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Blend   /blɛnd/   Listen
Blend

noun
1.
An occurrence of thorough mixing.
2.
A new word formed by joining two others and combining their meanings.  Synonyms: portmanteau, portmanteau word.  "'motel' is a portmanteau word made by combining 'motor' and 'hotel'" , "'brunch' is a well-known portmanteau"
3.
The act of blending components together thoroughly.  Synonym: blending.
verb
(past & past part. blended or blent; pres. part. blending)
1.
Combine into one.  Synonyms: immingle, intermingle, intermix.  "He blends in with the crowd" , "We don't intermingle much"
2.
Blend or harmonize.  Synonyms: blend in, go.  "This sofa won't go with the chairs"
3.
Mix together different elements.  Synonyms: coalesce, combine, commingle, conflate, flux, fuse, immix, meld, merge, mix.



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"Blend" Quotes from Famous Books



... of historic interest and importance, with that blend of magnificence and domesticity so typical of all that is best in English life. Aurora's eyes wandered from the massive emerald chandeliers, the envy of every connoisseur in Europe, to Raphael's masterly "Madonna," which, with a daring harmony by Sargent, filled the ...
— Punch, or the London Charivari, June 10, 1914 • Various

... in the land of souls; she bids me come and chase with her the fawn and the kid, to bring her berries from the hills, and flowers from the vales, and to brush with our mingled footsteps, in early morning, the dew from the glades, and to blend in early evening the music of our lips, and the breath of our sighs, by the sides of the grass-wrapt fountain. She bids me come, and be clasped to a faithful breast, and called to a bridal bed. I come, beautiful spirit, to ...
— Traditions of the North American Indians, Vol. 2 (of 3) • James Athearn Jones

... Defeat—but through the bitter fight, To those who know, I'm something more than friend; For I can build beyond the wrath of might And drive away all yellow from the blend; For those who quit, I am the final blow, But for the brave who seek their chance to learn, I show the way, at last, beyond the foe, To where the ...
— It Can Be Done - Poems of Inspiration • Joseph Morris

... St. Huberts, are supposed to have been brought by pilgrims from the Holy Land. Another larger breed, also known by the same name, were pure white, and another kind were greyish-red. The dogs of the present day are probably a blend ...
— Dogs and All About Them • Robert Leighton

... author fell back upon his earlier scheme of metre, the Christabel blend of iambic with anapaestic passages, instead of the nearly pure iambs of his middle poems. The Bridal, partly to encourage the Erskine notion, it would seem, is hampered by an intermixed outline-story, told in the ...
— Sir Walter Scott - Famous Scots Series • George Saintsbury


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