Merge vs Collide - What's the difference?
merge | collide |
To combine into a whole.
* Burke
* De Quincey
To combine into a whole.
To blend gradually into something else.
To impact directly, especially if violent
* Tyndall
* Carlyle
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To come into conflict, or be incompatible
As verbs the difference between merge and collide
is that merge is to combine into a whole while collide is to impact directly, especially if violent.As a noun merge
is a joining together of two flows.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 ----collide
English
Verb
(collid)- When a body collides with another, then momentum is conserved.
- Across this space the attraction urges them. They collide , they recoil, they oscillate.
- No longer rocking and swaying, but clashing and colliding .
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- China collided with the modern world.