Combine vs Conjunct - What's the difference?
combine | conjunct |
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 .
(logic) Either term of a conjunction
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(linguistics) An adjunct that supplements a sentence with information, not considered to be an essential part of the propositional content, that connects the sentence with previous parts of the discourse, as "therefore" in "It was raining. Therefore, we didn't go swimming."
conjoined
acting together; collaborative
As a proper noun combine
is (colloquial) london underground.As a noun conjunct is
(logic) either term of a conjunction.As an adjective conjunct is
conjoined.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.
conjunct
English
Noun
(en noun)Holonyms
* (in logic) conjunctionAdjective
(-)- Set A is conjunct with set B.