combineとは 意味・読み方・使い方

発音

• (verb):
  • enPR: kəm-bīn', IPA^(key): /kəmˈbaɪn/
  • 韻: -aɪn

• (noun):
  • (英国発音) IPA^(key): /ˈkɒm.baɪn/
  • (米国発音) enPR: käm'bīn, IPA^(key): /ˈkɑm.baɪn/

動詞

combine (三人称単数 現在形 combines, 現在分詞 combining, 過去形および過去分詞形 combined)

1. (transitive) To bring (two または more things または activities) together; to unite.
   • 2012 March 1, William E. Carter, Merri Sue Carter, “The British Longitude Act Reconsidered”, in American Scientist, volume 100, number 2, page 87:

     Conditions were horrendous aboard most British naval vessels at the time. Scurvy and other diseases ran rampant, killing more seamen each year than all other causes combined, including combat.

   Combine the milk and the hot water in a large bowl.   I'm combining business and pleasure on this trip.

2. (transitive) To have two or more things or properties that function together.

   Joe combines the intelligence of a rock with the honesty of a politician.

3. (intransitive) To come together; to unite.

   two substances that easily combine

   • 1675, John Dryden, Aureng-zebe: A Tragedy. […], London: […] T[homas] N[ewcomb] for Henry Herringman, […], published 1676, OCLC 228724395, (please specify the page number):

     You with your foes combine, / And seem your own destruction to design.

   • 1805, Walter Scott, “(please specify the page)”, in The Lay of the Last Minstrel: A Poem, London: […] [James Ballantyne] for Longman, Hurst, Rees, and Orme, […], and A[rchibald] Constable and Co., […], OCLC 1001655651:

     So sweet did harp and voice combine.

4. (card games) 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.
5. (obsolete) To bind; to hold by a moral tie.
   • c. 1603–1604 (date written), William Shakespeare, “Measure for Measure”, in Mr. William Shakespeares Comedies, Histories, & Tragedies […] (First Folio), London: […] Isaac Iaggard, and Ed[ward] Blount, published 1623, OCLC 606515358, [Act IV, scene iii]:

     I am combined by a sacred vow.

同意語

• See synonyms at Thesaurus:coalesce.

反意語

• divide
• separate
• disunite

派生語

名詞

combine (複数形 combines)

1. A combine harvester

   We can't finish harvesting because our combine is stuck in the mud.

   • 1976, The Wurzels, I Am A Cider Drinker

     When those combine wheels stops turnin'
     And the hard days work is done
     Theres a pub around the corner
     It's the place we 'ave our fun

2. A combination
   1. Especially, a joint enterprise of whatever legal form for a purpose of business or in any way promoting the interests of the participants, sometimes with monopolistic or fraudulent intentions.

      The telecom companies were accused of having formed an illegal combine in order to hike up the network charges.

   2. An industrial conglomeration in a socialist country, particularly in the former Soviet bloc.

      Synonym: kombinat

   3. (art) An artwork falling between painting and sculpture, having objects embedded into a painted surface.
3. (米国用法 football) A Test match in which applicants play in the hope of earning a position on a professional football team.
   • 2008, Scott Shetler, Optimal Performance Techniques for the Football Combine, page 5:

     If you purchased this book chances are that you are planning on participating in a football combine or pro-day test.

   • 2020, Jay R. Hoffman, The Science of American Football:

     In 2008, a study was published that examined the ability of the NFL combine to predict football playing performance in the NFL (Kuzmits かつ Adams, 2008).

   • 2020 April 24, Ken Belson and Ben Shpigel, “Full Round 1 2020 N.F.L. Picks and Analysis”, in New York Time‎^[1]:

     At the combine, Reagor compared himself to the 49ers’ Deebo Samuel or Chiefs’ Tyreek Hill — whom he said he watched “every day”

派生語

• combine driver

アナグラム

• becomin'