merge

Formsmerges, merging, merged

Pluralmerges

1. 1
   verbtransitive or intransitive

   To join two or more things together so they make one.

   Like pouring two cups of water into one big bowl.

   The two schools will merge their sports teams next year.

   The two small towns merged to form one city.

   Similarcombine, unite, blend, fuse, integrate

   Oppositedivide, split

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2. 2
   verbintransitive

   To slowly mix into something else until you cannot tell them apart.

   The colors merge where the sea meets the sky.

   Her voice merged with the sound of the crowd.

   Similarblend, fade, melt, dissolve

   Oppositeseparate, diverge

3. 3
   nouncountable

   The act of joining two or more things together into one.

   Like pouring two boxes of toys into one big box.

   The merge of the two files took only a few seconds.

   After the merge, all the records were in one place.

   Similarcombination, consolidation, integration, amalgamation

   Oppositesplit

   Note
4. 4
   nouncountable or uncountable

   In one theory of how sentences are built, a basic step that joins two words or word groups into a bigger one.

   Like clicking two building blocks together to make a bigger block.

   Each merge joins two pieces of language into a larger phrase.

   Students learn how one merge builds on the result of another.

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