amalgamate
amalgamate 英 [əˈmælgəmeɪt] 美 [əˈmælɡəˌmet]
v. 合并，联合
进行时:amalgamating 过去式:amalgamated 过去分词:amalgamated 第三人称单数:amalgamates 名词复数:amalgamates
- To amalgamate is to combine different things to create something new. Institutions — such as banks, schools, or hospitals — often join forces and amalgamate with one other. But other things — like musical genres — get amalgamated as well.
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- v. 合并，联合
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1. A number of colleges have amalgamated to form the new university.
一些学院联合组成了这所新大学。
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2. The company has now amalgamated with another local firm.
这家公司现在已与当地另一家公司合并了。
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3. They decided to amalgamate the two schools.
他们决定将两所学校合并。
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4. The two companies were amalgamated into one.
这两家公司合并成一家公司。
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5. the amalgamation of small farms into larger units
小农场合并成大农场
- amalgamate (v.) 1650s, "mix (a metal) with mercury," a back-formation from amalgamation, or else from obsolete adjective amalgamate (1640s) from amalgam (q.v.). Originally in metallurgy; figurative transitive sense of "to unite" (races, etc.) is attested from 1802; intransitive sense "to combine, unite into one body" is from 1797. Related: Amalgamated; amalgamating. Earlier verbs were amalgam (1540s); amalgamize (1590s).
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