different between blende vs blend

English

Alternative forms

• blind, blinde

Etymology

From German Blende, from blenden (“deceive”) (because it resembles galena).

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): /bl?nd/
• Homophone: blend

Noun

blende (countable and uncountable, plural blendes)

1. (mineralogy) sphalerite (a naturally-occurring sulfide of zinc)
   • 2006, Thomas Pynchon, Against the Day, Vintage 2007, page 310:

     The procedure up here with ordinary local zinc blende had been straightforward—first you got the sulfur to go off by roasting the blende to zinc oxide, and then you reduced the oxide to zinc metal.

Translations

Anagrams

• Belden, Bendel, bendel

Dutch

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): /?bl?n.d?/
• Hyphenation: blen?de
• Rhymes: -?nd?

Etymology 1

Borrowed from German Blende.

Noun

blende f (uncountable)

1. metallic sulphide, in particular blende

Derived terms

• pekblende

Etymology 2

See the etymology of the main entry.

Verb

blende

1. (archaic) singular present subjunctive of blenden

French

Noun

blende m (plural blendes)

1. (mineralogy) blende

German

Verb

blende

1. inflection of blenden:
   1. first-person singular present
   2. first/third-person singular subjunctive I
   3. singular imperative

Hungarian

Etymology

Borrowed from German Blende, from blenden (“to blind”).

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): [?bl?nd?]
• Hyphenation: blen?de
• Rhymes: -d?

Noun

blende (plural blendék)

1. (photography) aperture (the opening of a photographic lens that can be adjusted to control the amount of light passing through)

   Synonym: rekesz

Declension

References

Italian

Noun

blende f

1. plural of blenda

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