blend
Etymology
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Etymology
From Middle English blenden, either from Old English blandan, blondan, ġeblandan, ġeblendan or from Old Norse blanda (which was originally a strong verb with the present-tense stem blend; compare blendingr ("a blending, a mixture; a half-breed")), whence also Danish blande, or from a blend of the Old English and Old Norse terms; both ultimately from Proto-Germanic *blandaną.
Pronunciation Nounblend (plural blends)
- A mixture of two or more things.
- Synonyms: combination, mix, mixture
- Their music has been described as a blend of jazz and heavy metal.
- Our department has a good blend of experienced workers and young promise.
(linguistics) A word formed by combining two other words; a grammatical contamination, portmanteau word. - Synonyms: frankenword, portmanteau, portmanteau word, portmantologism
- Meronym: splinter
- French: mélange
- German: Mischung
- Italian: miscela, combinazione, mix, amalgama
- Portuguese: mistura, mescla, combinação, amálgama
- Russian: смесь
- Spanish: mezcla
blend (blends, present participle blending; simple past and past participle blended)
- (transitive) To mingle; to mix; to unite intimately; to pass or shade insensibly into each other.
- Synonyms: Thesaurus:homogenize, Thesaurus:mix, Thesaurus:coalesce
- To make hummus you need to blend chickpeas, olive oil, lemon juice and garlic.
- (intransitive) To be mingled or mixed.
- 1819 June 23 – 1820 September 13, Geoffrey Crayon [pseudonym; Washington Irving], “(please specify the title)”, in The Sketch Book of Geoffrey Crayon, Gent., New York, N.Y.: […] C[ornelius] S. Van Winkle, […], →OCLC ↗:
- There is a tone of solemn and sacred feeling that blends with our conviviality.
- 1817, John Keats, Happy is England!:
- To feel no other breezes than are blown / Through its tall woods with high romances blent
- 1963, Margery Allingham, chapter 3, in The China Governess: A Mystery, London: Chatto & Windus, →OCLC ↗:
- Sepia Delft tiles surrounded the fireplace, their crudely drawn Biblical scenes in faded cyclamen blending with the pinkish pine, while above them, instead of a mantelshelf, there was an archway high enough to form a balcony with slender balusters and a tapestry-hung wall behind.
- (obsolete) To pollute by mixture or association; to spoil or corrupt; to blot; to stain.
- 1595, Edmunde Spenser [i.e., Edmund Spenser], “[Amoretti.] Sonnet LXII”, in Amoretti and Epithalamion. […], London: […] [Peter Short] for William Ponsonby, →OCLC ↗:
- These stormes, which now his beauty blend,
Shall turn to calmes.
- French: mélanger, mêler, mixer
- German: mischen, mixen, vermischen
- Italian: mescolare, amalgamare, rimestare, miscelare
- Portuguese: misturar
- Spanish: mezclar, combinar
- Portuguese: misturar-se
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