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Blend vs Commingle - What's the difference?

blend | commingle |

Commingle is a synonym of blend.



In transitive terms the difference between blend and commingle

is that blend is to mingle; to mix; to unite intimately; to pass or shade insensibly into each other while commingle is to mix, to blend.

In intransitive terms the difference between blend and commingle

is that blend is to be mingled or mixed while commingle is to become mixed or blended.

As a noun blend

is a mixture of two or more things.

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.
  • 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)

    Quotations

    * (English Citations of "blend")

    Derived terms

    * blender * blended * blend in

    References

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    commingle

    English

    (Commingling)

    Alternative forms

    * co-mingle

    Verb

    (commingl)
  • To mix, to blend.
  • To become mixed or blended.

    • Usage notes

    Particularly used in financial law to refer to mixing funds – see (commingling).