Blend vs Fade - What's the difference?
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A mixture of two or more things.
(linguistics) A word formed by combining two other words; a grammatical contamination, portmanteau word.
To mingle; to mix; to unite intimately; to pass or shade insensibly into each other.
To be mingled or mixed.
* Irving
* To feel no other breezes than are blown / Through its tall woods with high romances blent - , 1884
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, title= (obsolete) To pollute by mixture or association; to spoil or corrupt; to blot; to stain.
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(archaic) Strong; bold; doughty
(archaic) Weak; insipid; tasteless; commonplace.
* Jeffery
* De Quincey
(golf) A golf shot that (for the right-handed player) curves intentionally to the right. See slice, hook, draw.
A haircut where the hair is short or shaved on the sides of the head and longer on top. See also high-top fade and low fade.
(slang) A fight
To become faded; to grow weak; to lose strength; to decay; to perish gradually; to wither, as a plant.
* Bible, Is. xxiv. 4
To lose freshness, color, or brightness; to become faint in hue or tint; hence, to be wanting in color.
* Milton
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, chapter=1 To sink away; to disappear gradually; to grow dim; to vanish.
* Addison
* Shakespeare
* 1856 : (Gustave Flaubert), (Madame Bovary), Part III Chapter XI, translated by Eleanor Marx-Aveling
To cause to fade.
Blend is a related term of fade.
As a proper noun blend
is .As a verb fade is
.blend
English
Noun
(en noun)- 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.
- The word brunch is a blend of the words breakfast and lunch.
Synonyms
* (mixture ): combination, mix, mixture * (in linguistics ): frankenword, portmanteau, portmanteau wordVerb
- There is a tone of solemn and sacred feeling that blends with our conviviality.
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.}}
William E. Conner
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
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Quotations
* (English Citations of "blend")Derived terms
* blender * blended * blend inReferences
fade
English
(wikipedia fade)Etymology 1
From (etyl) fade, fede, of uncertain origin. Compare (etyl) . See also (l).Adjective
(en-adj)Etymology 2
From (etyl) fade, vad, .Adjective
(er)- Passages that are somewhat fade .
- His masculine taste gave him a sense of something fade and ludicrous.
Noun
(en noun)Verb
(fad)- The earth mourneth and fadeth away.
- flowers that never fade
citation, passage=The half-dozen pieces […] were painted white and carved with festoons of flowers, birds and cupids. To display them the walls had been tinted a vivid blue which had now faded , but the carpet, which had evidently been stored and recently relaid, retained its original turquoise.}}
- The milkman's whistling faded into the distance.
- The stars shall fade away.
- He makes a swanlike end, / Fading in music.
- A strange thing was that Bovary, while continually thinking of Emma, was forgetting her. He grew desperate as he felt this image fading from his memory in spite of all efforts to retain it. Yet every night he dreamt of her; it was always the same dream. He drew near her, but when he was about to clasp her she fell into decay in his arms.