Definition of merge in English:

merge

verb məːdʒmərdʒ

1Combine or cause to combine to form a single entity.
合并，兼并（尤指商业机构）
no object the merchant bank merged with another broker
with object he agreed to merge his broadcasting company with a multinational concern
Example sentencesExamples
- Fifty years after the American Federation of Labor merged with the Congress of Industrial Organizations, the U.S. labor movement may be heading for a breakup.
- Mirror Group was merging with Trinity, and nobody knew if the new entity would want the title.
- The two institutions merged into a single entity on 1 July 2003, much to trade unions' cry of a sell-out.
- But this summer they upped the ante by merging with two other combined co-ops to form a super cooperative.
- The company eventually merged with Photoloft and became the Brightcube entity.
- The retirement option would be available to those who have completed 40 years of age and seven years of service with the bank, including in those entities which have merged with the bank.
- Soden has seen his proposal to create a single large Irish bank by merging with Allied Irish Banks shot down after taking on the top job at the Baggot Street headquarters in March.
- This year, we're merging with a neighboring school and I am really nervous - even though all of my friends are coming with me.
- He joined Boeing after it merged with McDonnell Douglas and was president and chief operating officer under Condit.
- In the fall of 2003, the Liberal Party merged with the Democratic Party of Japan, combining party identification under the DPJ name.
- ‘If anyone thinks merging with South Sydney will solve our problems, it won't,’ Ms Sheehan said.
- As the number of people playing and watching baseball games in the community grew, The Pirates merged with another team.
- In 1994, Meeting Point merged with the then United Democrats to form the Democratic Party.
- The current proposals are a choice between North Yorkshire Police merging with the West Yorkshire force, or being amalgamated into a Yorkshire and Humber regional force.
- In the budget last May, the Federal Government announced that the archive was to be merged with the Australian Film Commission.
- We then merged with a team who had come along to help and they asked me to continue as leader.
- In the 1980s it succumbed too, merging with a Lancastrian brewer, which in turn was then swallowed by the giant Scottish & Newcastle.
- The proposed European federation is unprecedented: no democracy has ever merged with another to form such an entity.
- But in 1947 the National Peasant Party was banned, the social democrats were pressured into merging with the communists, and King Michael was forced to abdicate.
- Their supporters are revelling in the chance to see their team in action again after the old club merged with Hull FC a year.
Synonyms
join (together), join forces, amalgamate, consolidate, integrate, unite, unify, combine, incorporate, affiliate, coalesce, meld, agglutinate, team up, link (up), band (together), ally, league, federate
amalgamate, bring together, join, consolidate, conflate, unite, combine, incorporate, coalesce, meld, pool, link (up), knit, yoke
1. 1.1 Blend or cause to blend gradually into something else so as to become indistinguishable from it.
  融合，合为一体；渐渐消失
  no object he crouched low and endeavoured to merge into the darkness of the forest
  他蹲下来，力图隐入森林的黑暗中。
  with object he placed a sheet of paper over the fresh paint to merge the colours
  Example sentencesExamples
  His practice of mobility is based on a constant but consciously unsuccessful effort to merge dissimilarities and blend antipodes.
  This is a science in which biology, chemistry, physics, and computer science draw on one another and merge to become indistinguishable.
  The days merged together in a grey blur, with Keziah throwing all her energy behind her work.
  He says the different communities north of Winchester would merge into one indistinguishable mass of housing if Barton Farm were to be built on.
  Remember those cold winter days when you walked through a park somewhere and the traffic in the distance merged into grey noise?
  Squalls were setting up whirlpools on Loch Linnhe as I set off and the distant hills of Appin merged into the dank grey of the sky.
  Well, we see the world in our own colours, or perceived colours, which is not unlike normal people, except that some of our colours tend to merge.
  Colours merge and forms emerge from within - as is Karunakaran's forte.
  In terms of surface expansion, the central zone and the peripheral zone merge into each other gradually.
  Do the characters remain consistent and unique or do they tend to blend and merge, sharing behavior traits?
  The plywood is painted slate grey to merge with the surrounding rock, so the building looks as though it is an organic part of the landscape.
  The raags would be different and gradually merge into one.
  Over time, the new and old populations mingled, traded, intermarried and merged.
  These smaller objects, left over from the collapses of young, very massive stars gradually merged, creating a billion solar mass black hole at the centre of the galaxy.
  But I can't quite express why it seems that way, and it may just be that they've gradually merged in my own memory.
  Flatten Image proclaims to eradicate all the working spaces gathered so far and merge all blend modes and opacities into a concluding pixel value.
  Maybe the diverse threads of this wide ranging conversation are beginning to blend and merge like that imagined reflection inside the mirrored sphere.
  The colours on her paintbrushes merged into her cancan dress, giving it a tie-dye appearance.
  Audio visual is a sequence of slides that merge and blend into each other using two or more projectors with a synchronised music store and commentary.
  The colours on the canvas merge into the music as the dancers whip up a rhythm with their graceful movements.
  Synonyms
  mingle, blend, fuse, run/melt/fade into one another, mix, intermix, intermingle, commingle, converge, integrate, coalesce, compound, homogenize, emulsify, lump (together), mass, conglomerate
2. 1.2usually merge something inLaw with object Absorb (a title or estate) in another.
  〔律〕兼并（产权，产业）
  Example sentencesExamples
  It was suggested that when a statute is passed empowering the Crown to do a certain thing which it might theretofore have done by virtue of its prerogative, the prerogative is merged in the statute.

