Meanings
present singular third person amalgamates · participle present amalgamating · participle past amalgamated · past amalgamated
- intransitivetransitiveTo merge, to combine, to blend, to join.
to amalgamate two races
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to amalgamate one race with another
Ingratitude is indeed their four cardinal virtues compacted and amalgamated into one.
1796, Edmund Burke, A Letter from the Right Honourable Edmund Burke to a Noble Lord, on the Attacks Made upon Him and His Pension, […], London: […] J. Owen, […], and F[rancis] and C[harles] Rivington, […], →OCLCAt length, the two schemes were amalgamated to form the Manchester & Birmingham, which was to pass through the Potteries and join the Grand Junction at Chebsey, a few miles north of Stafford.
1957 September 28, M. D. Greville and G. O. Holt, “Railway Development in Manchester—1”, in Railway Magazine, page 617 - transitivemathematicsTo combine (free groups) by identifying respective isomorphic subgroups.
comparative more amalgamate · superlative most amalgamate
plural amalgamates
- The substance resulting from a process of amalgamation.
Synonyms & antonyms
More synonyms by meaning
adjectivejoined together into a whole
verbto bring or combine together or with something else
Synonym sets from Open English WordNet, CC BY 4.0.
Origin
- Medieval Latinamalgamātus
- Englishamalgamate
From Medieval Latin amalgamātus, past participle of amalgamāre, amalgama.
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Bulgarian амалгами́рам
- амалгами́рам (amalgamíram)to make an alloy of mercury and another metal
Catalan amalgamar, amalgamar
- amalgamarto combine or blend
- amalgamarto make an alloy of mercury and another metal
- amalgamarmath: to combine free groups
Finnish sulauttaa, yhdistää
- sulauttaato combine or blend
- yhdistääto combine or blend
- sulautuato combine or blend
- yhdistyäto combine or blend
- amalgamoidato make an alloy of mercury and another metal
French amalgamer
- amalgamerto combine or blend
German fusionieren, mischen
- fusionierento combine or blend
- mischento combine or blend
- verbindento combine or blend
- verquickento make an alloy of mercury and another metal
- amalgamierento make an alloy of mercury and another metal
- mit Quecksilber legierento make an alloy of mercury and another metal
Hungarian vegyít, egyesít
- vegyítto combine or blend
- egyesítto combine or blend
- ötvözto combine or blend
- fuzionálto combine or blend
- keveredikto combine or blend
- egybeolvasztto combine or blend
- vegyülto combine or blend
- foncsorozto make an alloy of mercury and another metal
Māori whakatōpū
- whakatōpūto combine or blend
Norwegian blande
- blandeto combine or blend
Polish amalgamować
- amalgamowaćto make an alloy of mercury and another metal
Portuguese amalgamar, amalgamar
- amalgamarto combine or blend
- amalgamarto make an alloy of mercury and another metal
Spanish amalgamar, amalgamar
- amalgamarto combine or blend
- amalgamarto make an alloy of mercury and another metal
- amalgamarmath: to combine free groups
Swedish fusionera
- fusionerato combine or blend
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