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Definition: Combined |
CombinedAdjective1. Involving the joint activity of two or more; "the attack was met by the combined strength of two divisions"; "concerted action"; "the conjunct influence of fire and strong dring"; "the conjunctive focus of political opposition"; "a cooperative effort"; "a united effort"; "joint military activities". 2. Made or joined or united into one. Source: WordNet 1.7.1 Copyright © 2001 by Princeton University. All rights reserved. |
Date "combined" was first used in popular English literature: sometime before 1010. (references) |
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Sports & Leisure | The result of two or more races arrived at by converting the results of each into points and then adding them together. Source: European Union. (references) |
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| The following table is compiled from various sources, across various languages. When English abbreviations or acronyms come from a non-English source, this is noted. | |||
| Entry | Source | Expression | Field |
| COB | English | Combined Order Bureau | Economics, Engineering & Technology |
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Synonyms: CombinedSynonyms: concerted (adj), conjunct (adj), conjunctive (adj), cooperative (adj), united (adj). (additional references) |
| Antonym: uncombined (adj). (additional references) |
| Context | Synonyms within Context (source: adapted from Roget's Thesaurus). |
Combination | Adjective: combined; Verb: impregnated with, ingrained; imbued inoculated. |
| Source: adapted from Roget's Thesaurus. | |
Crosswords: Combined |
| Specialty definitions using "combined": combined bridge and drop, combined bridge and regulator, combined error, combined HP-IP turbine element, combined power station and seawater desalination plant, combined test. (references) |
| Etymologies containing "combined": universe. (references) |
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Screenplays | With our combined strength, we can end this destructive conflict and bring order to the galaxy (Star Wars: Episode V - The Empire Strikes Back; writing credit: George Lucas; Leigh Brackett) I've got more trophies than Wayne Gretzky & The Pope combined! (The Simpsons; writing credit: Artur Brauner; Paul Hengge) If you took all the hair off of their combined chests, you wouldn't have enough to make a wig for a grape (Finishing School; writing credit: Laird Doyle; David Hempstead) You're Ginger and Mary Ann combined. (The Brady Bunch Movie; writing credit: Laurice Elehwany) I combined them into one memory (Parenthood; writing credit: Lowell Ganz; Babaloo Mandel) | |
Lyrics | Combined with Junkanoo and busting the groove (Blow Your Mind; performing artist: Baha Men) | |
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Combined bar and line graph showing annual number and rate of suicides among U.S. Air Force personnel--United States, 1980-1999. Credit: CDC. | ![]() | Shoran station in Liberia Combined operations party of George Morris Shoran used to control airplane conducting photogrammetric operations. Credit: Coast & Geodetic Survey Historical Image Collection. | |
![]() | 24' skiff built for under $100.00 Powered by K-70 Johnson outboard motor Combined operations party of H. A. Paton. Credit: Coast & Geodetic Survey Historical Image Collection. | ![]() | Photo #3 of sequence. Pole and line fishing with six poles working in unison. The fish has been pulled on deck through the combined effort of all six fishermen. Credit: Fisheries. |
![]() | An air monitoring facility at the combined disposal facility. Credit: NOAA Restoration Center. | ![]() | The New Bedford side of the Inner Harbor near one of the combined disposal facilities on the New Bedford side. The sign here is in Portugese and English. The sign warns people to keep out of the river because it is contaminated. Credit: NOAA Restoration Center. |
![]() | Figure 13. Richard narrow-ended net. Left: simple model. Right: model with deflector. Invented in 1903 by Doctor Jules Richard, this net combined extreme lightness with ease of making as well as a great facility for use by a ship underway. The prototype of this net was constructed on the PRINCESSE-ALICE II. Prince Albert I used this for thousands of plankton sampling tows from 1903 on. Credit: Sailing for Science - the NOAA Fleet Then and Now. | ![]() | The RAINIER crew are good neighbors to the Seattle community as they partake of the Combined Federal Campaign. Credit: Sailing for Science - the NOAA Fleet Then and Now. |
![]() | Gen. John Jumper, commander of Air Combat Command, discusses how the new experimental combined aerospace operations center will benefit warfighters Oct. 31, at the ribbon-cutting ceremony for the new weapon system. (File photo). | ![]() | Diane Perasso demonstrates new capabilities of the Theater Battle Management Core Systems software package for Gen. Lester Lyles, commander of Air Force Materiel Command, and others after the ribbon-cutting ceremony for the experimental combined aerospace. |
