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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



... voice. Their music has beauty, it has melody, and melodic beauty will always make its appeal. And the older Italian music is built up not only of melody and fioriture, but is also dramatic. For these qualities can combine, and do so in the last act of Traviata, which is so full ...
— Vocal Mastery - Talks with Master Singers and Teachers • Harriette Brower
... forenoon he worked on his great book, the 'Comparative Pharmacopoeia, or Historical Dictionary of all Medicines,' which as yet consisted principally of slips of paper and pins. When finished, it was to fill many personable volumes, and to combine antiquarian interest with professional utility. But the Doctor was studious of literary graces and the picturesque; an anecdote, a touch of manners, a moral qualification, or a sounding epithet was sure to be preferred before a piece of science; a little more, and he would have ...
— The Merry Men - and Other Tales and Fables • Robert Louis Stevenson
... want to go overseas and 'ave a look at the 'uns," said Flannagan, who managed with strange skill to combine a cockney whine ...
— Three Soldiers • John Dos Passos
... impenetrable by the ether. Apart from the attribute of inertia, the most important characteristic of these ultimate atoms is their chemical affinity—their tendency to apply themselves to one another and combine into small groups in an orderly fashion. These fixed groups (fixed, that is to say, under the present physical conditions of existence of the earth) of primitive atoms are the atoms of the elements—the ...
— Monism as Connecting Religion and Science • Ernst Haeckel
... things combine together to constitute theft. The first belongs to theft as being contrary to justice, which gives to each one that which is his, so that it belongs to theft to take possession of what is another's. The second thing belongs to theft as distinct from those sins ...
— Summa Theologica, Part II-II (Secunda Secundae) • Thomas Aquinas


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