Klryz
Pronunciation guide: IPA symbols, stress and word endings

Vowels

iːseeɪsite / ɛbedæcat
ɑːfatherɒhot (UK)ɔːlawʊput
uːtooʌcupɜːbirdəabout
eɪdayaɪmyɔɪboyaʊnow
əʊ / oʊgo (UK / US)ɪəneareəhairʊətour

Consonants that look unusual

θthinðthisʃsheʒmeasure
tʃchurchdʒjudgeŋsingjyes

p b t d k g f v s z h m n l r w sound as in ordinary English spelling.

Marks

  • ˈ main stress, before the stressed syllable: /ˈwɔːtə/ water · ˌ lighter (secondary) stress: /ˌʌndəˈstænd/ understand
  • ː a long vowel · (r) an r said only in accents that pronounce it (most American, Scottish, Irish)

Common word endings

  • -s / -es (plurals; he/she form of verbs): /s/ after voiceless sounds (cats), /z/ after voiced (dogs), /ɪz/ after s, z, sh, ch, j sounds (buses, watches). Spelling: -es after s, x, z, ch, sh; consonant + y → -ies (city → cities).
  • -ed (past): /t/ after voiceless sounds (walked), /d/ after voiced (played), /ɪd/ after t or d (wanted). Spelling: love → loved, stop → stopped, carry → carried.
  • -ing: make → making, run → running, see → seeing.
  • Irregular: go, went, gone · be, was, been · see, saw, seen · man → men · child → children · mouse → mice.
  • Older (King James) forms: -eth = -s (he loveth = he loves) · -est with “thou” (thou lovest) · spake = spoke.

English Dictionary · 107,383 entries · Sources & licences

“merges” is a form of

merge

UK /mɜːd͡ʒ/ · US /mɝd͡ʒ/ verb, noun

Forms merges merging merged

  1. verb (transitive, intransitive) To combine into a whole. “Headquarters merged the operations of the three divisions.”
  2. verb (transitive, intransitive, computing) To combine two or more versions of a file into one file, especially using a version control system.
  3. verb To blend gradually into something else. “The lanes of traffic merged.”
  4. noun The joining together of multiple sources. “There are often accidents at that traffic merge.”
  5. noun (syntax) Within the Minimalist Program, a fundamental operation of syntactic construction

Synonyms

agglomerate aggregate incorporate cumulate alloy amalgamate blend coalesce interweave combine consolidate conflate embody fuse integrate mass meld unite merger merging unify flux mix commingle immix

Antonyms

divide split

Etymology

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

Webster’s 1913

  1. verb To cause to be swallowed up; to immerse; to sink; to absorb.
  2. verb To be sunk, swallowed up, or lost.

Etymology [L. mergere, mersum. Cf. Emerge, Immerse, Marrow.]

Sources: Wiktionary · WordNet 3.0 · Webster’s 1913 — from the Wiktionary entry “merge”, CC BY-SA 4.0. Details