blending

UK/ˈblɛndɪŋ/US/ˈblɛndɪŋ/

nounB2Occasional — familiar, but not everyday · #10,490 of 15,258leans written

Blending is working two colours together so no edge shows. Blending eyeshadow, careful blending, blending brush.

It is the single skill that separates competent makeup from obvious makeup, and it is mostly about small circular motions and a clean brush. Blending also names mixing anything into a smooth whole — blending tea, blending whisky, blending families. Note blend; and that the Old English verb meant to mix and is unrelated to blind.

Definitions of blending

1nounblendingWorking two colours together so no edge shows.B2
“The artist used her fingers for blending, so the blue sky faded softly into the pink sunset.”

blending is a mixing.

Where it comes from

Blend plus -ing, from Middle English blenden, to mix, probably from Old Norse blanda. It is not related to blind.

Middle English
blendinge
English, today
blending

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

Etymology from Wiktionary, CC BY-SA

Practised in Beauty & Cosmetics

Practise this word

blending in the wild

Gas blending for scuba diving (or gas mixing) is the filling of diving cylinders with non-air breathing gases such as nitrox, trimix and heliox.
Gas blending for scuba diving
Methods used include batch mixing by partial pressure or by mass fraction, and continuous blending processes.
Gas blending for scuba diving
Tea blending is the act of blending different teas (and sometimes other products) to produce a final product that differs in flavor from the original tea used.
Tea blending and additives
Although blending and scenting teas can add an additional dimension to tea, the process may also sometimes be used to cover and obscure the quality of sub-standard teas.
Tea blending and additives
English examples include smog, coined by blending smoke and fog, and motel, from motor (motorist) and hotel.
Portmanteau

1 / 3

From Wikipedia, CC BY-SA 4.0. These sentences were written by other people about their own subjects; they are here to show the word at work, not as anybody’s opinion.

Related words

← Vocabulary