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Bundle vs Combine - What's the difference?

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In intransitive terms the difference between bundle and combine

is that bundle is to hurry while combine is to come together; to unite.

In transitive terms the difference between bundle and combine

is that bundle is to hastily or clumsily push, put, carry or otherwise send something into a particular place while combine is to have two or more things or properties that function together.

As nouns the difference between bundle and combine

is that bundle is a group of objects held together by wrapping or tying while combine is a combine harvester.

As verbs the difference between bundle and combine

is that bundle is to tie or wrap together while combine is to bring (two or more things or activities) together; to unite.

As a proper noun Combine is

london Underground.

bundle

English

(wikipedia bundle)

Noun

(en noun)
  • A group of objects held together by wrapping or tying.
    • a bundle''' of straw or of paper; a '''bundle of old clothes
  • * Goldsmith
    • The fable of the rods, which, when united in a bundle , no strength could bend.
  • A package wrapped or tied up for carrying.
  • (biology) A cluster of closely bound muscle or nerve fibres.
  • (informal) A large amount, especially of money.
    • The inventor of that gizmo must have made a bundle .
  • (computing, Mac OS X) A directory containing related resources such as source code; application bundle.
  • A quantity of paper equal to 2 reams (1000 sheets).

    • Derived terms

    * bundle buggy * bundle of energy * bundle of His * bundle of joy * bundle of laughs * bundle of nerves

    Descendants

    *

    Coordinate terms

    * (quantity of paper) bale, quire, ream

    See also

    *

    Verb

  • To tie or wrap together.
  • To hustle; to dispatch something or someone quickly.
  • * T. Hook
    • They unmercifully bundled me and my gallant second into our own hackney coach.
  • To prepare for departure; to set off in a hurry or without ceremony.
  • To dress someone warmly.
  • To dress warmly. Usually bundle up
  • (computing) To sell hardware and software as a single product.
  • To hurry.
  • (slang) To dogpile
  • To hastily or clumsily push, put, carry or otherwise send something into a particular place.
  • * {{quote-news
    • , year=2010 , date=December 29 , author=Chris Whyatt , title=Chelsea 1 - 0 Bolton , work=BBC citation , page= , passage=At the other end, Essien thought he had bundled the ball over the line in between Bolton's final two substitutions but the flag had already gone up.}}
  • * 1851 ,
    • Yes, there is death in this business of whaling—a speechlessly quick chaotic bundling of a man into Eternity.
  • * 1859 , Terence, Comedies of Terence
    • Why, I didn't know that she meant that, until the Captain gave me an explanation, because I was dull of comprehension ; for he bundled me out of the house.
  • (dated) To sleep on the same bed without undressing.
  • * Washington Irving
    • Van Corlear stopped occasionally in the villages to eat pumpkin pies, dance at country frolics, and bundle with the Yankee lasses.

    Derived terms

    * bundle off * bundler * unbundle

    combine

    English

    Verb

    (combin)
  • To bring (two or more things or activities) together; to unite.
  • * (John Dryden)
    • You with your foes combine , / And seem your own destruction to design.
  • * Sir (Walter Scott)
    • So sweet did harp and voice combine .
  • * {{quote-magazine, date=2012-03, author=William E. Carter, Merri Sue Carter
    • , volume=100, issue=2, page=87, magazine=(American Scientist) , title= The British Longitude Act Reconsidered , passage=Conditions were horrendous aboard most British naval vessels at the time. Scurvy and other diseases ran rampant, killing more seamen each year than all other causes combined , including combat.}}
  • To have two or more things or properties that function together.
    • Joe combines the intelligence of a rock with the honesty of a politician.
  • To come together; to unite.
    • two substances that easily combine
  • (card games) 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.
  • (obsolete) To bind; to hold by a moral tie.
  • * (William Shakespeare)
    • I am combined by a sacred vow.

    Derived terms

    * combination * combinable * combinatory * combined * recombine

    Synonyms

    * fuse * merge * unite

    Antonyms

    * divide * separate * disunite

    Noun

    (en noun)
  • A combine harvester
    • We can't finish harvesting because our combine is stuck in the mud.
  • A combination
  • # 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.
  • # An industrial conglomeration in a socialist country, particularly in the former .