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▪ I. blending, vbl. n.|ˈblɛndɪŋ|
[f. as prec. + -ing1.]
1. a. The process of mixing intimately; the resulting state; a harmonious mixture.
1795Act. Geo. III, civ. §25 in Oxf. & Camb. Enactm. 109 The blending of money belonging to different Colleges. 1816Byron Ch. Har. iii. xlvi, A blending of all beauties. 1855Whitby Gloss., Blendings, a minglement of beans and peas. 1876Green Short Hist. ii. §6 (1882) 88 This blending of the two races.
b. spec. The action or process of mixing materials used in woollen manufacture.
1884W. S. B. Maclaren Spinning ix. 184 Blending..is one of the most important operations in the whole manufacture... Blending may mean many things. It may be different colours of dyed wool, or wool and shoddy, mungo or flocks, or wool and cotton, or wool and silk, or all these together.
2. Philol. = contamination 1 d.
1892H. Sweet New Eng. Gram. 48 Grammatical and logical anomalies often arise through the blending of two different constructions... The plural themselves may be regarded as a blending of himself and ourselves. 1894Jespersen Progress in Lang. vii. 188 Contaminations or blendings of two constructions between which the speaker is wavering occur in all languages. Ibid. 190 The blending was due to the fact that what was grammatically the object of one verb was logically the subject of another verb. 1906G. A. Bergström (title) Blendings of Synonymous or Cognate Expressions in English. 1960H. Marchand Categories Present-day Eng. Word-Formation x. 367 Blending can be considered relevant to word-formation only insofar as it is an intentional process of word-coining. We shall use the term here to designate the method of merging parts of words into one new word, as when sm/oke and f/og derive smog.
▪ II. ˈblending, ppl. a.
That blends.
1642W. Price Sermon 41 The Text may be meant of a blending mixture in Religion. 1812Examiner 30 Nov. 763/2 Gradations..soft and blending. 1873Tristram Moab iii. 50 Parted..without any blending belt of..scrub. |