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Blend   /blɛnd/   Listen
noun
Blend  n.  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.


verb
Blend  v. t.  (past & past part. blended or blent; pres. part. blending)  
1.
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. "Blending the grand, the beautiful, the gay."
2.
To pollute by mixture or association; to spoil or corrupt; to blot; to stain. (Obs.)
Synonyms: To commingle; combine; fuse; merge; amalgamate; harmonize.


Blend  v. t.  To make blind, literally or figuratively; to dazzle; to deceive. (Obs.)


Blend  v. i.  To mingle; to mix; to unite intimately; to pass or shade insensibly into each other, as colors. "There is a tone of solemn and sacred feeling that blends with our conviviality."





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"Blend" Quotes from Famous Books



... of contact between the old Jus Gentium and the Law of Nature? I think that they touch and blend through AEquitas, or Equity in its original sense; and here we seem to come to the first appearance in jurisprudence of this famous term, Equity. In examining an expression which has so remote an origin and so long a history as this, it is ...
— Ancient Law - Its Connection to the History of Early Society • Sir Henry James Sumner Maine
... do not see it, and we name it 'the Equable.' We listen to it, and we do not hear it, and we name it 'the Inaudible.' We try to grasp it, and do not get hold of it, and we name it 'the Subtle.' With these three qualities, it cannot be made the subject of description; and hence we blend them ...
— Tao Teh King • Lao-Tze
... Diemen's Land, and the results which it produced, will be hereafter related to illustrate transportation; for who would load the colonial fame with details, from which the eyes of mankind turn with natural disgust, or blend them with the ...
— The History of Tasmania, Volume I (of 2) • John West
... There was a blend of simplicity, dignity, and kindliness in Mrs. Gladstone's character that made her very attractive. My family were exceedingly fond of her, and though two of my brothers were always attacking Mr. Gladstone ...
— The Days Before Yesterday • Lord Frederick Hamilton
... to blend Christianity with the religions of ancient Asia was made by Mani, a Persian, who especially attempted to fuse Zoroastrian with Christian doctrines. He aimed to produce the utmost estrangement from all mundane influences, since ...
— The Old Roman World • John Lord


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