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Combining   /kəmbˈaɪnɪŋ/   Listen
Combining

noun
1.
An occurrence that results in things being united.  Synonym: combine.
2.
The act of combining things to form a new whole.  Synonyms: combination, compounding.


Combine

verb
(past & past part. combined; pres. part. combining)
1.
Have or possess in combination.  Synonym: unite.
2.
Put or add together.  Synonym: compound.
3.
Combine so as to form a whole; mix.  Synonym: compound.
4.
Add together from different sources.
5.
Join for a common purpose or in a common action.
6.
Gather in a mass, sum, or whole.  Synonym: aggregate.
7.
Mix together different elements.  Synonyms: blend, coalesce, commingle, conflate, flux, fuse, immix, meld, merge, mix.



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"Combining" Quotes from Famous Books



... with the barons, the kings of those times were often engaged in contentions with the people; but the people, having no means of combining together or otherwise organizing their resistance, were almost always compelled to submit. They were often oppressed and maltreated in the most cruel manner. The great object of the government seems to have been to extort money from them ...
— Richard II - Makers of History • Jacob Abbott
... reasonableness. For if, as we have seen, there is an expenditure of mental energy in the mere act of listening to verbal articulations, or in that silent repetition of them which goes on in reading—if the perceptive faculties must be in active exercise to identify every syllable—then, any mode of so combining words as to present a regular recurrence of certain traits which the mind can anticipate, will diminish that strain upon the attention required by the total irregularity of prose. Just as the body, in receiving a series of varying concussions, must keep ...
— The Philosophy of Style • Herbert Spencer
... scandal of too absurd a kind, dispersed the people who were gathering round us. I did not know whether to be angry or to laugh, but the jeering, unjust speech of one of my friends roused my pity for this poor Quenelle. I thought of the hours he had spent in planning, combining, and then manufacturing his ridiculous machine. I was touched by the anxiety and affection which had prompted the invention of this life-saving apparatus, and I held out my hand to my poor Quenelle, saying, "Be off now, quickly; the boat is ...
— My Double Life - The Memoirs of Sarah Bernhardt • Sarah Bernhardt
... dear," her mother interrupted. "The debts were not all due to you and George. I had a few of my own. What I mean to say is that, combining all of them, they ...
— From the Housetops • George Barr McCutcheon
... stability and certainty in respect to those things that may be done and those that are prohibited which is essential to the life and growth of all business. Such a plan must include the right of the people to avail themselves of those methods of combining capital and effort deemed necessary to reach the highest degree of economic efficiency, at the same time differentiating between combinations based upon legitimate economic reasons and those formed with the intent of creating monopolies and ...
— U.S. Presidential Inaugural Addresses • Various


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