Combine

kəmˈbaɪn

verb

to unite or merge into a single entity

The word 'combine' can be traced back to the Latin word 'combinare', which means 'to unite together'. Combining elements or things can lead to new and innovative outcomes.

Why allow them to combine their strength?” Because Arnolf Karstark awaits only a sign from Lord Bolton before he turns his cloak, thought Theon, as other lords began to shout out counsel.

George R. R. Martin

A Dance with Dragons: A Song of Ice and Fire: Book Five

All its more ponderous and bulky worth Is friendship, whence there ever issues forth A steady splendour; but at the tip-top, There hangs by unseen film, an orbed drop Of light, and that is love: its influence Thrown in our eyes genders a novel sense, At which we start and fret: till in the end, Melting into its radiance, we blend, Mingle, and so become a part of it,— Nor with aught else can our souls interknit So wingedly: when we combine therewith, Life’s self is nourish’d by its proper pith, And we are nurtured like a pelican brood.

John Keats

Poetry

(2) The movement of nations is caused not by power, nor by intellectual activity, nor even by a combination of the two as historians have supposed, but by the activity of all the people who participate in the events, and who always combine in such a way that those taking the largest direct share in the event take on themselves the least responsibility and vice versa.

Leo Tolstoy

War and Peace

We will eat before we retire.” = = = = = = Thus spoke St. Alia-?of-?the-?Knife: “The Reverend Mother must combine the seductive wiles of a courtesan with the untouchable majesty of a virgin goddess, holding these attributes in tension so long as the powers of her youth endure.

Herbert, Frank

Dune

Combine the nature of his profession with the fact that the Empire has already subsidized one attack upon us in my father’s time, and the possibilities become ominous.

Asimov, Isaac

Foundation 2 - Foundation and Empire

That was “competition,” so far as it concerned the wage-earner, the man who had only his labor to sell; to those on top, the exploiters, it appeared very differently, of course—there were few of them, and they could combine and dominate, and their power would be unbreakable.

Upton Sinclair

The Jungle

Such is their toil, and such their busy pains, As exercise the bees in flow’ry plains, When winter past, and summer scarce begun, Invites them forth to labour in the sun; Some lead their youth abroad, while some condense Their liquid store, and some in cells dispense; Some at the gate stand ready to receive The golden burthen, and their friends relieve; All with united force, combine to drive The lazy drones from the labourious hive: With envy stung, they view each other’s deeds; The fragrant work with diligence proceeds.

Virgil

The Aeneid

In civilization, such as it has formed itself, a little by the command of God, a great deal by the agency of man, interests combine, unite, and amalgamate in a manner to form a veritable hard rock, in accordance with a dynamic law, patiently studied by economists, those geologists of politics.

Victor Hugo

Les Misérables

Is it impossible to combine the hardiness of these savages with the intellectualness of the civilized man?

Henry David Thoreau

Walden

He took from nature its rich, subtle, elaborate forms, but his aim was always to work them into a whole that should have the thrilling simplicity and formality of an idea; to combine prodigious realism with prodigious simplification.

Aldous Huxley

Crome Yellow

No, something top notch, an all star Irish caste, the Tweedy-Flower grand opera company with its own legal consort as leading lady as a sort of counterblast to the Elster Grimes and Moody-Manners, perfectly simple matter and he was quite sanguine of success, providing puffs in the local papers could be managed by some fellow with a bit of bounce who could pull the indispensable wires and thus combine business with pleasure.

James Joyce

Ulysses

Combine that with the fact that by losing me they'll be losing their ticket to all kinds of big social events, particularly my wedding, and the whole thing becomes unbearable.

Suzanne Collins

Catching Fire

Such people demanded a war-cry and banner from outside to combine them, and a stranger to lead them, one whose supremacy should be based on an idea: illogical, undeniable, discriminant: which instinct might accept and reason find no rational basis to reject or approve.

T. E. Lawrence

Seven Pillars of Wisdom

The son of a Reverend Mother, fathered by a minor functionary of the Combine Honnete Ober Advancer Mercantiles, he had matured in a household that moved to the Sisterhood’s beat.

Frank Herbert

Heretics of Dune

The League is going to combine with the Chamber of Commerce in a campaign for the Open Shop, so it’s time for you to put your name down.” In his embarrassment Babbitt could not recall his reasons for not wishing to join the League, if indeed he had ever definitely known them, but he was passionately certain that he did not wish to join, and at the thought of their forcing him he felt a stirring of anger against even these princes of commerce.

Sinclair Lewis

Babbitt

As mine on hers, so hers is set on mine; And all combin’d, save what thou must combine By holy marriage.

William Shakespeare

Romeo and Juliet

If we confine our attention either to the living or to the extinct species of the same class, the series is far less perfect than if we combine both into one general system.

Charles Darwin

The Origin of Species

The second was lye only burns when you combine it with water.

Palahniuk, Chuck

Fight Club

If we leave him be, the Ka of Nineteen, which is that of his world, and the Ka of Ninety-nine, which is that of our world, will combine to—” But there is no more.

Stephen King

Dark Tower 7 - The Dark Tower

For things have been coordinated, and they combine to form the same universe [order].

Marcus Aurelius

Meditations

"Talk not of oaths (the dreadful chief replies, While anger flash'd from his disdainful eyes), Detested as thou art, and ought to be, Nor oath nor pact Achilles plights with thee: Such pacts as lambs and rabid wolves combine, Such leagues as men and furious lions join, To such I call the gods!

Homer

The Iliad

Why allow them to combine their strength?” Because Arnolf Karstark awaits only a sign from Lord Bolton before he turns his cloak, thought Theon, as other lords began to shout out counsel.

Martin, George, R. R.

A Dance With Dragons

Men of inferior wealth combine to defend those of superior wealth in the possession of their property, in order that men of superior wealth may combine to defend them in the possession of theirs.

Adam Smith

The Wealth of Nations