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| "Vienna" by Guenter M. Kirchweger Commentary: "Combined heat and power station - designed by hunderwasser." | "Flinders Street Station" by Tyniuz C. Commentary: "3 photos combined into 1 to make panoramic view of Flinders Street Station along the yarra river in melbourne. all 3 pics were taken at slightly different settings :( but thanks to photoshop its not so obvious." |
Source: photographs selected by the editor, with permission from the photographers. | |
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Ferdinand De Saussure | A linguistic system is a series of differences of sound combined with a series of differences of ideas. |
Henri Frederic Amiel | For purposes of action nothing is more useful than narrowness of thought combined with energy of will. |
Henry Wadsworth Longfellow | Intelligence and courtesy not always are combined; Often in a wooden house a golden room we find. |
James A. Garfield | All free governments are managed by the combined wisdom and folly of the people. |
Quentin Crisp | Living en famille provides the strongest motives for rudeness combined with the maximum opportunity for displaying it. |
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John Locke | 1690 | Civil society being a state of peace, amongst those who are of it, from whom the state of war is excluded by the umpirage, which they have provided in their legislative, for the ending all differences that may arise amongst any of them, it is in their legislative, that the members of a commonwealth are united, and combined together into one coherent living body. (Second Treatise of Government) |
Treaty of Versailles | 1919 | Insurance contracts shall be considered as contracts of life assurance for the purpose of paragraphs 11 to 14 when they depend on the probabilities of human life combined with the rate of interest for the calculation of the reciprocal engagements between the two parties. (reference) |
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Emma | Austen, Jane | They were combined only of anger against herself, mortification, and deep concern |
Scarlet Letter | Hawthorne, Nathaniel | The only surgeon was one who combined the occasional exercise of that noble art with the daily and habitual flourish of a razor |
Les Miserables | Hugo, Victor | He combined with admirable art and in masterly proportions the thirst of a guzzler with the discretion of a judge |
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| Subject | Topic | Quote |
Health | HCTZ is sometimes combined with amiloride. (references) | |
Several combined treatment regimens are under study. (references) | ||
Some cases of PI are the result of a combined deficiency. (references) | ||
Business | Their combined annual output equals about 300,000 cars scrapped. (references) | |
A trip to New York is frequently combined with a trip to Florida. (references) | ||
In 1997, the combined sales of these companies reached $596 million. (references) | ||
Children | Sweden | The authorities generally respect these laws, and the usual sentence is a fine combined with counseling and monitoring by social workers. (references) |
India | The state governments also spend part of their budgets on education, but no comprehensive figure of combined federal-state expenditure on education is available. (references) | |
Honduras | In the two major cities of San Pedro Sula and Tegucigalpa, with a combined population of 682,400 minors, a total of 2,500 complaints of child abuse were taken by the Public Ministry. (references) | |
Civil Liberties | Kazakhstan | There are 45 independent television and radio stations (17 television stations, 15 radio stations, and 13 combined television and radio stations). (references) |
Moldova | These difficulties, combined with the chronic financial problems of the country's schools, delayed indefinitely the implementation of the decree on a national level. (references) | |
Jordan | The 1998 Press and Publications Law and the 1999 revisions to the law, combined with the 1998 Press Association Law, impose stringent restrictions on the operation of newspapers. (references) | |
Economic History | Zambia | The members' combined GDP approaches US$200 billion. (references) |
Israel | The current political situation combined with the Dept. (references) | |
Slovenia | Trade equals about 120% of GDP (exports and imports combined). (references) | |
Human Rights | Colombia | On November 16, combined FARC and ELN columns attacked the town of Bolivar, Cauca department. (references) |
Fiji | There were 1,100 prisoners in 18 prisons countrywide; however, the combined capacity for all of the prisons is 800 inmates. (references) | |
Pakistan | In October 2000, the appeals court upheld Nawaz Sharif's convictions for hijacking and terrorism but combined them into one offense. (references) | |
