blend

English

Pronunciation

Etymology

From Middle English blenden, either from Old English blandan, blondan[1] or from Old Norse blanda (“to blend, mix”)[2] (which was originally a strong verb with the present-tense stem blend[3]; compare blendingr (“a blending, a mixture; a half-breed”)[4]), whence also Danish blande, or from a blend of the Old English and Old Norse terms.[5] Compare Gothic 𐌱𐌻𐌰𐌽𐌳𐌰𐌽 (blandan), Old Church Slavonic блєсти (blesti, “to go astray”).

Noun

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  1. 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.
  2. (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

Translations

mixture
in linguistics

Verb

blend (third-person singular simple present blends, present participle blending, simple past and past participle blended, or (poetic) blent)

  1. (transitive) To mix.
    To make hummus you need to blend chickpeas, olive oil, lemon juice and garlic.
    To feel no other breezes than are blown / Through its tall woods with high romances blent - Keats, 1884

Quotations

Derived terms

Translations

to mix

References

  1. ^ “blend” in Dictionary.com Unabridged, v1.0.1, Lexico Publishing Group, 2006.
  2. ^ “blend” in Merriam-Webster Online Dictionary, Merriam-Webster Online.
  3. ^ “blanda” in: Richard Cleasby, Guðbrandur Vigfússon — An Icelandic-English Dictionary (1874)
  4. ^ “blendingr” in: Richard Cleasby, Guðbrandur Vigfússon — An Icelandic-English Dictionary (1874)
  5. ^ “blend” in Douglas Harper, Online Etymology Dictionary (2001).
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Dutch

Verb

blend

  1. first-person singular present indicative of blenden
  2. imperative of blenden
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