Blend Definition
blĕnd
blended, blending, blends
verb
blended, blending, blends
To mix, merge, or unite.
Webster's New World
To mix or mingle (varieties of tea, tobacco, etc.), esp. so as to produce a desired flavor, color, grade, etc.
Webster's New World
To mix or fuse thoroughly, so that the parts merge and are no longer distinct.
Green results from blending blue and yellow.
Webster's New World
To pass gradually or imperceptibly into each other, as colors.
Webster's New World
To combine (different elements) into a single entity.
A career that blends medicine and engineering.
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noun
blends
The act of blending; thorough mixing.
Webster's New World
Something, such as an effect or a product, that is created by blending.
American Heritage
The result of blending; a mixture or merger of varieties, kinds, types, etc.
A favorite blend of coffee.
Webster's New World
A mixture consisting chiefly of a (specified) fabric, ingredient, etc.
A cotton blend.
Webster's New World
A word formed by combining parts of other words (Ex.: galumph, smog)
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- natural element
- separation
Origin of Blend
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From Middle English blenden, either from Old English blandan, blondan or from Old Norse blanda (“to blend, mix”) (which was originally a strong verb with the present-tense stem blend; compare blendingr (“a blending, a mixture; a half-breed”)), whence also Danish blande, or from a blend of the Old English and Old Norse terms. Compare Gothic (blandan), Old Church Slavonic блєсти (blesti, “to go astray”).
From Wiktionary
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Middle English blenden probably from Old Norse blanda blend- bhel-1 in Indo-European roots
From American Heritage Dictionary of the English Language, 5th Edition
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