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Mixed vs Blended - What's the difference?

mixed | blended |

As verbs the difference between mixed and blended

is that mixed is past tense of mix while blended is past tense of blend.

As an adjective mixed

is having two or more separate aspects.

mixed

English

Verb

(head)
  • (mix)

    • Adjective

    (en adjective)
  • Having two or more separate aspects.
    • I get a very mixed feeling from this puzzling painting.
  • Not completely pure, tainted or adulterated.
    • My joy was somewhat mixed when my partner said she was pregnant: it's a lot of responsibility.
  • Including both male(s) and female(s).
    • The tennis match was mixed with a boy and a girl on each side.
    ''My son attends a mixed school, my daughter an all-girl grammar school.
  • Stemming from two or more races or breeds
    • ''The benefit dog show has both mixed and single-breed competitions.
    ''Mixed blood can surprisingly produce inherited properties which neither parent showed

    Synonyms

    * heterogenous * (not pure) impure

    Antonyms

    * unmixed * homogenous

    Derived terms

    * mixed blessing * mixed bud * mixed company * mixed doubles * mixed drink * mixed farming * mixed marriage * mixed message * mixed number

    Related terms

    * mixer * mixture

    Anagrams

    *

    blended

    English

    Verb

    (head)
  • (blend)

    • Anagrams

    *

    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

    References

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