blend

== English == === Etymology === From Middle English blenden, either from Old English blandan, blondan, ġeblandan, ġeblendan 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; both ultimately from Proto-Germanic *blandaną (“to blend; mix; combine”). Compare Middle Dutch blanden (“to mix”), Gothic 𐌱𐌻𐌰𐌽𐌳𐌰𐌽 (blandan), Old Church Slavonic блєсти (blesti, “to go astray”). === Pronunciation === enPR: blĕnd, IPA(key): /blɛnd/ Rhymes: -ɛnd Homophone: blende === Noun === blend (plural blends) A mixture of two or more things. Synonyms: combination, mix, mixture (linguistics) A word formed by combining two other words; a portmanteau word. Synonyms: frankenword, portmanteau, portmanteau word, portmantologism Meronym: splinter ==== Derived terms ==== ==== Translations ==== === Verb === blend (third-person singular simple present blends, present participle blending, simple past and past participle blended or (poetic) blent) (transitive) To mingle; to mix; to unite intimately; to pass or shade insensibly into each other. Synonyms: see Thesaurus:homogenize, Thesaurus:mix, Thesaurus:coalesce (intransitive) To be mingled or mixed. (obsolete) To pollute by mixture or association; to spoil or corrupt; to blot; to stain. ==== Derived terms ==== ==== Translations ==== === References === === Anagrams === L-bend == Central Franconian == === Alternative forms === blenk (Ripuarian; now chiefly western dialects) blond, blönd (Eifel) === Etymology === From Old High German blind, northern variant of blint. === Pronunciation === IPA(key): /blent/ === Adjective === blend (masculine blenne or blende, feminine blenn or blend or blende, comparative blenner or blender, superlative et blendste) (Moselle Franconian, some dialects of Ripuarian) blind, unable to see ==== Usage notes ==== The inflected forms with -nn- are used in those dialects in which blend is the inherited form (Moselle Franconian, southern Ripuarian). The forms with -nd- are used in most of those (more northern) dialects in which inherited blenk has been replaced with blend. == Dutch == === Pronunciation === === Verb === blend inflection of blenden: first-person singular present indicative (in case of inversion) second-person singular present indicative imperative == Old English == === Verb === blēnd first/third-person singular preterite indicative of blandan == Old Norse == === Verb === blend first-person singular present active indicative of blanda == Portuguese == === Etymology === Unadapted borrowing from English blend. === Pronunciation === === Noun === blend m (invariable) blend, mixture Synonym: mistura