BLENDING • FREE-TRANSLATOR.COM • Definition of Blending

Translators

Dictionaries

Courses

Other

Home

Add this Dictionary
to your website!
See more options...

/blˈɛndɪŋ/ Listen

noun

Blending n.

The act of mingling.

(Paint.) The method of laying on different tints so that they may mingle together while wet, and shade into each other insensibly.

verb

Blend v. t. (past & past part. blended or blent; pres. part. blending)

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."

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."

See images of 'Blending'

Etymology of 'Blending'

Collaborative International Dictionary of English 0.48

Share |

"Blending" Quotes from Famous Books

... development of the former in its perfect form as the Kingdom of God, will be an effectual means for the removal of all evil and the promotion of good. There can be no perfect Church or State without their blending into one.[216] The Church, during her imperfect state, is deficient in power; the State, in the like condition is deficient in knowledge; one judges amiss of man's highest happiness, the other discerns it truly, but has not the power on a large scale to attain it. But when blended into one, ...

— History of Rationalism Embracing a Survey of the Present State of Protestant Theology • John F. Hurst

... swept as he well knew by his mother's fingers, sounded at that moment from the homestead, and hand in hand, blending their steps, they returned to ...

— Chanticleer - A Thanksgiving Story of the Peabody Family • Cornelius Mathews

... remarkable. When pre-occupied he had an abrupt, rather brusque manner, but at all other times he was a very easy-going man of the world, possessor of an ample income left him by his aunt, and this he augmented by carrying on, in partnership with an elder man, a profitable tea-blending business in ...

— The Seven Secrets • William Le Queux

... under the care of his mother, a daughter of the ruling house of Persia, was given not only that religious and oriental education which his position as the religious leader of the Ismailians made indispensable, but a sound European training, a boon denied to his father and grandfather. This blending of the two systems of education produced the happy result of fitting this Moslem chief in an eminent degree both for the sacerdotal functions which appertain to his spiritual position, and for those social duties ...

— Project Gutenberg Encyclopedia

... quickly supplemented by the roll of the heavy carts which purveyed the only water suitable for drinking and culinary purposes; and by the sounds of wood-sawing and wood-chopping before the doors of the adjacent houses—sounds quickly blending themselves with the shuffling feet of the slaves cleaning the doorsteps and sidewalks, and chattering, singing, quarrelling the while with their neighbours, or with other early ministers to ...

— The Maid of Maiden Lane • Amelia E. Barr

More quotes...