Construct vs Combine - What's the difference?
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Something constructed from parts.
A concept or model.
To build or form (something) by assembling parts.
Similarly, to build (a sentence, an argument, etc.) by arranging words or ideas.
* (Marita Sturken)
(geometry) To draw (a geometric figure) by following precise specifications and using geometric tools and techniques.
To bring (two or more things or activities) together; to unite.
* (John Dryden)
* Sir (Walter Scott)
* {{quote-magazine, date=2012-03, author=William E. Carter, Merri Sue Carter
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, title= To have two or more things or properties that function together.
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 .
In transitive terms the difference between construct and combine
is that construct is similarly, to build (a sentence, an argument, etc.) by arranging words or ideas while combine is to have two or more things or properties that function together.As a proper noun Combine is
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English
Noun
(en noun)- The artwork was a construct of wire and tubes.
- Loops and conditional statements are constructs in computer programming.
- Bohr's theoretical construct of the atom was soon superseded by quantum mechanics.
Synonyms
* (something constructed from parts ): construction * (concept, model ): concept, idea, model, notion, representationVerb
(en verb)- We constructed the radio from spares.
- A sentence may be constructed with a subject, verb and object.
- The Vietnam War films are forms of memory that function to provide collective rememberings, to construct history, and to subsume within them the experience of the veterans.
- Construct a circle that touches each vertex of the given triangle.
Synonyms
* (build or form by assembling parts' ): assemble, build, form, make, produce, put together * (build (a sentence or argument) ): form * (draw (a geometric figure) ):Antonyms
* (build or form by assembling parts ): destroy, disassemble, dismantle, ruin, wreck, take apartDerived terms
* reconstructExternal links
* * * (Construct) English heteronymscombine
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.