combine /kəmˈbaɪn/verb 5/ˈkɑm.baɪn/ noun 7forms 5 verb5 •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. •To come together; to unite.You with your foes combine, / And seem your own destruction to design. — 1675 •To have two or more things or properties that function together.Joe combines the intelligence of a rock with the honesty of a politician. •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. •(no longer used) To bind; to hold by a moral tie.I am combined by a sacred vow. — 1603 combine /ˈkɑm.baɪn/ noun7 •A combination. •Ellipsis of combine harvester.We can't finish harvesting because our combine is stuck in the mud. •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. — 2008 •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. •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. •An artwork falling between painting and sculpture, having objects embedded into a painted surface. •Ellipsis of combine car, a type of railway car that combines passenger and freight functions. formscombined · combining · combines · combineth · combinest
