Vanish vs Merge - What's the difference?
vanish | merge |
To become invisible or to move out of view unnoticed.
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*:The Bat—they called him the Bat. Like a bat he chose the night hours for his work of rapine; like a bat he struck and vanished , pouncingly, noiselessly; like a bat he never showed himself to the face of the day.
(lb) To become equal to zero.
:The function f(x)=x2 vanishes at x=0.
(phonetics) The brief terminal part of a vowel or vocal element, differing more or less in quality from the main part.
To combine into a whole.
* Burke
* De Quincey
To combine into a whole.
To blend gradually into something else.
As verbs the difference between vanish and merge
is that vanish is to become invisible or to move out of view unnoticed while merge is to combine into a whole.As nouns the difference between vanish and merge
is that vanish is (phonetics) the brief terminal part of a vowel or vocal element, differing more or less in quality from the main part while merge is a joining together of two flows.vanish
English
Verb
(es)Synonyms
* disappearDerived terms
* vanishing sprayNoun
(vanishes)- a as in ale ordinarily ends with a vanish of i as in ill.
- o as in old ordinarily ends with a vanish of oo as in foot.
- (Rush)
See also
* glide (Webster 1913)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''.
