Append vs Merge - What's the difference?
append | merge |
To hang or attach to, as by a string, so that the thing is suspended; as, a seal appended to a record; the inscription was appended to the column.
To add, as an accessory to the principal thing; to annex; as, notes appended to this chapter.
(computing) To write more data to the end of a pre-existing file.
To combine into a whole.
* Burke
* De Quincey
To combine into a whole.
To blend gradually into something else.
In transitive terms the difference between append and merge
is that append is to add, as an accessory to the principal thing; to annex; as, notes appended to this chapter while merge is to combine into a whole.append
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(merg)- Headquarters merged the operations of the three divisions.
- to merge all natural sentiment in inordinate vanity
- Whig and Tory were merged and swallowed up in the transcendent duties of patriots.
- The two companies merged .
- The lanes of traffic ''merged''.
