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brew
English
Etymology 1
Middle English brewen, from Old English br?owan, from Proto-West Germanic *breuwan, from Proto-Germanic *brewwan?, from Proto-Indo-European *b?rewh?-.
Cognate withDutch brouwen, German brauen, Swedish brygga, Norwegian Bokmål brygge; also Ancient Greek ????? (phréar, “well”), Latin ferv?re (“to be hot; to burn; to boil”), Old Irish bruth (“violent, boiling heat”), Sanskrit ??????? (bhurván, “motion of water”). It may be related to English barley
Pronunciation
- enPR: bro?o, IPA(key): /b?u?/
- (Wales) IPA(key): /b????/
- Rhymes: -u?
Verb
brew (third-person singular simple present brews, present participle brewing, simple past and past participle brewed)
- (transitive, intransitive) To make tea or coffee by mixing tea leaves or coffee beans with hot water.
- 1935, Christopher Isherwood, Mr Norris Changes Trains, Penguin, 1942, Chapter Eleven, p. 113,[1]
- Elderly people sat indoors, in the damp. shabby houses, brewing malt coffee or weak tea and talking without animation […]
- 1935, Christopher Isherwood, Mr Norris Changes Trains, Penguin, 1942, Chapter Eleven, p. 113,[1]
- (transitive) To heat wine, infusing it with spices; to mull.
- c. 1600, William Shakespeare, The Merry Wives of Windsor, Act III, Scene 5,[2]
- Go, brew me a pottle of sack finely.
- c. 1600, William Shakespeare, The Merry Wives of Windsor, Act III, Scene 5,[2]
- (transitive, intransitive) To make a hot soup by combining ingredients and boiling them in water.
- (transitive, intransitive) To make beer by steeping a starch source in water and fermenting the resulting sweet liquid with yeast.
- (transitive) To foment or prepare, as by brewing
- Synonyms: contrive, plot, hatch
- 1634, John Milton, Comus, in Poems of Mr. John Milton, London: Humphrey Mosely, 1645, p. 106,[3]
- Hence with thy brew’d inchantments, foul deceiver […]
- (intransitive) To attend to the business, or go through the processes, of brewing or making beer.
- c. 1600, William Shakespeare, The Merry Wives of Windsor, Act I, Scene 4,[4]
- I wash, wring, brew, bake, scour, dress meat and drink […]
- c. 1600, William Shakespeare, The Merry Wives of Windsor, Act I, Scene 4,[4]
- (intransitive, of an unwelcome event) To be in a state of preparation; to be mixing, forming, or gathering.
- c. 1596, William Shakespeare, The Merchant of Venice, Act II, Scene 5,[5]
- There is some ill a-brewing towards my rest,
- c. 1596, William Shakespeare, The Merchant of Venice, Act II, Scene 5,[5]
- (transitive, obsolete) To boil or seethe; to cook.
Translations
Derived terms
- brewage
- brewer
- brewery
- brewhouse
Noun
brew (plural brews)
- The mixture formed by brewing; that which is brewed; a brewage, such as tea or beer.
- (slang) A single serving (can, bottle, etc.) of beer.
- (Britain, slang) A cup of tea.
Translations
Etymology 2
Middle English brewe (“eyebrow”), from Old English bru (“eyebrow”). Doublet of brow
Noun
brew (plural brews)
- (Britain, dialect) An overhanging hill or cliff.
Translations
Anagrams
- BWER
Middle English
Verb
brew
- Alternative form of brewen
Polish
Etymology
From Proto-Slavic *bry, from Proto-Indo-European *h?b?rúHs
Pronunciation
- IPA(key): /br?f/
Noun
brew f
- eyebrow
Declension
Further reading
- brew in Wielki s?ownik j?zyka polskiego, Instytut J?zyka Polskiego PAN
- brew in Polish dictionaries at PWN
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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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