Combine vs Concomitant - What's the difference?
combine | concomitant |
To bring (two or more things or activities) together; to unite.
* (John Dryden)
* Sir (Walter Scott)
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To come together; to unite.
(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.
(obsolete) To bind; to hold by a moral tie.
* (William Shakespeare)
A 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 intentions.
# An industrial conglomeration in a socialist country, particularly in the former .
Accompanying; conjoined; attending; concurrent.
* (John Locke)
* 1970 , Alvin Toffler, Future Shock'', ''Bantam Books , pg. 41:
Something happening or existing at the same time.
* 1970 , , Bantam Books , pg.93:
* 1900 , Sigmund Freud, The Interpretation of Dreams'', ''Avon Books , (translated by James Strachey) pg. 301:
An invariant homogeneous polynomial in the coefficients of a form, a covariant variable, and a contravariant variable.
As a proper noun combine
is (colloquial) london underground.As an adjective concomitant is
accompanying; conjoined; attending; concurrent.As a noun concomitant is
something happening or existing at the same time.combine
English
Verb
(combin)- You with your foes combine , / And seem your own destruction to design.
- So sweet did harp and voice combine .
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- Joe combines the intelligence of a rock with the honesty of a politician.
- two substances that easily combine
- I am combined by a sacred vow.
Derived terms
* combination * combinable * combinatory * combined * recombineSynonyms
* fuse * merge * uniteAntonyms
* divide * separate * disuniteNoun
(en noun)- We can't finish harvesting because our combine is stuck in the mud.
- The telecom companies were accused of having formed an illegal combine in order to hike up the network charges.
concomitant
English
Adjective
(-)- It has pleased our wise Creator to annex to several objects, as also to several of our thoughts, a concomitant pleasure.
- The new technology on which super-industrialism is based, much of it blue-printed in American research laboratories, brings with it an inevitable acceleration of change in society and a concomitant speed-up of the pace of individual life as well.
Synonyms
* (following as a consequence) accompanying, adjoining, attendant, incidentalNoun
(en noun)- The declining commitment to place is thus related not to mobility per se, but to a concomitant of mobility- the shorter duration of place relationships.
- It is also instructive to consider the relation of these dreams to anxiety dreams. In the dreams we have been discussing, a repressed wish has found a means of evading censorship—and the distortion which censorship involves. The invariable concomitant is that painful feelings are experienced in the dream.