Blend vs False - 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.
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* 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.
Untrue, not factual, factually incorrect.
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Spurious, artificial.
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(lb) Of a state in Boolean logic that indicates a negative result.
Uttering falsehood; dishonest or deceitful.
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Not faithful or loyal, as to obligations, allegiance, vows, etc.; untrue; treacherous.
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*(John Milton) (1608-1674)
*:I to myself was false , ere thou to me.
Not well founded; not firm or trustworthy; erroneous.
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*(Edmund Spenser) (c.1552–1599)
*:whose false foundation waves have swept away
Not essential or permanent, as parts of a structure which are temporary or supplemental.
(lb) Out of tune.
As a proper noun blend
is .As an adjective false is
(label) one of two states of a boolean variable; logic.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
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English
Adjective
(er)A New English Dictionary on Historical Principles: Founded Mainly on the Materials Collected by the Philological Society, section=Part 1, publisher=Clarendon Press, location=Oxford, editor= , volume=1, page=217 , passage=Also the rule of false position, with dyuers examples not onely vulgar, but some appertaynyng to the rule of Algeber.}}