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Solute vs Blend - What's the difference?

solute | blend |

In obsolete terms the difference between solute and blend

is that solute is to absolve while blend is to pollute by mixture or association; to spoil or corrupt; to blot; to stain.

As an adjective solute

is loose; free; liberal.

solute

English

Adjective

(en adjective)
  • Loose; free; liberal
    • a solute interpretation
    (Francis Bacon)
  • Relaxed, hence, merry; cheerful
  • * Young
    • A brow solute , and ever-laughing eye.
  • Able to be dissolved; soluble
    • a solute salt
  • (botany) Not adhering; loose; opposed to adnate
    • a solute stipule

    Noun

    (en noun)
  • Any substance that is dissolved in a liquid solvent to create a solution

    • Verb

    (solut)
  • (obsolete) To dissolve.
  • (obsolete) To absolve.
    • to solute sin
    (Bale)

    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

    References

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