Combine vs Integrates - What's the difference?
combine | integrates |
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 .
(integrate)
To form into one whole; to make entire; to complete; to renew; to restore; to perfect.
To indicate the whole of; to give the sum or total of; as, an integrating anemometer, one that indicates or registers the entire action of the wind in a given time.
(mathematics) To subject to the operation of integration; to find the integral of.
To desegregate, as a school or neighborhood.
As a proper noun combine
is (colloquial) london underground.As a verb integrates is
.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.
