MERGE
What does "MERGE" mean?
To combine or blend two or more things into a single unified whole.
Meanings
- To combine two or more things into one. The two rivers merge just north of the city.
- To join a moving lane of traffic. Signal early before you merge onto the highway.
- To combine the records, files, or codebases of separate sources. She merged her changes into the main branch. technical
- When companies or organizations combine into one entity. The two banks plan to merge next year.
Did you know?
- Merge, submerge, and emerge are triplets: all three come from Latin 'mergere', to plunge under water - so to 'merge' once meant to dunk something out of sight.
Word origin
From Latin 'mergere' (to dip, plunge, immerse); the modern sense of 'combine' developed in English through the legal idea of one thing being absorbed or sunk into another.
Remember it
MERGE: picture two highway lanes leaning together until they squeeze into one.
A little poem
Two streams arrive as strangers at the bend,
and leave as one wide river with no end.
couplet
Wordplay
- Two software branches walked into a bar. Only one walked out - they'd been told to merge.
What it teaches
Two things become one only where each agrees to lose its edge.
Quick facts
What does MERGE mean?
To combine or blend two or more things into a single unified whole.
Is MERGE a valid word?
Yes — MERGE is one of the answer words in Wordul, the daily word game.
How many letters is MERGE?
MERGE has 5 letters and 1 syllable.
Where does MERGE come from?
From Latin 'mergere' (to dip, plunge, immerse); the modern sense of 'combine' developed in English through the legal idea of one thing being absorbed or sunk into another.
What can MERGE teach us?
Two things become one only where each agrees to lose its edge.
How players do
Be the first to solve it.