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Combining vs Amalgam - What's the difference?

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Combining is a related term of amalgam.


As nouns the difference between combining and amalgam

is that combining is the act by which things are combined or brought together while amalgam is amalgam (alloy containing mercury).

As a verb combining

is .

combining

English

Verb

(head)

    • Noun

    (en noun)
  • The act by which things are combined or brought together.
  • * (Charles Dickens), The Old Curiosity Shop
    • these little combinings together, of friends, for objects in themselves extremely laudable, but which the law terms conspiracies

    amalgam

    English

    (wikipedia amalgam)

    Noun

    (amalgams)
  • (metallurgy) An alloy containing mercury
  • A combination of different things

    • Synonyms

    * alloy, blend, combo, compound, mixture

    Verb

    (en verb)
  • (archaic, ambitransitive) To amalgamate.
    • (Boyle)
    (Ben Jonson)

    References

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    Noun

  • (l)

    • Declension

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