Combine meaning

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To join (two or more substances) to make a single substance, such as a chemical compound; mix.
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To have, exhibit, or involve in combination.

The choreography combines artistry and athletics.

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The definition of combine is to join together or to unite.

When you mix salt and pepper, this is an example of a situation where you combine salt and pepper.

When you join with someone else who believes in the same thing you do, this is an example of a situation where you combine your efforts.

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To bring into a state of unity; make united.

Combined the ingredients in a bowl; combined the eggs and flour.

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To harvest (a grain crop) using a cutting, threshing, and cleaning machine.
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To become united.

Factors that combined to produce a storm.

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To join together for a common purpose.
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To form a compound.
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To harvest a grain crop using a cutting, threshing, and cleaning machine.
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A power-operated harvesting machine that cuts, threshes, and cleans grain.
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An association of people or groups united for the furtherance of political or commercial interests.
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A combination.
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To come or bring into union; act or mix together; unite; join.
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To unite to form a chemical compound.
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To harvest and thresh with a combine.
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A machine for harvesting and threshing grain.
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An association of persons, corporations, etc. for commercial or political, sometimes unethical, purposes.
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(colloquial) London Underground.
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Origin of combine

From combine, referring to the merger and purchase of various underground railway, tram and bus companies in London, combining them into one organisation. Originally applied to Underground Electric Railways of London Company Ltd, since used for successor organisations.

Sentence Examples

  • He did not like to combine frivolity with the serious business of hunting.

  • It is essential for him to combine his movements with those of the commander-in-chief.

  • Plant life, utilizing solar light to combine the inorganic elements of water, soil and air into living substance, is the basis of all animal life.

  • When you combine your property with his, you'll have over two hundred acres.

  • Boron and iodine do not combine directly, but gaseous hydriodic acid reacts with amorphous boron to form the iodide, BI 31 which can also be obtained by passing boron chloride and hydriodic acid through a red-hot porcelain tube.

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