merge

See also: mérge

English

Etymology

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

Pronunciation

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

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• Rhymes: -ɜː(ɹ)d͡ʒ

Verb

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.

Derived terms

• mail merge
• match-merge
• mergeability
• mergeable
• merge-purge
• merger
• urge to merge

 

Translations

(transitive) to combine into a whole

• Azerbaijani: birləşdirmək (az)
• Bulgarian: обединявам (bg) (obedinjavam)
• Catalan: fusionar (ca)
• Czech: sloučit
• Danish: forene, fusionere
• Dutch: samenvoegen (nl), fuseren (nl), fusioneren (nl) (Belgium)
• Finnish: yhdistää (fi), fuusioida (fi), sulauttaa, liittää yhteen
• French: fusionner (fr)
• German: zusammenlegen (de), zusammenfügen (de), zusammenführen (de), vereinen (de), fusionieren (de) (companies, departments)
• Greek: συγχωνεύω (el) (synchonévo)
• Hungarian: egyesít (hu), egybeolvaszt (hu), összefűz (hu)
• Italian: fondersi
• Japanese: 合わせる (ja) (awaseru), 合併する (ja) (gappei suru)
• Manchu: ᡴᠠᠮᠴᡳᠮᠪᡳ (kamcimbi)
• Maori: whakahanumi
• Polish: łączyć / połączyć
• Portuguese: unir (pt)
• Russian: объедини́ть (ru) (obʺjedinítʹ), слить (ru) (slitʹ)
• Spanish: fusionar (es)
• Swedish: slå ihop (sv), fusionera, förena (sv)

(intransitive) to combine into a whole

• Arabic: دَمَجَ‎ (damaja)
• Azerbaijani: birləşdirmək (az)
• Bulgarian: сливам се (slivam se), съединявам се (sǎedinjavam se), обединявам се (obedinjavam se)
• Catalan: fusionar (ca)
• Chinese: 合并 (zh) (hébìng) (hébìng)
• Danish: forene, fusionere
• Dutch: samenkomen (nl), samenvloeien (nl) (liquids), fusioneren (nl), samengaan (nl)
• Finnish: liittyä yhteen, yhdistyä (fi), sulautua (fi), fuusioitua (fi)
• French: amalgamer (fr), fusionner (fr)
• German: verschmelzen (de), zusammenkommen (de), sich vereinen, sich zusammenschließen
• Greek: συγχωνεύομαι (el) (synchonévomai)
• Hungarian: egyesül (hu), egybeolvad (hu), összeolvad (hu), fuzionál (hu)
• Italian: unirsi (it), mergere
• Korean: 합하다 (ko) (haphada)
• Manchu: ᡴᠠᠮᠴᡳᠪᡠᠮᠪᡳ (kamcibumbi)
• Maori: hanumi
• Polish: łączyć się / połączyć się
• Portuguese: convergir (pt), unir-se, juntar-se
• Russian: объединя́ться (ru) (obʺjedinjátʹsja), слива́ться (ru) (slivátʹsja)
• Spanish: fusionar (es)
• Swedish: sammansmälta, gå ihop (sv), fusionera

to blend gradually into something else

• Catalan: transformar (ca)
• Dutch: samenvloeien (nl) (liquids), overgaan (nl) in (nl)
• Finnish: sekoittua (fi), sulautua (fi), yhtyä (fi)
• German: zusammenkommen (de)
• Hungarian: beleolvad (hu)
• Maori: whakahanumi

The translations below need to be checked and inserted above into the appropriate translation tables. See instructions at Wiktionary:Entry layout § Translations.

Translations to be checked

• Dutch: ^{(please verify)} fuseren (nl)
• German: ^{(please verify)} zusammenkommen (de), ^{(please verify)} (sich) zusammenschließen, ^{(please verify)} fusionieren (de)

Noun

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.

Synonyms

• merger
• merging

Derived terms

• mail merge
• match-merge
• mergesort
• zipper merge

 

Translations

joining of multiple sources

• Bulgarian: обединяване n (obedinjavane)
• Catalan: combinació (ca) f
• Czech: sloučit pf, slučovat impf
• Danish: sammenfletning c
• Dutch: samenvloeiing (nl) f, kruising (nl) f
• Slovak: zlúčiť pf, zlučovať impf

Anagrams

• emerg

Italian

Pronunciation

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

Verb

merge

1. third-person singular present indicative of mergere

Anagrams

• germe

Latin

Verb

merge

1. second-person singular present active imperative of mergō

Romanian

Alternative forms

• mere (regional, Transylvania)

Etymology

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.

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): /ˈmer.d͡ʒe/

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Verb

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.

Conjugation

    conjugation of merge (third conjugation, past participle in -s)

infinitive			a merge
gerund			mergând
past participle			mers
number		singular			plural
person		1st person	2nd person	3rd person	1st person	2nd person	3rd person
indicative		eu	tu	el/ea	noi	voi	ei/ele
	present	merg	mergi	merge	mergem	mergeți	merg
	imperfect	mergeam	mergeai	mergea	mergeam	mergeați	mergeau
	simple perfect	mersei	merseși	merse	merserăm	merserăți	merseră
	pluperfect	mersesem	merseseși	mersese	merseserăm	merseserăți	merseseră
subjunctive		eu	tu	el/ea	noi	voi	ei/ele
	present	să merg	să mergi	să meargă	să mergem	să mergeți	să meargă
imperative		—	tu	—	—	voi	—
	affirmative		merge			mergeți
	negative		nu merge			nu mergeți

Derived terms

• mergere
• mers

See also

• duce
• umbla
• mișca
• deplasa