different between melange vs blende

English

Etymology

From French mélange, from Middle French mélange, meslange, from Old French meslance, meslinges (“set of diverse elements”), derived from mescler (“to mingle, mix up”) (modern French mêler), from Vulgar Latin *miscul?re, from Latin misce? (“mix”) + -inges, a suffix from Frankish *-ingo (“-ing”). More at mix, -ing.

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): /m??l?n?/, /m??l???/, /me??l?n?/, /me??l???/

Noun

melange (plural melanges)

1. A mixture of different things; a disordered mixture.

   The room was a melange of comic books and posters.

2. A Viennese coffee speciality, half steamed milk and half coffee.
3. (geology) A large-scale breccia formed in the accretionary wedge over a subductional environment.

Alternative forms

• mélange

Synonyms

• (collection of a variety of things): assortment, farrago, hodgepodge, hotchpotch, mingle-mangle, mishmash, mixture, omnium-gatherum, ragbag
• See also Thesaurus:hodgepodge

Translations

Anagrams

• gleeman

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