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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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unification
English
Etymology
Either from unify +? -ification or from French unification
Noun
unification (countable and uncountable, plural unifications)
- The act of unifying.
- The state of being unified.
- (mathematical logic, computer science) Given two terms, their join with respect to a specialisation order.
- 5.7.T ( Unification theorem ) For any two terms or formulas
without quantifiers X and Y, the following holds.
(i) The unification algorithm UNIF1, applied to X, Y,
terminates after a finite number of steps.
(ii) {X, Y} is unifiable iff UNIF1 so indicates upon ter-
mination. Moreover, the substitution ? then available as out-
put is a most general unifier of {X, Y}.
- 5.7.T ( Unification theorem ) For any two terms or formulas
Antonyms
- division
Derived terms
Translations
See also
- reunification
Further reading
- unification in Webster’s Revised Unabridged Dictionary, G. & C. Merriam, 1913.
French
Etymology
unifier +? -ification
Pronunciation
- IPA(key): /y.ni.fi.ka.sj??/
Noun
unification f (plural unifications)
- unification
Further reading
- “unification” in Trésor de la langue française informatisé (The Digitized Treasury of the French Language).
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