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Faction is a related term of combine.


As a noun faction

is a group of people, especially within a political organization, which expresses a shared belief or opinion different from people who are not part of the group or faction can be a form of literature, film etc, that treats real people or events as if they were fiction; a mix of fact and fiction.

As a proper noun combine is

(colloquial) london underground.

faction

English

(wikipedia faction)

Etymology 1

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Noun

(en noun)
  • A group of people, especially within a political organization, which expresses a shared belief or opinion different from people who are not part of the group.
  • *
  • Strife; discord.
  • * 1805 , Johann Georg Cleminius, Englisches Lesebuch für Kaufleute , pg. 188:
    • Publick [sic] affairs soon fell into the utmost confusion, and in this state of faction and perplexity, the island continued, until its re-capture by the French in 1779.
  • * 2001 , Odd Magne Bakke, "Concord and Peace": A Rhetorical Analysis of the First Letter of Clement With an Emphasis on the Language of Unity and Sedition , publ. Mohr Siebeck, ISBN 3161476379, pg. 89:
    • He asks the audience if they believe that they will be more loved by the gods if the city is in a state of faction than if they govern the city with good order and concord.
    Derived terms
    * factional * factionalize
    Related terms
    * -faction * fact * factor * factorial * factory * fashion

    See also

    * splinter group

    Etymology 2

    .

    Noun

    (en noun)
  • A form of literature, film etc., that treats real people or events as if they were fiction; a mix of fact and fiction
    • Related terms
    * fact * fiction
    See also
    * (Non-fiction novel) ----

    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 .