0 to (cause to) exist together, or join together to make a single thing or group: --
She manages to successfully combine family life and/with a career.
[ + to infinitive ] These normally harmless substances combine to form a highly poisonous gas.
Sickness, combined with (= together with) terrible weather, contrived to ruin the trip.
None of us has much money so let's combine what we've got.
1 a group of people or organizations acting together in business: --
a Japanese industrial combine
2 a large farming machine that cuts the plant, separates the seed from the stem, and cleans the grain as it moves across a field --
3 to unite or to join together to make a single thing or group: --
[ T ] She manages to successfully combine motherhood and a career.
[ + to infinitive ] When hydrogen and oxygen molecules combine to form water, heat and electricity are produced.
[ T ] None of us has much money so let’s combine what we’ve got.
4 a group of people or organizations acting together: --
Over the years they established a large media combine.
5 to join together in order to make a single thing or group, or to join things together in this way: --
She asks how the introduction of degrees combining a language with commerce, law, science etc. will affect research output which conventionally has been literature based.
Within the passage, therefore, the wish that his father were dead is combined with the wish that he return.
Even these lifestyle options can be combined in various ways by an individual.
The survey showed a vigorous pursuit of new hybrid programmes combining professional/vocational with linguistic training, legitimising the service role of modern languages.
The most obvious of these are questions about the exemplum's rhetorical status, as a narrative form which explicitly combines narrative with cultural authority.
His broad interest, combined with a critical attitude, definitely had an impact on my own scientific development.
The narrowness of the cutting edge combined with the force of the blow it can take makes this tool very adaptable in other areas.
Otherwise, they tended to rely on the particle combined with a general- purpose verb such as put or get.
