merge
Valid in Scrabble
- Scrabble points
- 8
- Words With Friends
- 10
- Letters
- 5
/mɜːd͡ʒ/
(UK)
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/mɜːd͡ʒ/ (UK) · /mɝd͡ʒ/ (US)
Definition of merge
4 senses · 2 parts of speech · etymology included
verb
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(intransitive, transitive)To combine into a whole.
“Headquarters merged the operations of the three divisions.”
“The two companies merged.”
“to merge all natural and all social sentiment in inordinate vanity”
“Whig and Tory were merged and swallowed up in the transcendent duties of patriots—Englishmen—lovers of liberty.”
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verb
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(intransitive, transitive)To combine into a whole.
“Headquarters merged the operations of the three divisions.”
“The two companies merged.”
“to merge all natural and all social sentiment in inordinate vanity”
“Whig and Tory were merged and swallowed up in the transcendent duties of patriots—Englishmen—lovers of liberty.”
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To blend gradually into something else.
“The lanes of traffic merged.”
noun
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The joining together of multiple sources.
“There are often accidents at that traffic merge.”
“The merge of the two documents failed.”
- Within the Minimalist Program, a fundamental operation of syntactic construction
Definitions from Wiktionary, CC BY-SA.
Etymology
Borrowed from Latin mergō (“to dip; dip in; plunge; sink down into; immerse; overwhelm”).
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