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combine meaning

EN[kəmˈbaɪn] [-aɪn] [ˈkɒm.baɪn] [ˈkɑm.baɪn] [-ɒmbaɪn]
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    Definition of combine in English Dictionary

  • NounPLcombinesPREcom-SUF-ine
    1. A combine harvester.
      1. We can't finish harvesting because our combine is stuck in the mud.
    2. A combination.
      1. The telecom companies were accused of having formed an illegal combine in order to hike up the network charges.
  • VerbSGcombinesPRcombiningPT, PPcombined
    1. VT To bring (two or more things or activities) together; to unite.
      1. VT To have two or more things or properties that function together.
        1. Joe combines the intelligence of a rock with the honesty of a politician.
      2. VI To come together; to unite.
        1. two substances that easily combine
      3. (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.
        1. OBS To bind; to hold by a moral tie.
        2. More Examples
          1. Used in the Middle of Sentence
            • His tactlessness combined with his bluntness made him many enemies.
            • Trabeculectomy was combined with PPV, cataract surgery, or both when completion of transpupillary PRP was not expected to be possible after surgery.
            • Hepatic Timp1 expression is also elevated in a mouse model that resembles type 2 diabetes, elicited by HFD combined with low doses of strepzotocin treatment in order to induce beta cell dysfunction.
          2. Used in the Ending of Sentence
            • A vector space is a set of vectors which can be linearly combined.
        • Part-of-Speech Hierarchy
          1. Nouns
            • Countable nouns
            • Verbs
              • Ergative verbs
                • Intransitive verbs
                  • Transitive verbs
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                Source: Wiktionary

                Meaning of combine for the defined word.

                Grammatically, this word "combine" is a noun, more specifically, a countable noun. It's also a verb, more specifically, an ergative verb, an intransitive verb and a transitive verb.
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