Secede vs Merge - What's the difference?
secede | merge |
To split from or to withdraw from membership of a political union, an alliance or an organisation.
* 2007,
(uncommon) To split or to withdraw one or more constituent entities from membership of a political union, an alliance or an organisation.
* 2002 , Darryl E. Brock, "José Agustín Quintero: Cuban Patriot in Confederate Diplomatic Service", Cubans in the Confederacy: José Agustín Quintero, Ambrosio José Gonzales, and Loreta Janeta Velazquez , Ed. Phillip Thomas Tucker, publ. McFarland, ISBN 9780786409761,
To combine into a whole.
* Burke
* De Quincey
To combine into a whole.
To blend gradually into something else.
In lang=en terms the difference between secede and merge
is that secede is to split from or to withdraw from membership of a political union, an alliance or an organisation while merge is to combine into a whole.As verbs the difference between secede and merge
is that secede is to split from or to withdraw from membership of a political union, an alliance or an organisation while merge is to combine into a whole.As a noun merge is
a joining together of two flows.secede
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Verb
(seced)Writers declare independence for Wirral., Wirral Globe, retrieved 11 July 2007.
- We can secede from the United Kingdom any time we want.
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- At the same time, Nolan also secretly contracted with the crafty United States Army general James Wilkinson to organize some men to secede Texas from Spanish America.
Usage notes
* For political entities, the term secede does not apply only to federal states, but also to other kinds of political unions. It is commonly used in the case of provinces seceding from a unitary state. * 'Secede' implies conflict, which may amount to physical conflict in the case of seceding from a political or religious entity, but which otherwise amounts to some form of disagreement at least by those who secede. * 'Withdrawal from membership' in the definition does not apply to an individual person who simply terminates membership in an organisation, but to a group which withdraws from membership to carry on related activities in a separate entity.merge
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(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''.
