Definitions for blend
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Princeton's WordNetRate this definition:5.0 / 1 vote

1. blendnoun

   an occurrence of thorough mixing

2. blend, portmanteau word, portmanteaunoun

   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"

3. blend, blendingverb

   the act of blending components together thoroughly

4. blend, intermix, immingle, intermingleverb

   combine into one

   "blend the nuts and raisins together"; "he blends in with the crowd"; "We don't intermingle much"

5. blend, go, blend inverb

   blend or harmonize

   "This flavor will blend with those in your dish"; "This sofa won't go with the chairs"

6. blend, flux, mix, conflate, commingle, immix, fuse, coalesce, meld, combine, mergeverb

   mix together different elements

   "The colors blend well"

WiktionaryRate this definition:0.0 / 0 votes

1. blendnoun

   A mixture of two or more things.

2. blendnoun

   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.

3. blendverb

   To mix.

Samuel Johnson's DictionaryRate this definition:0.0 / 0 votes

1. To BLENDverb

   preter. I blended; anciently, blent.

   Etymology: blendan , Saxon.

   1. To mingle together.

   ’Tis beauty truly blent, whose red and white
   Nature’s own sweet and cunning hand hath laid on. William Shakespeare, Twelfth Night.

   The mistion taught by the ancients is too slight or gross; for bodies, mixed according to their hypothesis, would not appear such to the acute eyes of a lynx, who would discern the elements, if they were no otherwise mingled, than but blended, but not united. Boyle.

   He had his calmer influence, and his mien
   Did love and majesty together blend. Dryden.

   The grave, where even the great find rest,
   And blended lie th’ oppressor and th’ oppress’d. Alexander Pope.

   2. To confound.

   The moon should wander from her beaten way, the times and seasons of the year blend themselves by disordered and confused mixture. Richard Hooker, b. i. § 3.

   3. To pollute; to spoil; to corrupt. This signification was anciently much in use, but is now wholly obsolete.

   Which when he saw, he burnt with jealous fire;
   The eye of reason was with rage yblent. Fairy Queen, b. ii.

   Regard of worldly muck doth foully blend,
   And low abase the high heroick spirit. Fairy Queen, b. ii.

   The whilst thy kingdom from thy head is rent,
   And thy throne royal with dishonour blent. Edmund Spenser, Hubb.

WikipediaRate this definition:0.0 / 0 votes

1. BLEND

   BLEND (formerly: One Hour Translation) is a localization and translation services company headquartered in Tel Aviv, Israel. The company was founded as One Hour Translation in 2008 by Yaron Kaufman, Lior Libman and Oren Yagev. BLEND provides machine translation and AI-based localization services for enterprise companies, as well as offering a self-service online translation platform, BLEND Express. BLEND has offices in Tel Aviv, Bucharest, Kyiv, Atlanta, Los Angeles, Shanghai, Hong Kong, and London. Additionally, it employs thousands of freelance translators and linguists around the world who translate over 120 languages.

ChatGPTRate this definition:0.0 / 0 votes

1. blend

   A blend refers to a mixture or combination of different elements, substances, or qualities, merged together to create something that incorporates features from all individual components. This term can apply to various contexts such as art, music, food, textiles, linguistics etc., where multiple ingredients, sounds, colors, or words are fused to create a harmonious composition.

Webster DictionaryRate this definition:5.0 / 1 vote

1. Blendverb

   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

2. Blendverb

   to pollute by mixture or association; to spoil or corrupt; to blot; to stain

3. Blendverb

   to mingle; to mix; to unite intimately; to pass or shade insensibly into each other, as colors

4. Blendnoun

   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

5. Blendadjective

   to make blind, literally or figuratively; to dazzle; to deceive

WikidataRate this definition:0.0 / 0 votes

1. Blend

   In linguistics, a blend is a word formed from parts of two or more other words. These parts are sometimes, but not always, morphemes.

