merge

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

• (UK) IPA^(key): /mɜːd͡ʒ/
• (US) IPA^(key): /mɝd͡ʒ/

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• Rhymes: -ɜː(ɹ)d͡ʒ

merge (third-person singular simple present merges, present participle merging, simple past and past participle merged)

1. (transitive, intransitive) To combine into a whole.

   Synonyms: see Thesaurus:coalesce

   Antonyms: divide, split

   Headquarters merged the operations of the three divisions.

   The two companies merged.

   • 1791, Edmund Burke, letter to a member of the National Assembly:

     to merge all natural and all social sentiment in inordinate vanity

   • 1835 January, [Thomas De Quincey], “Samuel Taylor Coleridge. By the English Opium-eater. […]”, in William Tait, editor, Tait’s Edinburgh Magazine, volume II, number XIII, Edinburgh: William Tait […], →OCLC, page 8, column 1:

     Whig and Tory were merged and swallowed up in the transcendent duties of patriots—Englishmen—lovers of liberty.

2. To blend gradually into something else.

   The lanes of traffic merged.

merge (plural merges)

1. The joining together of multiple sources.

   There are often accidents at that traffic merge.

   The merge of the two documents failed.

• merger
• merging

• emerg

• IPA^(key): /ˈmɛr.d͡ʒe/
• Rhymes: -ɛrdʒe
• Hyphenation: mèr‧ge

merge

1. third-person singular present indicative of mergere

• germe

merge

1. second-person singular present active imperative of mergō

• IPA^(key): /ˈmer.je/, [ˈmerˠ.je]

merġe

1. Alternative form of myrġe

• mere — regional, Transylvania

Inherited from Latin mergere, present active infinitive of mergō (itself ultimately from Proto-Indo-European *mesg- (“to plunge, dip”)), with a unique sense developing in Balkanic or Eastern Romance. Compare Aromanian njergu, njeardziri; cf. also Albanian mërgoj (“to move away”) and Sardinian imbergere (“to push”). There may have been an intermediate sense of "to fall" in earlier Romanian.[1]

• IPA^(key): /ˈmer.d͡ʒe/

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a merge (third-person singular present merge, past participle mers) 3rd conj.

1. to go

   Merg la București mâine.

   I’m going to Bucharest tomorrow.

   Merg să mă întâlnesc cu soțul surorii mele.

   I’m going to meet my sister’s husband.

2. to walk
3. (impersonal) to be doing (used in expressions, always preceded by the dative form of the pronoun)

   Îmi merge bine.

   I’m doing fine.

4. (colloquial) to work, to function (of an instrument, machine or method)

   Calculatorul nu mai merge.

   The computer doesn't work anymore.

• mergere
• mers

• duce
• umbla
• mișca
• deplasa