Crossword clues for blending
The Collaborative International Dictionary
Blend \Blend\ (bl[e^]nd), v. t. [imp. & p. p. Blended or Blent (bl[e^]nt); p. pr. & vb. n. Blending.] [OE. blenden, blanden, AS. blandan to blend, mix; akin to Goth. blandan to mix, Icel. blanda, Sw. blanda, Dan. blande, OHG. blantan to mis; to unknown origin.]
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To mix or mingle together; esp. to mingle, combine, or associate so that the separate things mixed, or the line of demarcation, can not be distinguished. Hence: To confuse; to confound.
Blending the grand, the beautiful, the gay.
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To pollute by mixture or association; to spoil or corrupt; to blot; to stain. [Obs.]
--Spenser.Syn: To commingle; combine; fuse; merge; amalgamate; harmonize.
Blending \Blend"ing\, n.
The act of mingling.
(Paint.) The method of laying on different tints so that they may mingle together while wet, and shade into each other insensibly.
--Weale.
Wiktionary
n. The act or result of something being blended. vb. (present participle of blend English)
WordNet
Wikipedia
Blending may refer to:
- the process of mixing
- Blending (alcohol production), a technique to produce alcoholic beverages by mixing different brews
- Blending (linguistics), the process of forming a word from two or more letters that represent the sounds of a word
- Blending (music), a technique used in instrument playing
- Blending (vocal technique), a technique used in vocal warm up
- Blending inheritance, a hypothetical model prior to the discovery of genetics
- Alpha blending, a technique in image producing
- Conceptual blending, a general theory of cognition
- Gas blending, the filling of diving cylinders with non-air breathing gases such as nitrox, trimix and heliox
- Tea blending, the process of blending different teas to produce a final product
- The Blending (novel series), a fantasy series by Sharon Green
- Travel blending, a technique, developed in Australia, for encouraging people to make more efficient and environmentally sound transportation choices
- Blending, specific socializing among the church-goers of a branch of Christianity Lord's Recovery / "Local Church" which was started in mainland China around the 1930s-1950s.
Blending is a technique to produce wine or other alcoholic beverages such as gueuze consisting in mixing different brews.
In the case of rosé wine production, it is one of the techniques used, consisting to mix a white wine with some red wine.
In the case with single-vintage, single-varietal wines, the grapes harvested may be from the same yield, but fermented from different batches.
Usage examples of "blending".
There is no more reason to think that species have been specially endowed with various degrees of sterility to prevent them crossing and blending in nature, than to think that trees have been specially endowed with various and somewhat analogous degrees of difficulty in being grafted together in order to prevent them becoming inarched in our forests.
To accomplish that unity, Anarchism has declared war on the pernicious influences which have so far prevented the harmonious blending of individual and social instincts, the individual and society.
He wore a brimless, conical white hat which, blending into the white of his forehead, would have made him rather resemble a bald pinhead, except that the cap was jauntily tilted just a bit to one side.
A sacrificial Mediator with Jehovah, that expiatory intercessor born from the chosen house of the chosen people, yet blending in his inexplicable nature the divine essence with the human elements, appointed before all time, and purifying, by his atoning blood, the myriads that preceded and the myriads that will follow us, without distinction of creed or clime, this is what you believe.
He cursed out loud, scolding himself for his inability to release the memories: the maelstrom of hypnagogic images superimposed upon all that he saw, the recollections of the accident tearing apart and blending back together again in a blurry mixture of lucid truth and deceptive mirage, the deafening blare of the horns in helpless warning, the walls of the chambers flashing in a fluctuating rhythm to the horns, between glowing red and pitch black, the faces burning and falling off everyone as the radiation surge hit, the crumbling support beams collapsing all about them, his own flesh melting, the blackness closing in.
They had hired a strolling marimba player to entertain with his music, and the mellow notes of the instrument were blending with the tinkle of the illuminated fountains.
Because Morraine had tangled their minds together as he tried to take over her thoughts, blending them with his own.
By uniting with the bone at one end and blending with the perimysium and fiber bundles at the other, the tendon forms a very secure attachment for the muscle.
If the soul is body and permeates the entire body-mass, still even in this entire permeation the blending must be in accord with what occurs in all cases of bodily admixing.
An exquisite mingling of many odours passed continually over the Mission, from the garden of the Seed ranch, meeting and blending with the aroma of its magnolia buds and punka blossoms.
She slipped between two shaggy-barked fir trees to wait, her dark cloak blending with the gloom of the shadowy afternoon, the white quatrefoil emblem of the Guards on her shoulder like a patch of snow on wet-darkened wood.
And as generations of the younger sons of Kindred Houses had wed the daughters of merchants, tradesmen, and farmers, while their titled brethren were blending their own blood and genes with scionesses of the houses of the surviving Ehleenoee nobility, there became less and ever less distinction between Kindred herder and Ehleenoe farmer stocks.
The light spun sunwise around them, colours blending, wrenching reality out of Time.
One of the observers, Cenbe, is a creative genius of the future, who takes back to tomorrow the impressions for a great symphonia, blending pictures and sound.
We know that with the uttermost of happiness there is wont to come a sudden blending of troublous humour.