Klryz
Pronunciation guide: IPA symbols, stress and word endings

Vowels

iːseeɪsite / ɛbedæcat
ɑːfatherɒhot (UK)ɔːlawʊput
uːtooʌcupɜːbirdəabout
eɪdayaɪmyɔɪboyaʊnow
əʊ / oʊgo (UK / US)ɪəneareəhairʊətour

Consonants that look unusual

θthinðthisʃsheʒmeasure
tʃchurchdʒjudgeŋsingjyes

p b t d k g f v s z h m n l r w sound as in ordinary English spelling.

Marks

  • ˈ main stress, before the stressed syllable: /ˈwɔːtə/ water · ˌ lighter (secondary) stress: /ˌʌndəˈstænd/ understand
  • ː a long vowel · (r) an r said only in accents that pronounce it (most American, Scottish, Irish)

Common word endings

  • -s / -es (plurals; he/she form of verbs): /s/ after voiceless sounds (cats), /z/ after voiced (dogs), /ɪz/ after s, z, sh, ch, j sounds (buses, watches). Spelling: -es after s, x, z, ch, sh; consonant + y → -ies (city → cities).
  • -ed (past): /t/ after voiceless sounds (walked), /d/ after voiced (played), /ɪd/ after t or d (wanted). Spelling: love → loved, stop → stopped, carry → carried.
  • -ing: make → making, run → running, see → seeing.
  • Irregular: go, went, gone · be, was, been · see, saw, seen · man → men · child → children · mouse → mice.
  • Older (King James) forms: -eth = -s (he loveth = he loves) · -est with “thou” (thou lovest) · spake = spoke.

English Dictionary · 107,383 entries · Sources & licences

“blends” is a form of

blend

/blɛnd/ noun, verb

Forms blends blending blended blent

  1. noun A mixture of two or more things. “Their music has been described as a blend of jazz and heavy metal.”
  2. noun (linguistics) A word formed by combining two other words; a portmanteau word.
  3. verb (transitive) To mingle; to mix; to unite intimately; to pass or shade insensibly into each other. “To make hummus you need to blend chickpeas, olive oil, lemon juice and garlic.”
  4. verb (intransitive) To be mingled or mixed.
  5. verb (obsolete) To pollute by mixture or association; to spoil or corrupt; to blot; to stain.

Synonyms

combination mix mixture frankenword portmanteau portmanteau word portmantologism fuse homogenize inosculate uniformize admix amalgamate bemingle combine commingle intermingle intermix involve mang blending immingle go blend in flux conflate immix coalesce meld merge

Etymology

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”).

Webster’s 1913

  1. verb To mix or mingle together; esp. to mingle, combine, or associate so that the separate things mixed, or the line of demarcation, can not be distinguished. Hence: To confuse; to confound.
  2. verb To pollute by mixture or association; to spoil or corrupt; to blot; to stain. [Obs.] Spenser.
  3. verb To mingle; to mix; to unite intimately; to pass or shade insensibly into each other, as colors.
  4. noun A thorough mixture of one thing with another, as color, tint, etc., into another, so that it cannot be known where one ends or the other begins.

Etymology [OE. blenden, blanden, AS. blandan to blend, mix; akin to Goth. blandan to mix, Icel. blanda, Sw. blanda, Dan. blande, OHG. blantan to mis; to unknown origin.]

Etymology [AS. blendan, from blind blind. See Blind, a.]

Sources: Wiktionary · WordNet 3.0 · Webster’s 1913 — from the Wiktionary entry “blend”, CC BY-SA 4.0. Details

Sanskrit

Sanskrit dictionary entries whose meaning includes “blend” (best matches first).