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Combine vs Linking - What's the difference?

combine | linking |

As verbs the difference between combine and linking

is that combine is to bring (two or more things or activities) together; to unite while linking is present participle of link.

As nouns the difference between combine and linking

is that combine is a combine harvester while linking is linkage.

As a proper noun Combine

is london Underground.

As an adjective linking is

serving to connect other things together.

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 .
  • * {{quote-magazine, date=2012-03, author=William E. Carter, Merri Sue Carter
    • , volume=100, issue=2, page=87, magazine=(American Scientist) , title= The British Longitude Act Reconsidered , passage=Conditions were horrendous aboard most British naval vessels at the time. Scurvy and other diseases ran rampant, killing more seamen each year than all other causes combined , including combat.}}
  • 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 .

    • linking

    English

    Verb

    (head)
  • Present participle of link.
  • :The yard manager is linking the sections of the train together.

    • Adjective

    (-)
  • Serving to connect other things together.
  • :Conjunctions frequently function as linking words in a sentence.

    • Noun

    (en noun)
  • linkage
  • * 1986 , Douglas Pulleyblank, Tone in Lexical Phonology (page 11)
    • I will assume that multiple linkings of tones to a single tone-bearing unit come about only by language-specific rules.

    Anagrams

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