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Combination   /kˌɑmbənˈeɪʃən/   Listen
Combination

noun
1.
A collection of things that have been combined; an assemblage of separate parts or qualities.
2.
A coordinated sequence of chess moves.
3.
A sequence of numbers or letters that opens a combination lock.
4.
A group of people (often temporary) having a common purpose.
5.
An alliance of people or corporations or countries for a special purpose (formerly to achieve some antisocial end but now for general political or economic purposes).
6.
The act of arranging elements into specified groups without regard to order.
7.
The act of combining things to form a new whole.  Synonyms: combining, compounding.



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"Combination" Quotes from Famous Books



... the oddity of this childish climax in spite of the heaviness of my heart and the springing of my tears. Minima's fresh young fancies were too droll to resist, especially in combination with her shrewd, old-womanish knowledge of many things of ...
— The Doctor's Dilemma • Hesba Stretton
... kinds of vice, he laid himself open to retort by his own want of delicacy. He, as well as Swift, was fond of alluding in his verse to polluted and forbidden things. There, and there alone, his taste deserted him; and there is something disgusting and unnatural in the combination of the elegant and the obscene—the coarse in sentiment and the polished in style. And whatever may be said for many of the amiable traits of the Man, there is very little to be said for the general tendency—so far as healthy morality and Christian principle are concerned—of ...
— The Poetical Works Of Alexander Pope, Vol. 1 • Alexander Pope et al
... the anatomist includes the entire history of the special relations of the organs within contained. And not until he is capable of summing together the whole picture of anatomical analysis, and of viewing this in all its intricate relationary combination—even through and beneath the closed surface of living moving nature, is he prepared to estimate the conditions of disease, ...
— Surgical Anatomy • Joseph Maclise
... abounds in catechu, and, rolling it up with a little of the lime in a betel-leaf, the whole is chewed, and finally swallowed, after provoking an extreme salivation. No medical prescription could be more judiciously compounded to effect the desired object than this practical combination of antacid, ...
— Ceylon; an Account of the Island Physical, Historical, and • James Emerson Tennent
... attired in black, wore a thick veil, and trembled a good deal. Miss Crofton, whose dress was a combination of untoward but decisive hues, and whose hat was enormous and flamboyant, appeared to be the other young lady's confidante, and conducted the business ...
— The Disentanglers • Andrew Lang


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