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verb (used with object)
1.
to cause to combine or coalesce; unite.
2.
to combine, blend, or unite gradually so as to blur the individuality or individual identity of: They voted to merge the two branch offices into a single unit.
verb (used without object)
3.
to become combined, united, swallowed up, or absorbed; lose identity by uniting or blending (often followed by in or into): This stream merges into the river up ahead.
4.
to combine or unite into a single enterprise, organization, body, etc.: The two firms merged last year.
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Merging
is always a great word to know.
So is interrobang. Does it mean:
| a printed punctuation mark (‽), available only in some typefaces, designed to combine the question mark (?) and the exclamation point (!), indicating a mixture of query and interjection, as after a rhetorical question. |
| an extraordinary or unusual thing, person, or event; an exceptional example or instance. |
Origin:
1630–40; < Latin mergere to dip, immerse, plunge into water
1630–40; < Latin mergere to dip, immerse, plunge into water
Related forms
mer·gence, noun
an·ti·merg·ing, adjective
de·merge, verb (used with object), -merged, -merg·ing.
re·merge, verb, -merged, -merg·ing.
un·merge, verb (used with object), -merged, -merg·ing.
Synonyms
1, 2, 3. amalgamate, consolidate.
1, 2, 3. amalgamate, consolidate.
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Word Origin & History
merge
1630s, "to plunge or sink in," from L. mergere "to dip, immerse," probably rhotacized from *mezgo, and cognate with Skt. majjati "dives under," Lith. mazgoju "to wash." Legal sense of "absorption of an estate, contract, etc. into another" is from 1726.
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