Blander vs Bladder - What's the difference?
blander | bladder |
(bland)
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Mixture; union.
An agreeable summer beverage prepared from the whey of churned milk, common among the inhabitants of the Shetland Islands.
Mild; soft, gentle, balmy; smooth in manner; suave.
*1818 , (John Keats), Sonnet :
*:Where didst thou find, young Bard, thy sounding lyre? / Where the bland accent, and the tender tone?
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*:“A tight little craft,” was Austin’s invariable comment on the matron;. ¶ Near her wandered her husband, orientally bland , invariably affable, and from time to time squinting sideways, as usual, in the ever-renewed expectation that he might catch a glimpse of his stiff, retroussé moustache.
Having a soothing effect; not irritating or stimulating.
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Lacking in taste, flavor, or vigor.
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(zoology) A flexible sac that can expand and contract and that holds liquids or gases.
(anatomy) Specifically, the urinary bladder.
(botany) A hollow, inflatable organ of a plant.
The inflatable bag inside various balls used in sports, such as footballs and rugby balls.
A sealed plastic bag that contains wine and is usually packaged in a cask.
(figurative) Anything inflated, empty, or unsound.
* Rochester
To swell out like a bladder with air; to inflate.
To store or put up in bladders.
As an adjective blander
is (bland).As a noun bladder is
(zoology) a flexible sac that can expand and contract and that holds liquids or gases.As a verb bladder is
to swell out like a bladder with air; to inflate.blander
English
Adjective
(head)bland
English
Etymology 1
From (etyl) blanden, blonden, from (etyl) .Etymology 2
From (etyl) bland, from (etyl) bland, .Alternative forms
* (Scotland)Noun
(en noun)Derived terms
*Etymology 3
Ultimately from (etyl) .Adjective
(er)References
* ----bladder
English
Noun
(en noun)- to swim with bladders of philosophy
Synonyms
* vesicaDerived terms
* air bladder * bladdered * bladderpod * bladderwrack * gall bladder * gas bladder * shy bladder * swim bladder * urinary bladderVerb
(en verb)- bladdered lard
