Definitions for blends

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blends blend

Spelling: [blend]

IPA: /blɛnd/

Blends is a 6 letter English word. It's valid Scrabble word worth 8 points. It's valid Words with friends word worth 11 points.

You can make 109 anagrams from letters in blends (bdelns).

Definitions for blends

noun

1. an act or manner of blending:
2. a mixture or kind produced by blending:
3. Linguistics. a word made by putting together parts of other words, as motel, made from motor and hotel, brunch, from breakfast and lunch, or guesstimate, from guess and estimate.
4. a sequence of two or more consonant sounds within a syllable, as the bl in blend; consonant cluster.

verb (used with object)

1. to mix smoothly and inseparably together:
2. to mix (various sorts or grades) in order to obtain a particular kind or quality:
3. to prepare by such mixture:
4. to pronounce (an utterance) as a combined sequence of sounds.

verb (used without object)

1. to mix or intermingle smoothly and inseparably:
2. to fit or relate harmoniously; accord; go:
3. to have no perceptible separation:

Origin of blends

1250-1300; Middle English blenden, Old English blendan to mix, for blandan; cognate with Old Norse blanda, Old High German blantan to mix

Examples for blends

What if we need men who can kill, sure, but who can also build and blend in and bridge gaps?

In these peculiar circumstances the old memories will blend with the new.

There are a lot of people who go back and forth now and blend both approaches into their work.

She had once been used to hear it and to blend her own with it.

Gentleness and mercy should blend their benign influences with justice.

I loved his blend of Native American realism with just a touch of surrealism.

The group seems to blend “black bloc” anarchist street violence with social-media campaigns.

Other times, the traffickers tried to blend in with the migrants and refugees.

She divined him, moreover, to be a blend of boldness and timidity.

A tendency may also be observed to blend the works and opinions of the master with those of his scholars.