Minorities | Bulgaria | These incidents, combined with severe unemployment and poverty, contributed to strained relations between Bulgarian and Romani residents in the town of Samokov, where an incident escalated to violence that illustrates problems in many Bulgarian cities. (references) |
Bosnia and Herzegovina | Increasing refugee returns and the resulting growth in ethnic/religious minorities, combined with sustained pressure from the international community on nationalist political parties, led to severe tension and several violent incidents during the first half of the year. (references) | |
Political Economy | NICARAGUA | The maximum rate of the combined DAI and ATP on most items is 20 percent. (references) |
Political Rights | Tajikistan | This fact, combined with a lack of democratic culture, results in a legislative branch that is not genuinely independent of the executive branch. (references) |
Trade | Senegal | Adding these various taxes to the new highest level import tariff yields a maximum combined tax rate of 52 percent. (references) |
Romania | Romania adopted an 8-digit customs tariff in March 1993. This tariff is similar to the International Harmonised System of Combined Nomenclature. (references) | |
Travel | Saudi Arabia | Local Saudi employee taxes are 15 percent of base or combined with benefits. (references) |
Colombia | Internal flights are frequently late or several may be combined if there are not enough passengers. (references) | |
Cote D'ivoire | No matter which option is selected it should be combined with use of insect repellents during evening hours. (references) | |
Women | Slovenia | The shelters operate at capacity (approximately 40 beds combined) and turn away numerous women. (references) |
India | These sentiments, combined with ineffective prosecution, make progress against domestic violence difficult. (references) | |
Worker Rights | Israel and the occupied territories | Children's rights groups have called for more vigorous enforcement of child labor laws, combined with a parallel effort to deal with the causes of illegal child labor. (references) |
Lexicography | Devil's Dictionary | PAINTING, n. The art of protecting flat surfaces from the weather and exposing them to the critic. Formerly, painting and sculpture were combined in the same work: the ancients painted their statues. The only present alliance between the two arts is that the modern painter chisels his patrons. |
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Rush Limbaugh | I will bet you that, with the money they received, Philip Morris is doing more to prevent youth smoking than all the states combined. |
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| Speaker | Term | Phrase(s) |
James Madison | 1809-1817 | To a thriving agriculture and the improvements related to it is added a highly interesting extension of useful manufactures, the combined product of professional occupations and of household industry. |
Warren G. Harding | 1921-1923 | We need a rigid and yet sane economy, combined with fiscal justice, and it must be attended by individual prudence and thrift, which are so essential to this trying hour and reassuring for the future. |
Calvin Coolidge | 1923-1929 | But the cost of our combined governments is likewise almost beyond definition. |
Harry S. Truman | 1945-1953 | By the combined and cooperative action of our war allies, we shall help the defeated enemy states establish peaceful democratic governments of their own free choice. |
John F. Kennedy | 1961-1963 | This combined program, by increasing the amount of our national income, will in time result in still higher Federal revenues. |
Ronald Reagan | 1981-1989 | The constant shrinkage of economic growth combined with the growth of military production is putting a heavy strain on the Soviet people. |
Bill Clinton | 1993-2001 | In the last two years, my administration has given more states the chance to find their own ways to reform welfare than the past two administrations combined. |
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| "Combined" is generally used as an adjective (general or positive) -- approximately 47.64% of the time. "Combined" is used about 3,049 times out of a sample of 100 million words spoken or written in English. Its rank is based on over 700,000 words used in the English language. Some parts-of-speech are not covered due to the samples used by the British National Corpus. (note: percents less than one-hundredth of one percent have been omitted) |
| Parts of Speech | Percent | Usage per 100 Million Words | Rank in English |
| Adjective (general or positive) | 47.64% | 1,452 | 5,571 |
| Lexical Verb (past participle) | 27.62% | 842 | 8,355 |
| Lexical Verb (past tense) | 22.08% | 673 | 9,797 |
| Noun (proper) | 2.59% | 79 | 37,388 |
| Noun (common) | 0.07% | 2 | 245,945 |
| Total | 100.00% | 3,049 | N/A |
Source: compiled by the editor from several corpora; see credits.
