an act or manner of blending: tea of our own blend.
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a mixture or kind produced by blending: a special blend of rye and wheat flours.
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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.
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a sequence of two or more consonant sounds within a syllable, as the bl in blend; consonant cluster.
Origin: 1250–1300;Middle Englishblenden,Old Englishblendan to mix, for blandan; cognate with Old Norseblanda,Old High Germanblantan to mix
Related forms
non·blend·ed, adjective
non·blend·ing, adjective, noun
re·blend, verb, re·blend·ed or re·blent, re·blend·ing.
(tr) to mix (different grades or varieties of tea, whisky, tobacco, etc) to produce a particular flavour, consistency, etc
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(intr) to look good together; harmonize
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(intr) (esp of colours) to shade imperceptibly into each other
—n
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a mixture or type produced by blending
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the act of blending
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Also called: portmanteau word a word formed by joining together the beginning and the end of two other words: "brunch" is a blend of "breakfast" and "lunch"
[Old English blandan; related to blendan to deceive, Old Norse blanda, Old High German blantan]
c.1300, in northern writers, from O.E. (Mercian) blondan or O.N. blanda "to mix," or a combination of both; perhaps from P.Gmc. *blandjan "to blind," via a connecting notion of "to make cloudy," from PIE base *bhel- (1) "to shine, flash, burn" (see bleach). Cf. Lith. blandus
"troubled, turbid, thick;" O.C.S. blesti "to go astray." Related: Blended.