Dictionary Definition
merge
Verb
1 become one; "Germany unified officially in
1990"; "Will the two Koreas unify?" [syn: unify, unite] [ant: disunify]
2 mix together different elements; "The colors
blend well" [syn: blend,
flux, mix, conflate, commingle, immix, fuse, coalesce, meld, combine]
User Contributed Dictionary
English
Etymology
From mergere.Derived terms
Translations
combine into a whole
- Dutch: samenvoegen, fusioneren
be combined into a whole
- Dutch: samenkomen, samenvloeien i liquids, fusioneren
blend gradually into something else
- Dutch: samenvloeien i liquids, overgaan in
- ttbc Czech: sloučit
- ttbc French: fusionner
- ttbc German: zusammenkommen, (sich) zusammenschließen, fusionieren
- ttbc Polish: łączyć
- ttbc Portuguese: unir
Noun
Translations
joining of two flows
- Dutch: samenvloeiing, kruising
Italian
Verb
merge- Form of Third-person singular present tense, mergere
Romanian
Etymology
From mergere.Pronunciation
- /'mer.ʤe/
Verb
- to go
- merg în Bucureşti mâine
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- I’m going to Bucharest tomorrow.
- merg să întâlnesc soţul surorii mele
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- I’m going to meet my sister’s husband.
Conjugation
Extensive Definition
Merge, merging, or merger may mean:
In concepts
- Merger, the combination of two or more organisations, especially corporations, into one
- Merger doctrine in law, having different uses according to law specialty
- Merge (linguistics), one of the basic syntactic operations in generative syntax
- phonemic mergers, a linguistic concept whereby two sounds that were originally separate phonemes come to be pronounced exactly the same
- 'Municipal merger' or Amalgamation (politics), where two or more cities, towns, etc, are merged into one
In computer science
- Merge (revision control), combines simultaneously changed files in revision control
- Merge (software) is a 'Virtual Machine Monitor' computer package for running MS-DOS or Windows 9x on x86 processors under UNIX
- merge (Unix), is a Unix program that can merge three modified versions of a file
- merge (SQL) is a Data Manipulation Language statement in SQL.
- Merge
algorithm which combines two or more sorted lists into a single
sorted one
- Merge sort, a sort algorithm that sorts a list by relying on the merge algorithm
In buildings
- Merge in Takapuna, a proposed mixed-use skyscraper development in North Shore City, New Zealand
In music
- Merge Records, an indie-rock record label based in Chapel Hill, North Carolina
- Merge (album) by Canadian musician Randy Bachman
In industry
- Merge Healthcare, a medical software company, based in Milwaukee, Wisconsin
- Merge (solutions), a marketing content management software company based in Toronto, Canada
In journalism
- MERGE An Australian bi-monthly magazine
merge in French: Merge
Synonyms, Antonyms and Related Words
accouple, accumulate, act in concert,
act together, add, adhere, admix, affiliate, agglutinate, alloy, ally, alter into, amalgamate, amass, articulate, assemble, assimilate, associate, band, band together, baptize, be converted into, be
in league, become,
bemingle, blend, bond, bracket, bridge, bridge over, build, build up, bunch, bunch up, bury, cement, chain, change into, clap together,
clinch, clot, club together, cluster, coact, coalesce, cohere, collaborate, collect, collude, combine, come round to, come
together, commingle,
commix, communicate, compose, compound, comprise, concatenate, concert, concoct, concord, concur, confederate, conglobulate, conglomerate, congregate, conjoin, conjugate, connect, consist of, consolidate, conspire, constitute, construct, converge, cooperate, copulate, couple, cover, crowd, date, deluge, dip, do business with, douse, drown, duck, dunk, embody, embrace, emulsify, encompass, engulf, enter into, evolve into,
fabricate, fall into,
federate, flock
together, flow together, flux, forgather, form, fuse, gang around, gang up,
gather, gather around,
get heads together, get together, glue, go into, go partners, grow
together, hang together, harmonize, hash, herd together, hive, hold together, homogenize, hook up, horde, huddle, identify, immerge, immerse, immingle, immix, include, incorporate, integrate, interblend, intercommunicate,
interfuse, interlace, interlard, intermingle, intermix, intertwine, interweave, inundate, join, join in, join together,
jumble, keep together,
knead, knit, knot, lapse into, lay together,
league, league together,
link, lump together,
make, make common cause,
make one, make up, marry,
marshal, mass, meet, meld, melt into, melt into one,
merge in, mill, mingle, mingle-mangle, mix, mix up, mobilize, muster, open into, organize, overwhelm, pair, partner, pass into, piece
together, play ball, plunge in water, pool, pull together, put heads
together, put together, rally, rally around, reciprocate, reembody, rendezvous, ripen into, roll
into one, run into, scramble, seethe, settle into, shade into,
shift into, shuffle,
sink, solder, solidify, souse, span, splice, stand together, stick
together, stir up, stream, structure, submerge, submerse, surge, swarm, syncretize, syndicate, synthesize, take in, tape, team up, throng, throw in together, throw
together, tie, tie in, tie
up, toss together, turn into, turn to, unify, unite, unite efforts, unite in,
weld, whelm, work, work together, yoke