English Dictionary: blend | by the DICT Development Group |
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From WordNet (r) 3.0 (2006) [wn]: | |
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From Webster's Revised Unabridged Dictionary (1913) [web1913]: | |
Blend \Blend\, v. i. To mingle; to mix; to unite intimately; to pass or shade insensibly into each other, as colors. There is a tone of solemn and sacred feeling that blends with our conviviality. --Irving. | |
From Webster's Revised Unabridged Dictionary (1913) [web1913]: | |
Blend \Blend\, n. A thorough mixture of one thing with another, as color, tint, etc., into another, so that it cannot be known where one ends or the other begins. | |
From Webster's Revised Unabridged Dictionary (1913) [web1913]: | |
Blend \Blend\, v. t. [AS. blendan, from blind blind. See {Blind}, a.] To make blind, literally or figuratively; to dazzle; to deceive. [Obs.] --Chaucer. | |
From Webster's Revised Unabridged Dictionary (1913) [web1913]: | |
Blend \Blend\, v. t. [imp. & p. p. {Blended} or {Blent}; p. pr. & vb. n. {Blending}.] [OE. blenden, blanden, AS. blandan to blend, mix; akin to Goth. blandan to mix, Icel. blanda, Sw. blanda, Dan. blande, OHG. blantan to mis; to unknown origin.] 1. To mix or mingle together; esp. to mingle, combine, or associate so that the separate things mixed, or the line of demarcation, can not be distinguished. Hence: To confuse; to confound. Blending the grand, the beautiful, the gay. --Percival. 2. To pollute by mixture or association; to spoil or corrupt; to blot; to stain. [Obs.] --Spenser. Syn: To commingle; combine; fuse; merge; amalgamate; harmonize. |