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Definitions: Blending |
BlendingAdjective1. Combining or mixing. Noun1. The act of blending components together thoroughly. 2. A gradation involving small or imperceptible differences between grades. Source: WordNet 1.7.1 Copyright © 2001 by Princeton University. All rights reserved. |
Date "blending" was first used in popular English literature: sometime before 1321. (references) |
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Agriculture | In grain marketing, the combining of two different qualities of grain in order to change the total value of both lots. For example, it is common to blend grains of differing moisture or different foreign material content to achieve the requirements of a contract order. (references) |
Mining | Mixing in predetermined and controlled quantities to give a uniformproduct. (references) |
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Synonyms: BlendingSynonyms: merging (adj), mingling (adj), blend (n), shading (n). (additional references) |
| Context | Synonyms within Context (source: adapted from Roget's Thesaurus). |
Combination | Noun: combination; mixture; junction; union, unification, synthesis, incorporation, amalgamation, embodiment, coalescence, crasis, fusion, blending, absorption, centralization. |
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Crosswords: Blending |
| English words defined with "blending": Akira Kurosawa ♦ blend ♦ ethyl alcohol ♦ food processor ♦ homogenised, homogenized ♦ incompatible ♦ Kurosawa ♦ neutral spirits ♦ Partial tones, process cheese, processed cheese ♦ work in. (references) |
| Specialty definitions using "blending": BLENDING SUPERVISOR. (references) |
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Screenplays | Nice job of blending in, girls. (Buffy the Vampire Slayer; writing credit: Doreen Spicer) We're a bunch of 15 year olds in a demon bar. How much blending did you think we were gonna do? (Buffy the Vampire Slayer; writing credit: Doreen Spicer) Blending is the key! (Edward Scissorhands; writing credit: Tim Burton; Caroline Thompson) | |
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| Thumbnail | Description & Credit | Thumbnail | Description & Credit |
 | Monk seals blending in with the reef and rocks at Laysan Island.Credit: NOAA's Ark (Animals). |  | Weeks Bay National Estuarine Research Reserve. A green tree frog blending in with its environment.Credit: National Estuarine Research Reserve System (NERR). |
 | Can you tell what it is? It's a bird resting on a rock blending with the view at the Parashant National Monument.Credit: Lynn Chamberlain. |  | A bird at the Grand Canyon-Parashant National Monument blending in with it's surroundings.Credit: Lynn Chamberlain. |
 | Dead fish blending in with rocks.Credit: Unknown. | ||
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 | Blender; blending; blended; blends; motor; Cuisinart; whirl; whirling; chop; chopping; mix; mixing; liquefy; liquefying; daiquiri; margarita; blended drink; cocktail; pina colada. |
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Alfred Jarry | It is conventional to call ''monster'' any blending of dissonant elements. I call ''monster'' every original inexhaustible beauty. |
Tommaso Di Celano | Day of wrath and doom impending, David's word with Sibyl's blending, Heaven and earth in ashes ending! |
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Business | Waste oil can be re-refined into base stock oil ready for blending. (references) | |
Daqing imported the technologies of emulsion grafting and bulk AB blending from Korea. (references) | ||
The co-incineration and fuel blending industry has benefited the most from French environmental regulations. (references) | ||
Economic History | El Salvador | Texaco Caribbean: Fuel storage and lubricant blending plant in the port of Acajutla. (references) |
Cote D'ivoire | High protein U.S. or German wheat is imported for blending with low protein French soft wheat. (references) | |
Senegal | U.S. wheat is sometimes imported in small quantities for blending because of its high protein content compared to French soft wheat. (references) | |
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| "Blending" is generally used as a lexical verb (-ing form) -- approximately 72.89% of the time. "Blending" is used about 166 times out of a sample of 100 million words spoken or written in English. Its rank is based on over 700,000 words used in the English language. Some parts-of-speech are not covered due to the samples used by the British National Corpus. (note: percents less than one-hundredth of one percent have been omitted) |
| Parts of Speech | Percent | Usage per 100 Million Words | Rank in English |
| Lexical Verb (-ing form) | 72.89% | 121 | 29,211 |
| Noun (singular) | 23.49% | 39 | 55,036 |
| Noun (proper) | 2.41% | 4 | 175,879 |
| Adjective (general or positive) | 1.2% | 2 | 245,945 |
| Total | 100.00% | 166 | N/A |
Source: compiled by the editor from several corpora; see credits.
