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Longman Dictionary of Contemporary English
combined
adjective
COLLOCATIONS FROM OTHER ENTRIES
a combined/overall total (=the sum of two or more amounts added together)
▪ The Jones family has a combined total of 143 years' service with the company.
COLLOCATIONS FROM CORPUS
■ NOUN
effect
▪ The combined effects of these waves on our health and well-being are as yet unknown.
▪ These three factors each accounted for similar proportions of combined effect on average pay of around 15 percent.
▪ Movement can be due to a variety of causes and sometimes results from the combined effect of more than one cause.
▪ The combined effect is to leave individual teachers feeling more accountable, but more confused and less supported.
▪ Several plants grouped together will create their own humid micro-climate, though overcrowding may make the combined effect too much.
▪ The combined effect of federal, state and local taxes in the United States in 1985 fell heavily on the poorest.
▪ This is a condition brought about by the combined effect of evolution and civilisation and for everyone it is quite unavoidable.
▪ Central authority has collapsed, and 100,000 people have already died from the combined effects of the fighting and famine.
effort
▪ Sadly, even their combined efforts can not hope to compensate for the many jobs lost.
forces
▪ These combined forces cause the board to capsize.
▪ This probably evolved from a harem system where the females combined forces to overpower and drive out the dominant male.
▪ The combined forces of Rufus and Warenne starved Pevensey into submission.
group
▪ It follows a held 55p total for the combined group for 1992.
heat
▪ Mr. Rost Under the Electricity Act 1989, the regulator is directed to monitor the progress of combined heat and power.
▪ When will they act instead of saying at every Question Time how much they are in favour of combined heat and power?
▪ Other cost-effective ways of reducing emissions included combined heat and power for housing, factories and hospitals, and lighting efficiency.
operation
▪ The cutters were beginning to feature in an increasing number of combined operations with the Customs Investigation Department.
▪ The combined operation of the Keynes effect and the real-balance effect is illustrated in Figure 5.4.
▪ We have, however, established the effectiveness of combined operations in science, politics and public information.
system
▪ The following passage summarises his views on the combined system, which he advocated in numerous speeches and articles.
▪ She had recently changed her mind and in a moving and closely argued speech declared her support for the combined system.
total
▪ There are now around 250 investment trusts worth a combined total of £24 billion.
▪ Lessons may seen very expensive at first, but the combined total is less than what many people spend on a holiday.
▪ This season he has shown remarkable consistency, conjuring up a combined total of 12 goals and 32 points.
use
▪ There are 23 ways of prescribing antibiotics for acne based on oral, topical, or combined use of available preparations.
▪ This study exemplifies the combined use of human and mouse genetics to dissect human genetic diseases involving multiple genes and complex phenotypes.
EXAMPLES FROM OTHER ENTRIES
▪ Ann felt a combined relief and sadness.
▪ He had an air of combined gloom and relief.
▪ It was a combined operation involving troops from the US and Europe.
▪ It was a combined reunion, the class of 1965 with the class of 1970.
▪ The combined efforts of four police officers and two paramedics were needed to lift the driver from the wreckage.
▪ Their relief that war had been avoided was combined with sadness at what they had lost.
EXAMPLES FROM CORPUS
▪ At eighteen thousand pounds it cost them their combined life savings.
▪ Paige could hear him talking to the pilot, and from time to time the sound of their combined laughter.
▪ The combined choirs sustained the joyful mood with the aptly chosen hymns.
▪ The sword was later recovered from a long forgotten underground lair by a combined expedition of Dwarfs and Men.
▪ There are now around 250 investment trusts worth a combined total of £24 billion.
▪ These are combined to give an overall requirement which is grossed up for tax and converted into the local currency.
The Collaborative International Dictionary
Combined

Combined \Com*bined"\, a. United closely; confederated; chemically united.

