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combine
English
Etymology
From Middle French combiner, from Late Latin comb?n?re, present active infinitive of comb?n? (“unite, yoke together”), from Latin con- (“together”) + b?n? (“two by two”).
Pronunciation
- Verb
- enPR: k?m-b?n', IPA(key): /k?m?ba?n/
- Rhymes: -a?n
- Noun
- (UK) IPA(key): /?k?m.ba?n/
- (US) enPR: käm'b?n, IPA(key): /?k?m.ba?n/
- Rhymes: -?mba?n
Verb
combine (third-person singular simple present combines, present participle combining, simple past and past participle combined)
- (transitive) To bring (two or more things or activities) together; to unite.
- (transitive) To have two or more things or properties that function together.
- (intransitive) To come together; to unite.
- (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.
- (obsolete) To bind; to hold by a moral tie.
Synonyms
- See synonyms at Thesaurus:coalesce.
Antonyms
- divide
- separate
- disunite
Derived terms
Translations
Noun
combine (plural combines)
- A combine harvester
- 1976, The Wurzels, I Am A Cider Drinker
- 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
- When those combine wheels stops turnin'
- 1976, The Wurzels, I Am A Cider Drinker
- 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 intentions.
- An industrial conglomeration in a socialist country, particularly in the former Soviet bloc.
- Synonym: kombinat
- (art) An artwork falling between painting and sculpture, having objects embedded into a painted surface.
- 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 intentions.
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Translations
Anagrams
- becomin'
Asturian
Verb
combine
- first/third-person singular present subjunctive of combinar
French
Pronunciation
- IPA(key): /k??.bin/
Etymology 1
Abbreviation of combinaison.
Noun
combine f (plural combines)
- (colloquial) trick, scheme
Etymology 2
See the etymology of the main entry.
Verb
combine
- inflection of combiner:
- first/third-person singular present indicative/subjunctive
- second-person singular imperative
Anagrams
- combien
Further reading
- “combine” in Trésor de la langue française informatisé (The Digitized Treasury of the French Language).
Portuguese
Verb
combine
- first-person singular (eu) present subjunctive of combinar
- third-person singular (ele and ela, also used with você and others) present subjunctive of combinar
- third-person singular (você) affirmative imperative of combinar
- third-person singular (você) negative imperative of combinar
Romanian
Pronunciation
- IPA(key): [kom?bine]
Verb
combine
- third-person singular present subjunctive of combina
- third-person plural present subjunctive of combina
Spanish
Pronunciation
- IPA(key): /kom?bine/, [kõm?bi.ne]
Verb
combine
- Formal second-person singular (usted) imperative form of combinar.
- First-person singular (yo) present subjunctive form of combinar.
- Formal second-person singular (usted) present subjunctive form of combinar.
- Third-person singular (él, ella, also used with usted?) present subjunctive form of combinar.
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amass
English
Etymology
From Middle English *amassen (found only as Middle English massen (“to amass”)), from Anglo-Norman amasser, from Medieval Latin amass?re, from ad + massa (“lump, mass”). See mass.
Pronunciation
- (Received Pronunciation, General American) IPA(key): /??mæs/
Verb
amass (third-person singular simple present amasses, present participle amassing, simple past and past participle amassed)
- (transitive) To collect into a mass or heap.
- (transitive) to gather a great quantity of; to accumulate.
- 1887, Arthur Conan Doyle, A Study in Scarlet, Part II, Chapter V, page 123:
- […] he reluctantly returned to the old Nevada mines, there to recruit his health and to amass money enough to allow him to pursue his object without privation.
- 1887, Arthur Conan Doyle, A Study in Scarlet, Part II, Chapter V, page 123:
Synonyms
- (collect into a mass): heap up, mound, pile, pile up, stack up; see also Thesaurus:pile up
- (gather a great quantity of): accumulate, amound, collect, gather, hoard; see also Thesaurus:amass
Derived terms
- amasser
- amassment
Translations
Noun
amass (plural amasses)
- (obsolete) A large number of things collected or piled together.
- Synonyms: mass, heap, pile
- 1624, Henry Wotton, The Elements of Architecture, London, p. 38,[1]
- […] this Pillar [the Compounded Order] is nothing in effect, but a Medlie, or an Amasse of all the precedent Ornaments, making a new kinde, by stealth, and though the most richly tricked, yet the poorest in this, that he is a borrower of all his Beautie.
- 1788, Thomas Pownall, Notices and Descriptions of Antiquities of the Provincia Romana of Gaul, London: John Nichols, p. 22,[2]
- […] others are drawn, not as portraits, not strict copies of these most essential characteristic parts, but filled up afterwards from memory, and a general idea of an amass of arms, without the specific one of a trophæal amass, which is the fact of these bas-relieves.
- (obsolete) The act of amassing.
- 1591, William Garrard, The Arte of Warre, London: Roger Warde, Book 6, p. 339,[3]
- He [the general] must neuer permit the Captaines to depart from the place, where he made the Amasse and collection of the Companies, with their bands out of order or disseuered, although they should depart to some place neere adioyning, vnlesse he were forced by some occasion of great necessity and importance:
- 1591, William Garrard, The Arte of Warre, London: Roger Warde, Book 6, p. 339,[3]
Anagrams
- Assam, Massa, Samas, massa, msasa
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