blending

Valid in Scrabble

Scrabble points
12
Words With Friends
17
Letters
8
Pronunciation
/ˈblɛndɪŋ/

Definition of blending

2 senses · 2 parts of speech · etymology included

verb

  1. (form-of, gerund, participle, present)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.”
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verb

  1. (form-of, gerund, participle, present)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.”

noun

  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.”

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Etymology

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

Hooks

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