Combination

(noun.) the act of combining things to form a new whole.

(noun.) the act of arranging elements into specified groups without regard to order.

(noun.) a collection of things that have been combined; an assemblage of separate parts or qualities.

(noun.) an alliance of people or corporations or countries for a special purpose (formerly to achieve some antisocial end but now for general political or economic purposes).

(noun.) a group of people (often temporary) having a common purpose; 'they were a winning combination'.

(noun.) a sequence of numbers or letters that opens a combination lock; 'he forgot the combination to the safe'.

(noun.) a coordinated sequence of chess moves.

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• Speak up like a man, since you are a man, and tell us about yourself and this Combination. 查尔斯·狄更斯. 艰难时事.
• These revolutions require a rare combination of personal audacity and social patience. 沃尔特·李普曼. 政治序论.
• The art of manufacturing gems synthetically, that is, by the combination of chemical elements present in the real stone, has reached a high degree of success. 佚名. 神奇的知识之书.
• This was a combination of state library and state publishing upon a scale hitherto unheard of. 赫伯特·乔治·威尔斯. 世界史纲.
• Did I feel like a dark combination of traitor and pickpocket when I thought of that girl? 查尔斯·狄更斯. 我们共同的朋友.
• But, according to the success with which you put this and that together, you get a woman and a fish apart, or a Mermaid in combination. 查尔斯·狄更斯. 我们共同的朋友.
• As boracic acid is but slightly soluble in water and other common solvents this combination with glycerine--which is also a useful agent in arresting the growth of germs--is peculiarly valuable. 威廉K.戴维. 智者、化学家和伟大医生的秘密.
• The Niagara Bridge is a combination of cast steel and iron. 威廉·亨利·杜利特. 世纪发明.
• Ordinarily a combination of products best serves the ends of the physician. 伯莎M.克拉克. 科学通论.
• The air, the movement in the court, the lapse of time, or the combination of these things recovers him. 查尔斯·狄更斯. 荒凉山庄.
• A combination of red and yellow will give orange. 伯莎M.克拉克. 科学通论.
• Upon my word, mother, I wish the old combination-laws were in force. 伊丽莎白·盖斯凯尔. 南方与北方.
• We do something to the thing and then it does something to us in return: such is the peculiar combination. 约翰·杜威. 民主与教育.
• Dalton thus introduced into the study of chemical combination a very definite idea of quantitative relationship. 李贝. 西洋科学史.
• It was then only by a combination of talents that any of these three important inventions was enabled to achieve remarkable success. 威廉·亨利·杜利特. 世纪发明.
• Man was binding himself into new and larger and more efficient combinations indeed, but at a price. 赫伯特·乔治·威尔斯. 世界史纲.
• By using combinations of two or more lenses of various kinds, it is possible to have an image of almost any desired size, and in practically any desired position. 伯莎M.克拉克. 科学通论.
• They entered into general combinations to eat no more lamb; and very few lambs were killed last year. 本杰明·富兰克林. 富兰克林自传.
• The symbols are thus made by deviations from the straight line, of different lengths and of varied combinations. 弗雷德里克·科利尔·贝克维尔. 伟大的事实.
• Thus there is practice in prompt making of new combinations with the focus of activity shifted to meet change in subject matter. 约翰·杜威. 民主与教育.
• If such objects could not be produced, ideas were explained as the result of false associations and combinations. 约翰·杜威. 民主与教育.
• Whereas you couldn't be more occupied with your day's calculations and combinations than you habitually show yourself to be, if you were a carpenter. 查尔斯·狄更斯. 小杜丽.
• But all machines, however complicated in appearance, are in reality but modifications and combinations of one or more of four simple machines devised long ago by our remote ancestors. 伯莎M.克拉克. 科学通论.
• Masters, too, sometimes enter into particular combinations to sink the wages of labour even below this rate. 亚当·斯密. 国富论.
• Some combinations of metals possess the quality of relatively great expansibility. 佚名. 神奇的知识之书.
• The trades which employ but a small number of hands, run most easily into such combinations. 亚当·斯密. 国富论.
• In certain genera of star-fishes, the very combinations needed to show that the pedicellariae are only modified branching spines may be found. 查尔斯·达尔文. 物种起源.
• He arranged strips of bone, on which were figures, so that they could be brought into various fixed combinations. 佚名. 神奇的知识之书.
• They are, Miss Eyre, though they absolutely require a new statute: unheard-of combinations of circumstances demand unheard-of rules. 夏洛蒂·勃朗特. 简·爱.
• We rarely hear, it has been said, of the combinations of masters, though frequently of those of workmen. 亚当·斯密. 国富论.

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