Combine vs Condense - What's the difference?

In transitive terms the difference between combine and condense

is that combine is to have two or more things or properties that function together while condense is to decrease size or volume by concentration toward the essence.

As a noun combine

is a combine harvester.

As a proper noun Combine

is london Underground.

As an adjective condense is

condensed; compact; dense.

combine

English

Verb

(combin)

To bring (two or more things or activities) together; to unite.

* (John Dryden)

You with your foes combine , / And seem your own destruction to design.

* Sir (Walter Scott)

So sweet did harp and voice combine .

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To have two or more things or properties that function together.

Joe combines the intelligence of a rock with the honesty of a politician.

To come together; to unite.

two substances that easily combine

(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)

I am combined by a sacred vow.

Derived terms

* combination * combinable * combinatory * combined * recombine

Synonyms

* fuse * merge * unite

Antonyms

* divide * separate * disunite

Noun

(en noun)

A combine harvester

We can't finish harvesting because our combine is stuck in the mud.

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.

The telecom companies were accused of having formed an illegal combine in order to hike up the network charges.

# An industrial conglomeration in a socialist country, particularly in the former .

condense

English

Alternative forms

* condence

Verb

To decrease size or volume by concentration toward the essence.

An abridged dictionary can be further condensed to pocket size.

Boiling off water condenses a thin sauce into a soupier mixture.

To make more close, compact, or dense; to compress or concentrate.

* Milton

In what shape they choose, / Dilated or condensed , bright or obscure.

* Motley

The secret course pursued at Brussels and at Madrid may be condensed into the usual formula, dissimulation, procrastination, and again dissimulation.

(chemistry) To transform from a gaseous state into a liquid state via condensation.

Synonyms

* (to decrease size or volume) minify

Antonyms

* extend * magnify

Adjective

(en adjective)

(archaic) Condensed; compact; dense.

The huge condense bodies of planets. — Bentley.

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