Definition of Merge

1. Verb. Become one. "The cells merge"

Exact synonyms: Unify, Unite
Specialized synonyms: Consolidate, Consubstantiate, Syncretise, Syncretize, Converge, Federalise, Federalize, Federate, Coalesce
Generic synonyms: Integrate
Derivative terms: Merger, Merging, Unification, Unification, Unit, Unit, Union, Uniting
Antonyms: Disunify

2. Verb. Mix together different elements. "The colors blend well"

3. Verb. Join or combine. "We merged our resources"
Exact synonyms: Unify, Unite
Generic synonyms: Alter, Change, Modify
Specialized synonyms: Consolidate, Weld, Consubstantiate
Derivative terms: Merger, Merger, Unification, Uniting

Definition of Merge

1. v. t. To cause to be swallowed up; to immerse; to sink; to absorb.

2. v. i. To be sunk, swallowed up, or lost.

Definition of Merge

1. Verb. (transitive) To combine into a whole. ¹

2. Verb. (intransitive) To combine into a whole. ¹

3. Verb. To blend gradually into something else. ¹

4. Noun. A joining together of two flows. ¹

¹ Source: wiktionary.com

Definition of Merge

1. to combine [v MERGED, MERGING, MERGES] - See also: combine

Lexicographical Neighbors of Merge

merestead
meresteads
merestone
merestones
mereswine
mereswines
merethoxylline procaine
meretriciously
meretriciousness
merfather
merfolk
merfolks
merganser
mergansers
merge (current term)
merge sort
merge sorts
mergeable
merged
mergee
mergees
mergence
mergences
merger
merger agreement
mergers
merges
mergesort
mergesorted

Literary usage of Merge

Below you will find example usage of this term as found in modern and/or classical literature:

1. A Treatise on Conveyancing: With a View to Its Application to Practice by Richard Preston (1829)
"One estate for life may merge in another estate for life (a). ... Thus the objection that equal estates cannot merge is avoided (c). ..."

2. A Digest of the Laws of England Respecting Real Property by William Cruise, Henry Hopley White (1835)
"All particular estates are subject to merge in the rever- , whenever the same ... merge(j jn tne reversion, and became liable to the charges and leases of ..."

3. The Law of Real Property and Other Interests in Land by Herbert Thorndike Tiffany (1920)
"... and in such a case equity will usually presume that the owner of the two interests intended that they should merge, or the contrary, according as merger ..."

4. The Statutory and Case Law Applicable to Private Companies Under the General by New Jersey, James Brooks Dill (1899)
"Corporations of this state may merge and consolidate.— Any two or more corporations organized or to be organized under any law or laws of this state for the ..."

5. Cyclopedia of the Law of Private Corporations by William Meade Fletcher (1919)
"POWER TO CONSOLIDATE OR merge § 4670. General rule. ... It is well settled, therefore, that corporations cannot lawfully consolidate or merge, ..."

6. The Origin and Growth of the English Constitution: An Historical Treatise by Hannis Taylor (1898)
"The shire- moot. divisions merge their functions in the already existing territorial districts, which have been described as townships and hundreds ? ..."

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