blending
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[edit]Pronunciation
[edit]- IPA(key): /ˈblɛndɪŋ/
Audio (Southern England): (file) - Rhymes: -ɛndɪŋ
Etymology 1
[edit]From Middle English blendinge, equivalent to blend + -ing.
Verb
[edit]blending
- present participle and gerund of blend
- 2013 May-June, William E. Conner, “An Acoustic Arms Race”, in American Scientist, volume 101, number 3, pages 206–7:
- Earless ghost swift moths become “invisible” to echolocating bats by forming mating clusters close (less than half a meter) above vegetation and effectively blending into the clutter of echoes that the bat receives from the leaves and stems around them.
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[edit]Etymology 2
[edit]From blend + -ing. Cognate with Faroese blending (“mixture, crossing”).
Noun
[edit]blending (plural blendings)
- The act or result of something being blended.
- blendings of old and new
- 1907, Ronald M. Burrows, The Discoveries In Crete, page 60:
- Light and dark grounds are used indiscriminately, and indeed there is such a blending of the two styles that on some of the vases it would be difficult to say whether the design was light on dark, or dark on light.
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