Blending
['blendɪŋ] or ['blɛndɪŋ]
Definition
(p. pr. & vb. n.) of Blend
(n.) The act of mingling.
(n.) The method of laying on different tints so that they may mingle together while wet, and shade into each other insensibly.
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Examples
- Commixtion is the blending of two bodies, such as two bushels of corn, where the parts remain separate in an obvious and visible manner. David Hume. A Treatise of Human Nature.
- Yes, blending instruction with pleasure, said Crispin, rousing himself out of his revery and walking over to the piano. Fergus Hume. The Island of Fantasy.
- The blending of the individual taps, occurring at regular intervals, has produced a sustained musical tone. Bertha M. Clark. General Science.
- I believe in some blending of hope and sunshine sweetening the worst lots. Charlotte Bronte. Villette.
- It was just at that hour after sunset, when the day blending with the night produces that luminous twilight so noticeable in the Mediterranean. Fergus Hume. The Island of Fantasy.
- They are up-to-date words, remarked Crispin calmly; the music is also up to date, of the most advanced school, a blending of Dvor?k and Rubinstein. Fergus Hume. The Island of Fantasy.
- By the use of this simple instrument, the laying on a single colour, or the delicate blending and shadings of two or more colours in very beautiful effects is easily produced. William Henry Doolittle. Inventions in the Century.
- Those which combine amusement With instruction, my young friend,' replied Mr. Stiggins, 'blending select tales with wood-cuts. Charles Dickens. The Pickwick Papers.
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