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blending

noun

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Wiktionary

Pronunciation: /ˈblɛndɪŋ/

noun

Etymology: From blend + -ing. Cognate with Faroese blending (“mixture, crossing”).

  1. The act or result of something being blended.

    blendings of old and new

    Light and dark grounds are used indiscriminately, and indeed there is such a blending of the two styles that on some of the vases it would be difficult to say whether the design was light on dark, or dark on light.

verb

Etymology: From Middle English blendinge, equivalent to blend + -ing.

  1. present participle and gerund of blend

    Earless ghost swift moths become “invisible” to echolocating bats by forming mating clusters close (less than half a meter) above vegetation and effectively blending into the clutter of echoes that the bat receives from the leaves and stems around them.