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combined, ppl. a.|kəmˈbaɪnd|
[f. combine v. + -ed.]
a. Coupled, united, conjoined in action or substance; allied, confederated.
1602Shakes. Ham. i. v. 18 Thy knotty and combined locks. 1603Knolles Hist. Turks (1638) 122 The Christein Princes..with their combined forces. 1667Milton P.L. ix. 339 Let us not then suspect our happie State..As not secure to single or combin'd. 1790Beatson Nav. & Mil. Mem. I. 187 Expecting the Combined fleet would bear down upon him. 1873Black Pr. Thule xxv. 417 A dinner and supper combined.
b. Performed by agents acting in combination. Also combined exercise, combined operation: spec. one performed by branches of the fighting services acting in combination. Also in extended use, and ellipt.
1834Gurwood Wellington's Disp. I. 12 Combined field movements. 1842N. Willis Canad. Scenery I. ii. 49 England opened the campaign of 1759 with a plan of combined operations by sea and land. 1855Macaulay Hist. Eng. IV. 117 One vigorous or combined struggle for emancipation. 1873Max Müller Sc. Relig. 349 The combined work of those who came before him. 1922Flight XIV. 721/1 The subjects studied..Strategy and tactics..combined operations. 1938Times Weekly 30 June 4/2 They were not indeed ‘combined exercises’ in the technical sense, employing units of the Air Force as well as of the Navy. 1942Hutchinson's Pict. Hist. War 10 June–1 Sept. 261/2 The Dieppe assault was more than a raid..as a combined operation it is stated to have been a successful demonstration of co-ordination of all three services. 1947News Chron. 8 Mar. 1/3 Britain's Coal Cabinet last night ordered the biggest combined operation yet planned in an effort to clear snowbound roads and rails. 1961B. Fergusson Watery Maze i. 16 Combined Operations in our sense of the phrase, implying opposed landings in force with the intention of staying ashore, were rare before the eighteenth century. Ibid. vi. 147 It is impossible not to feel sympathy for the Combined Commanders. Ibid. xii. 292 Someone must still look after the Combined Training Establishments.
c. Resulting from, or produced by, combination. combined body (Chem.): one formed by the chemical combination of simple substances.
c14..Epiph. in Tundale's Vis. 117 And oo word combyned of thes tweyn. 1634Sir T. Herbert Trav. 115 A buzzar or market, which though divided shewes a combined beauty in her separation. a1831A. Knox Rem. (1844) I. 81 Where a collective and combined effect is to be produced. 1844Stanley Arnold (1858) I. iv. 167 A combined view of different states. 1889Pall Mall G. 17 Oct. 2/3 The same logic which has created the ‘combined lecturer’ would..create the ‘combined head’, and, in the university, the ‘combined professor’.
d. Agric. (See combine n. c.)
e. combined room, also ellipt. as n. (see quots.).
1933P. Godfrey Back-Stage xvi. 200 The poorest paid players live in a single room known as a ‘combined’. Ibid. 205 A stuffy little ‘combined’. 1952W. Granville Dict. Theatr. Terms 47 Combined-room, a bedroom and sitting-room ‘combined’. One of the ‘classic’ landlady advertisements ran: ‘I have vacant for next week a large, comfortable combined-room. Piano and lavatory inside.’ |