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blend

/blɛnd/

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What does blend mean?

noun

  1. A mixture of two or more things.
  2. A word formed by combining two other words; a portmanteau word.

verb

  1. To mingle; to mix; to unite intimately; to pass or shade insensibly into each other.
More meanings (2)

verb

  1. To be mingled or mixed.
  2. (obsolete) To pollute by mixture or association; to spoil or corrupt; to blot; to stain.
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IPA pronunciation

/blɛnd/

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Having collected an army and concentrated his forces, he must blend and harmonise the different elements thereof before pitching his camp.
active 6th century B.C. SunziThe Art of WarTranslated by Lionel GilesProject Gutenberg ebook #132
In a tree we can specify this or that branch, though at the actual fork the two unite and blend together.
Charles DarwinOn the Origin of Species By Means of Natural Selection Or, the Preservation of Favoured Races in the Struggle for LifeProject Gutenberg ebook #1228
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One is but the continuation of the other, and they blend so into each other that, they are not complete, apart.
Thomas H. Burgoyne; Belle M. WagnerThe Light of Egypt; Or, The Science of the Soul and the Stars — Volume 2Project Gutenberg ebook #1650
You have named the elementals of the human rainbow, and also one blend —heroism, which is made out of courage and magnanimity.
Mark TwainWhat Is Man? and Other EssaysProject Gutenberg ebook #70
Another place where science and inhuman humanity do not blend is in the angry moving up and down of the telephone hook.
Annie Payson CallNerves and Common SenseProject Gutenberg ebook #4339