Word Finder - combination

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The act of combining, the state of being combined or the result of combining.

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An object formed by combining.

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A sequence of numbers or letters used to open a combination lock.

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One or more elements selected from a set without regard to the order of selection.

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An association or alliance of people for some common purpose.

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A combination shot; a billiard; a shot where the cue ball hits a ball that strikes another ball on the table.

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A motorcycle and sidecar.

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A rapid sequence of punches or strikes in boxing or other combat sports.

It was an overall combination of respect and interest.

I have a feeling we'll need that combination, Gabriel reasoned.

Keaton was a strange combination... sometimes shy, sometimes bold.

She loved the combination of his passion and gentled strength.

She marveled at the combination of strength and gentleness.

The Dean's private quarters, a sitting room-office combination and bedroom, were located in the rear.

Neither the length of the word nor the combination of letters seems to make any difference to the child.

She'd never seen anything like it, a combination of power, agility and fire.

It was a dangerous combination.

Resigned to the inquisition, he settled down in his chair with two cans of beer and a piece of apple pie, devouring the pie with a combination of guilt and gusto.

It was an awful combination.

This time, there was a combination of distant pain and pleasure as he bit her that almost pierced the hazy dream.

She was tough but expressive, a combination he found odd but promising.

Jessi grabbed Gerry's arm and slammed the front door behind them, marching through the hallway in a combination of disgust and envy.

If the human soul is a force in the narrower sense, a substance, and not a combination of substances, then, as in the nature of things there is no transition from existence to non-existence, we cannot naturally conceive the end of its existence, any more than we can anticipate a gradual annihilation of its existence."

From Flanders to Rome his distinction was acknowledged, and artists of less invention, among them some of the foremost on both sides of the Alps, were not ashamed to borrow from his work this or that striking combination or expressive type.

For Mozart there never was any such embarras de richesse in any combination of instruments.

The movement for any particular combination of armatures can only take place once per revolution of the type-wheel and at one particular place.

The function of the " combiner " in each receiving instrument is so to group the received combination of positive and negative currents that they operate polarized relays in such a manner that the position of the tongues corresponds with the operation of the levers on the transmitter.

They made him senator of Rome and vicar of Tuscany, and promised him the investiture of the regno provided he stipulated that it should not be held in combination with the empire.

The German emperor shared this desire, but Bismarck and the Austrian emperor wished to substitute for the imperial league some more advantageous combination.

Buffon's opinion is, in fact, a sort of combination of views, essentially similar to those of Bonnet, with others, somewhat similar to those of the " Medici " whom Harvey condemns.

The government offices, art gallery and exchange, with St Mary's cathedral (Anglican), a building in a combination of native timbers, St Paul's and St Patrick's cathedral (Roman Catholic), are noteworthy buildings.

And it may be fairly claimed for him that in El Tejado de Vidrio and El Tanto por Ciento he displays a very exceptional combination of satiric intention with romantic inspiration.

Nuclein is a complex albuminoid substance containing phosphorus and iron in organic combination (Macallum).

In the Fungi it is usually composed of a modified form of cellulose known as fungus cellulose, which, according to Mangin, consists of callose in combination either with cellulose or pectic compounds.

In the yeast cell the nucleus is represented by a homogenous granule, probably of a nucleolar nature, surrounded and perhaps to some extent impregnated by chromatin and closely connected with a vacuole which often has chromatin at its periphery, and contains one or more volutin granules which appear to consist of nucleic acid in combination with an unknown base.

They are ascertained by a ticalgeo- combination of actual measurement of the highest.

It is, however, fair to state that his system was not built entirely upon these muscular variations, but rather upon a more laborious combination of anatomical characters, which were so selected that they presumably could not stand in direct correlation with each other, notably the oil-gland, caeca, carotids, nasal bones and above all, the muscles of the thigh.

The most primitive combination, ambiens and A B X Y, is the most common; next follows that of A X Y, meaning the reduction of B, i.e.

Strictly, however, it is contrasted with "perception," and implies the mental reconstruction and combination of sensegiven data.

The element occurs widely and abundantly distributed in nature both in the free state and in combination.

In combination the element chiefly occurs as metallic sulphides and sulphates.

The various attempts at combination probably point to the fact that the purely mythical figure of a god-saviour (Heros) was connected first by Basilides with Jesus of Nazareth.

A nearer view will reveal the rich chestnut of the mantle and upper wing-coverts, and the combination of colours thus exhibited suggests the term "tortoise-shell" often applied to it - the quill-feathers being mostly of a dark brown and its lower parts pure white.

The duty of a railway with deficient plant or facilities would seem to be to make up for their absence by moderating the speeds of its trains, but public sentiment in America appears so far to have approved, at least tacitly, the combination of imperfect railways and high speeds.

Railways may be built for military reasons or for commercial reasons, or for a combination of the two.

Similarly in Great Britain there is a tendency towards combination by mutual agreement among the companies while they still preserve their independent existence.

Other things being equal, that route is best which will serve the district most conveniently and secure the highest revenue; and the most favourable combination of curves and gradients is that by which the annual cost of conveying the traffic which the line will be called on to carry, added to the annual interest on the capital expended in construction, will be made a minimum.

An interesting case of embankment and cutting in combination was involved in crossing Chat Moss on the Liverpool & Manchester railway.

It has many advantages for heavy high-speed service, namely, large and well-proportioned boiler, practically unlimited grate area, fire-box of favourable proportions for firing, fairly low centre of gravity, short coupling-rods, and, finally, a combination of the safe and smooth riding qualities of the fourcoupled bogie type, with great steaming capacity and moderate axle loads.

Other special types are in limited use for " rack-railways," and operate either by engagement of gearing on the locomotive into a rack between the track rails, or by a combination of this and rail adhesion.

The doctrine that "the starvation of a nation cannot be the lawful purpose of a combination" was announced, and Judge Taft said further that "if there is any power in the army of the United States to run those trains, the trains will be run."

It might, for example, be suggested that the heat of the sun was supplied by chemical combination analogous to combustion.

We cannot, therefore, admit that the source of the heat in the sun is to be found in any chemical combination taking place in its mass.

Before, however, anything was accomplished by this combination, Owen Roe died on the 6th of November 1649.

Panin was the inventor of the famous "Northern Accord," which aimed at opposing a combination of Russia, Prussia, Poland, Sweden, and perhaps Great Britain, against the Bourbon-Habsburg League.

It awakened fresh possibilities - successful combination against a common foe, the sinking of petty rivalries, the chance of gaining favour by a neutrality which was scarcely benevolent.

The combination is certainly artificial and not historical.

The principal buildings within the parish are the old town hall, now used as a volunteer drill hall and armoury; the county buildings, containing the town hall and court house; the academy; reformatory and the Wigtownshire combination poorhouse.