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Webster 1913 Edition


Blend

Blend

(blĕnd)
,
Verb.
T.
[
imp. & p. p.
Blended
or
Blent
(blĕnt)
;
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

,
Verb.
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

,
Noun.
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

,
Verb.
T.
[AS.
blendan
, from
blind
blind. See
Blind
,
Adj.
]
To make blind, literally or figuratively; to dazzle; to deceive.
[Obs.]
Chaucer.

Webster 1828 Edition


Blend

BLEND

, n.
An ore of zink, called also mock-lead, false galena and black jack. Its color is mostly yellow, brown and black. There are several varieties, but in general, this ore contains more than half its weight of zink, about one fourth sulphur, and usually a small portion of iron. In chimical language, it is a sulphuret of zink.

BLEND

,
Verb.
T.
1.
To mix or mingle together; hence to confound, so that the separate things mixed cannot be distinguished.
2.
To pollute by mixture; to spoil or corrupt.
3.
To blind.

BLEND

,
Verb.
I.
To be mixed; to be united.
There is a tone of solemn and sacred feeling that blends with our conviviality.

Definition 2024


Blend

Blend

Albanian

Alternative forms
  • Blendi

Proper noun

Blend m

  1. A male given name
  2. pale
Related terms

blend

blend

See also: Blend

English

Noun

blend (plural blends)

  1. A mixture of two or more things.
    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.
  2. (linguistics) A word formed by combining two other words; a grammatical contamination, portmanteau word.
    The word brunch is a blend of the words breakfast and lunch.

Synonyms

Translations

Verb

blend (third-person singular simple present blends, present participle blending, simple past and past participle blended or (poetic) blent)

  1. (transitive) To mingle; to mix; to unite intimately; to pass or shade insensibly into each other.
    To make hummus you need to blend chickpeas, olive oil, lemon juice and garlic.
  2. (intransitive) To be mingled or mixed.
    • Irving
      There is a tone of solemn and sacred feeling that blends with our conviviality.
    • To feel no other breezes than are blown / Through its tall woods with high romances blent - Keats, 1884
    • 1963, Margery Allingham, chapter 3, in The China Governess:
      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.
    • 2013 May-June, William E. Conner, An Acoustic Arms Race”, in American Scientist, volume 101, number 3, page 206-7:
      Earless ghost swift moths become “invisible” to echolocating bats by forming mating clusters close [] above vegetation and effectively blending into the clutter of echoes that the bat receives from the leaves and stems around them. Many insects probably use this strategy, which is a close analogy to crypsis in the visible world—camouflage and other methods for blending into one’s visual background.
  3. (obsolete) To pollute by mixture or association; to spoil or corrupt; to blot; to stain.
    (Can we find and add a quotation of Spenser to this entry?)

Quotations

  • For usage examples of this term, see Citations:blend.

Derived terms

Translations

References

  1. blend” in Dictionary.com Unabridged, v1.0.1, Lexico Publishing Group, 2006.
  2. blend” in Merriam-Webster Online Dictionary, Merriam-Webster Online.
  3. “blanda” in: Richard Cleasby, Guðbrandur Vigfússon — An Icelandic-English Dictionary (1874)
  4. “blendingr” in: Richard Cleasby, Guðbrandur Vigfússon — An Icelandic-English Dictionary (1874)
  5. blend” in Douglas Harper, Online Etymology Dictionary (2001).

Central Franconian

Alternative forms

  • blenk (Ripuarian; now chiefly western dialects)
  • blond, blönd (Eifel)

Etymology

From Old High German blind, northern variant of blint.

Pronunciation

  • IPA(key): /blent/

Adjective

blend (masculine blenne or blende, feminine blenn or blend, comparative blenner or blender, superlative et blendste)

  1. (Moselle Franconian, some dialects of Ripuarian) blind; unable to see

Usage notes

  • The inflected forms with -nn- are used in those dialects in which blend is the inherited form (Moselle Franconian, southern Ripuarian). The forms with -nd- are used in Ripuarian to the extent to which inherited blenk has been replaced with blend.