blend

Meanings

1. 1
   verb

   To mix two or more things together so they combine well.

   Blend the eggs and sugar until smooth.

2. 2
   verb

   To go well together or fit in without standing out.

   The new building blends in nicely with the old houses.

3. 3
   noun

   A mixture of two or more different things.

   Their music is a blend of jazz and rock.

From Middle English blenden, either from Old English blandan, blondan, ġeblandan, ġeblendan or from Old Norse blanda (“to blend, mix”) (which was originally a strong verb with the present-tense stem blend; compare blendingr (“a blending, a mixture; a half-breed”)), whence also Danish blande, or from a blend of the Old English and Old Norse terms; both ultimately from Proto-Germanic *blandaną (“to blend; mix; combine”). Compare Middle Dutch blanden (“to mix”), Gothic 𐌱𐌻𐌰𐌽𐌳𐌰𐌽 (blandan), Old Church Slavonic блєсти (blesti, “to go astray”).

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