What is the difference between merge and merger?
merge | merger | Derived terms |
To combine into a whole.
* Burke
* De Quincey
To combine into a whole.
To blend gradually into something else.
The act or process of merging two or more parts into a single unit.
(economics) The legal union of two or more corporations into a single entity, typically assets and liabilities being assumed by the buying party.
(legal) An absorption of one or more estate(s) or contract(s) into one other, all being held by the same owner; of several counts of accusation into one judgement, etc.
(linguistics) A type of sound change where two or more sounds merge into one.
Merger is a derived term of merge.
As nouns the difference between merge and merger
is that merge is a joining together of two flows while merger is the act or process of merging two or more parts into a single unit.As a verb merge
is to combine into a whole.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 ----merger
English
(wikipedia merger)Noun
(en noun)- ''Club mergers reduced the number of teams by half
- the cot-caught merger