Derivatives

mergence

noun

Origin

Mid 17th century (in the sense 'immerse oneself'): from Latin mergere 'to dip, plunge'; the legal sense is from Anglo-Norman French merger.

Latin mergere ‘to dip, plunge’ is the source of merge and emerge (late 16th century). Merge was initially used to mean ‘immerse’ oneself in a particular way of life, with the modern sense appearing in the 19th century via business use.

Rhymes

converge, dirge, diverge, emerge, purge, scourge, serge, splurge, spurge, submerge, surge, urge, verge

Definition of merge in US English:

merge

verbmərjmərdʒ

1Combine or cause to combine to form a single entity.
合并，兼并（尤指商业机构）
no object the utility companies are cutting costs and merging with other companies
with object the company plans to merge its U.S. oil production operations with those of a London-based organization
这家公司计划把旗下的美国石油生产企业与一总部在伦敦的石油机构合并。
the files were merged using the patient identification code as the common variable
Example sentencesExamples
- He joined Boeing after it merged with McDonnell Douglas and was president and chief operating officer under Condit.
- In 1994, Meeting Point merged with the then United Democrats to form the Democratic Party.
- Their supporters are revelling in the chance to see their team in action again after the old club merged with Hull FC a year.
- This year, we're merging with a neighboring school and I am really nervous - even though all of my friends are coming with me.
- Soden has seen his proposal to create a single large Irish bank by merging with Allied Irish Banks shot down after taking on the top job at the Baggot Street headquarters in March.
- But in 1947 the National Peasant Party was banned, the social democrats were pressured into merging with the communists, and King Michael was forced to abdicate.
- The current proposals are a choice between North Yorkshire Police merging with the West Yorkshire force, or being amalgamated into a Yorkshire and Humber regional force.
- We then merged with a team who had come along to help and they asked me to continue as leader.
- In the budget last May, the Federal Government announced that the archive was to be merged with the Australian Film Commission.
- But this summer they upped the ante by merging with two other combined co-ops to form a super cooperative.
- In the fall of 2003, the Liberal Party merged with the Democratic Party of Japan, combining party identification under the DPJ name.
- The two institutions merged into a single entity on 1 July 2003, much to trade unions' cry of a sell-out.
- In the 1980s it succumbed too, merging with a Lancastrian brewer, which in turn was then swallowed by the giant Scottish & Newcastle.
- The company eventually merged with Photoloft and became the Brightcube entity.
- The retirement option would be available to those who have completed 40 years of age and seven years of service with the bank, including in those entities which have merged with the bank.
- Fifty years after the American Federation of Labor merged with the Congress of Industrial Organizations, the U.S. labor movement may be heading for a breakup.
- As the number of people playing and watching baseball games in the community grew, The Pirates merged with another team.
- Mirror Group was merging with Trinity, and nobody knew if the new entity would want the title.
- The proposed European federation is unprecedented: no democracy has ever merged with another to form such an entity.
- ‘If anyone thinks merging with South Sydney will solve our problems, it won't,’ Ms Sheehan said.
Synonyms
join, join together, join forces, amalgamate, consolidate, integrate, unite, unify, combine, incorporate, affiliate, coalesce, meld, agglutinate, team up, link, link up, band, band together, ally, league, federate
amalgamate, bring together, join, consolidate, conflate, unite, combine, incorporate, coalesce, meld, pool, link, link up, knit, yoke
1. 1.1no object Blend or cause to blend gradually into something else so as to become indistinguishable from it.
  融合，合为一体；渐渐消失
  he crouched low and endeavored to merge into the darkness of the forest
  他蹲下来，力图隐入森林的黑暗中。
  with object he placed a sheet of paper over the fresh paint to merge the colors
  Example sentencesExamples
  Audio visual is a sequence of slides that merge and blend into each other using two or more projectors with a synchronised music store and commentary.
  The days merged together in a grey blur, with Keziah throwing all her energy behind her work.
  Squalls were setting up whirlpools on Loch Linnhe as I set off and the distant hills of Appin merged into the dank grey of the sky.
  Do the characters remain consistent and unique or do they tend to blend and merge, sharing behavior traits?
  Well, we see the world in our own colours, or perceived colours, which is not unlike normal people, except that some of our colours tend to merge.
  This is a science in which biology, chemistry, physics, and computer science draw on one another and merge to become indistinguishable.
  Colours merge and forms emerge from within - as is Karunakaran's forte.
  In terms of surface expansion, the central zone and the peripheral zone merge into each other gradually.
  But I can't quite express why it seems that way, and it may just be that they've gradually merged in my own memory.
  Over time, the new and old populations mingled, traded, intermarried and merged.
  Remember those cold winter days when you walked through a park somewhere and the traffic in the distance merged into grey noise?
  Flatten Image proclaims to eradicate all the working spaces gathered so far and merge all blend modes and opacities into a concluding pixel value.
  These smaller objects, left over from the collapses of young, very massive stars gradually merged, creating a billion solar mass black hole at the centre of the galaxy.
  He says the different communities north of Winchester would merge into one indistinguishable mass of housing if Barton Farm were to be built on.
  The raags would be different and gradually merge into one.
  His practice of mobility is based on a constant but consciously unsuccessful effort to merge dissimilarities and blend antipodes.
  Maybe the diverse threads of this wide ranging conversation are beginning to blend and merge like that imagined reflection inside the mirrored sphere.
  The colours on the canvas merge into the music as the dancers whip up a rhythm with their graceful movements.
  The colours on her paintbrushes merged into her cancan dress, giving it a tie-dye appearance.
  The plywood is painted slate grey to merge with the surrounding rock, so the building looks as though it is an organic part of the landscape.
  Synonyms
  mingle, blend, fuse, fade into one another, melt into one another, run into one another, mix, intermix, intermingle, commingle, converge, integrate, coalesce, compound, homogenize, emulsify, lump, lump together, mass, conglomerate

