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verb (used with object)
1.
to mix smoothly and inseparably together: to blend the ingredients in a recipe.
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to mix (various sorts or grades) in order to obtain a particular kind or quality: Blend a little red paint with the blue paint.
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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.
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to have no perceptible separation: Sea and sky seemed to blend.
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Blended
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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.
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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 English blenden, Old English blendan to mix, for blandan; cognate with Old Norse blanda, Old High German blantan to mix
1250–1300; Middle English blenden, Old English blendan to mix, for blandan; cognate with Old Norse blanda, Old High German blantan to mix
Related forms
non·blend·ed, adjective
non·blend·ing, adjective, noun
re·blend, verb, -blend·ed or -blent, -blend·ing.
un·blend·ed, adjective
well-blend·ed, adjective
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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Word Origin & History
blend
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
EXPAND"troubled, turbid, thick;" O.C.S. blesti "to go astray." Related: Blended.
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