combination combining compounding a | the act of combining things to form a new whole |
combination | the act of arranging elements into specified groups without regard to order |
vertical integration vertical combination | absorption into a single firm of several firms involved in all aspects of a product's manufacture from raw materials to distribution |
horizontal integration horizontal combination | absorption into a single firm of several firms involved in the same level of production and sharing resources at that level |
combination lock | lock that can be opened only by turning dials in a special sequence |
combination plane | a woodworking plane that has interchangeable cutters of various shapes |
combination salad | containing meat or chicken or cheese in addition to greens and vegetables |
combination | 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) |
combination in restraint of trade | (law) any monopoly or contract or combination or conspiracy intended to restrain commerce (which are illegal according to antitrust laws of the United States) |
combination | a group of people (often temporary) having a common purpose, they were a winning combination |
combination | a sequence of numbers or letters that opens a combination lock, he forgot the combination to the safe |
combination | a coordinated sequence of chess moves |
c bulge bump hump swelling gibbosity gibbousness jut prominence protuberance protrusion extrusion excrescence a caa | something that bulges out or is protuberant or projects from its surroundings, the gun in his pocket made an obvious bulge, the hump of a camel, he stood on the rocky prominence, the occipital protuberance was well developed, the bony excrescence between its horns |
dowager's hump | abnormal spinal curvature that results when osteoporosis causes the spine to collapse, seen most often in elderly women |
sleep together roll in the hay love make out make love sleep with get laid have sex know do it be intimate have intercourse have it away have it off screw fuck jazz eff hump lie with bed have a go at it bang get it on bonk ff,uff | have sexual intercourse with, This student sleeps with everyone in her dorm, Adam knew Eve, Were you ever intimate with this man? |
hunch hump hunch forward hunch over | round one's back by bending forward and drawing the shoulders forward |