different between blanch vs etiolation

English

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): /bl??nt?/, /blænt?/

  Rhymes: -??nt?, -ænt?

Etymology 1

From Old French blanchir, from Old French blanc (“white”), from Late Latin, Vulgar Latin *blancus, from Proto-Germanic *blankaz (“bright, shining, blinding, white”), from Proto-Indo-European *b?ley?- (“to shine”).

Verb

blanch (third-person singular simple present blanches, present participle blanching, simple past and past participle blanched)

1. (intransitive) To grow or become white

   His cheek blanched with fear.

   The rose blanches in the sun.

2. (transitive) To take the color out of, and make white; to bleach

   to blanch linen

   Age has blanched his hair.

3. (transitive, cooking) To cook by dipping briefly into boiling water, then directly into cold water.
4. (transitive) To whiten, for example the surface of meat, by plunging into boiling water and afterwards into cold, so as to harden the surface and retain the juices
5. (transitive) To bleach by excluding the light, for example the stalks or leaves of plants, by earthing them up or tying them together
6. (transitive) To make white by removing the skin of, for example by scalding

   to blanch almonds

7. (transitive) To give a white lustre to (silver, before stamping, in the process of coining)
8. (tntransitive) To cover (sheet iron) with a coating of tin.
9. (transitive, figuratively) To give a favorable appearance to; to whitewash; to whiten;

   Synonym: palliate

   • c. 1680, John Tillotson, The indispensable necessity of the knowledge of the Holy Scripture

     Blanch over the blackest and most absurd things.

Translations

Related terms

• blanch holding
• parboil

Etymology 2

Variant of blench, of same Proto-Indo-European origin.

Verb

blanch (third-person singular simple present blanches, present participle blanching, simple past and past participle blanched)

1. To avoid, as from fear; to evade; to leave unnoticed.

   • Ifs and ands to qualify words of treason; whereby every man might express his malice, and blanch his danger.

   • 1624-39, Sir Henry Wotton, Reliquiæ Wottonianæ (published 1651), page 343

     I suppose you will not blanch Paris in your way.

2. To cause to turn aside or back.

   to blanch a deer

3. To use evasion.
   • 1625, Francis Bacon, Of Counsel

     Books will speak plain, when counsellors blanch.

Haitian Creole

Etymology

From French blanche (“white”).

Adjective

blanch

1. white

   Synonym: blan

Ladin

Etymology

From Late Latin, Vulgar Latin *blancus (compare Friulian blanc, Italian bianco, French blanc, Spanish blanco, Portuguese branco), from Proto-Germanic *blankaz (“bright, shining, blinding, white”), from Proto-Indo-European *bhleg- (“to shine”).

Adjective

blanch

1. white

English

Etymology

From French étiolé, past participle of étioler (“to blanch”).

Noun

etiolation (countable and uncountable, plural etiolations)

1. (botany) growth process of plants grown in the absence of light, characterized by long, weak stems, fewer leaves and chlorosis
2. (botany) The operation of blanching plants, by excluding the light of the sun; the condition of a blanched plant.
3. Paleness produced by absence of light, or by disease.

   (Can we find and add a quotation of Dunglison to this entry?)

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