COMBINE

Combine

The Combine is a multidimensional empire, which serves as the primary antagonistic force in the Half-Life video game series, developed by Valve Corporation. The Combine consist of alien, synthetic, and human elements, and dominate Earth. They are regularly encountered throughout Half-Life 2 and its episodic expansions as hostile non-player characters as the player progresses through the games in an effort to overthrow the Combine occupation of Earth.

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combine

Noun

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

Verb

  1. To bring (two or more things or activities) together; to unite.
  2. 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. To come together; to unite.
    two substances that easily combine
  4. 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. To bind; to hold by a moral tie.


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