluble scum. Bertha M. Clark. General Science.
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