Blendest vs Bendest - What's the difference?
blendest | bendest |
(archaic) (blend)
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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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(bend)
To cause (something) to change its shape into a curve, by physical force, chemical action, or any other means.
To become curved.
To cause to change direction.
* Milton
* Shakespeare
* Sir Walter Scott
To change direction.
To be inclined; to direct itself.
* Milton
To stoop.
To bow in prayer, or in token of submission.
* Coleridge
To force to submit.
* Shakespeare
To submit.
To apply to a task or purpose.
* Temple
* Alexander Pope
To apply oneself to a task or purpose.
To adapt or interpret to for a purpose or beneficiary.
(nautical) To tie, as in securing a line to a cleat; to shackle a chain to an anchor; make fast.
(music) To smoothly change the pitch of a note.
(nautical) To swing the body when rowing.
A curve.
* 1968 , (Johnny Cash),
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, title= (nautical) Any of the various knots which join the ends of two lines.
A severe condition caused by excessively quick decompression, causing bubbles of nitrogen to form in the blood; decompression sickness.
(heraldiccharge) One of the honourable ordinaries formed by two diagonal lines drawn from the dexter chief to the sinister base; it generally occupies a fifth part of the shield if uncharged, but if charged one third.
(obsolete) Turn; purpose; inclination; ends.
* Fletcher
In the leather trade, the best quality of sole leather; a butt.
(mining) Hard, indurated clay; bind.
(nautical, in the plural) The thickest and strongest planks in a ship's sides, more generally called wales, which have the beams, knees, and futtocks bolted to them.
(nautical, in the plural) The frames or ribs that form the ship's body from the keel to the top of the sides.
As verbs the difference between blendest and bendest
is that blendest is archaic second-person singular of blend while bendest is archaic second-person singular of bend.blendest
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Verb
(head)blend
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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.
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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
- (Spenser)
Quotations
* (English Citations of "blend")Derived terms
* blender * blended * blend inReferences
bendest
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Verb
(head)Anagrams
*bend
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Verb
- If you bend the pipe too far, it will break.
- Don’t bend your knees.
- Look at the trees bending in the wind.
- Bend thine ear to supplication.
- Towards Coventry bend we our course.
- bending her eyes upon her parent
- The road bends to the right
- to whom our vows and wishes bend
- He bent down to pick up the pieces.
- Each to his great Father bends .
- They bent me to their will.
- except she bend her humour
- I am bending to my desire to eat junk food.
- He bent the company's resources to gaining market share.
- to bend his mind to any public business
- when to mischief mortals bend their will
- He bent to the goal of gaining market share.
- Bend the sail to the yard.
- You should bend the G slightly sharp in the next measure.
Derived terms
* bend down * bend over * bend over backwards * bend somebody's ear * on bended knee * bend one's elbow * bend out of shape * bend the truthNoun
(en noun)- I hear the train a comin'/It's rolling round the bend
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- (Totten)
- Farewell, poor swain; thou art not for my bend .
- the midship bends