different between merge vs dissolve

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

English

Etymology

Recorded since c. 1374, from Latin dissolvere (“to loosen up, break apart”), itself from dis- (“apart”) + solvere (“to loose, loosen”).

Pronunciation

• (Received Pronunciation) IPA^(key): /d??z?lv/
• (General American) IPA^(key): /d??z?lv/
• Hyphenation: dis?solve

Verb

dissolve (third-person singular simple present dissolves, present participle dissolving, simple past and past participle dissolved)

1. (transitive) To terminate a union of multiple members actively, as by disbanding.

   Antonyms: establish, found

2. (transitive) To destroy, make disappear.
3. (transitive) To liquify, melt into a fluid.

   Synonyms: melt, formelt
4. (intransitive) To be melted, changed into a fluid.
5. (chemistry, transitive) To disintegrate chemically into a solution by immersion into a liquid or gas.
6. (chemistry, intransitive) To be disintegrated by such immersion.
7. (transitive) To disperse, drive apart a group of persons.
8. (transitive) To break the continuity of; to disconnect; to loosen; to undo; to separate.

   • Down fell the duke, his joints dissolved asunder.

   • 1776, The Declaration of Independence

     For one people to dissolve the political bands which have connected them with another.

9. (law, transitive) To annul; to rescind; to discharge or release.
10. (cinematography, intransitive) To shift from one shot to another by having the former fade out as the latter fades in.

    Synonym: fade out

11. (intransitive) To resolve itself as by dissolution.
12. (obsolete) To solve; to clear up; to resolve.
    • ?, Alfred Tennyson, A Dream of Fair Women

      dissolved the mystery

    • Make interpretations and dissolve doubts.

13. To relax by pleasure; to make powerless.
    • 1677, John Dryden, The State of Innocence, Preface

      [Angels] dissolv'd in hallelujahs lie.

Derived terms

Related terms

Translations

See also

• melt

Noun

dissolve (plural dissolves)

1. (cinematography) a form of film punctuation in which there is a gradual transition from one scene to the next

   Synonym: fade out

Translations

Italian

Pronunciation

• Rhymes: -?lve

Verb

dissolve

1. third-person singular present indicative of dissolvere

Anagrams

• disvolse

Latin

Verb

dissolve

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

Portuguese

Verb

dissolve

1. third-person singular (ele and ela, also used with você and others) present indicative of dissolver
2. second-person singular (tu, sometimes used with você) affirmative imperative of dissolver