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Germinate vs Morph - What's the difference?

germinate | morph |

As verbs the difference between germinate and morph

is that germinate is to sprout or produce buds while morph is to change shape, from one form to another, through computer animation.

As a noun morph is

a physical form representing some morpheme in language. It is a recurrent distinctive sound or sequence sounds.

germinate

English

Verb

  • To sprout or produce buds.
  • (Francis Bacon)
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  • To cause to grow.
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  • , title=Lord Stranleigh Abroad , chapter=5 citation , passage=These were business hours, and a feeling of loneliness crept over him, perhaps germinated by his sight of the illustrated papers, and accentuated by an attempted perusal of them.}}

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    morph

    English

    Etymology 1

    Noun

    (en noun)
  • (linguistics) A physical form representing some morpheme in language. It is a recurrent distinctive sound or sequence sounds.
  • (linguistics) An allomorph: one of a set of realizations that a morpheme can have in different contexts.
  • (biology) Local variety of a species, distinguishable from other populations of the species by morphology or behaviour.
  • A computer-generated gradual change from one image to another.
  • Etymology 2

    Shortening of metamorphose: to change in shape or form.

    Verb

    (en verb)
  • (colloquial, ambitransitive) To change shape, from one form to another, through computer animation.
  • To undergo dramatic change in a seamless and barely noticeable fashion.
  • * 2013 June 18, , " Protests Widen as Brazilians Chide Leaders," New York Times (retrieved 21 June 2013):
  • By the time politicians in several cities backed down on Tuesday and announced that they would cut or consider reducing fares, the demonstrations had already morphed into a more sweeping social protest, with marchers waving banners carrying slogans like “The people have awakened.”