What's the difference between consolidation and merge?

Consolidation


Definition:

  • (n.) The act or process of consolidating, making firm, or uniting; the state of being consolidated; solidification; combination.
  • (n.) To organic cohesion of different circled in a flower; adnation.
  • (n.) The combination of several actions into one.

Example Sentences:

  • (1) Macroscopic lesions included mild congestion of the gastric mucosa and focal consolidation of the lung.
  • (2) At consolidation, the distraction area was composed of lamellar trabecular and partly woven bone.
  • (3) Formation of the functional contour plaster bandage within the limits of the foot along the border of the fissure of the ankle joint with preservation of the contours of the ankles 4-8 weeks after the treatment was started in accordance with the severity of the fractures of the ankles in 95 patients both without (6) and with (89) dislocation of the bone fragments allowed to achieve the bone consolidation of the ankle fragments with recovery of the supportive ability of the extremity in 85 (89.5%) of the patients, after 6-8 weeks (7.2%) in the patients without displacement and after 10-13 weeks (11.3%) with displacement of the bone fragments of the ankles.
  • (4) The information suggests a certain consolidation of earlier efforts.
  • (5) The scale of fees that potentially are there in the Italian banking market – from restructurings and consolidation – are substantial,” said Peter Hahn, professor of banking at the London Institute of Banking & Finance.
  • (6) Therapy included intensive induction and consolidation followed by a cyclic, sequential maintenance program.
  • (7) This intra-oral model might be useful for studies of the organic material incorporated into enamel during the process of consolidation.
  • (8) In a single-institution study, 23 consecutive children with acute myeloid leukemia (AML) have been treated with a protocol including doxorubicin, cytarabine and 6-thioguanine as induction therapy, followed by four courses of high-dose cytarabine as consolidation.
  • (9) So far 34 patients in complete remission have been given one or two courses of the intensified consolidation therapy with high-dose cytosine-arabinoside and daunorubicin.
  • (10) These results suggest that noradrenaline (NA) is required for memory consolidation processes for about 2 h after training.
  • (11) Chest X-ray revealed cavity and consolidation in the right upper lobe.
  • (12) These include fibrosis with or without consolidation (n = 12), ground-glass opacities (n = 7), widespread bilateral consolidation (n = 2), and bronchial wall thickening with areas of decreased attenuation (n = 2).
  • (13) They were thought to be caused by the rotor practice interfering with just-learned ladder skill consolidation, so that the gain in skill was not processed into long-term memory.
  • (14) In the former, consolidation of the lung was noticed and useful in the diagnosis, but in the latter, no distinct change was observed in plain chest roentogenogram.
  • (15) The filling of the defect and fracture consolidation took place in 87 (91.7%) patients.
  • (16) A different, more straightforwardly anti-cuts message could perhaps consolidate a left-vote in a PR system, but is unlikely to work for a party seeking to lead.
  • (17) Postremission therapy consolidation has been judged to be necessary while the clinical roles of maintenance and intensification remain to be clarified and appear to still require an investigational approach.
  • (18) LTP in these two structures could underlie their role in memory consolidation and could explain the late involvement of the entorhinal cortex in post-training memory processing.
  • (19) The functions of medical physicists and their roles in consolidation of the relations between medicine and natural sciences and engineering are discussed.
  • (20) Hemorrhage, congestion, consolidation, edema and fibrin exudation were prominent in the hilar region of the lungs.

Merge


Definition:

  • (v. t.) To cause to be swallowed up; to immerse; to sink; to absorb.
  • (v. i.) To be sunk, swallowed up, or lost.

Example Sentences:

  • (1) Still higher intensities caused the 2 phases of inhibition to merge, giving the appearance of a single, prolonged, inhibitory response.
  • (2) White lines 2 and 5 tended to merge with lines 1 and 4, respectively, in collagen fibrils formed from a solution containing a significant amount of type I collagen or pure type I collagen.
  • (3) As alcohol concentration is increased the lower L beta I to P beta' and main P beta' to L alpha transitions of DHPC merge at the threshold concentration of the biphasic effect, so that above this concentration there is one phase transition from L beta I directly to L alpha.
  • (4) In addition, if a preceding procedural step is a subset of the next one, merging between the two steps occurs.
  • (5) The subicular area, best expressed in the temporal sector, extends anteriorly over the corpus callosum to the subcallosal gyrus and, throughout its extent from the uncal to the septal junction, is clearly demarcated from limbic neocortex by a transition zone characterized by archicortical cells merging with cells in the deep layer of the bordering neocortex.
  • (6) Reorganisation can deliver better outcomes, as the merging of care for stroke victims in London has shown.
  • (7) Merged scanning sequences did not influence volume determination.
  • (8) In more mature granulocytic cells of chronic myelogenous leukemia the three enzymes merged within a single group of denser particles; such particles were absent in myeloblasts.
  • (9) More could certainly be done to help charities who would like to investigate merging; there needs to be better guidance available, as well as more open and positive dialogue on the subject within the sector.
  • (10) Small cell carcinoma was merging with the adenocarcinoma in 11 cases and represented 30% to 90% of total tumor volume.
  • (11) When merged with repeated-measures data, this technique permits the estimation of parameters representing both individual and group dynamics.
  • (12) Talking to clinicians at each of the three sites, it was evident that the vast majority felt no particular allegiance to the larger, merged organisation (SLHT) and, the majority wished to continue working on the individual site they had always worked, in the same manner as prior to the merger.
  • (13) Fibres are branching off from one bundle and merge again either with a branch of the same bundle or with a branch of another bundle, in a higher or a lower layer of this 3 dimensional texture.
  • (14) They merge individual stripes spaced less than one field diameter apart and show a pause in firing at wider spacing.
  • (15) There are no explanations for the unusual affinity of possible pathogenic immune reactions to the spine and other organs, the induction of ossification, the merging of cartilage, or the development of sacroilitis.
  • (16) Such cells do not complete cytokinesis but merge together several hours after telophase.
  • (17) Merging of these junctions forms the main dense line of myelin.
  • (18) Areas of ependymoma merged with others that displayed the appearance of a paraganglioma, including lobules and nests of chief cells immunoreactive for neuron-specific enolase, synaptophysin, chromogranin, and serotonin.
  • (19) The Health Situation and Trend Assessment Program, initiated in 1982, merged the program on health statistics and the program on epidemiological surveillance of communicable diseases.
  • (20) We should also plan a fast cross-Pennine line, to join the northern city centres, and high-speed lines from Cardiff and Bristol merging, and then splitting again towards Birmingham and west London.