BLENDING

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 Dictionary entry overview: What does blending mean? 

• BLENDING (noun)
  The noun BLENDING has 2 senses:

1. the act of blending components together thoroughly

2. a gradation involving small or imperceptible differences between grades

  Familiarity information: BLENDING used as a noun is rare.

 Dictionary entry details 

• BLENDING (noun)

Sense 1

Meaning:

The act of blending components together thoroughly

Classified under:

Nouns denoting acts or actions

Synonyms:

blend; blending

Hypernyms ("blending" is a kind of...):

combination; combining; compounding (the act of combining things to form a new whole)

Hyponyms (each of the following is a kind of "blending"):

confluence; conflux; merging (a flowing together)

homogenisation; homogenization (the act of making something homogeneous or uniform in composition)

Sense 2

Meaning:

A gradation involving small or imperceptible differences between grades

Classified under:

Nouns denoting acts or actions

Synonyms:

blending; shading

Hypernyms ("blending" is a kind of...):

gradation; graduation (the act of arranging in grades)

 Context examples 

The blending produced hundreds of new sounds that differed from the original calls.

(How does the brain learn categorization for sounds? The same way it does for images, National Science Foundation)

Above these, were range upon range of craggy steeps, grey rock, bright ice, and smooth verdure-specks of pasture, all gradually blending with the crowning snow.

(David Copperfield, by Charles Dickens)

The new studies suggest that people can become infected by consuming açaí when the insect vector, or its faeces, are accidentally mixed with the fruit while blending the juice.

(Açaí fruit can transmit Chagas disease, SciDev.Net)

To Janzen, the find is supportive of his field discoveries, making a case for the blending of field and lab investigations.

(Between ants and acacias, timing is everything, National Science Foundation)

Both Venus and Uranus will be in earth-sign Taurus, blending perfectly with your earth-sign Capricorn, so professional news should be welcome and sudden, even thrilling.

(AstrologyZone.com, by Susan Miller)

(i) the systematic study of clinical and basic science and its application for the reduction of pain and suffering; (ii) the blending of tools, techniques and principles taken from the discrete healing art disciplines and reformulated as a holistic application for the reduction of pain and suffering; and (iii) a newly emerging discipline emphasizing an interdisciplinary approach with a goal of reduction of pain and suffering.

(Pain Therapy, NCI Thesaurus)

Yet it was merely a very pretty drawing-room, and within it a boudoir, both spread with white carpets, on which seemed laid brilliant garlands of flowers; both ceiled with snowy mouldings of white grapes and vine-leaves, beneath which glowed in rich contrast crimson couches and ottomans; while the ornaments on the pale Parian mantelpiece were of sparkling Bohemian glass, ruby red; and between the windows large mirrors repeated the general blending of snow and fire.

(Jane Eyre, by Charlotte Brontë)

To find out how the brain categorizes auditory input, the researchers invented new sounds using an acoustic blending tool to produce sounds from two types of monkey calls.

(How does the brain learn categorization for sounds? The same way it does for images, National Science Foundation)

I was blending it with the deathbed of the late Mr. Barkis, and was driving out with the tide towards the distance at which Ham had looked so singularly in the morning, when I was recalled from my wanderings by a knock at the door.

(David Copperfield, by Charles Dickens)

Coming before me, on this particular evening that I mention, mingled with the childish recollections and later fancies, the ghosts of half-formed hopes, the broken shadows of disappointments dimly seen and understood, the blending of experience and imagination, incidental to the occupation with which my thoughts had been busy, it was more than commonly suggestive.

(David Copperfield, by Charles Dickens)