blend
nounEtymology
From Middle English blenden, either from Old English blandan, blondan, ġeblandan, ġeblendan or from Old Norse blanda (“to blend, mix”) (which was originally a strong verb with the present-tense stem blend; compare blendingr (“a blending, a mixture; a half-breed”)), whence also Danish blande, or from a blend of the Old English and Old Norse terms; both ultimately from Proto-Germanic *blandaną (“to blend; mix; combine”). Compare Middle Dutch blanden (“to mix”), Gothic 𐌱𐌻𐌰𐌽𐌳𐌰𐌽 (blandan), Old Church Slavonic блєсти (blesti, “to go astray”).
Definitions
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.
A word formed by combining two other words
A word formed by combining two other words; a portmanteau word.
To mingle
To mingle; to mix; to unite intimately; to pass or shade insensibly into each other.
- To make hummus you need to blend chickpeas, olive oil, lemon juice and garlic.
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To be mingled or mixed.
- There is a tone of solemn and sacred feeling that blends with our conviviality.
- To feel no other breezes than are blown / Through its tall woods with high romances blent
To pollute by mixture or association
To pollute by mixture or association; to spoil or corrupt; to blot; to stain.
- These stormes, which now his beauty blend, Shall turn to calmes.
The neighborhood
Derived
blend shape, blend time, cotton blend, idiom blend, loanblend, nanoblend, polyblend, preblend, blendability, blendable, blended, blender, blendery, blend in, blendingly, blend into the woodwork, blendshape, blendstock, blend up, blendy, blorph, blunder, deblend, downblend, interblend, misblend, reblend
Vish — recursive loop
A definitional loop anchored at blend. Each word in the ring is defined by the next; follow the chain far enough and it folds back on itself. Scroll to it and watch.
A definitional loop anchored at blend. Each word in the ring appears in the definition of the next; follow the chain far enough and it folds back on itself.
9 hops · closes at blend
curated · pre-corpus. live cycle detection across the full graph is the next major milestone.
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