blend : Dictionary / Wörterbuch (BEOLINGUS, TU Chemnitz)

English Dictionary: blend	by the DICT Development Group
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From WordNet (r) 3.0 (2006) [wn]:
blend n an occurrence of thorough mixing a new word formed by joining two others and combining their meanings; "`smog' is a blend of `smoke' and `fog'"; "`motel' is a portmanteau word made by combining `motor' and `hotel'"; "`brunch' is a well-known portmanteau" Synonym(s): blend, portmanteau word, portmanteau the act of blending components together thoroughly Synonym(s): blend, blending v combine into one; "blend the nuts and raisins together"; "he blends in with the crowd"; "We don't intermingle much" Synonym(s): blend, intermix, immingle, intermingle blend or harmonize; "This flavor will blend with those in your dish"; "This sofa won't go with the chairs" Synonym(s): blend, go, blend in mix together different elements; "The colors blend well" Synonym(s): blend, flux, mix, conflate, commingle, immix, fuse, coalesce, meld, combine, merge
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.