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Harvester that heads and threshes and cleans grain while moving across the field
Answer for the clue "Harvester that heads and threshes and cleans grain while moving across the field ", 7 letters:
combine
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Word definitions for combine in dictionaries
Longman Dictionary of Contemporary English
Word definitions in Longman Dictionary of Contemporary English
I. verb 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. combine the ingredients (= mix them together ) ▪ Combine ...
Wiktionary
Word definitions in Wiktionary
n. 1 A combine harvester 2 A combination 3 # 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. 4 # An industrial conglomeration ...
The Collaborative International Dictionary
Word definitions in The Collaborative International Dictionary
Combine \Com*bine"\, v. i. To form a union; to agree; to coalesce; to confederate. You with your foes combine, And seem your own destruction to design --Dryden. So sweet did harp and voice combine. --Sir W. Scott. To unite by affinity or natural attraction; ...
Douglas Harper's Etymology Dictionary
Word definitions in Douglas Harper's Etymology Dictionary
"machine that cuts, threshes and cleans grain" (short for combine harvester ), 1857, from combine (v.).
Usage examples of combine.
Whilst the mechanist abridges, and the political economist combines labour, let them beware that their speculations, for want of correspondence with those first principles which belong to the imagination, do not tend, as they have in modern England, to exasperate at once the extremes of luxury and want.
To what but a cultivation of the mechanical arts in a degree disproportioned to the presence of the creative faculty, which is the basis of all knowledge, is to be attributed the abuse of all invention for abridging and combining labour, to the exasperation of the inequality of mankind?
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.
She paid him a daily visit, but always escorted by her mother, a former actress, who had retired from the stage in order to work out her salvation, and who, as a matter of course, had made up her mind to combine the interests of heaven with the works of this world.
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.
He combines ecclesiastical with secular functions, being apostolic administrator and bishop of Hermopolis, and at the same time Grand Almoner of the household and superintendent of the third Salle of the casino.
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.
Combine the peppercorns, mustard seeds, sesame seeds, salt and the ancho chili in the food processor and pulverize.
In fact, the absence of mammal-like creatures combined with the presence of angiosperms should have alerted the original colonists that something was wrong.