Origin

Mid 17th century (in the sense ‘immerse oneself’): from Latin mergere ‘to dip, plunge’; the legal sense is from Anglo-Norman French merger.

词汇	merge
释义	Definition of merge in English: merge verb məːdʒmərdʒ 1Combine or cause to combine to form a single entity. 合并，兼并（尤指商业机构） no object the merchant bank merged with another broker with object he agreed to merge his broadcasting company with a multinational concern Example sentencesExamples Fifty years after the American Federation of Labor merged with the Congress of Industrial Organizations, the U.S. labor movement may be heading for a breakup. Mirror Group was merging with Trinity, and nobody knew if the new entity would want the title. The two institutions merged into a single entity on 1 July 2003, much to trade unions' cry of a sell-out. But this summer they upped the ante by merging with two other combined co-ops to form a super cooperative. The company eventually merged with Photoloft and became the Brightcube entity. The retirement option would be available to those who have completed 40 years of age and seven years of service with the bank, including in those entities which have merged with the bank. Soden has seen his proposal to create a single large Irish bank by merging with Allied Irish Banks shot down after taking on the top job at the Baggot Street headquarters in March. This year, we're merging with a neighboring school and I am really nervous - even though all of my friends are coming with me. He joined Boeing after it merged with McDonnell Douglas and was president and chief operating officer under Condit. In the fall of 2003, the Liberal Party merged with the Democratic Party of Japan, combining party identification under the DPJ name. ‘If anyone thinks merging with South Sydney will solve our problems, it won't,’ Ms Sheehan said. As the number of people playing and watching baseball games in the community grew, The Pirates merged with another team. In 1994, Meeting Point merged with the then United Democrats to form the Democratic Party. The current proposals are a choice between North Yorkshire Police merging with the West Yorkshire force, or being amalgamated into a Yorkshire and Humber regional force. In the budget last May, the Federal Government announced that the archive was to be merged with the Australian Film Commission. We then merged with a team who had come along to help and they asked me to continue as leader. In the 1980s it succumbed too, merging with a Lancastrian brewer, which in turn was then swallowed by the giant Scottish & Newcastle. The proposed European federation is unprecedented: no democracy has ever merged with another to form such an entity. But in 1947 the National Peasant Party was banned, the social democrats were pressured into merging with the communists, and King Michael was forced to abdicate. Their supporters are revelling in the chance to see their team in action again after the old club merged with Hull FC a year. Synonyms join (together), join forces, amalgamate, consolidate, integrate, unite, unify, combine, incorporate, affiliate, coalesce, meld, agglutinate, team up, link (up), band (together), ally, league, federate amalgamate, bring together, join, consolidate, conflate, unite, combine, incorporate, coalesce, meld, pool, link (up), knit, yoke 1.1 Blend or cause to blend gradually into something else so as to become indistinguishable from it. 融合，合为一体；渐渐消失 no object he crouched low and endeavoured to merge into the darkness of the forest 他蹲下来，力图隐入森林的黑暗中。 with object he placed a sheet of paper over the fresh paint to merge the colours Example sentencesExamples His practice of mobility is based on a constant but consciously unsuccessful effort to merge dissimilarities and blend antipodes. This is a science in which biology, chemistry, physics, and computer science draw on one another and merge to become indistinguishable. The days merged together in a grey blur, with Keziah throwing all her energy behind her work. He says the different communities north of Winchester would merge into one indistinguishable mass of housing if Barton Farm were to be built on. Remember those cold winter days when you walked through a park somewhere and the traffic in the distance merged into grey noise? Squalls were setting up whirlpools on Loch Linnhe as I set off and the distant hills of Appin merged into the dank grey of the sky. Well, we see the world in our own colours, or perceived colours, which is not unlike normal people, except that some of our colours tend