different between blend vs interlard
blend
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)
- 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.
- (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)
- (transitive) To mingle; to mix; to unite intimately; to pass or shade insensibly into each other.
- (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
- (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)
- (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
- first-person singular present indicative of blenden
- imperative of blenden
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interlard
English
Etymology
From the literal sense of “to intersperse with alternate layers of lard (and/or other fats)”, existing since Middle English, from Middle French entrelarder, from entre- (“inter”) + larder (“to lard”).
Pronunciation
- (UK) IPA(key): /??nt??l??d/
Verb
interlard (third-person singular simple present interlards, present participle interlarding, simple past and past participle interlarded)
- Bloat or embellish (something) by including (often minor and extraneous) details at regular intervals.
- 1887, Theodor Eimer, Specialization in Science
- The German student appears only too often to think that he must present his subject in the most difficult phraseology, excessively interlarded with strange words, as if he purposely would permit a glance into the treasures of his science and his knowledge only to an extremely narrow circle.
- 1887, Theodor Eimer, Specialization in Science
Synonyms
- interweave
References
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