Blend (noun) Definition, Meaning & Examples

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verb (used with object), blend·ed or (Literary) blent, blend·ing.
  1. to mix smoothly and inseparably together: to blend the ingredients in a recipe.
  2. to mix (various sorts or grades) in order to obtain a particular kind or quality: Blend a little red paint with the blue paint.
  3. to prepare by such mixture: This tea is blended by mixing chamomile with pekoe.
  4. to pronounce (an utterance) as a combined sequence of sounds.
verb (used without object), blend·ed or (Literary) blent, blend·ing.
  1. to mix or intermingle smoothly and inseparably: I can't get the eggs and cream to blend.
  2. to fit or relate harmoniously; accord; go: The brown sofa did not blend with the purple wall.
  3. to have no perceptible separation: Sea and sky seemed to blend.
noun
  1. an act or manner of blending: tea of our own blend.
  2. a mixture or kind produced by blending: a special blend of rye and wheat flours.
  3. 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.
  4. a sequence of two or more consonant sounds within a syllable, as the bl in blend; consonant cluster.
Verb Phrases
  1. to escape attention by looking or acting like other members of a group or like the surrounding environment: tourists who try to blend in with the locals;salamanders that blend in with mossy surfaces.
verb
  1. to mix or mingle (components) together thoroughly
  2. to mix (different grades or varieties of tea, whisky, tobacco, etc) to produce a particular flavour, consistency, etc
  3. to look good together; harmonize
  4. (esp of colours) to shade imperceptibly into each other
noun
  1. a mixture or type produced by blending
  2. the act of blending
  3. a word formed by joining together the beginning and the end of two other words
Blend (noun) Definition, Meaning & Examples

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