Combining vs Combination - What's the difference?
combining | combination |
The act by which things are combined or brought together.
* (Charles Dickens), The Old Curiosity Shop
The act of combining, the state of being combined or the result of combining.
An object formed by combining.
A sequence of numbers or letters used to open a combination lock.
(mathematics) One or more elements selected from a set without regard to the order of selection.
An association or alliance of people for some common purpose.
(billiards) A combination shot; a billiard; a shot where the cue ball hits a ball that strikes another ball on the table.
motorcycle and sidecar
As nouns the difference between combining and combination
is that combining is the act by which things are combined or brought together while combination is the act of combining, the state of being combined or the result of combining.As a verb combining
is present participle of lang=en.combining
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Verb
(head)Noun
(en noun)- these little combinings together, of friends, for objects in themselves extremely laudable, but which the law terms conspiracies
