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Combined vs Blended - What's the difference?

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Combined is a related term of blended.


As verbs the difference between combined and blended

is that combined is (combine) while blended is (blend).

As an adjective combined

is resulting from the addition of several sources, parts, elements, aspects, etc able to be united together, to converge.

combined

English

Adjective

(-)
  • Resulting from the addition of several sources, parts, elements, aspects, etc. able to be united together, to converge.
    • The combined efforts of the emergency workers kept the river from going over its banks, barely.

    Antonyms

    * uncombined * divided * separated

    Verb

    (head)
  • (combine)
    • The cook combined equal parts chocolate and vanilla batter in the cake.

    blended

    English

    Verb

    (head)
  • (blend)

    • Anagrams

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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)
    • , 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

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