Merge vs Accumulate - What's the difference?
merge | accumulate |
To combine into a whole.
* Burke
* De Quincey
To combine into a whole.
To blend gradually into something else.
To heap up in a mass; to pile up; to collect or bring together; to amass.
To grow or increase in quantity or number; to increase greatly.
* Ill fares the land, to hastening ills a prey, Where wealth accumulates , and men decay. -
(poetic, rare) Collected; accumulated.
In lang=en terms the difference between merge and accumulate
is that merge is to combine into a whole while accumulate is to grow or increase in quantity or number; to increase greatly.As verbs the difference between merge and accumulate
is that merge is to combine into a whole while accumulate is to heap up in a mass; to pile up; to collect or bring together; to amass.As a noun merge
is a joining together of two flows.As an adjective accumulate is
(poetic|rare) collected; accumulated.merge
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''.
Derived terms
* merger * mergeable * mergeabilitySynonyms
* amalgamate * combine * conflate * fuse * integrate * uniteAntonyms
* divide * splitAnagrams
* English ergative verbs ----accumulate
English
Verb
(accumulat)- He wishes to accumulate a sum of money.