Combined

Combine \Com*bine"\ (k[o^]m*b[imac]n"), v. t. [imp. & p. p. Combined (k[o^]m*b[imac]nd"); p. pr. & vb. n. Combining.] [LL. combinare, combinatum; L. com- + binus, pl. bini, two and two, double: cf. F. combiner. See Binary.]

  1. To unite or join; to link closely together; to bring into harmonious union; to cause or unite so as to form a homogeneous substance, as by chemical union.

    So fitly them in pairs thou hast combined.
    --Milton.

    Friendship is the cement which really combines mankind.
    --Dr. H. More.

    And all combined, save what thou must combine By holy marriage.
    --Shak.

    Earthly sounds, though sweet and well combined.
    --Cowper.

  2. To bind; to hold by a moral tie. [Obs.]

    I am combined by a sacred vow.
    --Shak.

Wiktionary
combined
  1. Resulting from the addition of several sources, parts, elements, aspects, etc. able to be united together, to converge. v

  2. (en-past of: combine)

WordNet
combined
  1. adj. involving the joint activity of two or more; "the attack was met by the combined strength of two divisions"; "concerted action"; "the conjunct influence of fire and strong dring"; "the conjunctive focus of political opposition"; "a cooperative effort"; "a united effort"; "joint military activities" [syn: concerted, conjunct, conjunctive, cooperative, united]

  2. made or joined or united into one [ant: uncombined]

Gazetteer
Wikipedia
Combined

Combineded may refer to:

  • Alpine combined (skiing), the combination of slalom and downhill skiing as a single event
    • super combined (skiing)
  • Nordic combined (skiing), the combination of cross country skiing and ski jumping as a single event
  • The Combined (Group), a criminal organization
  • Combined cycle engines
  • Combined arms military tactics

Usage examples of "combined".

The blue flowers of the slender-leaved flax, combined with the bright hues of the scarlet acanthus, a flower peculiar to the country.

We had both ships under one gee acceleration drives, complicated by the combined attraction of the two mass plates.

For example, an anion gap on the electrolyte panel combined with metabolic acidosis on arterial blood gases would prompt an inquiry into ASA, methanol, or ethylene glycol as potential etiologic agents.

Quenya as in English, an adjective can be directly combined with a noun, describing it.

As santonin is almost entirely tasteless, if not combined with other medicines which are unpalatable, no difficulty will be experienced in administering it to children.

This failing was often combined with a disdain for compromise, an almost sublime disregard for reality, at least as Aiken knew it.

And the aileron and rudder controls, and those which governed the pitch and tune of the rotor blades, by whose combined means the little gig could have been brought down to the surface, were out of operation.

In addition to the alterative properties combined in this compound, it possesses important tonic qualities.

Above eighty gun-boats and bomb-ketches were to second the operations of the floating batteries, together with a multitude of frigates and smaller vessels, while the combined fleets of France and Spain amounting to fifty sail of the line, were to cover and support the attack.

In fact, the absence of mammal-like creatures combined with the presence of angiosperms should have alerted the original colonists that something was wrong.

Its fresh root is bitter, and a milky juice flows from the rind, which is somewhat aperient and slightly sedative, so that this specially suits persons troubled with bilious torpor, and jaundice combined with melancholy.

The decor was stylish to a point where it transcended style and entered the realms of perspicuous harmony, shunning grandiloquent ornamentation in favour of a visual concinnity, garnered from aesthetic principles, which combined the austerity of Bauhaus and ebullience of Burges14 into an eclectic mix before stripping them down to their fundamental essentials, to create an effect which was almost aphoristic, in that it could be experienced but never completely expressed.

He developed the pleasure ethic of Aristippus and combined it with the atom theory of Democritus.

I immediately intimated to our Government that this circumstance would probably give a new turn to the operations of the combined army, for hitherto the uncertainty of its movements and the successive counterorders afforded no possibility of ascertaining any determined plan.

Her charming conversation combined with her beauty gradually drew me under her charm, and as the drink began to exercise its influence over me, I proposed a turn in one of the dark walks, expressing a hope that I should fare better than Lord Pembroke.