blend

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English[edit]

Pronunciation[edit]

Etymology[edit]

From Middle English blenden, either from Old English blandan, blondan[1] or from Old Norse blanda (“to blend, mix”)[2] (which was originally a strong verb with the present-tense stem blend[3]; compare blendingr (“a blending, a mixture; a half-breed”)[4]), whence also Danish blande, or from a blend of the Old English and Old Norse terms.[5] Compare Gothic 𐌱𐌻𐌰𐌽𐌳𐌰𐌽 (blandan), Old Church Slavonic блєсти (blesti, “to go astray”).

Noun[edit]

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  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[edit]

Translations[edit]

mixture
in linguistics

Verb[edit]

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

  1. (transitive)  To mix.
    • To feel no other breezes than are blown / Through its tall woods with high romances blent - Keats, 1884
    • 1963, Margery Allingham, chapter 3, The China Governess[1]:
      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.
    To make hummus you need to blend chickpeas, olive oil, lemon juice and garlic.

Quotations[edit]

Derived terms[edit]

Translations[edit]

to mix

References[edit]

  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).

Dutch[edit]

Verb[edit]

blend

  1. first-person singular present indicative of blenden
  2. imperative of blenden
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