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.
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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)
Derived terms
* blender
* blended
* blend in
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harmonize English
Alternative forms
* (l) (British)
Verb
To be in (l) (l).
(music) To play or sing in harmony.
To bring things into harmony, or to make things (l).
To provide the harmony for a (l).
Related terms
* harmonization
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