Crossword clues for combining
The Collaborative International Dictionary
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.]
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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.
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To bind; to hold by a moral tie. [Obs.]
I am combined by a sacred vow.
--Shak.
Wiktionary
n. The act by which things are combined or brought together. vb. (present participle of combine English)
WordNet
n. an occurrence that results in things being united [syn: combine]
the act of combining things to form a new whole [syn: combination, compounding]
Wikipedia
Combining may refer to:
- Combine harvester use in agriculture
- Combining capacity, in chemistry
- Combining character, in digital typography
- Combining form, in linguistics
- Combining grapheme joiner, Unicode character that has no visible glyph
- Combining Cyrillic Hundred Thousands, modifier in the Cyrillic numerals system representing a multiplier of one hundred thousand
- Combining Cyrillic Millions, as above but for one million
- Combining like terms, in algebra
- Combining low line, underline, in typgraphy
- Combining macron below, Unicode combining diacritical mark
- Combining weight, system of chemical weights created by Ernst Gottfried Fischer
- Custom combining, in agriculture harvesting
- Diversity combining, in telecommunications
- Food combining, in nutrition
- Maximal-ratio combining, in telecommunications
- Protein combining, in nutrition
- Write-combining, in computing
Usage examples of "combining".
The little vessel continued to beat its way seaward, and the ironclads receded slowly towards the coast, which was hidden still by a marbled bank of vapour, part steam, part black gas, eddying and combining in the strangest way.
As to the ordinary and commonplace explanation, it may be added, that the wisdom of the Architect is displayed in combining, as only a skillful Architect can do, and as God has done everywhere,--for example, in the tree, the human frame, the egg, the cells of the honeycomb--strength, with grace, beauty, symmetry, proportion, lightness, ornamentation.
It is, however, not difficult, combining the different rays of light that emanate from the different Sanctuaries, to learn the genius and the object of these secret ceremonies.
His rule prescribed no unnatural mortification: its yoke was easy, and its mirthful choruses, combining the gay with the severe, did but commemorate that golden age when earth enjoyed eternal spring, and when fountains of honey, milk, and wine burst forth out of its bosom at the touch of the thyrsus.
Nature worship combining conceptions of a Universal Presence and action, 602-u.
This could only be exercised by combining the offices of Prime Minister and Minister of Defence.
The difficulties of focusing and combining in one vehement thrust all the efforts of two mighty countries were such that no ambiguity could be allowed to darken counsel.
What else is necessary, Dialectic puts together for itself, combining and dividing, until it has reached perfect Intellection.
Happiness is to put it together by combining non-existents, represented by the past, with some one thing that actually is.
This combined Intellectual realm will be the Primal Intellect: we have only then to examine how this reality, conjoint of Intellectual-Principle and its object, is to be understood, whether as combining self-united identity with yet duality and difference, or what other relation holds between them.
Whoever had planned it all had succeeded in the seemingly impossible task of combining the ambience of a bank with that of a massage parlor.
At the same time we know how great is our debt to the combining and unifying command and high strategic direction of General Eisenhower.
But any method for thus combining the bases and acids must be arbitrary and inaccurate.
It was a mobile bar, combining the worst features of a Coney Island ride with uninspired cocktails, and Gallegher hesitated on the threshold.
Oxygen, combining with starch in a slow, fermentative combustion, could produce heat to ward off the cold that would otherwise stop growth.