Combine: Definition and part of speech

Combine

  1. v. i. In the game of casino, to play a card which will take two or more cards whose aggregate number of pips equals those of the card played.
  2. v. t. 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.
  3. v. t. To bind; to hold by a moral tie.
  4. v. i. To form a union; to agree; to coalesce; to confederate.
  5. v. i. To unite by affinity or natural attraction; as, two substances, which will not combine of themselves, may be made to combine by the intervention of a third.

The word meanings were obtained from OPTED(The Online Plain Text English Dictionary), which is based on “The Project Gutenberg Etext of Webster’s Unabridged Dictionary” which is in turn based on the 1913 US Webster’s Unabridged Dictionary (See Project Gutenburg), as a text file.

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