Definition of "combine"

combine

/kəmˈbaɪn/

verb
third-person singular simple present combines, present participle combining, simple past and past participle combined
1. (transitive) To bring (two or more things or activities) together; to unite.
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  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.
  2012 March, William E. Carter, Merri Sue Carter, “The British Longitude Act Reconsidered”, in American Scientist, volume 100, number 2, page 87
2. (transitive) To have two or more things or properties that function together.
3. (intransitive) To come together; to unite.
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  You with your foes combine, / And seem your own destruction to design.
  1675, John Dryden, Aureng-zebe: A Tragedy. […], London: […] T[homas] N[ewcomb] for Henry Herringman, […], published 1676, (please specify the page number)
  So sweet did harp and voice combine.
  1805, Walter Scott, “(please specify the page)”, in The Lay of the Last Minstrel: A Poem, London: […] [James Ballantyne] for Longman, Hurst, Rees, and Orme, […], and A[rchibald] Constable and Co., […]
4. (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.
5. (obsolete) To bind; to hold by a moral tie.
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  I am combined by a sacred vow.
  c. 1603–1604 (date written), William Shakespeare, “Measure for Measure”, in Mr. William Shakespeares Comedies, Histories, & Tragedies […] (First Folio), London: […] Isaac Iaggard, and Ed[ward] Blount, published 1623, [Act IV, scene iii]
noun
plural combines
1. A combine harvester
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  When those combine wheels stops turnin'And the hard days work is doneTheres a pub around the cornerIt's the place we 'ave our fun
  1976, The Wurzels, I Am A Cider Drinker
2. A combination
  1. 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.
  2. An industrial conglomeration in a socialist country, particularly in the former Soviet bloc.
  3. (art) An artwork falling between painting and sculpture, having objects embedded into a painted surface.
3. (American football) A Test match in which applicants play in the hope of earning a position on a professional football team.
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  If you purchased this book chances are that you are planning on participating in a football combine or pro-day test.
  2008, Scott Shetler, Optimal Performance Techniques for the Football Combine, page 5
  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).
  2020, Jay R. Hoffman, The Science of American Football
  At the combine, Reagor compared himself to the 49ers’ Deebo Samuel or Chiefs’ Tyreek Hill — whom he said he watched “every day”
  2020 April 24, Ken Belson, Ben Shpigel, “Full Round 1 2020 N.F.L. Picks and Analysis”, in New York Time‎

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