morph
morph Lexical Profile
morph Game Scores & Validity
• verb
To undergo or cause to undergo a gradual, seamless transformation from one form, state, or character into another.
"What began as a casual neighborhood book club gradually morphed into a community charity organization."
To change smoothly from one visual image into another by small gradual steps using computer animation techniques.
"The special effects team used software to morph the actor's face into that of a lion."
• noun
A digitally altered image or sequence created by smoothly blending one picture into another.
"The graphic designer created a seamless morph showing the actor aging over several decades."
One of several distinct local or genetic forms of a plant or animal species that occur together within the same interbreeding population.
"The dark-winged morph of the peppered moth became much more common during the industrial era."
A concrete phonetic or orthographic realization of a morpheme in a particular linguistic context.
"In English phonology, the plural suffix has three regular spoken morphs depending on the final sound of the stem."
• Rhymes for morph
Word Origin & Etymology
Derived from Ancient Greek 'morphe', meaning 'form' or 'shape'; the modern verb sense is a late 20th-century shortening of 'metamorphose', popularized by computer graphics and visual effects.