| 单词 | blend |
| 释义 | blend /blend/, v. , blended or blent, blending, n. v.t. 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. v.i. 5. to mix or intermingle smoothly and inseparably: I can't get the eggs and cream to blend. 6. to fit or relate harmoniously; accord; go: The brown sofa did not blend with the purple wall. 7. to have no perceptible separation: Sea and sky seemed to blend. n. 8. an act or manner of blending: tea of our own blend. 9. a mixture or kind produced by blending: a special blend of rye and wheat flours. 10. Ling. 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. 11. a sequence of two or more consonant sounds within a syllable, as the bl in blend; consonant cluster. [1250-1300; ME blenden, OE blendan to mix, for blandan; c. ON blanda, OHG blantan to mix] Syn. 1. compound. See mix. 1, 5. mingle, commingle, combine, amalgamate, unite. 5. coalesce. 8, 9. combination, amalgamation. Ant. 1, 5. separate. |
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