Blend vs Fix - What's the difference?

In transitive terms the difference between blend and fix

is that blend is to mingle; to mix; to unite intimately; to pass or shade insensibly into each other while fix is to render (a photographic impression) permanent by treating with such applications as will make it insensitive to the action of light.

In intransitive terms the difference between blend and fix

is that blend is to be mingled or mixed while fix is to become firm, so as to resist volatilization; to cease to flow or be fluid; to congeal; to become hard and malleable, as a metallic substance.

As an abbreviation FIX is

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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.

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)

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(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

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fix

English

Alternative forms

* fixe (archaic)

Noun

(es)

A repair or corrective action.

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A difficult situation; a quandary or dilemma.

(informal) A single dose of an addictive drug administered to a drug user.

* (Alain Jourgensen)

"Just one fix !"

A prearrangement of the outcome of a supposedly competitive process, such as a sporting event, a game, an election, a trial, or a bid.

A determination of location.

(US) fettlings (mixture used to line a furnace)

Synonyms

* See also

Verb

(obsolete) To pierce; now generally replaced by transfix.

# (by extension) (Of a piercing look) to direct at someone.

He fixed me with a sickly grin, and said, "I told you it wouldn't work!"

To attach; to affix; to hold in place.

A dab of chewing gum will fix your note to the bulletin board.

A leech can fix itself to your skin without you feeling it.

# (transitive, figuratively, usually in the passive) To focus or determine (oneself, on a concept); to fixate.

She's fixed on the idea of becoming a doctor.

To mend, to repair.

That heater will start a fire if you don't fix it.

(informal) To prepare (food).

She fixed dinner for the kids.

To make (a contest, vote, or gamble) unfair; to privilege one contestant or a particular group of contestants, usually before the contest begins; to arrange immunity for defendants by tampering with the justice system via bribery or extortionSutherland, Edwin H. (ed) (1937): The Professional Thief: by a Professional Thief. Chicago: University of Chicago Press. [Reprinted by various publishers in subsequent decades.]

A majority of voters believed the election was fixed in favor of the incumbent.

(transitive, US, informal) To surgically render an animal, especially a pet, infertile.

Rover stopped digging under the fence after we had the vet fix him.

(transitive, mathematics, sematics) To map a (point or subset) to itself.

(informal) To take revenge on, to best; to serve justice on an assumed miscreant.

He got caught breaking into lockers, so a couple of guys fixed him after work.

To render (a photographic impression) permanent by treating with such applications as will make it insensitive to the action of light.

(transitive, chemistry, biology) To convert into a stable or available form.

Legumes are valued in crop rotation for their ability to fix nitrogen.

(Abney)

To become fixed; to settle or remain permanently; to cease from wandering; to rest.

* (rfdate) (Waller)

Your kindness banishes your fear, / Resolved to fix forever here.

To become firm, so as to resist volatilization; to cease to flow or be fluid; to congeal; to become hard and malleable, as a metallic substance.

(Francis Bacon)

Synonyms

* (make a contest unfair) doctor, rig * (render infertile) neuter, spay, desex, castrate * See also

Antonyms

* (to hold in place) move, change

Derived terms

* affix, affixative, fixed * fixings, fixity, fixety * fix someone's wagon, fix someone up with

References

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