combine
Listen:Concise Oxford English Dictionary © 2008 Oxford University Press:
combine1
▶verb /kəmˈbʌɪn/
- 1 unite or merge to form a whole: combine the flour with the margarine.
■ Chemistry unite to form a compound.
- 2 join with others for a common purpose.
– derivatives
combinable adjective,
combiner noun.
combinable adjective,
combiner noun.
– origin ME: from OFr. combiner or late L. combinare ‘join two by two’, from com- ‘together’ + L. bini ‘two together’.
Concise Oxford English Dictionary © 2008 Oxford University Press:
combine2 /ˈkɒmbʌɪn/
▶verb harvest (a crop) with a combine harvester. ▶noun a combine harvester.
'combine' also found in these Oxford entries:
affinity
- agglutinate
- aggregate
- alloy
- ally
- amalgamate
- biathlon
- bind
- blend
- bulk
- carburettor
- club
- collate
- com-
- combine harvester
- complicate
- composite
- compound
- conciliate
- condensation
- conflate
- conjoin
- consolidate
- couple
- dimerize
- dub
- equivalent
- fire
- form
- hydrate
- hydrogenate
- integrate
- -ize
- join
- league
- light stick
- marry
- marshal
- meld
- merge
- mix
- orthography
- oxidize
- package
- recombine
- reduce
- regulus
- saturate