to merge. Colours merge and forms emerge from within - as is Karunakaran's forte. In terms of surface expansion, the central zone and the peripheral zone merge into each other gradually. Do the characters remain consistent and unique or do they tend to blend and merge, sharing behavior traits? The plywood is painted slate grey to merge with the surrounding rock, so the building looks as though it is an organic part of the landscape. The raags would be different and gradually merge into one. Over time, the new and old populations mingled, traded, intermarried and merged. These smaller objects, left over from the collapses of young, very massive stars gradually merged, creating a billion solar mass black hole at the centre of the galaxy. But I can't quite express why it seems that way, and it may just be that they've gradually merged in my own memory. Flatten Image proclaims to eradicate all the working spaces gathered so far and merge all blend modes and opacities into a concluding pixel value. Maybe the diverse threads of this wide ranging conversation are beginning to blend and merge like that imagined reflection inside the mirrored sphere. The colours on her paintbrushes merged into her cancan dress, giving it a tie-dye appearance. Audio visual is a sequence of slides that merge and blend into each other using two or more projectors with a synchronised music store and commentary. The colours on the canvas merge into the music as the dancers whip up a rhythm with their graceful movements. Synonyms mingle, blend, fuse, run/melt/fade into one another, mix, intermix, intermingle, commingle, converge, integrate, coalesce, compound, homogenize, emulsify, lump (together), mass, conglomerate 1.2usually merge something inLaw with object Absorb (a title or estate) in another. 〔律〕兼并（产权，产业） Example sentencesExamples It was suggested that when a statute is passed empowering the Crown to do a certain thing which it might theretofore have done by virtue of its prerogative, the prerogative is merged in the statute. Derivatives mergence noun Origin Mid 17th century (in the sense 'immerse oneself'): from Latin mergere 'to dip, plunge'; the legal sense is from Anglo-Norman French merger. Latin mergere ‘to dip, plunge’ is the source of merge and emerge (late 16th century). Merge was initially used to mean ‘immerse’ oneself in a particular way of life, with the modern sense appearing in the 19th century via business use. Rhymes converge, dirge, diverge, emerge, purge, scourge, serge, splurge, spurge, submerge, surge, urge, verge Definition of merge in US English: merge verbmərjmərdʒ 1Combine or cause to combine to form a single entity. 合并，兼并（尤指商业机构） no object the utility companies are cutting costs and merging with other companies with object the company plans to merge its U.S. oil production operations with those of a London-based organization 这家公司计划把旗下的美国石油生产企业与一总部在伦敦的石油机构合并。 the files were merged using the patient identification code as the common variable Example sentencesExamples He joined Boeing after it merged with McDonnell Douglas and was president and chief operating officer under Condit. In 1994, Meeting Point merged with the then United Democrats to form the Democratic Party. Their supporters are revelling in the chance to see their team in action again after the old club merged with Hull FC a year. This year, we're merging with a neighboring school and I am really nervous - even though all of my friends are coming with me. Soden has seen his proposal to create a single large Irish bank by merging with Allied Irish Banks shot down after taking on the top job at the Baggot Street headquarters in March. But in 1947 the National Peasant Party was banned, the social democrats were pressured into merging with the communists, and King Michael was forced to abdicate. The current proposals are a choice between North Yorkshire Police merging with the West Yorkshire force, or being amalgamated into a Yorkshire and Humber regional force. We then merged with a team who had come along to help and they asked me to continue as leader. In the budget last May, the Federal Government announced that the archive was to be merged with the Australian Film Commission. But this summer they upped the ante by merging with two other combined co-ops to form a super cooperative. In the fall of 2003, the Liberal Party merged with the Democratic Party of Japan, combining party identification under the DPJ name. The two institutions merged into a single entity on 1 July 2003, much to trade