blendest English
Verb
(head)
(archaic) (blend)
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blend English
Noun
( en noun)
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.
(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
* (mixture ): combination, mix, mixture
* (in linguistics ): frankenword, portmanteau, portmanteau word
Verb
To mingle; to mix; to unite intimately; to pass or shade insensibly into each other.
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To be mingled or mixed.
* Irving
- 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 - , 1884
* {{quote-book, year=1963, author=(Margery Allingham)
, title=( The China Governess)
, chapter=3 citation
, passage=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.}}
* {{quote-magazine, year=2013, month=May-June, author= William E. Conner
, title= An Acoustic Arms Race
, volume=101, issue=3, page=206-7, magazine=( American Scientist)
, passage=Earless ghost swift moths become “invisible” to echolocating bats by forming mating clusters close
(obsolete) To pollute by mixture or association; to spoil or corrupt; to blot; to stain.
- (Spenser)
Derived terms
* blender
* blended
* blend in
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bendest English
Verb
(head)
(bend)
Anagrams
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bend English
Verb
To cause (something) to change its shape into a curve, by physical force, chemical action, or any other means.
- If you bend the pipe too far, it will break.
- Don’t bend your knees.
To become curved.
- Look at the trees bending in the wind.
To cause to change direction.
* Milton
- Bend thine ear to supplication.
* Shakespeare
- Towards Coventry bend we our course.
* Sir Walter Scott
- bending her eyes upon her parent
To change direction.
- The road bends to the right
To be inclined; to direct itself.
* Milton
- to whom our vows and wishes bend
To stoop.
- He bent down to pick up the pieces.
To bow in prayer, or in token of submission.
* Coleridge
- Each to his great Father bends .
To force to submit.
- They bent me to their will.
* Shakespeare
- except she bend her humour
To submit.
- I am bending to my desire to eat junk food.
To apply to a task or purpose.
- He bent the company's resources to gaining market share.
* Temple
- to bend his mind to any public business
* Alexander Pope
- when to mischief mortals bend their will
To apply oneself to a task or purpose.
- He bent to the goal of gaining market share.
To adapt or interpret to for a purpose or beneficiary.
(nautical) To tie, as in securing a line to a cleat; to shackle a chain to an anchor; make fast.
- Bend the sail to the yard.
(music) To smoothly change the pitch of a note.
- You should bend the G slightly sharp in the next measure.
(nautical) To swing the body when rowing.
Derived terms
* bend down
* bend over
* bend over backwards
* bend somebody's ear
* on bended knee
* bend one's elbow
* bend out of shape
* bend the truth
Noun
( en noun)
A curve.
* 1968 , (Johnny Cash),
- I hear the train a comin'/It's rolling round the bend
* , chapter=1
, title= Mr. Pratt's Patients , chapter=1
, passage=I stumbled along through the young pines and huckleberry bushes. Pretty soon I struck into a sort of path that, I cal'lated, might lead to the road I was hunting for. It twisted and turned, and, the first thing I knew, made a sudden bend around a bunch of bayberry scrub and opened out into a big clear space like a lawn.}}
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(nautical) Any of the various knots which join the ends of two lines.
- (Totten)
A severe condition caused by excessively quick decompression, causing bubbles of nitrogen to form in the blood; decompression sickness.
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(heraldiccharge) One of the honourable ordinaries formed by two diagonal lines drawn from the dexter chief to the sinister base; it generally occupies a fifth part of the shield if uncharged, but if charged one third.
(obsolete) Turn; purpose; inclination; ends.
* Fletcher
- Farewell, poor swain; thou art not for my bend .
In the leather trade, the best quality of sole leather; a butt.
(mining) Hard, indurated clay; bind.
(nautical, in the plural) The thickest and strongest planks in a ship's sides, more generally called wales, which have the beams, knees, and futtocks bolted to them.
(nautical, in the plural) The frames or ribs that form the ship's body from the keel to the top of the sides.
- the midship bends
Derived terms
* around the bend
* bend sinister
* bendlet
* bendsome
* bendy
* drive somebody round the bend
* in bend
* sheet bend
* string bend
Related terms
* bent
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