blend
/blɛnd/ noun B2- A mixture of two or more things. · Their music has been described as a blend of jazz and heavy metal.· Our department has a good blend of experienced workers and young promise.
- A word formed by combining two other words; a portmanteau word.
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See how the figures loom up, are dimly seen, and then blend once more into the cloud-bank.
He walked past the couch to the open window, and held up the drooping stalk of a moss-rose, looking down at the dainty blend of crimson and green.
This fascinating linguistic phenomenon is an intricate blend of English, Malay, Hokkien, Teochew, Cantonese, and Tamil.
Rather than adopting one specific regional dialect, these subsequent generations unconsciously synthesized the myriad phonetic sounds swirling around them, resulting in a novel linguistic blend.
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