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# blend

«blend» in Mova's school dictionary: **to mix two or more things together so they become one** — its meaning for a pupil, its sense in the lessons and examples, with 5 sentences of Mova's corpora that use it.

### part of speech

verb (blend, blends, blended, blending); noun (a blend, blends)

### meaning for a pupil

1) To blend is to mix two or more things together so they become one. [tree →](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/school/B/blend/#m1)

2) A blend is a mixture of different things. [tree →](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/school/B/blend/#m2)

3) To blend in is to look or sound like the things around you so you are not noticed. [tree →](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/school/B/blend/#m3)

4) In phonics, a blend is two or three letters said together quickly, like «bl», «st» or «str». [tree →](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/school/B/blend/#m4)

### sense in the lessons

In reading lessons, children blend sounds together to read words: c-a-t, «cat»; consonant blends are like «fr» and «sp». In cooking and science, blending mixes ingredients and makes mixtures. In art, you blend colours or pencil shading so there is no hard line. In nature, camouflage helps animals blend in. Phrases: «blend in», «blend together», «a blend of».

### examples

- Blend the sounds to read the word: s-u-n, sun. [tree →](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/school/B/blend/#x1)
- Blend the bananas and milk to make a smoothie. [tree →](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/school/B/blend/#x2)
- The chameleon blends in with the leaves. [tree →](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/school/B/blend/#x3)
- Blend the blue and yellow paint to make green. [tree →](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/school/B/blend/#x4)
- «Bl» in «black» is a blend. [tree →](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/school/B/blend/#x5)
- This tea is a blend of three kinds of leaves. [tree →](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/school/B/blend/#x6)
- The new girl soon blended in with the class. [tree →](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/school/B/blend/#x7)
- Use your finger to blend the chalk colours. [tree →](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/school/B/blend/#x8)
- And so they sang together, but their voices did not blend, for the real Nightingale sang in her way and the clockwork bird sang waltzes. [tree →](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/school/B/blend/#x9)

### note

Past form: blended. A «blender» is the kitchen machine. In phonics, a blend (each sound is heard, like «st») is different from a digraph (two letters make one sound, like «sh» or «th»).

### In the corpora

- [Oil paint is pigment mixed with oil, often linseed oil; it dries slowly, so painters could blend smoothly.](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/school/arts/14-painting-paints-brushes-mess-and-mistakes/8/)
- [An octopus, a cousin of the cuttlefish, normally has eight arms and can change colour and blend into rocks and walls too.](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/school/biology/189-masters-of-camouflage/8/)
- [You blend each chunk, then glue the chunks together.](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/school/english/2-blending-segmenting-and-the-year-1-check/7/)
- ["Blended family" means a family with a stepparent and stepchildren.](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/school/euphemisms/13-relations-and-family/5/)
- [Blended families get on better when they find shared activities and give each other space.](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/school/everyday/96-grandparents-divorce-and-step-families/14/)

### Trees and pragmatics

[Every meaning and example of «blend» parsed by Mova](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/school/B/blend/), each sentence with its dependency tree and frames.