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Definitioner
Substantiv
- A mixture of two or more things.
- (linguistics) A word formed by combining two other words; a grammatical contamination, portmanteau word.
Verb
- (transitive) To mingle; to mix; to unite intimately; to pass or shade insensibly into each other.
- (intransitive) To be mingled or mixed.
- (obsolete) To pollute by mixture or association; to spoil or corrupt; to blot; to stain.
Exempel
- 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.
- The word brunch is a blend of the words breakfast and lunch.
- To make hummus you need to blend chickpeas, olive oil, lemon juice and garlic.
- There is a tone of solemn and sacred feeling that blends with our conviviality.
- To feel no other breezes than are blown / Through its tall woods with high romances blent - Keats, 1884
- 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.
- 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.
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