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Merge vs Interfuse - What's the difference?

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Merge is a related term of interfuse.


As verbs the difference between merge and interfuse

is that merge is to combine into a whole while interfuse is to fuse or blend together.

As a noun merge

is a joining together of two flows.

merge

English

Verb

(merg)
  • To combine into a whole.
    • Headquarters merged the operations of the three divisions.
  • * Burke
    • to merge all natural sentiment in inordinate vanity
  • * De Quincey
    • Whig and Tory were merged and swallowed up in the transcendent duties of patriots.
  • To combine into a whole.
    • The two companies merged .
  • To blend gradually into something else.
    • The lanes of traffic ''merged''.
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    Derived terms

    * merger * mergeable * mergeability

    Related terms

    * annex

    Synonyms

    * amalgamate * combine * conflate * fuse * integrate * unite

    Antonyms

    * divide * split

    Noun

    (en noun)
  • A joining together of two flows.
    • There are often accidents at that traffic merge .

    Anagrams

    * English ergative verbs ----

    interfuse

    English

    Verb

    (interfus)
  • To fuse or blend together
  • *{{quote-book, year=1861, author=Various, title=Atlantic Monthly, Volume 8, No. 48, October, 1861, chapter=, edition= citation
    • , passage=They seem to be so interfused with the emotions of the soul, that they strike upon the heart almost like the living touch of a spirit. }}
  • *{{quote-book, year=1909, author=William James, title=A Pluralistic Universe, chapter=, edition= citation
    • , passage=Novelty, as empirically found, doesn't arrive by jumps and jolts, it leaks in insensibly, for adjacents in experience are always interfused , the smallest real datum being both a coming and a going, and even numerical distinctness being realized effectively only after a concrete interval has passed. }}
  • *{{quote-book, year=1914, author=May Sinclair, title=The Three Sisters, chapter=, edition= citation
    • , passage=It was interfused and tangled with Greatorex's sublimest feelings. }}