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verb (used with object), blend·ed or blent, blend·ing.

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.

to pronounce (an utterance) as a combined sequence of sounds.

verb (used without object), blend·ed or blent, blend·ing.

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.

noun

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.

a sequence of two or more consonant sounds within a syllable, as the bl in blend; consonant cluster.

Origin of blend

1250–1300; Middle English blenden, Old English blendan to mix, for blandan; cognate with Old Norse blanda, Old High German blantan to mix

Related formsnon·blend·ed, adjectivenon·blend·ing, adjective, nounre·blend, verb, re·blend·ed or re·blent, re·blend·ing.un·blend·ed, adjectivewell-blend·ed, adjective

Synonyms for blend

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1. compound. See mix. 1, 5. mingle, commingle, combine, amalgamate, unite. 5. coalesce. 8, 9. combination, amalgamation.

Antonyms for blend

1, 5. separate.

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Related Words for blending

mingle, merge, synthesize, fuse, combine, integrate, meld, complement, fit, amalgamate, weld, unite, commingle, coalesce, intermix, commix, compound, cement, arrange, unify

Examples from the Web for blending

Contemporary Examples of blending

Blending into the local population in one area to operate in the shadows, while marching openly through the streets elsewhere.
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In France, blending is only allowed in Champagne (even then, many producers prefer the saignée method).
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Her later works became even more experimental, blending elements of autobiography, history, myth, religion, and politics.
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Historical Examples of blending

It is possible that there has been a blending of the two incidents.
The Works of Whittier, Volume III (of VII)
John Greenleaf Whittier
It is the blending of experience with the present action of the mind.
Nature
Ralph Waldo Emerson
Nothing could be more perfect than the blending of courtesy and familiarity.
Sir Brook Fossbrooke, Volume I.
Charles James Lever
The outlines of the far-off mountains were blending into one huge shadow.
Dwellers in the Hills
Melville Davisson Post
Everywhere he sees the shadings, the blending of the meaning of words.
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Johan Huizinga

British Dictionary definitions for blending

blend

verb

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

noun

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"

Word Origin for blend

Old English blandan; related to blendan to deceive, Old Norse blanda, Old High German blantan

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Word Origin and History for blending

blend

v.

c.1300, blenden, "to mix, mingle, stir up a liquid," in northern writers, from or akin to rare Old English blandan "to mix," blondan (Mercian) or Old Norse blanda "to mix," or a combination of the two; from Proto-Germanic *blandan "to mix," which comes via a notion of "to make cloudy" from an extended Germanic form of the PIE root *bhel- (1) "to shine, flash, burn" (see bleach (v.); also blind (adj.)). Cf. Old Saxon and Old High German blantan, Gothic blandan, Middle High German blenden "to mix;" German Blendling "bastard, mongrel," and outside Germanic, Lithuanian blandus "troubled, turbid, thick;" Old Church Slavonic blesti "to go astray." Figurative use from early 14c. Related: Blended; blending.

blend

n.

"mixture formed by blending," 1690s, from blend (v.).

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