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blend

  [blend] verb, blend⋅ed or blent, blend⋅ing, noun
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–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

Synonyms:
1. compound. See mix. 1, 5. mingle, commingle, combine, amalgamate, unite. 5. coalesce. 8, 9. combination, amalgamation.

Antonyms:
1, 5. separate.
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blend   (blěnd)   
v.   blend·ed or blent (blěnt), blend·ing, blends

v.   tr.
  1. To combine or mix so that the constituent parts are indistinguishable from one another: "He has no difficulty blending his two writing careers: novels and films" (Charles E. Claffey).
  2. To combine (varieties or grades) to obtain a mixture of a particular character, quality, or consistency: blend tobaccos.
v.   intr.
  1. To form a uniform mixture: "The smoke blended easily into the odor of the other fumes" (Norman Mailer).
  2. To become merged into one; unite.
  3. To create a harmonious effect or result: picked a tie that blended with the jacket. See Synonyms at mix.
n.  
    1. The act of blending.
    2. Something, such as an effect or a product, that is created by blending: "His face shows, as he stares at the fire, a blend of fastidiousness and intransigence" (John Fowles). See Synonyms at mixture.
  2. Linguistics A word produced by combining parts of other words, as smog from smoke and fog.

[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
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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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