merge

English Online Dictionary. What means merge‎? What does merge mean?

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/
• Rhymes: -ɜː(ɹ)dʒ

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
2. To blend gradually into something else.

Derived terms

Translations

Noun

merge (plural merges)

1. The joining together of multiple sources.

Synonyms

• merger
• merging

Derived terms

Translations

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

Old English

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): /ˈmer.je/, [ˈmerˠ.je]

Adjective

merġe

1. Alternative form of myrġe

Declension

Romanian

Alternative forms

• mere — Transylvania, Banat
• me — Maramureș, North Transylvania

Etymology

Inherited from Latin mergere, itself ultimately from Proto-Indo-European *mesg- (“to plunge, dip”), with a unique sense developing in Balkanic or Eastern Romance. Compare Aromanian njergu; 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/
• Rhymes: -erdʒe
• Hyphenation: mer‧ge

Verb

a merge (third-person singular present merge, past participle mers) 3rd conj. (intransitive)

1. to walk

   Synonym: umbla

2. (informal, by extension, of inanimate subjects) to move

3. (by extension) to go (take oneself to somewhere)

   Synonym: se duce

4. to be going, proceeding a certain way

5. (impersonal, of beings) to be doing a certain way [with dative]

6. (informal) to work, to function, to work out
7. (informal) to pair well [with cu ‘with’]
8. (informal) to be acceptable, alright
9. (personal or impersonal) to be going on (to be about to complete a time interval, usually expressed in years) [with pe]

Usage notes

The difference between umbla and merge is that umbla emphasises the act of walking itself (for its own sake or as opposed to other forms of locomotion), whereas merge is a less marked word which additionally can simply denote the action of going somewhere, which happens to be by walking.

This is not to say that merge cannot refer to mere exercise of one’s faculty of walking; for instance, “to learn to walk” is conventionally expressed as a învăța să meargă.

Conjugation

Derived terms

• îi merge gura
• îi merge la inimă
• îi merge mintea
• mergător
• merge după
• mergere
• mers
• mersură
• timpul trece, leafa merge
• treacă-meargă

Further reading

• merge in DEX online—Dicționare ale limbii române (Dictionaries of the Romanian language)
• Iorgu Iordan, Alexandru Graur, Ion Coteanu, editors (1965–1968), Dicționarul Limbii Române‎^[3], volume 6, Bucharest: Academy of the Socialist Republic of Romania, pages 401–409