BLENDING • DICTIONARY ONE.COM • Definition of Blending

Add this Dictionary
to your website!
See more options...

/blˈɛndɪŋ/ Listen

noun

Blending n.

The act of mingling.

(Paint.) The method of laying on different tints so that they may mingle together while wet, and shade into each other insensibly.

verb

Blend v. t. (past & past part. blended or blent; pres. part. blending)

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."

To pollute by mixture or association; to spoil or corrupt; to blot; to stain. (Obs.)

Synonyms: To commingle; combine; fuse; merge; amalgamate; harmonize.

Blend v. t. To make blind, literally or figuratively; to dazzle; to deceive. (Obs.)

Blend v. 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."

See images of 'Blending'

Etymology of 'Blending'

Collaborative International Dictionary of English 0.48

Share |

Add this dictionary
to your browser search bar

"Blending" Quotes from Famous Books

... avenues. These are set off by the girdle of the flowering cherry, famed among the ancient seven villages of Iimura. Moreover it was the scene of the early labours in youth of the famous bishop—Yu[u]ten So[u]jo[u]; who solved so successfully the blending of the pale maple colour of its cherry blossoms that he gave the name myo[u]jo[u] no sakura, a new transcript of the "six characters." Here he grappled with and prevailed over the wicked spirit of the Embukasane. In later writers there is a confusion ...

— Bakemono Yashiki (The Haunted House) - Tales of the Tokugawa, Volume 2 (of 2) • James S. De Benneville

... all the others. It is this which makes it one of the most lovely attributes of home. It is one of the golden chains that link its members together in close unity, making one heart of the many that are thus fused together, and blending into beautiful unison their specific feelings, and hopes ...

— The Christian Home • Samuel Philips

... with a blending of gentleness and steadiness that quite defeated him, and with a simple confidence in his being bound to do what she required, that held him at a singular disadvantage, 'the only reparation that remains with you, is to leave here immediately and finally. ...

— Hard Times • Charles Dickens*

... well-shaped and closely set, but capable of relaxation and looked as if it might once have been full and sensitive. It too had been severely trained. The long face was narrower than the long admirably proportioned head. It was by no means as disharmonic a type as Gora Dwight's; the blending of the races was far more subtle, and when making one of his brief visits to Europe he was generally taken for an Englishman, never for a member of the Latin peoples; except possibly in the north of France, where his type, among those Norman descendants of Norse and Danes, was not uncommon. Nevertheless, ...

— Black Oxen • Gertrude Franklin Horn Atherton

... briefly. She tossed the letter to him, and went into the house. He heard her light feet upon the stairs and the rustle of her skirts as she ascended. Perfume persisted in the place she had just left—the rose at her belt, the mysterious blending of many sweet odours, and, above all, the ...

— Master of the Vineyard • Myrtle Reed

More quotes...