I. verb
COLLOCATIONS FROM OTHER ENTRIES
a combined/overall total (= the sum of two or more amounts added together )
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The Jones family has a combined total of 143 years' service with the company.
combine the ingredients (= mix them together )
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Combine all the ingredients to form a smooth dough.
combining form
COLLOCATIONS FROM CORPUS
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business
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Poor men in the country did not travel for pleasure at all, combining enjoyment with business at markets and fairs.
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It is suitable for those wishing to combine a serious business oriented course with a holiday in London.
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The Business Rehearsal programme, which will combine training with actual business practice, runs from next month until September.
effort
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The scale of the enterprise is so large that fourteen nations combine their efforts at this single lab.
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Other students have joined a Community Leadership and Services Corps that combines classroom studies with efforts to address community needs.
factor
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A number of factors combined to explain why this was the case prior to 1959.
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The design of an experiment typically takes two of these factors and combines them in all possible combinations.
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These and other factors combine in various ways to create stress in a language.
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These discouraging factors combine to compel a search for cheaper and environmentally safer energy sources.
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A number of factors combined to produce a very positive relationship between the research, the researchers, and the team.
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These factors combined to put me in jeopardy every noon hour.
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Furthermore, these socio-economic factors combined to make the female nude a complicated carrier of meaning.
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Economic, racial, political, historic and cultural factors have combined to interweave the fabric of the world.
ingredient
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In Western-style cooking, it's up to the consumer to combine the ingredients .
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Learned how to combine the ingredients for pasta, to roll out the dough, and cut it.
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In a small bowl, combine next nine ingredients and mix well.
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In a small bowl, combine all ingredients for sauce and set aside.
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In large bowl, combine all ingredients for tomato mango relish and mix well, set aside.
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Preheat oven to 400 F.. In a food processor or blender, combine all coating ingredients and blend until smooth.
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In a bowl combine next four ingredients .
operation
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Xorandor's logic transgresses that of binary systems because he combines mutually exclusive operations .
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The company said it will combine its international commercial-industrial operations with its domestic commercial-industrial business unit.
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The environmentally friendly retail chain will combine its Web operations with its retail and mail order activities.
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The results reflected combined operations from the merger of Boeing and McDonnell Douglas, which took effect Aug. 1.
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The associated information from the strings is merged according to prescribed information combining operations .
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The first point is that generating letters and updating records must be combined into a single operation .
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And a combined navy and army operation brought about the fall of the stronger Fort Morgan on August 23.
PHRASES FROM OTHER ENTRIES
join/combine forces (with sb/sth)
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In 1995 the Oxford and Nairobi teams joined forces .
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In addition, three Askews' reps will combine forces with Chivers' force of two, to represent Chivers to libraries.
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It's obvious: I've got to join forces with Ace.
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It was bad enough that his daughter was rebelling, but here was his own wife joining forces with her.
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Last year the Guardian joined forces with the international campaign to free poor countries from debt.
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So some foreign houses are joining forces with local brokers.
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The better option is for you to join forces with several of your fellow employees and then meet with your manager.
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Will convinces the pair not to eat them, but instead join forces in the hunt for the pirates and their captives.
EXAMPLES FROM OTHER ENTRIES
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Combine the egg yolks and the cream, and cook over a low heat.
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Greenhouse gases combine with hydrocarbons to form smog.
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He designed the first great suspension bridge, an idea that combines beauty and function perfectly.
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He makes more money than everyone else in the office combined.
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Members of the radical Right combined with communists in holding an illegal meeting.
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Modern and traditional teaching methods are combined at the school.
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The banks plan to merge and combine their assets.
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The highest possible score on each section is 800, for a combined score of 1600.
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The opposition parties combined to drive the Prime Minister out of office.
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This is a computer system that combines maximum flexibility with absolute accuracy.
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To maintain a constant standard, some wine producers combine this year's wine with stocks from the previous year.
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When the two chemicals combine , they form an explosive compound.
EXAMPLES FROM CORPUS
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Carl has more experience than any of them combined.
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In a large, heavy-bottomed saucepan, combine water, salt, butter, and bay leaf.
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It is even related that Molla Tusi combined the Muftilik with teaching at the Sahn.
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Sleeping pills can interfere with the effect of other medications and can be dangerous when combined with them.
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The grammar of the language can be used to restrict word combinations because they do not combine arbitrarily to form sentences.
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The specification of each of these processors as well as a control system to combine them intelligently is currently far beyond any expectations.
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Waistliner - combine cottage cheese, diced red pepper and sweetcorn. 7.
II. noun
COLLOCATIONS FROM CORPUS
■ NOUN
harvester
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Instead of driving a modern combine harvester , he's using a binder to cut the corn into sheaves.
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I was saving 15 % roughly which is a lot on a combine harvester .
EXAMPLES FROM CORPUS
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Lutz Gattnar was in charge of computer projects at the 7 Oktober combine until the revolution.
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The combine has been through the Crops Challenge field and the final costs have been totted up.
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They go through an intelligence test and an array of interviews at the scouting combine in February.