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单词 recombine
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recombinev.

Brit. /ˌriːkəmˈbʌɪn/, U.S. /ˌrikəmˈbaɪn/
Origin: Formed within English, by derivation. Etymons: re- prefix, combine v.
Etymology: < re- prefix + combine v.
1. transitive. To combine again or differently. Also occasionally intransitive.
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the world > relative properties > wholeness > mutual relation of parts to whole > condition or state of being combined > combine [verb (transitive)] > again
reconsolidate?1541
rejoin1582
reintegrate1612
recombine1619
1619 R. Brathwait New Spring sig. A2v It recombines the Sinnewes too, some say, And makes the Cripple throw his Crutch away.
1640 T. Carew Poems 136 Which [hands] when today the Priest shall recombine, From the misterious holy touch such charmes Will flow, as shall unlock her wreathed armes.
1700 J. Jones Myst. Opium Reveal'd xxiv. 265 Thus the bitter and firm textured Cortex..takes off Ague Fits, by re-combining the segregated Humours with the Bloud.
1758 A. Reid tr. P. J. Macquer Elements Theory & Pract. Chym. I. 209 The design of Chymistry is..to discover by sundry experiments the properties of those elementary principles, and to recombine them in various manners.
a1837 S. E. Brydges Human Fate (1846) 18 Fancy merely is a mirror, And has no faculty which recombines.
1865 G. Grote Plato I. i. 54 (note) Ingredients might be disengaged and re-combined in countless ways.
1910 Encycl. Brit. I. 911/1 A versified puzzle containing several words derived from recombining the letters of the original word.
1948 L. G. Dobbs Shakespeare Revealed 90 He split up his observations on himself and his friends into elements, and recombined them together with material from historical sources.
2007 New Scientist 3 Mar. 30/1 The nuclear genome is chopped up and recombined into novel combinations every generation.
2. intransitive. To enter into a new or different combination (with something); to undergo recombination.
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the world > relative properties > wholeness > mutual relation of parts to whole > condition or state of being combined > combine [verb (intransitive)] > again
recombine1881
1648 Mercurius Elencticus No. 52. 508 For now the Stars do once more re-combine To make those Cuckolds quake, the Iuncto Whine.
1811 D. Ellis Farther Inq. Changes Atmospheric Air ii. 185 Its several elements are first separated, and almost, at the same instant, recombine into a new form.
1859 J. S. Mill On Liberty ii. 85 With what a salutary shock did the paradoxes of Rousseau explode like bombshells in the midst..of onesided opinion..forcing its elements to recombine in a better form.
1881 W. H. Flower in Nature 8 Sept. 437/1 It is of the very essence of species..that they cannot recombine, and so give rise to new forms.
1910 W. M. Wheeler Ants viii. 131 These characters..are relatively stable in particular races or varieties and have a tendency to combine and recombine in endless permutation.
1974 Encycl. Brit. Macropædia IX. 811/2 Nitrogen ions may recombine similarly.
2004 Times Lit. Suppl. 6 Aug. 13/2 Cape Verde, where Brazilian music has recombined with local forms.
This entry has been updated (OED Third Edition, June 2009; most recently modified version published online March 2022).
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