[məːdʒ], (Verb)

Definitions:
- combine or cause to combine to form a single entity
(e.g: the merchant bank merged with another broker)

- (of a motor vehicle) move from one lane into a gap in the traffic in another lane
(e.g: a white car merged into the lane in front of us)


Phrases:

Origin:
mid 17th century (in the sense ‘immerse oneself’): from Latin mergere ‘to dip, plunge’; the legal sense is from Anglo-Norman French merger

[məːdʒ], (Noun)

Definitions:
- an act or instance of merging
(e.g: a beautiful merge of the old and the new)

- an instance of traffic beginning to form fewer lines, especially as a result of lanes or roads combining
(e.g: the turn is more like a merge than a standard right turn)


Phrases:

Origin:
mid 17th century (in the sense ‘immerse oneself’): from Latin mergere ‘to dip, plunge’; the legal sense is from Anglo-Norman French merger