different between fused vs merge

English

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): /fju?zd/

Verb

fused

1. simple past tense and past participle of fuse

Adjective

fused (not comparable)

1. Joined together by fusing
3. Melted
4. Furnished with a fuse
5. (organic chemistry) Having at least one bond between two atoms that is part of two or more separate rings

Derived terms

Anagrams

• feuds

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