combine
pronunciation
How to pronounce combine in British English:
UK [kəmˈbaɪn , ˈkɒmbaɪn]
How to pronounce combine in American English:
US [kəmˈbaɪn , ˈkɑːmbaɪn]
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- 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
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- Verb:
- put or add together
- have or possess in combination
- combine so as to form a whole; mix
- add together from different sources
- join for a common purpose or in a common action
- gather in a mass, sum, or whole
- mix together different elements
Word Origin
- combine
- combine: [15] The notion underlying combine is simply ‘two together’. It comes, perhaps via French combiner, from late Latin combīnāre, a compound verb formed from Latin com- ‘together’ and bīnī ‘two at a time’; this Latin adverb was formed from the prefix bi- ‘twice’, and is the basis of English binary.=> binary
- combine (n.)
- "machine that cuts, threshes and cleans grain" (short for combine harvester), 1857, from combine (v.).
- combine (v.)
- early 15c., from Middle French combiner (14c.), from Late Latin combinare "to unite, yoke together," from Latin com- "together" (see com-) + bini "two by two," adverb from bi- "twice" (see binary). Related: Combinative; combined; combining.
Example
- 1. It will also combine social search and semantic search .
- 2. Can you combine physics and math into one degree ?
- 3. The idea was to combine strengths .
- 4. Her husband is scraping together money to pay for his combine , seed and fertiliser .
- 5. Mitochondria combine oxygen and nutrients to create fuel for the cells - they are microscopic power generators .