different between bunch vs merge

English

Etymology

From Middle English bunche, bonche (“hump, swelling”), of uncertain origin.

Perhaps a variant of *bunge (compare dialectal bung (“heap, grape bunch”)), from Proto-Germanic *bunk?, *bunkô, *bung? (“heap, crowd”), from Proto-Indo-European *b?en??-, *b?éng??us (“thick, dense, fat”). Cognates include Saterland Frisian Bunke (“bone”), West Frisian bonke (“bone, lump, bump”), Dutch bonk (“lump, bone”), Low German Bunk (“bone”), German Bunge (“tuber”), Danish bunke (“heap, pile”), Faroese bunki (“heap, pile”); Hittite [Term?] (/panku/, “total, entire”), Tocharian B pkante (“volume, fatness”), Lithuanian búož? (“knob”), Ancient Greek ????? (pakhús, “thick”), Sanskrit ??? (bahú, “thick; much”)).

Alternatively, perhaps from a variant or diminutive of bump (compare hump/hunch, lump/lunch, etc.); or from dialectal Old French bonge (“bundle”) (compare French bongeau, bonjeau, bonjot), from West Flemish bondje, diminutive of West Flemish bond (“bundle”).

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): /?b?nt?/
• Rhymes: -?nt?

Noun

bunch (plural bunches)

1. A group of similar things, either growing together, or in a cluster or clump, usually fastened together.
2. (cycling) The peloton; the main group of riders formed during a race.
3. An informal body of friends.

   • “I don't mean all of your friends—only a small proportion—which, however, connects your circle with that deadly, idle, brainless bunch—the insolent chatterers at the opera, the gorged dowagers, […], the jewelled animals whose moral code is the code of the barnyard—!"

4. (US, informal) A considerable amount.

5. (informal) An unmentioned amount; a number.

6. (forestry) A group of logs tied together for skidding.
7. (geology, mining) An unusual concentration of ore in a lode or a small, discontinuous occurrence or patch of ore in the wallrock.
   • 1874, David Page, Economic Geology: Or, Geology in Its Relations to the Arts and Manufactures

     The ore may be disseminated throughout the matrix in minute particles, as gold in quartz; in parallel threads, strings, and plates, as with copper; in irregular pockets or bunches

8. (textiles) The reserve yarn on the filling bobbin to allow continuous weaving between the time of indication from the midget feeler until a new bobbin is put in the shuttle.
9. An unfinished cigar, before the wrapper leaf is added.

10. A protuberance; a hunch; a knob or lump; a hump.

Synonyms

• (group of similar things): cluster, group
• (informal body of friends): pack, group, gang, circle
• (unusual concentration of ore): ore pocket, pocket, pocket of ore, kidney, nest, nest of ore, ore bunch, bunch of ore

Derived terms

• buncha (bunch of)

Translations

Verb

bunch (third-person singular simple present bunches, present participle bunching, simple past and past participle bunched)

1. (transitive) To gather into a bunch.
2. (transitive) To gather fabric into folds.
3. (intransitive) To form a bunch.
4. (intransitive) To be gathered together in folds
5. (intransitive) To protrude or swell
   • 1728, John Woodward, An Attempt towards a Natural History of the Fossils of England

     Bunching out into a large round knob at one end.

Synonyms

• (form a bunch): cluster, group

Derived terms

• bunch up

Translations

English

Etymology

Borrowed from Latin merg? (“to dip; dip in; plunge; sink down into; immerse; overwhelm”).

Pronunciation

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

Verb

merge (third-person singular simple present merges, present participle merging, simple past and past participle merged)

1. (transitive) To combine into a whole.

   Headquarters merged the operations of the three divisions.

   • 1791, Edmund Burke, letter to a member of the National Assembly

     to merge all natural and all social sentiment in inordinate vanity

   • 1834, Thomas de Quincey, Samuel Taylor Coleridge (first published in Tait's Edinburgh Magazine)

     Whig and Tory were merged and swallowed up in the transcendent duties of patriots.

2. (intransitive) To combine into a whole.

   The two companies merged.

3. To blend gradually into something else.

   The lanes of traffic merged.

Synonyms

• See synonyms at Thesaurus:coalesce.

Antonyms

• divide
• split

Derived terms

• merger
• mergeable
• mergeability

Related terms

• annex

Translations

Noun

merge (plural merges)

1. The joining together of multiple sources.

   There are often accidents at that traffic merge.

   The merge of the two documents failed.

Translations

Anagrams

• emerg

Italian

Pronunciation

• Rhymes: -?rd?e

Verb

merge

1. third-person singular present indicative of mergere

Anagrams

• germe

Latin

Verb

merge

1. second-person singular present active imperative of merg?

Romanian

Alternative forms

• mere (regional, Transylvania)

Etymology

From Latin mergere, present active infinitive of merg? (itself ultimately from Proto-Indo-European *mesg- (“to plunge, dip”)), with a unique sense developing in Balkanic or Eastern Romance. Compare Aromanian njergu, njeardziri; cf. also Albanian mërgoj (“to move away”) and Sardinian imbergere (“to push”). There may have been an intermediate sense of "to fall" in earlier Romanian.

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): /?mer.d??e/

Verb

a merge (third-person singular present merge, past participle mers) 3rd conj.

1. to go

2. to walk

Conjugation

Derived terms

• mergere
• mers

See also

• duce
• umbla
• mi?ca
• deplasa

References