Merge

//mɝd͡ʒ// noun, verb

noun, verb ·Common ·High school level

Definitions

Noun
  1. 1
    The joining together of multiple sources.

    "There are often accidents at that traffic merge."

  2. 2
    Within the Minimalist Program, a fundamental operation of syntactic construction
Verb
  1. 1
    To combine into a whole. intransitive, transitive

    "Headquarters merged the operations of the three divisions."

  2. 2
    join or combine wordnet
  3. 3
    To blend gradually into something else.

    "The lanes of traffic merged."

  4. 4
    become one wordnet
  5. 5
    mix together different elements wordnet

Synonyms

All synonyms
uniteamalgamateblendblendcoalescecombine

Example

More examples

"He was given a tip three weeks ago that two companies would merge."

Etymology

Borrowed from Latin mergō (“to dip; dip in; plunge; sink down into; immerse; overwhelm”).

Related phrases

mail mergemail mergematch-mergematch-mergemerge lanemerge requestmerge sortmerge-purgeurge to mergezipper merge

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