blendとは

発音

• enPR: blĕnd, IPA^(key): /blɛnd/
• 韻: -ɛnd
• Homophone: blende

名詞

blend (複数形 blends)

1. A mixture of two or more things.

   Their music has been described as a blend of jazz and heavy metal.

   Our department has a good blend of experienced workers and young promise.

2. (linguistics) A word formed by combining two other words; a grammatical contamination, portmanteau word.

   The word brunch is a blend of the words breakfast and lunch.

同意語

• (mixture): combination, mix, mixture
• (in linguistics): frankenword, portmanteau, portmanteau word

動詞

blend (third-person singular simple present blends, present participle blending, simple past and past participle blended or (poetic) blent)

1. (transitive) To mingle; to mix; to unite intimately; to pass or shade insensibly into each other.

   To make hummus you need to blend chickpeas, olive oil, lemon juice and garlic.

2. (intransitive) To be mingled or mixed.
   • (Can we date this quote?) Irving

     There is a tone of solemn and sacred feeling that blends with our conviviality.

   • (Can we date this quote?) {{w:John Keats|Keats}}

     To feel no other breezes than are blown / Through its tall woods with high romances blent

   • 1963, Margery Allingham, chapter 3, in The China Governess‎^[1]:

     Sepia Delft tiles surrounded the fireplace, their crudely drawn Biblical scenes in faded cyclamen blending with the pinkish pine, while above them, instead of a mantelshelf, there was an archway high enough to form a balcony with slender balusters and a tapestry-hung wall behind.

   • 2013 May-June, William E. Conner, “An Acoustic Arms Race”, in American Scientist, volume 101, number 3, page 206-7:

     Earless ghost swift moths become “invisible” to echolocating bats by forming mating clusters close […] above vegetation and effectively blending into the clutter of echoes that the bat receives from the leaves and stems around them. Many insects probably use this strategy, which is a close analogy to crypsis in the visible world—camouflage and other methods for blending into one’s visual background.

3. (obsolete) To pollute by mixture or association; to spoil or corrupt; to blot; to stain.

   (Can we find かつ add a quotation of Spenser to this entry?)

引用

• For quotations of use of this term, see Citations:blend.

同意語

• (to mix; to unite intimately): See also Thesaurus:homogenize and Thesaurus:mix

派生語

• blender
• blended
• blend in
• blendingly

参照

アナグラム

• L-bend