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Morph vs Metamorphosize - What's the difference?

morph | metamorphosize |

As verbs the difference between morph and metamorphosize

is that morph is (colloquial|ambitransitive) to change shape, from one form to another, through computer animation while metamorphosize is (us|nonstandard) to undergo the process of metamorphosis; to metamorphose.

As a noun morph

is (linguistics) a physical form representing some morpheme in language it is a recurrent distinctive sound or sequence sounds.

morph

English

Etymology 1

Noun

(en noun)
  • (linguistics) A physical form representing some morpheme in language. It is a recurrent distinctive sound or sequence sounds.
  • (linguistics) An allomorph: one of a set of realizations that a morpheme can have in different contexts.
  • (biology) Local variety of a species, distinguishable from other populations of the species by morphology or behaviour.
  • A computer-generated gradual change from one image to another.

    • Etymology 2

    Shortening of metamorphose: to change in shape or form.

    Verb

    (en verb)
  • (colloquial, ambitransitive) To change shape, from one form to another, through computer animation.
  • To undergo dramatic change in a seamless and barely noticeable fashion.
  • * 2013 June 18, , " Protests Widen as Brazilians Chide Leaders," New York Times (retrieved 21 June 2013):
    • By the time politicians in several cities backed down on Tuesday and announced that they would cut or consider reducing fares, the demonstrations had already morphed into a more sweeping social protest, with marchers waving banners carrying slogans like “The people have awakened.”

    Related terms

    * morphic * morpho- * morphological

    metamorphosize

    English

    Alternative forms

    * metamorphosise (UK)

    Verb

  • (US, nonstandard) To undergo the process of metamorphosis; to metamorphose.
  • * 1995 , Joyce Rupp, Little Pieces of Light...: Darkness and Personal Growth Page 36 [http://books.google.com/books?vid=ISBN0809135124&id=wJHngNmPRTcC&pg=PA36&lpg=PA36&dq=metamorphosizing+butterfly&sig=rI9a9fDJ1FI3X0-NauDkUwXqvHw]
    • "Sitting in the darkness and waiting doesn't come naturally for us even though we "sat" for nine months in our mother's womb, a development which is as mysterious and marvelous as that of a caterpillar metamorphosizing into a butterfly."