[blend] 
verb, blend⋅ed or blent, blend⋅ing, noun | 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. |
| 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. |
| 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. |
