/mɜːd͡ʒ/, /mɝd͡ʒ/
OriginBorrowed from Latin mergō (“to dip; dip in; plunge; sink down into; immerse; overwhelm”).
- intransitive, transitiveTo 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”
- To blend gradually into something else.
“The lanes of traffic merged.”
- 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
Formsmerges(present, singular, third-person) · merging(participle, present) · merged(participle, past) · merged(past) · merges(plural)