blend英语原文释义、词形变化、词源和词汇关系

英文释义

名词 n.

A mixture of two or more things.

— Their music has been described as a blend of jazz and heavy metal.
A word formed by combining two other words; a portmanteau word.

— Blends, also known as portmanteau words, are not an original part of English. That is, none occur in Old or Middle English, nor even in Elizabethan English, with the earliest known example being the rare and now obsolete term tomaxe, a blend of tomahawk and axe.

动词 v.

To mingle; to mix; to unite intimately; to pass or shade insensibly into each other. transitive

— To make hummus you need to blend chickpeas, olive oil, lemon juice and garlic.
To be mingled or mixed. intransitive

— There is a tone of solemn and sacred feeling that blends with our conviviality.
To pollute by mixture or association; to spoil or corrupt; to blot; to stain. obsolete

— These stormes, which now his beauty blend, Shall turn to calmes.

词形变化

blends plural blends present,singular,third-person blending participle,present blended participle,past blended past blent participle,past,poetic blent past,poetic

词汇关系

衍生词

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词源

词源 1

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”).

词源 2

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”).