Munge vs Merge - What's the difference?
munge | merge |
(transitive, computing, informal) To transform data in an undefined or unexplained manner.
* 2011 , Brian Knight, Ketan Patel, Wayne Snyder, Professional Microsoft SQL Server 2008 Administration
(transitive, computing, informal) To add a spamblock to (an email address).
* 1998 , Alan Schwartz, Simson Garfinkel, Stopping spam
(transitive, genealogy, informal) To corrupt a record about an individual by erroneously merging in information about another individual.
To combine into a whole.
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To combine into a whole.
To blend gradually into something else.
As verbs the difference between munge and merge
is that munge is (transitive|computing|informal) to transform data in an undefined or unexplained manner while merge is to combine into a whole.As a noun merge is
a joining together of two flows.munge
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Alternative forms
* mungVerb
- As a part of the code review with the development team, notify them that you want to have these options as a part of the installation script, rather than you munging the installation scripts during deployment.
- Munging is effective — it prevents unwanted email from reaching you by keeping your real email address out of the clutches of the address-harvesting programs.
- It looks like this record is munged —it has this person's birth date, but his father's death date
Derived terms
*merge
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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''.