combine

Meanings

Plural: combines

Noun

• harvester that heads and threshes and cleans grain while moving across the field
• a consortium of independent organizations formed to limit competition by controlling the production and distribution of a product or service
• an occurrence that results in things being united
• Ellipsis of combine harvester.
• 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 or fraudulent intentions.
• A combination.
• An industrial conglomeration in a socialist country, particularly in the former Soviet bloc.
• A combination.
• 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.
• A test match in which applicants play in the hope of earning a position on a professional football team.

Verb

• have or possess in combination
• put or add together
  • "combine resources"
• combine so as to form a whole; mix
• add together from different sources
  • "combine resources"
• join for a common purpose or in a common action
  • "These forces combined with others"
• gather in a mass, sum, or whole
• mix together different elements
• To bring (two or more things or activities) together; to unite.
• To have two or more things or properties that function together.
• To come together; to unite.
• 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.
• To bind; to hold by a moral tie.

Synonyms

aggregate, blend, cartel, coalesce, combining, commingle, compound, conflate, corporate trust, flux, fuse, immix, kombinat, meld, merge, mix, synonyms at Thesaurus:coalesce, trust, unite

Antonyms

disunite, divide, separate