different between amalgam vs marge

English

Etymology

From Medieval Latin amalgama (“mercury alloy”), from Arabic ???????????? (al-mal?am, “emollient poultice or unguent for sores”), from Ancient Greek ??????? (málagma, “emollient; malleable material”), from ??????? (maláss?, “to soften”), from ??????? (malakós, “soft”). Doublet of malagma. For the verb, compare French amalgamer.

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): /??mæl.??m/
• Hyphenation: a?mal?gam

Noun

amalgam (countable and uncountable, plural amalgams)

1. (metallurgy) An alloy containing mercury.
2. A combination of different things.
3. One of the ingredients in an alloy.

Synonyms

• alloy, blend, combo, compound, conglomerate, mixture

Related terms

• amalgamate
• amalgamation

Translations

Verb

amalgam (third-person singular simple present amalgams, present participle amalgaming, simple past and past participle amalgamed)

1. (archaic, transitive, intransitive) To amalgamate.
   • a. 1691, Robert Boyle, An Essay on the Porousness of Solid Bodies

     I had once occasion to distill in a small retort some gold amalgamed with such a fine and subtile mercur

   • 1610, Ben Jonson, The Alchemist

     gold t'amalgam with some six of mercury

Further reading

• Douglas Harper (2001–2021) , “amalgam”, in Online Etymology Dictionary
• David Barthelmy (1997–2021) , “Amalgam”, in Webmineral Mineralogy Database
• “amalgam”, in Mindat.org?^[1], Hudson Institute of Mineralogy, 2000–2021.
• “amalgam”, in Lexico, Dictionary.com; Oxford University Press, 2019–present.

Anagrams

• malagma

Romanian

Etymology

From French amalgame, from Latin amalgama.

Noun

amalgam n (plural amalgame)

1. amalgam

Declension

Serbo-Croatian

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): /am?l?a?m/
• Hyphenation: a?mal?gam

Noun

amàlg?m m (Cyrillic spelling ?????????)

1. amalgam

Declension

Swedish

Noun

amalgam n

1. amalgam

Declension

English

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): /m??(r)d?/
• Rhymes: -??(r)d?

Etymology 1

From French marge, from Latin margo, of Germanic origin. Doublet of margin and margo.

Noun

marge (plural marges)

1. (archaic) margin; edge; verge.
   • 1610, The Tempest, by Shakespeare, act 4 scene 1

     […] And thy sea-marge, sterile and rocky-hard,

     Where thou thyself dost air [...]

   • 1874, James Thomson, The City of Dreadful Night

     the long curved crest

     Which swells out two leagues from the river marge.

Etymology 2

Shortened from the word margarine.

Noun

marge (usually uncountable, plural marges)

1. (colloquial, Britain, Ireland, New Zealand, Australia) margarine.

Anagrams

• Mager, e-gram, gamer, grame, regma

Catalan

Etymology

From Old Occitan [Term?] (compare Occitan marge), from Latin marg?, marginem (compare French marge, Portuguese margem), from Proto-Indo-European *mer?-, mar?-.

Pronunciation

• (Balearic) IPA^(key): /?ma?.??/
• (Central) IPA^(key): /?mar.??/
• (Valencian) IPA^(key): /?ma?.d??e/

Noun

marge m (plural marges)

1. margin, edge
2. (economics) margin

Related terms

• marginar

Dutch

Pronunciation

Noun

marge f or m (plural marges, diminutive margetje n)

1. margin

Synonyms

• kantlijn

Anagrams

• mager

French

Etymology

From Old French, from Latin marg?, marginem, from Proto-Indo-European *mer?-, mar?-.

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): /ma??/

Noun

marge f (plural marges)

1. margin (of paper, etc)

Derived terms

• en marge de
• marge de manœuvre
• marger

Further reading

• “marge” in Trésor de la langue française informatisé (The Digitized Treasury of the French Language).

Anagrams

• germa

Westrobothnian

Etymology

From Old Norse margir.

Adjective

marge pl (comparative flair)

1. Many.

Derived terms

• margelónnom
• margföllu
• margehanda