Expressions using "combined": accompanied combined transport ♦ be combined ♦ combined airspeed indicator ♦ combined arms ♦ combined arms commander ♦ combined arms unit ♦ combined bridge and drop ♦ combined bridge and regulator ♦ combined circuit ♦ combined command ♦ combined commercial and investment bank ♦ combined crusher and pump ♦ combined effect ♦ combined effort ♦ combined exchange ♦ combined financial statements ♦ combined force ♦ combined group accounts ♦ combined heat and power plants ♦ combined influence mine ♦ combined local/toll system ♦ combined local/transit exchange ♦ combined Locks ♦ combined logistic support ♦ Combined Modality Therapy ♦ combined moisture ♦ combined operation ♦ combined power station and seawater desalination plant ♦ combined rope ♦ combined sewerage system ♦ combined sewers ♦ combined stresses ♦ combined system ♦ combined test ♦ combined training exercise ♦ combined wages ♦ combined water ♦ nordic combined ♦ Severe Combined Immunodeficiency ♦ transalpine combined transport ♦ unaccompanied combined transport. Additional references. | |
| Hyphenated Usage | |
Beginning with "combined": combined-bomber, combined-cycle. | |
Ending with "combined": newly-combined, re-combined. | |
| Source: compiled by the editor from various references; see credits. | |
| The following statistics estimate the number of searches per day across the major English-language search engines as identified by various trade publications. Hyperlinks lead to commercial use of the expression at Amazon.com. |
| Language | Translations for "combined"; alternative meanings/domain in parentheses. | |
Albanian | i kombinuar, i bashkuar (associated, cohesive, confederate, conjoint, conjugate, conjunct, connected, consolidated, incorporate, joining, linked, United). (various references) | |
Arabic | موحد (conjoined, consolidated, integrated, merged, unified, united), متكتل (united), متكافل (consolidated), متحد (consolidated, incorporated, integrated, joined, joint, merged, standardized, uniform, united), متضامن (joint, solidary), مركب (assembled, built up, combination, complex, component, composite, composition, compound, installed, put together, synthesis), مشترك (collective, common, concerted, conjoint, in common, interplay, joint, mutual). (various references) | |
Chinese | 结合 (Associative, Banded, Combining, Conjugation, Coupled). (various references) | |
Czech | spoleèný (commensal, common, communal, conjoint, United), spojený (allied, bound up with, concerted, confederate, conjunct, conjunctive, connected, coupled, United), kombinovaný (composite). (various references) | |
Danish | kombineret (combination of, joint). (various references) | |
Dutch | combinatie met (combination of), gecombineerd (combination of). (various references) | |
Finnish | yhdistetty (integrated). (various references) | |
French | combiné (compound). (various references) | |
German | kombiniert (combines), kombinierte. (various references) | |
Greek | συνδυασμένος (combination of), σε συνδυασμό. (various references) | |
Hebrew | מלוכד (consolidated), מתואם (concerted, coordinated, correlated, organic, parallel, symmetrical), מורכב (complex, complicated, composed, composite, compound, intricate), משולב (integrated, interlocked). (various references) | |
Hungarian | kombinált (multi-modal, pliers), kevert (impure, medley, mingled, miscellaneous, mixed, motley, tempered), egyesített (allied, conjugate, corporate, integrated, joint, one, United), egyesült (conjoint, conjugate, incorporate, incorporated, United). (various references) | |
Italian | combinato (combination of). (various references) | |
Japanese Kanji | 合成 (composite, composition, compound, mixed, synthesis, synthetic). (various references) | |
Japanese Katakana | ごうせい (blackmail, composite, composition, compound, extortion, extravagance, hardness, luxury, magnificence, mixed, persistent demand, rigidity, synthesis, synthetic). (various references) | |
Korean | 결합하는 (Consolidated, Coupled, joined, united). (various references) | |
