combine

UK /kəmˈbaɪn/ US /kəmˈbaɪn/
verb 5noun 5name 1

Definitions

verb

1

To bring (two or more things or activities) together; to unite.

Combine the milk and the hot water in a large bowl.

I'm combining business and pleasure on this trip.

2

To have two or more things or properties that function together.

Joe combines the intelligence of a rock with the honesty of a politician.

3

To come together; to unite.

two substances that easily combine

You with your foes combine, / And seem your own destruction to design.

4

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.

5

To bind; to hold by a moral tie.

I am combined by a sacred vow.

noun

1

Ellipsis of combine harvester.

We can't finish harvesting because our combine is stuck in the mud.

When those combine wheels stops turnin' And the hard days work is done Theres a pub around the corner It's the place we 'ave our fun

2

A combination.

The telecom companies were accused of having formed an illegal combine in order to hike up the network charges.

[In the decades before the First World War] In the USA and Germany in particular, huge manufacturing combines were being created and were developing a very powerful economic and increasingly political presence at home and on international markets.

3

A combination.

His grandmother worked in the stamping plant of the sheet and tin combine.

4

A combination.

5

Ellipsis of combine car, a type of railway car that combines passenger and freight functions.

name

1

London Underground

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