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Beginning with "blending": blending-in. | |
Ending with "blending": alcohol-blending, colour-blending, whisky-blending. | |
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| The following statistics estimate the number of searches per day across the major English-language search engines as identified by various trade publications. Hyperlinks lead to commercial use of the expression at Amazon.com. |
| Language | Translations for "blending"; alternative meanings/domain in parentheses. | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
Arabic | مزج (admix, admixture, blend, carbonize, combination, combine, commingle, commix, dash, hash, incorporate, interlace, interweave, mingle, mingling, mix up, mixing, mixing up, mixture), خلط (admix, alloy, confusion, jumble, metis, mingle, mix, mix up, mixing, mixture, scramble, shuffle). (various references) | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
Chinese | 混' (blended). (various references) | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
Danish | blanding (admixture, blend, charge, complex, compound, mix, mixing, mixture), bland, tilpasning (acclimation, acclimatization, acculturation, adaptation, adapting, adjust, adjusting, adjustment, appropriation, assimilation, conditioning, fitting, match, matching), sammenstikning (blend, mixed grapes, mixed varieties), kuldosering (proportioning coal mixtures), kombinerede bremsekræfter, forskæring, afpasning af dosis (proportioning coal mixtures). (various references) | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
Dutch | versnijden (cutting, cutting up, shearing, to cut, to hit), mengsel (admixture, blend, charge, coal blend, compound, mix, mixture), mengen van kolen (proportioning coal mixtures), mengen (adjust, blend, compound, compounding, mingle, mix, mixing, re-recording, shuffle), afremmen (brake, deceleration, slow down). (various references) | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
Finnish | blendaus, yhdistetyt jarrutusvoimat, tupakan sekoittaminen, sekoitus (admixture, agitation, blend, charge, mix, mixing, mixture, re-recording, stirring), sekoittaminen (agitating, agitation, stirring, whipping). (various references) | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
French | mélange (blend, blended, coal blend), ajustage, coupage (blend), dosage, dosage granulométrique, granulométrie, homogénéisation, égalisage, mélangé, rectification, mélange de fibres (blend), mélange de tabac, mélange dosé, ponçage, procédure de freinage combiné, homogénéisation de poudres. (various references) | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
German | vermischung (interbreeding, mingling, mixing, mixture, scrambling), vermengend (mixing up), verblendend (blinding), mischung (admixture, amalgam, assortment, batch, batch mixture, blend, charge, coal blend, combination, glass batch, graded multiple, grading, hybridization, intermixture, melange, mix, mixing, mixture). (various references) | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
Greek | ρύθμιση εφαρμογής (adjust), συνδυασμός φρένων δυναμικού μηχανισμού και τριβής, μίξη ανθράκων κατά αναλογία (proportioning coal mixtures), προσαρμογή (accommodation, Adapt, adaptation, adapting, adjust, adjustment, fit, fitting, match, matching, occlusal levelling, ocular adaptation, regulation, shakedown, the ability of the eye to change its focus from distant to near objects), χαρμάνιασμα, ανάμιξη (blend, interlardment, involvement, mixing, mixture, rousing, shuffle, stirring up). (various references) | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
Hebrew | מזי'" (fusion, merger, mixture, pouring), מ"ול (adulterated, adulteration, blended, diluted, dilution, mixed, mixing), פתיכ" (mixture), פתוך (mixing), "תמז'ות (amalgamation, coalition, merger, mixture). (various references) | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
Hungarian | keveredés (amalgamation, foul-up, melange, mix up, promiscuity). (various references) | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
Italian | mescolanza (alloy, blend, commixture, crossing, inter-breeding, jumble, medley, miscegenation, mix, mixture, promiscuity). (various references) | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
Japanese Kanji | 交錯 (complication, mixture), 折衷 (compromise, cross, eclecticism). (various references) | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
Japanese Katakana | せっちゅう (compromise, cross, eclecticism, in the snow), "うさく (cable, complication, construction, cultivation, farming, handicraft, maneuvering, mixture, steel wire rope, work). (various references) | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
Korean | 혼합 (Blend, mix, mixed). (various references) | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
Pig Latin | endingblay blending, mistura de fibras, mistura (adjust, admixture, bastard, batch, blend, coal blend, commixture, compound, concoction, cross, fusion, gallimaufry, half and half, hodge-podge, hotchpotch, hybrid, immixture, interim, intern, jumble, mash, medley, mischance, mix, mixing, mixture, olio, patchwork, re-recording, salmagundi, shuffle), mescla (commixture, mix, mixture, pepper and salt), lotação (blend), homogenização, frenagem combinada, formaçao da mistura, dosagem (application rate, dosage, dosing, feed regulation, flow of distribution, flow rate, mix, proportioning, proportioning coal mixtures, rate of application). (various references) смешивать стыковочный. (various references) mezcla (admixture, adulterant, alloy, batch, batch mixture, blend, charge, commixture, compound, concoction, crossbreed, glass batch, intermixture, mash, medley, melange, mishmash, mix, mixing, mixture, re-recording). (various references) blandbromstillsättning, egalisering (evening out). (various references) складання сумішей, купаж (blend). (various references) | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
