combine

Plural: combines

Noun

• harvester that heads and threshes and cleans grain while moving across the field
• a consortium of independent organizations formed to limit competition by controlling the production and distribution of a product or service
• an occurrence that results in things being united
• Ellipsis of combine harvester.
• A combination.
• Especially, a joint enterprise of whatever legal form for a purpose of business or in any way promoting the interests of the participants, sometimes with monopolistic or fraudulent intentions.
• A combination.
• An industrial conglomeration in a socialist country, particularly in the former Soviet bloc.
• A combination.
• An artwork falling between painting and sculpture, having objects embedded into a painted surface.
• Ellipsis of combine car, a type of railway car that combines passenger and freight functions.
• A test match in which applicants play in the hope of earning a position on a professional football team.

Verb

Verb Forms: combined, combining, combines

• To blend or unite two or more things together.
• have or possess in combination
• put or add together
  • "combine resources"
• combine so as to form a whole; mix
• add together from different sources
  • "combine resources"
• join for a common purpose or in a common action
  • "These forces combined with others"
• gather in a mass, sum, or whole
• mix together different elements
• To bring (two or more things or activities) together; to unite.
• To have two or more things or properties that function together.
• To come together; to unite.
• 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.
• To bind; to hold by a moral tie.

Examples

• Combine the milk and the hot water in a large bowl.
• He managed to COMBINE two existing words on the Scrabble board for a bingo bonus.
• His grandmother worked in the stamping plant of the sheet and tin combine.
• I'm combining business and pleasure on this trip.
• Joe combines the intelligence of a rock with the honesty of a politician.
• The telecom companies were accused of having formed an illegal combine in order to hike up the network charges.
• two substances that easily combine
• We can't finish harvesting because our combine is stuck in the mud.

Synonyms

aggregate, blend, cartel, coalesce, combining, commingle, compound, conflate, corporate trust, flux, fuse, immix, meld, merge, mix, trust, unite, kombinat, synonyms at Thesaurus:coalesce

Antonyms

disunite, divide, separate

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