Definitions
from The Century Dictionary.
- noun The act or process of combining or mingling.
- noun The combination of the characteristics of both parents as a resultant in cross-breeding.
from the GNU version of the Collaborative International Dictionary of English.
- noun The act of mingling.
- noun (Paint.) The method of laying on different tints so that they may mingle together while wet, and shade into each other insensibly.
from Wiktionary, Creative Commons Attribution/Share-Alike License.
- verb Present participle of
blend .
from WordNet 3.0 Copyright 2006 by Princeton University. All rights reserved.
- noun the act of blending components together thoroughly
- noun a gradation involving small or imperceptible differences between grades
Etymologies
Sorry, no etymologies found.
Support
Help support Wordnik (and make this page ad-free) by adopting the word blending.
Examples
-
The key for news blending is to cluster (important!) news as soon as the fresh items are collected, in an ultra-fast way.
-
It certainly brings floral aromatics to the party, so maybe the future is in blending it into Alsatian-style blends?
Video: Back In the Hunt: New Winemaker Bridges Generations 2009
-
AA Studio has done perfectly well in blending it into harmony through this Scenography Apartment interior.
-
"My experience so far with genre-blending is that while F&SF readers don't mind a bit of romance as a sub-plot, they are very taken aback to have it presented as a main plot, urgently looking for the" important "political action to identify as the plot instead." [via Fred K.]
October 2007 2007
-
"My experience so far with genre-blending is that while F&SF readers don't mind a bit of romance as a sub-plot, they are very taken aback to have it presented as a main plot, urgently looking for the" important "political action to identify as the plot instead." [via Fred K.]
-
Word-blending is big in campuspeak. “He†™ s sort of a nerd, but he†™ s just so adorkable†combines adorable with dork, the amalgam defined as “endearing though socially inept†by Prof. Connie Eble of the department of English and comparative literature at the University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill.
-
By his identification with Malinal, Madoc too becomes a figure of hybridity, redeeming the ideal of cultural blending from the degraded regimes of Aztec and English oppression.
The Allure of the Same: Robert Southey's Welsh Indians and the Rhetoric of Good Colonialism 2006
-
A better approach for the blending is to use a layer mask.
-
With a fork at first, and later switching to fingers, begin blending the outer edges in.
-
Ethanol blending is one of the biggest wastes of time and money for a terminal — there is no net benefit to the terminal OR even the “environment.”
Coyote Blog » Blog Archive » More Evidence of the Ethanol Folly 2005
Comments
Log in or sign up to get involved in the conversation. It's quick and easy.