blend
to mix smoothly and inseparably together: to blend the ingredients in a recipe.
to mix (various sorts or grades) in order to obtain a particular kind or quality: Blend a little red paint with the blue paint.
to prepare by such mixture: This tea is blended by mixing chamomile with pekoe.
Phonetics. to pronounce (an utterance) as a combined sequence of sounds.
to mix or intermingle smoothly and inseparably: I can't get the eggs and cream to blend.
to fit or relate harmoniously; accord; go: The brown sofa did not blend with the purple wall.
to have no perceptible separation: Sea and sky seemed to blend.
an act or manner of blending: tea of our own blend.
a mixture or kind produced by blending: a special blend of rye and wheat flours.
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.
Phonetics. a sequence of two or more consonant sounds within a syllable, as the bl in blend; consonant cluster.
blend in, to escape attention by looking or acting like other members of a group or like the surrounding environment: tourists who try to blend in with the locals;salamanders that blend in with mossy surfaces.
Origin of blend
1synonym study For blend
Other words for blend
Opposites for blend
Other words from blend
- non·blend·ed, adjective
- non·blend·ing, adjective, noun
- re·blend, verb, re·blend·ed or re·blent, re·blend·ing.
- un·blend·ed, adjective
- well-blended, adjective
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How to use blend in a sentence
It is like love—a reblending with all the elements of nature.
The Secret Life | Elizabeth Bisland
British Dictionary definitions for blend
/ (blɛnd) /
to mix or mingle (components) together thoroughly
(tr) to mix (different grades or varieties of tea, whisky, tobacco, etc) to produce a particular flavour, consistency, etc
(intr) to look good together; harmonize
(intr) (esp of colours) to shade imperceptibly into each other
a mixture or type produced by blending
the act of blending
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"
Origin of blend
1Collins English Dictionary - Complete & Unabridged 2012 Digital Edition © William Collins Sons & Co. Ltd. 1979, 1986 © HarperCollins Publishers 1998, 2000, 2003, 2005, 2006, 2007, 2009, 2012
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