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ALL meanings of blend

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  • verb blend If you blend substances together or if they blend, you mix them together so that they become one substance. 4
  • verb blend If you blend ideas, policies, or styles, you use them together in order to achieve something. 4
  • verb blend to mix or mingle (components) together thoroughly 4
  • verb blend to mix (different grades or varieties of tea, whisky, tobacco, etc) to produce a particular flavour, consistency, etc 3
  • verb blend to look good together; harmonize 3
  • verb blend (esp of colours) to shade imperceptibly into each other 3
  • noun blend a mixture or type produced by blending 3
  • noun blend the act of blending 3
  • noun blend a word formed by joining together the beginning and the end of two other words 3
  • verb transitive blend to mix or mingle (varieties of tea, tobacco, etc.), esp. so as to produce a desired flavor, color, grade, etc. 3
  • verb transitive blend to mix or fuse thoroughly, so that the parts merge and are no longer distinct 3
  • intransitive verb blend to mix, merge, or unite 3
  • intransitive verb blend to pass gradually or imperceptibly into each other, as colors 3
  • intransitive verb blend to go well together; harmonize 3
  • noun blend the act of blending; thorough mixing 3
  • noun blend the result of blending; a mixture or merger of varieties, kinds, types, etc. 3
  • noun blend a word formed by combining parts of other words (Ex.: galumph, smog) 3
  • countable noun blend A blend of things is a mixture or combination of them that is useful or pleasant. 2
  • verb blend When colours, sounds, or styles blend, they come together or are combined in a pleasing way. 2
  • verb with object blend to mix smoothly and inseparably together: to blend the ingredients in a recipe. 1
  • verb with object blend to mix (various sorts or grades) in order to obtain a particular kind or quality: Blend a little red paint with the blue paint. 1
  • verb with object blend to prepare by such mixture: This tea is blended by mixing chamomile with pekoe. 1
  • verb with object blend to pronounce (an utterance) as a combined sequence of sounds. 1
  • verb without object blend to mix or intermingle smoothly and inseparably: I can't get the eggs and cream to blend. 1
  • verb without object blend to fit or relate harmoniously; accord; go: The brown sofa did not blend with the purple wall. 1
  • verb without object blend to have no perceptible separation: Sea and sky seemed to blend. 1
  • noun blend an act or manner of blending: tea of our own blend. 1
  • noun blend a mixture or kind produced by blending: a special blend of rye and wheat flours. 1
  • noun blend Linguistics. a word made by putting together parts of other words, as motel, made from motor and hotel, brunch, from breakfast and lunch, or guesstimate, from guess and estimate. 1
  • noun blend a sequence of two or more consonant sounds within a syllable, as the bl in blend; consonant cluster. 1
  • noun blend mixture 1
  • transitive verb blend mix 1
  • intransitive verb blend merge into 1
  • intransitive verb blend color, etc.: merge imperceptibly 1
  • noun blend portmanteau 1
  • intransitive verb blend look pleasing together 1
  • transitive verb blend tea, etc.: mix to create new flavor 1
  • noun blend A mixture of two or more things. 0
  • noun blend (linguistics) A word formed by combining two other words; a grammatical contamination, portmanteau word. 0
  • verb blend (Transitive Verb) To mingle; to mix; to unite intimately; to pass or shade insensibly into each other. 0
  • verb blend (Intransitive Verb) To be mingled or mixed. 0
  • verb blend (Obsolete (No longer in use)) To pollute by mixture or association; to spoil or corrupt; to blot; to stain. 0
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