different between blend vs blitz

English

Etymology

From Middle English blenden, either from Old English blandan, blondan, ?eblandan, ?eblendan or from Old Norse blanda (“to blend, mix”) (which was originally a strong verb with the present-tense stem blend; compare blendingr (“a blending, a mixture; a half-breed”)), whence also Danish blande, or from a blend of the Old English and Old Norse terms; both ultimately from Proto-Germanic *blandan? (“to blend; mix; combine”). Compare Middle Dutch blanden (“to mix”), Gothic ???????????????????????????? (blandan), Old Church Slavonic ?????? (blesti, “to go astray”).

Pronunciation

• enPR: bl?nd, IPA^(key): /bl?nd/
• Rhymes: -?nd
• Homophone: blende

Noun

blend (plural 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.

Synonyms

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

Translations

Verb

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.

2. (intransitive) To be mingled or mixed.

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

   • 1817, John Keats, Happy is England!

     To feel no other breezes than are blown / Through its tall woods with high romances blent
3. (obsolete) To pollute by mixture or association; to spoil or corrupt; to blot; to stain.

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

Quotations

• For quotations using this term, see Citations:blend.

Synonyms

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

Derived terms

• blender
• blended
• blend in
• blendingly

Translations

References

Anagrams

• L-bend

Central Franconian

Alternative forms

• blenk (Ripuarian; now chiefly western dialects)
• blond, blönd (Eifel)

Etymology

From Old High German blind, northern variant of blint.

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): /blent/

Adjective

blend (masculine blenne or blende, feminine blenn or blend, comparative blenner or blender, superlative et blendste)

1. (Moselle Franconian, some dialects of Ripuarian) blind; unable to see

Usage notes

• The inflected forms with -nn- are used in those dialects in which blend is the inherited form (Moselle Franconian, southern Ripuarian). The forms with -nd- are used in Ripuarian to the extent to which inherited blenk has been replaced with blend.

Dutch

Verb

blend

1. first-person singular present indicative of blenden
2. imperative of blenden

English

Etymology

Shortened from blitzkrieg, from German Blitzkrieg.

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): /bl?ts/
• Rhymes: -?ts

Noun

blitz (countable and uncountable, plural blitzes)

1. (countable) A sudden attack, especially an air raid; usually with reference to the Blitz.
2. (countable, figuratively) A swift and overwhelming attack or effort.
3. (countable, American football) A play in which additional defenders beyond the defensive linemen rush the passer.
4. (uncountable, chess) A time control in which both players have less than ten minutes per game.

   Synonym: speed chess

Translations

Verb

blitz (third-person singular simple present blitzes, present participle blitzing, simple past and past participle blitzed)

1. (transitive) To attack quickly or suddenly, as by an air raid or similar action.

   Synonym: charge

2. (intransitive, American football) To perform a blitz.

3. (transitive, cooking) To purée or chop (food products) using a food processor or blender.

   Synonym: zhoosh

4. (transitive, informal) To do something quickly or in one session.

   Synonyms: hurry, zoom; see also Thesaurus:rush

Danish

Etymology

German Blitz

Noun

blitz

1. (photography) flash, camera flash

Declension

Italian

Etymology

Borrowed from English blitz, shortened from English blitzkrieg, from German Blitzkrieg.

Noun

blitz m (invariable)

1. blitz

Portuguese

Etymology

Borrowed from English blitz, shortened from English blitzkrieg, from German Blitzkrieg.

Pronunciation

• (Brazil) IPA^(key): /?blits/

Noun

blitz f (plural blitz)

1. random checkpoint (a hastily set-up point along a road where the police stop random drivers)