Concatenate vs Merge - What's the difference?
concatenate | merge |
To join or link together, as though in a chain.
* 2003 , Roy Porter, Flesh in the Age of Reason , (Penguin 2004), page 182)
Computer instruction to join two strings together.
To combine into a whole.
* Burke
* De Quincey
To combine into a whole.
To blend gradually into something else.
As verbs the difference between concatenate and merge
is that concatenate is to join or link together, as though in a chain while merge is to combine into a whole.As a noun merge is
a joining together of two flows.concatenate
English
(Wikipedia)Verb
(concatenat)- Locke, by contrast, contended that [madness] was essentially a question of intellectual delusion , the capture of the mind by false ideas concatenated into a logical system of unreality.
- Concatenating "Man" with " is mortal" gives "Man is mortal"
- The Unix program is used to concatenate and display files. Its name comes from the word catenate.
Derived terms
* concatenation * concatenativemerge
English
Verb
(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''.