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| Latin | 500 BCE-Modern | adulteri, adulteria, adulteriis, adulterio, adulterium. (various references) |
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Words ending with "blending": reblending. (additional references) | |
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"Blending" is suggested in spellcheckers for the following: Bellenden, Blandin, Blandina, Blandine, blanding, bleding, blenden, Blendinger, Blenkin, Blenning, blindings, blundun. (additional references) | |
| Source: compiled by the editor, based on several corpora (additional references). | |
| # of Phoneme Matches | Pronunciation | Word(s) rhyming with "blending" (pronounced ble"nding) |
| 6 | -l e" n d i ng | lending, relending. |
| 5 | -e" n d i ng | amending, apprehending, ascending, attending, bending, commending, comprehending, condescending, contending, defending, depending, descending, ending, expending, extending, fending, impending, intending, mending, misspending, offending, overextending, pending, portending, pretending, recommending, rending, sending, spending, suspending, tending, transcending, trending, unbending, unending, vending, wending. |
| 4 | -n d i ng | abounding, astounding, banding, binding, blinding, bonding, bounding, branding, commanding, compounding, confounding, corresponding, defunding, demanding, disbanding, expanding, expounding, finding, founding, freestanding, funding, grandstanding, grinding, grounding, handing, hounding, landing, longstanding, masterminding, minding, misunderstanding, nonbinding, notwithstanding, outspending, outstanding, overfunding, overspending, pounding, rebounding, refunding, reminding, rescinding, resounding, responding, rounding, sanding, sounding, spellbinding, standing, stranding, surrounding, underfunding, understanding, unwinding, upstanding, winding, withstanding, wounding. |
| 3 | -d i ng | abiding, acceding, according, adding, affording, aiding, alluding, applauding, avoiding, awarding, backsliding, balding, bedding, beheading, beholding, bidding, biding, bleeding, blockading, boarding, bombarding, braiding, breading, breeding, brooding, budding, building, cascading, ceding, cheerleading, chiding, clouding, codding, coding, coinciding, colliding, colluding, conceding, concluding, confiding, cording, crowding, crusading, deciding, decoding, defrauding, degrading, deluding, denuding, deriding, discarding, disregarding, dividing, downgrading, downloading, dreading, eluding, encoding, eroding, evading, exceeding, excluding, exploding, extruding, fading, featherbedding, feeding, feuding, Fielding, flooding, folding, forbidding, foreboding, forwarding, gadding, gilding, girding, Gladding, gliding, goading, Godding, grading, guarding, guiding, handholding, heading, heeding, heralding, herding, hiding, hoarding, holding, impeding, imploding, inbreeding, including, interceding, intruding, invading, joyriding, kidding, kneading, lading, landholding, lauding, leading, loading, madding, marauding, masquerading, Melding, misleading, misreading, molding, moulding, needing, nodding, nonbuilding, outbidding, overbuilding, overcrowding, overloading, overriding, padding, parading, persuading, pervading, pleading, plodding, preceding, precluding, presiding, proceeding, prodding, proofreading, protruding, providing, pudding, punctuating, raiding, railroading, reading, rebuilding, receding, recording, Redding, Reding, regarding, rereading, residing, retarding, retreading, rewarding, ridding, riding, rodding, safeguarding, scaffolding, scalding, scolding, seceding, seeding, serenading, shading, shedding, shepherding, shielding, shipbuilding, shredding, shrouding, siding, skateboarding, skidding, sledding, sliding, spearheading, speeding, spreading, stampeding, striding, subsiding, succeeding, superseding, threading, tiding, trading, treading, unfolding, unloading, unyielding, upgrading, upholding, voiding, wading, warding, wedding, weeding, welding, wielding, Wilding, withholding, Wooding, wording, yielding. |
Source: compiled by the editor (additional references); see credits. | ||
Scrabble® Enable2K-Verified Anagrams | |
| Words within the letters "b-d-e-g-i-l-n-n" | |
-1 letter: bending, lending. | |
-2 letters: benign, bilged, bindle, binged, binned, dingle, ending, engild, ginned, linden. | |
-3 letters: begin, being, benni, bield, bilge, binge, blend, blind, deign, dinge, gelid, gibed, glide, ingle, inned, lined, linen. | |
-4 letters: bend, bide, bile, bind, bine, bled, blin, deil, deli, deni, diel, dine, ding, geld, gibe, gied, gien, gild, gled, glen, glib, idle. | |
| Words containing the letters "b-d-e-g-i-l-n-n" | |
+2 letters: blundering, reblending. | |
+3 letters: bludgeoning, emboldening, imboldening. | |
+4 letters: blunderingly, linebreeding, spellbinding. | |
+5 letters: linebreedings, undiagnosable. | |
| Source: compiled by the editor from various references; see credits. SCRABBLE® is a registered trademark. All intellectual property rights in and to the game are owned in the U.S.A and Canada by Hasbro Inc., and throughout the rest of the world by J.W. Spear & Sons Limited of Maidenhead, Berkshire, England, a subsidiary of Mattel Inc. Mattel and Spear are not affiliated with Hasbro. | |
Hexadecimal (or equivalents, 770AD-1900s) (references)42 6C 65 6E 64 69 6E 67 |
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Morse Code (1836) (references)-... .-.. . -. -.. .. -. --. |
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Binary Code (1918-1938, probably earlier) (references)01000010 01101100 01100101 01101110 01100100 01101001 01101110 01100111 |
HTML Code (1990) (references)B l e n d i n g |
ISO 10646 (1991-1993) (references)0042 006C 0065 006E 0064 0069 006E 0067 |
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Encryption (beginner's substitution cypher): (references)3678718070758073 |
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