unions' cry of a sell-out. In the 1980s it succumbed too, merging with a Lancastrian brewer, which in turn was then swallowed by the giant Scottish & Newcastle. The company eventually merged with Photoloft and became the Brightcube entity. The retirement option would be available to those who have completed 40 years of age and seven years of service with the bank, including in those entities which have merged with the bank. Fifty years after the American Federation of Labor merged with the Congress of Industrial Organizations, the U.S. labor movement may be heading for a breakup. As the number of people playing and watching baseball games in the community grew, The Pirates merged with another team. Mirror Group was merging with Trinity, and nobody knew if the new entity would want the title. The proposed European federation is unprecedented: no democracy has ever merged with another to form such an entity. ‘If anyone thinks merging with South Sydney will solve our problems, it won't,’ Ms Sheehan said. Synonyms join, join together, join forces, amalgamate, consolidate, integrate, unite, unify, combine, incorporate, affiliate, coalesce, meld, agglutinate, team up, link, link up, band, band together, ally, league, federate amalgamate, bring together, join, consolidate, conflate, unite, combine, incorporate, coalesce, meld, pool, link, link up, knit, yoke 1.1no object Blend or cause to blend gradually into something else so as to become indistinguishable from it. 融合，合为一体；渐渐消失 he crouched low and endeavored to merge into the darkness of the forest 他蹲下来，力图隐入森林的黑暗中。 with object he placed a sheet of paper over the fresh paint to merge the colors Example sentencesExamples Audio visual is a sequence of slides that merge and blend into each other using two or more projectors with a synchronised music store and commentary. The days merged together in a grey blur, with Keziah throwing all her energy behind her work. Squalls were setting up whirlpools on Loch Linnhe as I set off and the distant hills of Appin merged into the dank grey of the sky. Do the characters remain consistent and unique or do they tend to blend and merge, sharing behavior traits? Well, we see the world in our own colours, or perceived colours, which is not unlike normal people, except that some of our colours tend to merge. This is a science in which biology, chemistry, physics, and computer science draw on one another and merge to become indistinguishable. Colours merge and forms emerge from within - as is Karunakaran's forte. In terms of surface expansion, the central zone and the peripheral zone merge into each other gradually. But I can't quite express why it seems that way, and it may just be that they've gradually merged in my own memory. Over time, the new and old populations mingled, traded, intermarried and merged. Remember those cold winter days when you walked through a park somewhere and the traffic in the distance merged into grey noise? Flatten Image proclaims to eradicate all the working spaces gathered so far and merge all blend modes and opacities into a concluding pixel value. These smaller objects, left over from the collapses of young, very massive stars gradually merged, creating a billion solar mass black hole at the centre of the galaxy. He says the different communities north of Winchester would merge into one indistinguishable mass of housing if Barton Farm were to be built on. The raags would be different and gradually merge into one. His practice of mobility is based on a constant but consciously unsuccessful effort to merge dissimilarities and blend antipodes. Maybe the diverse threads of this wide ranging conversation are beginning to blend and merge like that imagined reflection inside the mirrored sphere. The colours on the canvas merge into the music as the dancers whip up a rhythm with their graceful movements. The colours on her paintbrushes merged into her cancan dress, giving it a tie-dye appearance. The plywood is painted slate grey to merge with the surrounding rock, so the building looks as though it is an organic part of the landscape. Synonyms mingle, blend, fuse, fade into one another, melt into one another, run into one another, mix, intermix, intermingle, commingle, converge, integrate, coalesce, compound, homogenize, emulsify, lump, lump together, mass, conglomerate Origin Mid 17th century (in the sense ‘immerse oneself’): from Latin mergere ‘to dip, plunge’; the legal sense is from Anglo-Norman French merger.
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