Definitions
Century Dictionary and Cyclopedia
- n. The act or process of combining or mingling. Specifically, in painting: A method of laying on different tints so that they may mingle together while wet and fuse into each other insensibly.
- n. The combination of the characteristics of both parents as a resultant in cross-breeding.
Wiktionary
- v. present participle of blend.
GNU Webster's 1913
- n. The act of mingling.
- n. (Paint.) The method of laying on different tints so that they may mingle together while wet, and shade into each other insensibly.
WordNet 3.0
- n. the act of blending components together thoroughly
- n. a gradation involving small or imperceptible differences between grades
Examples
“The key for news blending is to cluster (important!) news as soon as the fresh items are collected, in an ultra-fast way.”
“AA Studio has done perfectly well in blending it into harmony through this Scenography Apartment interior.”
“It certainly brings floral aromatics to the party, so maybe the future is in blending it into Alsatian-style blends?”
“My experience so far with genre-blending is that while F&SF readers don't mind a bit of romance as a sub-plot, they are very taken aback to have it presented as a main plot, urgently looking for the" important "political action to identify as the plot instead." [via Fred K.]”
“Word-blending is big in campuspeak. “He†™ s sort of a nerd, but he†™ s just so adorkable†combines adorable with dork, the amalgam defined as “endearing though socially inept†by Prof. Connie Eble of the department of English and comparative literature at the University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill.”
“A better approach for the blending is to use a layer mask.”
“By his identification with Malinal, Madoc too becomes a figure of hybridity, redeeming the ideal of cultural blending from the degraded regimes of Aztec and English oppression.”
The Allure of the Same: Robert Southey's Welsh Indians and the Rhetoric of Good Colonialism
“With a fork at first, and later switching to fingers, begin blending the outer edges in.”
“Ethanol blending is one of the biggest wastes of time and money for a terminal — there is no net benefit to the terminal OR even the “environment.””
Coyote Blog » Blog Archive » More Evidence of the Ethanol Folly
“Or rather, what they're blending is the pulp mode of Rationalist Romance -- which is a coherent approach in its own right by the time Campbell christens it science fiction -- with the "literary" mode of Modernism.”
Lists
These user-created lists contain the word ‘blending’.
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Impressionism
Words that describe the art of the impressionist era.
seascapes, landscapes, modern, impression, impressionist, contemporary, flicker, sensation, modernity, perceived, perceiving, momentary and 142 more...
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Interesting words
A list of words that are odd or words that I have looked up.
concupiscence, brize, scree, scoria, forestaff, spanaemia, valetudinarianism, distasture, pyrethrum, laudanum, gentian, bicameral and 11250 more...
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WF - Word Formation Words
Classes of words and types of word formation
sniglet, protologism, portmanteau word, blend, telescope-word, frankenword, double-entendre, compound, derivative, palindrome, spoonerism, malapropism and 152 more...
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Neologistics
Basically this is a "words about words" list with a focus on neologism generation in all its various forms.
wordplay, paronomasia, madeupical, logodaedaly, onomatopoeic, verbification, nominalization, recontextualization, spoonerism, typo recycling, sloganeer, wordsmith and 59 more...
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WF - all types of word formation
My ambition is to build a list with the names for
1. ALL types of word formation
2. the words put together by 1.
using a strict definition: e.g. "antonym", "aptronym" "palindrom...camel case, incapping, suffixing, capitalization, compound, agglutination, back-formation, blending, acronym, clipping, calque, semantic loan and 56 more...
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