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| combine | |
| 1. v. 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. | |
| 2. v. To have two or more things or properties that function together. | |
| Joe combines the intelligence of a rock with the honesty of a politician. | |
| 3. v. (intransitive) To come together; to unite. | |
| two substances that easily combine | |
| 4. v. (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. | |
| 5. v. (obsolete) To bind; to hold by a moral tie. | |
| 6. n. A combine harvester | |
| We can't finish harvesting because our combine is stuck in the mud. | |
| 7. n. A combination | |
| 8. n. Especially, a joint enterprise of whatever legal form for a purpose of business or in any way promoting the interests of the participants, sometimes wi | |
| The telecom companies were accused of having formed an illegal combine in order to hike up the network charges. | |
| 9. n. An industrial conglomeration in a socialist country, particularly in the former Soviet bloc. | |
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