combine
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English [edit]
Etymology [edit]
Middle French combiner, from Late Latin combinare (“to unite, yoke together”), from Latin com- (“together”) + bini (“two by two”)
Pronunciation [edit]
Verb
Noun
- (UK) IPA: /ˈkɒm.baɪn/, X-SAMPA: /"kQm.baIn/
- (US) enPR: käm'bīn, IPA: /ˈkɑm.baɪn/, X-SAMPA: /"kAm.baIn/
- Rhymes: -ɒmbaɪn
Verb [edit]
combine (third-person singular simple present combines, present participle combining, simple past and past participle combined)
- (transitive) 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.
- Dryden
- You with your foes combine, / And seem your own destruction to design.
- Sir Walter Scott
- So sweet did harp and voice combine.
- 2012 March 1, William E. Carter, Merri Sue Carter, “The British Longitude Act Reconsidered”, American Scientist, volume 100, number 2, page 87:
- Conditions were horrendous aboard most British naval vessels at the time. Scurvy and other diseases ran rampant, killing more seamen each year than all other causes combined, including combat.
- (transitive) To have two or more things or properties that function together.
- Joe combines the intelligence of a rock with the honesty of a politician.
- (intransitive) To come together; to unite.
- two substances that easily combine
- (card games) 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.
Derived terms [edit]
Translations [edit]
bring (two or more things or activities) together
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have two or more things or properties that function together
Noun [edit]
combine (plural combines)
- A combine harvester
- We can't finish harvesting because our combine is stuck in the mud.
- A concern, consortium or syndicate.
Translations [edit]
combine harvester
Concern, consortium, syndicate
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French [edit]
Etymology 1 [edit]
Abbreviation of combinaison.
Noun [edit]
combine f (plural combines)
Etymology 2 [edit]
Inflected forms.
Verb [edit]
combine
- first-person singular present indicative of combiner
- third-person singular present indicative of combiner
- first-person singular present subjunctive of combiner
- first-person singular present subjunctive of combiner
- second-person singular imperative of combiner
Anagrams [edit]
Portuguese [edit]
Verb [edit]
combine
- First-person singular (eu) present subjunctive of combinar
- Third-person singular (ele, ela, also used with tu and você?) present subjunctive of combinar
- Third-person singular (você) affirmative imperative of combinar
- Third-person singular (você) negative imperative of combinar
Spanish [edit]
Verb [edit]
combine (infinitive combinar)
- Formal second-person singular (usted) imperative form of combinar.
- First-person singular (yo) present subjunctive form of combinar.
- Formal second-person singular (usted) present subjunctive form of combinar.
- Third-person singular (él, ella, also used with usted?) present subjunctive form of combinar.
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