Merge vs Intersperse - What's the difference?
merge | intersperse | Related terms |
To combine into a whole.
* Burke
* De Quincey
To combine into a whole.
To blend gradually into something else.
To mix two things irregularly, placing things of one kind among things of other:
* 1991 , Frank Biocca, Television and Political Advertising: Signs, codes, and images , page 76:
# To scatter or insert (something) into or among (other things).
#* 1985 , Jane Y. Murdock, Barbara V. Hartmann, Communication and language intervention program (CLIP) for individuals with moderate to severe handicaps , page 46:
# To place or insert — to diversify by placing or inserting — other things among (something).
Merge is a related term of intersperse.
As verbs the difference between merge and intersperse
is that merge is to combine into a whole while intersperse is to mix two things irregularly, placing things of one kind among things of other:.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 ----intersperse
English
Verb
(interspers)- For example, a commercial sequence might intersperse pictures of a senator working in his office with shots of ordinary Americans happily working in various walks of life.
- Mother Nature interspersed a few dandelions among the petunias, but it was a pretty garden, anyway.
- Review tasks are particularly useful to intersperse when students are experiencing considerable failure.
- Mother Nature interspersed the petunias with a few dandelions, but it was a pretty garden, anyway.