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blend
[blend]
verb, blend⋅ed or blent, blend⋅ing, noun –verb (used with object)
| 1. | to mix smoothly and inseparably together: to blend the ingredients in a recipe. |
| 2. | to mix (various sorts or grades) in order to obtain a particular kind or quality: Blend a little red paint with the blue paint. |
| 3. | to prepare by such mixture: This tea is blended by mixing chamomile with pekoe. |
| 4. | to pronounce (an utterance) as a combined sequence of sounds. |
–verb (used without object)
| 5. | to mix or intermingle smoothly and inseparably: I can't get the eggs and cream to blend. |
| 6. | to fit or relate harmoniously; accord; go: The brown sofa did not blend with the purple wall. |
| 7. | to have no perceptible separation: Sea and sky seemed to blend. |
–noun
| 8. | an act or manner of blending: tea of our own blend. |
| 9. | a mixture or kind produced by blending: a special blend of rye and wheat flours. |
| 10. | Linguistics. a word made by putting together parts of other words, as motel, made from motor and hotel, brunch, from breakfast and lunch, or guesstimate, from guess and estimate. |
| 11. | a sequence of two or more consonant sounds within a syllable, as the bl in blend; consonant cluster. |
Origin:
1250–1300; ME blenden, OE blendan to mix, for blandan; c. ON blanda, OHG blantan to mix
1250–1300; ME blenden, OE blendan to mix, for blandan; c. ON blanda, OHG blantan to mix

Synonyms:
1. compound. See mix. 1, 5. mingle, commingle, combine, amalgamate, unite. 5. coalesce. 8, 9. combination, amalgamation.
1. compound. See mix. 1, 5. mingle, commingle, combine, amalgamate, unite. 5. coalesce. 8, 9. combination, amalgamation.
Antonyms:
1, 5. separate.
1, 5. separate.
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blend (blěnd) v. blend·ed or blent (blěnt), blend·ing, blends v. tr.
[Middle English blenden, probably from Old Norse blanda, blend-; see bhel-1 in Indo-European roots.] |
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Blend
Blend\, v. t. [imp. & p. p. Blended or Blent; p. pr. & vb. n. Blending.] [OE. blenden, blanden, AS. blandan to blend, mix; akin to Goth. blandan to mix, Icel. blanda, Sw. blanda, Dan. blande, OHG. blantan to mis; to unknown origin.]1. To mix or mingle together; esp. to mingle, combine, or associate so that the separate things mixed, or the line of demarcation, can not be distinguished. Hence: To confuse; to confound. Blending the grand, the beautiful, the gay. --Percival. 2. To pollute by mixture or association; to spoil or corrupt; to blot; to stain. [Obs.] --Spenser. Syn: To commingle; combine; fuse; merge; amalgamate; harmonize.Blend
Blend\, v. i. To mingle; to mix; to unite intimately; to pass or shade insensibly into each other, as colors. There is a tone of solemn and sacred feeling that blends with our conviviality. --Irving.Blend
Blend\, n. A thorough mixture of one thing with another, as color, tint, etc., into another, so that it cannot be known where one ends or the other begins.Blend
Blend\, v. t. [AS. blendan, from blind blind. See Blind, a.] To make blind, literally or figuratively; to dazzle; to deceive. [Obs.] --Chaucer.
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Language Translation for : blend
Spanish:
mezclar; combinar,
German:
(ver)mischen,
Japanese:
混ぜる
blend
c.1300, in northern writers, from O.E. (Mercian) blondan or O.N. blanda "to mix," or a combination of both, both probably from PIE *bhlendh- "to glimmer indistinctly" (cf. Lith. blandus "troubled, turbid, thick;" O.C.S. blesti "to go astray").
Online Etymology Dictionary, © 2001 Douglas Harper
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