Manx | cochianglt (associated, bound, joined), co- (associate, brother, co-, con-, constituent, mutual, mutually, sister). (various references) | |
Pig Latin | ombinedcay.(various references) | |
Portuguese | combinado (agreed, collusive, concerted). (various references) | |
Romanian | amestecat (amalgamate, divers, involved, medley, miscellaneous, mixed, mobbish, motley, promiscuous, scratchy, so so, sundry, varied, various). (various references) | |
Russian | комбинированный (composite), объединять комбинированный, присоединенный. (various references) | |
Serbo-Croatian | udružen (associated, joint, jointed, united), spojen (connected, coupled, linked, united). (various references) | |
Spanish | coordinado (coordinate, coordinated), conjunto (adjunctive, adjuratory, aggregate, associated, body, chorus, ensemble, grouping, integration, joint, set, suit, union, whole), combinado (cocktail, joint), combinación de (combination of), mixto (assorted, joint, mixed). (various references) | |
Swedish | kombinerad. (various references) | |
Turkish | kombine (sectional), karma (composite, integrated, karma, mixed, mixing, olio, public-private, shuffle, shuffling), karışık (adulterated, blended, calico, chequered, complicated, composite, compound, confused, deep, disconcerted, disordered, disorderly, disorganized, hugger mugger, huggermugger, hybrid, inexplicit, inextricable, intricate, involute, involved, kinky, knotted, knotty, mazy, medley, miscellaneous, mixed, motley, obscure, out of square, promiscuous, turbid, unclassified, unsized, woolly, wooly), birleşik (adjunctive, confederate, conjoint, conjugate, conjunct, connected, federate, integrated, joint, jointed, unified, United), bileşik (composite, compound). (various references) | |
Ukrainian | комбінований, об'єднаний (amalgamate, amalgamated, associate, associated, conjoint, consolidated, incorporate), зв'язаний (affined, bound, cabined, coherent, cohesive, conjunct, connected, relative). (various references) | |
| Source: compiled by the editor from various translation references. | ||
Derivations | |
Words ending with "combined": recombined, uncombined. (additional references) | |
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"Combined" is suggested in spellcheckers for the following: cambine, Comband, combbine, combien, combimne, Combina, Combinado, combind, combinds, combinitis, combione, combipen, combite, comind, compined, conbined, cumbine, kombinat. (additional references) | |
| Source: compiled by the editor, based on several corpora (additional references). | |
| # of Phoneme Matches | Pronunciation | Word(s) rhyming with "combined" (pronounced kumbī"nd) |
| 4 | -b ī" n d | bind. |
| 3 | -ī" n d | aligned, assigned, behind, blind, confined, consigned, declined, defined, designed, dined, intertwined, kind, lined, disinclined, enshrined, entwined, find, fined, grind, hind, inclined, maligned, mankind, mind, mined, opined, realigned, reassigned, redefined, redesigned, refined, remind, resigned, rind, shined, signed, twined, unconfined, undefined, undermined, unkind, unlined, unrefined, unsigned, unwind, wind, wined. |
Source: compiled by the editor (additional references); see credits. | ||
Scrabble® Enable2K-Verified Anagrams | |
| Words within the letters "b-c-d-e-i-m-n-o" | |
-1 letter: combine, demonic. | |
-2 letters: bodice, ceboid, codein, coined, combed, domine, emodin, income, medico, minced, monied. | |
-3 letters: bedim, biome, boned, cebid, coden, combe, coned, demob, demon, denim, dobie, domic, imbed, medic, mince, mined, monde, monie. | |
-4 letters: bend, bice, bide, bind, bine, bode, bond, bone, cedi, cine, cion, code, coed, coin, comb, come, cone, coni, deco, demo. | |
| Words containing the letters "b-c-d-e-i-m-n-o" | |
+2 letters: recombined, uncombined. | |
+3 letters: biomedicine, coembodying. | |
+4 letters: biomedicines. | |
+5 letters: endosymbiotic, rhabdomancies. | |
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