amalgamate
amalgamate 英 [əˈmælgəmeɪt] 美 [əˈmælɡəˌmet]
vi. 合并；汞齐化；调制汞合金 vt. 合并；使（金属）汞齐化；混合
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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- vi. 合并；汞齐化；调制汞合金
- vt. 合并；使（金属）汞齐化；混合
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1. The company has decided to amalgamate with the parent firm.
这家子公司已决定和母公司合并。
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2. If we amalgamate our two businesses, we can creat a more powerful one.
如果将我们两家小企业合并起来，就能创造出一个实力更为雄厚的大企业。
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3. We inform you that we have agreed to amalgamate the two houses doing business in this town under the style respectively of F. and C.
本地先前以F.及C.商号营业的两店, 经协商同意合并, 特此告知。
- 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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