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Combine v. t. (past & past part. combined; pres. part. combining)

To unite or join; to link closely together; to bring into harmonious union; to cause or unite so as to form a homogeneous substance, as by chemical union. "So fitly them in pairs thou hast combined." "Friendship is the cement which really combines mankind." "And all combined, save what thou must combine By holy marriage." "Earthly sounds, though sweet and well combined."

To bind; to hold by a moral tie. (Obs.) "I am combined by a sacred vow."

Combine v. i.

To form a union; to agree; to coalesce; to confederate. "You with your foes combine, And seem your own destruction to design" "So sweet did harp and voice combine."

To unite by affinity or natural attraction; as, two substances, which will not combine of themselves, may be made to combine by the intervention of a third.

(Card Playing) 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.

Combining weight (Chem.), that proportional weight, usually referred to hydrogen as a standard, and for each element fixed and exact, by which an element unites with another to form a distinct compound. The combining weights either are identical with, or are multiples or submultiples of, the atomic weight. See Atomic weight, under Atomic, a.

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"Combine" Quotes from Famous Books

... that others are doing the same in the same environment is an essential condition for him. Then arises an alternative. He and the others may so interfere with each other that all shall fail, or they may combine, and by cooperation raise their efforts against nature to a higher power. This latter method is industrial organization. The crisis which produces it is constantly renewed, and men are forced to raise the organization to greater complexity ...

— Folkways - A Study of the Sociological Importance of Usages, Manners, Customs, Mores, and Morals • William Graham Sumner

... more exalted the salt-box shall join, And clattering and battering and clapping combine, With a rap and a tap, while the hollow side sounds, Up and down leaps the ...

— The Letters of Horace Walpole Volume 3 • Horace Walpole

... maisonnette, a system of shift and subterfuge not wholly new to its mistress. None knew better than Irina herself the inevitable end of this period of excuse and deception. But, so long as Joseph continued to combine for her those qualities of novelty, inexperience, and inexhaustible feeling that had seized so firmly upon her imagination, she was reckless of discovery. After all, her Prince was proving exceptionally stupid and complaisant. Her words were gospel to him; and her ...

— The Genius • Margaret Horton Potter

... and Earth combine their charms, And round you early, round you late, Briareus fold his hundred arms To guard you ...

— An Englishwoman's Love-Letters • Anonymous

... California, and thus open a new road to China via the Pacific ocean. At the same time the Abbes Dollier and de Galinee, Sulpicians, had prepared for a remote mission to the Outaouais. It was thought advisable to combine the two expeditions. Thus it happened that La Salle and the Sulpicians left Montreal in 1669 and journeyed together as far as the western end of Lake Ontario. There they parted. The Sulpicians wintered on the shores of Lake Erie, and next spring passed ...

— The Great Intendant - A Chronicle of Jean Talon in Canada 1665-1672 • Thomas Chapais

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