Lexic.us

Definition of Combine

1. Verb. Have or possess in combination. "She unites charm with a good business sense"

2. Noun. Harvester that heads and threshes and cleans grain while moving across the field.

3. Verb. Put or add together. "Combine resources"

4. Noun. A consortium of independent organizations formed to limit competition by controlling the production and distribution of a product or service. "They set up the trust in the hope of gaining a monopoly"

5. Verb. Combine so as to form a whole; mix. "Compound the ingredients"

6. Noun. An occurrence that results in things being united.

7. Verb. Add together from different sources. "Combine resources"

8. Verb. Join for a common purpose or in a common action. "These forces combined with others"

9. Verb. Gather in a mass, sum, or whole.

10. Verb. Mix together different elements. "The colors blend well"

Definition of Combine

1. 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.

2. v. i. To form a union; to agree; to coalesce; to confederate.

Definition of Combine

1. Proper noun. (colloquial) London Underground ¹

2. Verb. (transitive) to bring (two or more things or activities) together; to unite ¹

3. Verb. (transitive) to have two or more things or properties that function together ¹

4. Noun. A combine harvester ¹

5. Noun. A concern, consortium or syndicate. ¹

¹ Source: wiktionary.com

Definition of Combine

1. to blend [v -BINED, -BINING, -BINES] - See also: blend

Lexicographical Neighbors of Combine

combinational logic combinations combinative combinator combinatorial combinatorial chemistry combinatorialist combinatorialists combinatoriality combinatorially

combinatoric combinatorics combinators combinatory combinatory logic combine (current term) combine harvester combined combined-cycle power plant combined cycle

combined fat-and carbohydrate-induced hyperlipaemia combined gas law combined glaucoma combined heat and power combined immunodeficiency syndrome combined modality therapy combined operation combined pregnancy combined sclerosis

Literary usage of Combine

Below you will find example usage of this term as found in modern and/or classical literature:

1. The pilgrim's progress by John Bunyan, James Solas Dodd (1795)
"Now then you three hang there, and be a sign To all that shall against the truth combine. And let him that comes after fear this end, If unto pilgrims he is ..."

2. Convention by National Electric Light Association Convention, National Independent Meat Packers Association, University of Georgia College of Agriculture, University of Georgia Dept. of Food Science (1905)
"... combine a collection and display department. We are also street-railway operators. This small exhibit- room is about twenty-five feet square and ..."

3. Notes and Queries by Martim de Albuquerque (1861)
"In the case of John Lackland, the two blunders combine together in a wonderful manner. ... combine ..."

4. Primitive Culture: Researches Into the Development of Mythology, Philosophy by Edward Burnett Tylor (1871)
"... shell-heaps, burial-places, &c., combine to prove original low culture throughout tho world—Stages of progressive Development in industrial arts. ..."

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