different between blend vs dissolve

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

Recorded since c. 1374, from Latin dissolvere (“to loosen up, break apart”), itself from dis- (“apart”) + solvere (“to loose, loosen”).

Pronunciation

• (Received Pronunciation) IPA^(key): /d??z?lv/
• (General American) IPA^(key): /d??z?lv/
• Hyphenation: dis?solve

Verb

dissolve (third-person singular simple present dissolves, present participle dissolving, simple past and past participle dissolved)

1. (transitive) To terminate a union of multiple members actively, as by disbanding.

   Antonyms: establish, found

2. (transitive) To destroy, make disappear.
3. (transitive) To liquify, melt into a fluid.

   Synonyms: melt, formelt
4. (intransitive) To be melted, changed into a fluid.
5. (chemistry, transitive) To disintegrate chemically into a solution by immersion into a liquid or gas.
6. (chemistry, intransitive) To be disintegrated by such immersion.
7. (transitive) To disperse, drive apart a group of persons.
8. (transitive) To break the continuity of; to disconnect; to loosen; to undo; to separate.

   • Down fell the duke, his joints dissolved asunder.

   • 1776, The Declaration of Independence

     For one people to dissolve the political bands which have connected them with another.

9. (law, transitive) To annul; to rescind; to discharge or release.
10. (cinematography, intransitive) To shift from one shot to another by having the former fade out as the latter fades in.

    Synonym: fade out

11. (intransitive) To resolve itself as by dissolution.
12. (obsolete) To solve; to clear up; to resolve.
    • ?, Alfred Tennyson, A Dream of Fair Women

      dissolved the mystery

    • Make interpretations and dissolve doubts.

13. To relax by pleasure; to make powerless.
    • 1677, John Dryden, The State of Innocence, Preface

      [Angels] dissolv'd in hallelujahs lie.

Derived terms

Related terms

Translations

See also

• melt

Noun

dissolve (plural dissolves)

1. (cinematography) a form of film punctuation in which there is a gradual transition from one scene to the next

   Synonym: fade out

Translations

Italian

Pronunciation

• Rhymes: -?lve

Verb

dissolve

1. third-person singular present indicative of dissolvere

Anagrams

• disvolse

Latin

Verb

dissolve

1. second-person singular present active imperative of dissolv?

Portuguese

Verb

dissolve

1. third-person singular (ele and ela, also used with você and others) present indicative of dissolver
2. second-person singular (tu, sometimes used with você) affirmative imperative of dissolver