Whisk vs Blend - What's the difference?
whisk | blend |
A quick, light sweeping motion.
A kitchen utensil, made from stiff wire loops fixed to a handle, used for whipping (or a mechanical device with the same function).
A bunch of twigs or hair etc, used as a brush.
A small handheld broom with a small (or no) handle.
A plane used by coopers for evening chines.
A kind of cape, forming part of a woman's dress.
* Samuel Pepys
(archaic) An impertinent fellow.
To move something with quick light sweeping motions.
* J. Fletcher
In cooking, to whip e.g. eggs or cream.
To move something rapidly and with no warning.
* Walpole
To move lightly and nimbly.
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(obsolete) The card game whist.
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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As a noun whisk
is a quick, light sweeping motion or whisk can be (obsolete) the card game whist.As a verb whisk
is to move something with quick light sweeping motions.As a proper noun blend is
.whisk
English
Etymology 1
(etyl), from (etyl) viskAccording to] eng. (vist laant fra nord. ) whisk, the English (certainly borrowed from Old Norse) whisk[http://machaut.uchicago.edu/?action=search&word=whisk&resource=Webster's&quicksearch=on Etymology in Webster's Unabridged Dictionary, from (etyl) . Cognate with Danish (m), (etyl) (m), (etyl) (m), (etyl) .
Noun
(en noun)- With a quick whisk , she swept the cat from the pantry with her broom.
- He used a whisk to whip up a light and airy souffle.
- Peter dipped the whisk in lather and applied it to his face, so he could start shaving.
- '' I used a whisk to sweep the counter, then a push-broom for the floor.
- My wife in her new lace whisk .
- (Halliwell)
Verb
(en verb)- He that walks in gray, whisking his riding rod.
- I beg she would not impale worms, nor whisk carp out of one element into another.
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Etymology 2
Noun
(-)blend
English
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
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- (Spenser)