merge
pronunciation
How to pronounce merge in British English:
UK [mɜːdʒ]
How to pronounce merge in American English:
US [mɜːrdʒ]
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- Verb:
- become one
- mix together different elements
- join or combine
Word Origin
- merge
- merge: [17] Merge comes from Latin mergere, which meant ‘dive, plunge’ (it was also the source of English emerge [16], which etymologically means ‘rise out of a liquid’, immerse [17], and submerge [17]). Merge was originally used for ‘immerse’ in English too, and the modern meaning ‘combine into one’ did not emerge fully until as recently as the 20th century. It arose from the notion of one thing ‘sinking’ into another and losing its identity; in the 1920s this was applied to two business companies amalgamating, and the general sense ‘combine’ followed from it.=> emerge, immerse, submerge
- merge (v.)
- 1630s, "to plunge or sink in," from Latin mergere "to dip, dip in, immerse, plunge," probably rhotacized from *mezgo, from PIE *mezg- "to dip, plunge" (cognates: Sanskrit majjati "dives under," Lithuanian mazgoju "to wash"). Legal sense of "absorb an estate, contract, etc. into another" is from 1726. Related: Merged; merging. As a noun, from 1805.
Example
- 1. It plans to merge with rival u.s. airways to form the world 's biggest airline .
- 2. The company also has moved to merge overlapping products .
- 3. Allow your partner 's arousal to feed and merge with your own arousal .
- 4. Later , the photographer needs to merge the best characteristics of each photo on a computer .
- 5. Fourth , merge all the remaining bad assets into one enterprise .