Crossword clues for amalgamate
amalgamate
Longman Dictionary of Contemporary English
The Collaborative International Dictionary
Amalgamate \A*mal"ga*mate\, v. t. [imp. & p. p. Amalgamated; p. pr. & vb. n. Amalgamating.]
To compound or mix, as quicksilver, with another metal; to unite, combine, or alloy with mercury.
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To mix, so as to make a uniform compound; to unite or combine; as, to amalgamate two races; to amalgamate one race with another.
Ingratitude is indeed their four cardinal virtues compacted and amalgamated into one.
--Burke.
Amalgamate \A*mal"ga*mate\, v. i.
To unite in an amalgam; to blend with another metal, as quicksilver.
To coalesce, as a result of growth; to combine into a uniform whole; to blend; as, two organs or parts amalgamate.
Amalgamate \A*mal"ga*mate\, Amalgamated \A*mal"ga*ma`ted\, a. Coalesced; united; combined.
Douglas Harper's Etymology Dictionary
1650s, back-formation from amalgamation, or from adjective amalgamate (1640s) from amalgam. Originally in metallurgy; figurative sense of "to unite" (races, etc.) is attested from 1802. Related: Amalgamated; amalgamating. Earlier verb was amalgamen (1540s).
Wiktionary
coalesced; united; combined v
1 (context transitive English) To merge, to combine, to blend, to join. 2 To make an alloy of a metal and mercury. 3 (context transitive mathematics English) To combine (free groups) by identifying respective isomorphic subgroups.
WordNet
adj. joined together into a whole; "United Industries"; "the amalgamated colleges constituted a university"; "a consolidated school" [syn: amalgamated, coalesced, consolidated, fused]
Usage examples of "amalgamate".
It was part of the agreement between us, when leaving each other at Eton, that we should thus communicate the characteristic traits of the society we were about to amalgamate with.
We did catch that ion trail last week, and it could very well be Amalgamated spies, just checking up on us.
Base they were met by the owner of the dry voice, still complaining about their failure to use the Amalgamated protocol.
The consolidation of MME with Amalgamated has resulted in a number of organizational changes for efficiency, Mr.
Even forgetting the other considerations that kept her at Amalgamated, no one could possibly expect her to throw away all those years of hard work just because some foundling child might be scared by reliving a traumatic incident of her past.
Judit Kendoro walked through the swinging doors of Surgery and presented her Amalgamated badge to the desk clerk.
And I suppose you have your reasons for putting up with Amalgamated, too.
The dogs of unbelievers at Amalgamated claim our ship as security against the advance, though if they had credited us with the metals sent back by drone over the last three years, the debt would have been paid three times over.
However, we left the Amalgamated base in some haste and the matter was not resolved.
You had to get yourself in trouble with some unbeliever on the Amalgamated base?
Pal Kendoro and it is my sister Judit who was working at Amalgamated who had paid for an education that would lift me out of the barrios of Kezdet.
Accustomed to reading nuances of speech and slight gestures of body language in order to survive with Amalgamated, Judit had picked up far more from that brief, inconclusive meeting than Viggers had actually said.
Jimmy Monroe told me to take a flutter in some rotten thing called Amalgamated Dyes.
Here may be seen the Peer and the Prig, the Wise one and the Green one, the Pigeon and the Rook amalgamated together.
Formerly, such a visit would have been attended with great danger to the parties making the attempt, from the number of desperate characters who inhabited the back-slums lying in the rear of Broad-street: where used to be congregated together, the most notorious thieves, beggars, and bunters of the metropolis, amalgamated with the poverty and wretchedness of every country, but more particularly the lower classes of Irish, who still continue to exist in great numbers in the neighbourhood.