RECOMBINE

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 Dictionary entry overview: What does recombine mean? 

• RECOMBINE (verb)
  The verb RECOMBINE has 3 senses:

1. undergo genetic recombination

2. cause genetic recombination

3. to combine or put together again

  Familiarity information: RECOMBINE used as a verb is uncommon.

 Dictionary entry details 

• RECOMBINE (verb)

Present simple: I / you / we / they recombine    ... he / she / it recombines   
Past simple: recombined   
Past participle: recombined   
-ing form: recombining   

Sense 1

Meaning:

Undergo genetic recombination

Classified under:

Verbs of size, temperature change, intensifying, etc.

Context example:

The DNA can recombine

Hypernyms (to "recombine" is one way to...):

change (undergo a change; become different in essence; losing one's or its original nature)

Verb group:

recombine (cause genetic recombination)

Sentence frame:

Something ----s

Derivation:

recombination ((genetics) a combining of genes or characters different from what they were in the parents)

Sense 2

Meaning:

Cause genetic recombination

Classified under:

Verbs of size, temperature change, intensifying, etc.

Context example:

should scientists recombine DNA?

Hypernyms (to "recombine" is one way to...):

alter; change; modify (cause to change; make different; cause a transformation)

Verb group:

recombine (undergo genetic recombination)

Sentence frame:

Somebody ----s something

Derivation:

recombination ((genetics) a combining of genes or characters different from what they were in the parents)

Sense 3

Meaning:

To combine or put together again

Classified under:

Verbs of size, temperature change, intensifying, etc.

Hypernyms (to "recombine" is one way to...):

combine; compound (put or add together)

Sentence frames:

Somebody ----s something
Something ----s something

Derivation:

recombination ((physics) a combining of charges or transfer of electrons in a gas that results in the neutralization of ions; important for ions arising from the passage of high-energy particles)

 Context examples 

At meiosis I, homologous chromosomes recombine and then segregate to opposite poles, while the sister chromatids segregate from each other at meoisis II.

(Oocyte Meiosis Pathway, NCI Thesaurus/KEGG)

On the cooler, dark side of the planet, the atoms can recombine into molecules and condense into clouds, all before drifting back into the dayside to be splintered again.

(Water Is Destroyed, Then Reborn in Ultrahot Jupiters, NASA/JPL)

When they recombine, they form very complex macromolecules, a process first found to occur in the upper atmosphere of Saturn’s moon Titan.

(New Horizons Finds Blue Skies and Water Ice on Pluto, NASA)