combine

verb

1. 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.

   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.

2. 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. 3

   To come together; to unite.

   two substances that easily combine

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

   So sweet did harp and voice combine.

4. 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. 5

   obsoleteTo bind; to hold by a moral tie.

   I am combined by a sacred vow.

noun

1. 1

   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.

   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.

2. 2

   A combination. An industrial conglomeration in a socialist country, particularly in the former Soviet bloc.

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

3. 3

   A combination. An artwork falling between painting and sculpture, having objects embedded into a painted surface.

4. 4

   A test match in which applicants play in the hope of earning a position on a professional football team.

   If you purchased this book chances are that you are planning on participating in a football combine or pro-day test.

   In 2008, a study was published that examined the ability of the NFL combine to predict football playing performance in the NFL (Kuzmits and Adams, 2008).

   At the combine, Reagor compared himself to the 49ers’ Deebo Samuel or Chiefs’ Tyreek Hill — whom he said he watched “every day”

5. 5

   Variant of combine harvesterEllipsis 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

6. 6

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

Forms

plural

combines

past tense

combined

past participle

combined

present participle

combining

third person singular

combines