Blent


a simple past tense and past participle of blend.
to mix smoothly and inseparably together:
to blend the ingredients in a recipe.
to mix (various sorts or grades) in order to obtain a particular kind or quality:
Blend a little red paint with the blue paint.
to prepare by such mixture:
This tea is blended by mixing chamomile with pekoe.
to pronounce (an utterance) as a combined sequence of sounds.
to mix or intermingle smoothly and inseparably:
I can’t get the eggs and cream to blend.
to fit or relate harmoniously; accord; go:
The brown sofa did not blend with the purple wall.
to have no perceptible separation:
Sea and sky seemed to blend.
an act or manner of blending:
tea of our own blend.
a mixture or kind produced by blending:
a special blend of rye and wheat flours.
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.
a sequence of two or more consonant sounds within a syllable, as the bl in blend; consonant cluster.
Historical Examples

Tristram of Blent Anthony Hope
Tristram of Blent Anthony Hope
Tristram of Blent Anthony Hope
Tristram of Blent Anthony Hope
Ruth Fielding on Cliff Island Alice Emerson
Tristram of Blent Anthony Hope
Hours of Exercise in the Alps John Tyndall
Tristram of Blent Anthony Hope
Ruth Fielding on Cliff Island Alice Emerson
Tristram of Blent Anthony Hope

verb
(archaic or literary) a past participle of blend
verb
to mix or mingle (components) together thoroughly
(transitive) to mix (different grades or varieties of tea, whisky, tobacco, etc) to produce a particular flavour, consistency, etc
(intransitive) to look good together; harmonize
(intransitive) (esp of colours) to shade imperceptibly into each other
noun
a mixture or type produced by blending
the act of blending
Also called portmanteau word. a word formed by joining together the beginning and the end of two other words: “brunch” is a blend of “breakfast” and “lunch”
v.
n.

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