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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.
combine From the web:
- what combines together to make a protein
- what combines during oxidation
- what combines to form rocks
- what combines to form proteins
- what combines directly with amino acids
- what combines with hydrogen ions
- what combines with proteins to make hemoglobin
- what combined to create revolution in russia
condense
English
Etymology
Borrowed from Middle French condenser, from Latin condensare.
Pronunciation
- IPA(key): /k?n?d?ns/
Verb
condense (third-person singular simple present condenses, present participle condensing, simple past and past participle condensed)
- (transitive) To concentrate toward the essence by making more close, compact, or dense, thereby decreasing size or volume.
- Synonyms: thicken, simplify, (cooking) reduce; see also Thesaurus:compress
- Antonym: dilute
- The secret course pursued both at Brussels and at Madrid may be condensed into the usual formula, dissimulation, procrastination, and again dissimulation.
- (transitive, chemistry) To transform from a gaseous state into a liquid state via condensation.
- (intransitive, chemistry) To be transformed from a gaseous state into a liquid state.
Derived terms
- condensing locomotive
Related terms
- condensation
Translations
Adjective
condense (comparative more condense, superlative most condense)
- (archaic) Condensed; compact; dense.
- The huge condense bodies of planets.
References
- condense at OneLook Dictionary Search
- condense in The Century Dictionary, New York, N.Y.: The Century Co., 1911.
French
Pronunciation
- Homophones: condensent, condenses
Verb
condense
- first-person singular present indicative of condenser
- third-person singular present indicative of condenser
- first-person singular present subjunctive of condenser
- third-person singular present subjunctive of condenser
- second-person singular imperative of condenser
Italian
Noun
condense f
- plural of condensa
Anagrams
- censendo
Latin
Adjective
cond?nse
- vocative masculine singular of cond?nsus
Portuguese
Verb
condense
- first-person singular present subjunctive of condensar
- third-person singular present subjunctive of condensar
- first-person singular imperative of condensar
- third-person singular imperative of condensar
Spanish
Verb
condense
- Formal second-person singular (usted) imperative form of condensar.
- First-person singular (yo) present subjunctive form of condensar.
- Formal second-person singular (usted) present subjunctive form of condensar.
- Third-person singular (él, ella, also used with usted?) present subjunctive form of condensar.
condense From the web:
- what condenses
- what condenses to form chromosomes
- what condenses at the start of mitosis
- what condenses in clouds
- what condenses during prophase
- what condense mean
- what condenses into chromosomes
- what condenses chromatin
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