Chambers 20th Century DictionaryRate this definition:0.0 / 0 votes

1. Blend

   blend, v.t. to mix together: to confound.—v.i. to be mingled or mixed:—pa.p. blend′ed and blent.—n. a mixture:—n. Blend′ing, the act of mingling: the process by which the fusion of paints is effected. [A.S. blandan.]

Rap DictionaryRate this definition:0.0 / 0 votes

1. blendnoun

   See marijuana.

Editors ContributionRate this definition:0.0 / 0 votes

1. blend

   To create with a number of things.

   They put all the vegetables in the pot to cook and then blend into a beautiful tasty soup.

   
   

   Submitted by MaryC on January 31, 2020  

Surnames Frequency by Census RecordsRate this definition:0.0 / 0 votes

1. BLEND

   According to the U.S. Census Bureau, Blend is ranked #54530 in terms of the most common surnames in America.
   
   The Blend surname appeared 378 times in the 2010 census and if you were to sample 100,000 people in the United States, approximately 0 would have the surname Blend.
   
   89.4% or 338 total occurrences were White.
   5.2% or 20 total occurrences were of Hispanic origin.
   4.5% or 17 total occurrences were Black.

Matched Categories

1. • Harmonize
   • Mix
   • Neologism

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How to pronounce blend?

1. Alex

   US English

   David

   US English

   Mark

   US English

   Daniel

   British

   Libby

   British

   Mia

   British

   Karen

   Australian

   Hayley

   Australian

   Natasha

   Australian

   Veena

   Indian

   Priya

   Indian

   Neerja

   Indian

   Zira

   US English

   Oliver

   British

   Wendy

   British

   Fred

   US English

   Tessa

   South African

How to say blend in sign language?

Numerology

1. Chaldean Numerology

   The numerical value of blend in Chaldean Numerology is: 1

2. Pythagorean Numerology

   The numerical value of blend in Pythagorean Numerology is: 1

Examples of blend in a Sentence

1. Patrick Adam:

   The plan of (Argentine President) Mauricio Macri's government is to increase the ethanol blend in fuel from the current 12 percent to a maximum 26 percent, following in the steps of Brazil's decades-long policy.

2. Jodi Picoult:

   If you meet a loner, no matter what they tell you, it’s not because they enjoy solitude. It’s because they have tried to blend into the world before, and people continue to disappoint them.

3. Kevin Chun:

   7 WRINKLE-FIGHTING FOODS PROBABLY ALREADY IN YOUR KITCHEN Chef Kevin Chun, Honeybrains ’ executive chef and chief culinary officer, created a menu that garnishes those five food groups with herbs, spices, fermented foods and natural sweeteners from nature. Our main spice blend incorporates a couple of different paprikas, garlic, cumin, coriander seeds, a lot of spices that you might find in Mediterranean flavors.

4. Daniel Doyon:

   The real value creation is going to be whoever figures out how to seamlessly blend those two. You can argue WeWork is the one who's done that.

5. Franklin County:

   He was dressed for the woods, he would blend right in if he stood still.

Popularity rank by frequency of use

References

1. ^ Princeton's WordNet
   http://wordnetweb.princeton.edu/perl/webwn?s=blend
2. ^ Wiktionary
   https://en.wiktionary.org/wiki/Blend
3. ^ Samuel Johnson's Dictionary
   https://johnsonsdictionaryonline.com/views/search.php?term=blend
4. ^ Wikipedia
   https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Blend
5. ^ ChatGPT
   https://chat.openai.com
6. ^ Webster Dictionary
   https://www.merriam-webster.com/dictionary/blend
7. ^ Wikidata
   https://www.wikidata.org/w/index.php?search=blend
8. ^ Chambers 20th Century Dictionary
   https://www.gutenberg.org/files/37683/37683-h/37683-h.htm#:~:text=blend
9. ^ Surnames Frequency by Census Records
   https://www.census.gov/topics/population/genealogy/data/2010_surnames.html
10. ^ Usage in printed sources
    https://books.google.com/ngrams/graph?content=blend