(v. t.) To mix or mingle together; esp. to mingle, combine, or associate so that the separate things mixed, or the line of demarcation, can not be distinguished. Hence: To confuse; to confound.
(v. t.) To pollute by mixture or association; to spoil or corrupt; to blot; to stain.
(v. i.) To mingle; to mix; to unite intimately; to pass or shade insensibly into each other, as colors.
(n.) A thorough mixture of one thing with another, as color, tint, etc., into another, so that it cannot be known where one ends or the other begins.
(a.) To make blind, literally or figuratively; to dazzle; to deceive.
Example Sentences:
(1) At the time, with a regular supply of British immigrants arriving in large numbers in Australia, Biggs was able to blend in well as "Terry Cook", a carpenter, so well in fact that his wife, Charmian, was able to join him with his three sons.
(2) Several oilseed and legume protein products were fed to rats as the sole source of dietary protein, and in blends with cereals for the determination of protein efficiency ratio (PER) and biological availability of amino acids.
(3) Infants were habituated to models posing either prototypically positive displays (e.g., happy expressions) or positive expression blends (e.g., mock surprise).
(4) From these experiments, we conclude that the surface-modified polyurethane blend is superior to Biomer polyurethane in blood compatibility and in freedom from thromboembolic risk.
(5) Immersion of polymer membranes blended with the thrombin inhibitor in phosphate-buffered saline for 10 d resulted in the loss of nonthrombogenicity, while the polymer membranes grafted with the thrombin inhibitor derivative maintained the nonthrombogenicity over a long period.
(6) In Experiment 1, chicks 24 days old were fed mixtures of untreated and inoculated corn containing citrinin to provide 0, 50, 100, 150, 200, and 250 micrograms of the toxin per gram of blended corn.
(7) They dealt in dozens of different commodities – from major grains such as wheat and sorghum to specialised food aid products such as corn-soy blend.
(8) We tested semihardened blends of edible oils, suitable for commercial food manufacture, with a lower-than-conventional saturated fatty acid content, for their effects on plasma cholesterol.
(9) The study of amino acid pattern shows that sulphur containing amino acids are limiting to almost the same degree in meat and meat soy blend.
(10) The concomitance of five previously reported trans-2,5-dialkyl-pyrrolidines along with small amounts of the cis isomers and N-methyl analogues makes the venom of M. indicum the most qualitatively diverse blend of alkaloids reported from an ant to date.
(11) You will leave your house without your watch or wristband, but you will never leave your house without your shoes.” Blending in with existing apparel The challenge faced by Google Glass and other wearable technologies is that they rely on the user being prepared to wear an extra item of apparel.
(12) In one experiment, finisher diets containing 2.5, 5.0, or 10.0% of added corn oil (CO), poultry oil (PO), tallow (T), or a commercial hydrolyzed animal-vegetable fat blend (HB) were fed.
(13) Type I pili increased in length much more slowly than did F pili, although the fraction of cells having visible type I pili increased very rapidly after blending because of the large number of type I pili per cell.
(14) Central nervous system function is modeled as a steady state Kalman filter that optimally blends information from the various sensors to form an estimate of spatial orientation.
(15) The data revealed that (a) adequate verbal instruction had a modest but significant effect on the subjects' blending performance (Experiment 1), and (b) training without pictorial prompts resulted in better blending of trained and untrained C-VC items than training with pictorial prompts (Experiment 2).
(16) This technique guarantees adequate ventilation with an oxygen-air blend.
(17) The blended fat was composed of a mixture of animal and vegetable fats.
(18) The MTBE fuel blend appeared to offer the most reduction in total hydrocarbon, carbon monoxide, and oxides of nitrogen for the fuels and temperatures tested.
(19) Evidence is presented that excessive blending in a wet granulation process shifts the packing arrangement of the wet granule, causing it to become dense and nonporous.
(20) Noninoculated corn, inoculated corn, and blends of the two were fed to chicks for 5 hr as the only feed.
Commingle
Definition:
(v. t. & i.) To mingle together; to mix in one mass, or intimately; to blend.
Example Sentences:
(1) After the acute bleeding period, all Group P and Group S ewes were commingled and exposed to a ram continuously for 42 d. Samples of serum were collected thrice weekly and analyzed for progesterone to monitor ovulatory response to ram introduction through the 42-d period.
(2) The Guardian has asked Facebook to clarify the difference between "share" and "commingle", but has received no reply at press time.
(3) The implications of these analytical results in the context of commingling analysis in genetic epidemiology are discussed.
(4) Thereafter, it can be viewed as coexistent and commingled with secondary process in dynamic tension, complementarity, and developing complexity.
(5) Group I (n = 33) was vaccinated intranasally with an infectious bovine rhinotracheitis virus (IBRV) vaccine on postinoculation day (PID) 0; group II (n = 31) was not vaccinated on PID 0 but was commingled with group I; and group III (n = 33) served as controls housed in the same facility, but was physically separated from groups I and II.
(6) In contrast, evidence for commingling does suggest the possibility that a single locus has a major effect on the trait and commingling analysis can provide guidance in the choice of initial parameter estimates for segregation analysis.
(7) Commingling analysis was also performed, and our findings imply that there is no evidence for admixture in the distribution of fasting blood glucose in this Israeli population sample.
(8) The finding of commingling of distributions for almost all phenotypes is consistent with (but not evidence for) major gene effects.
(9) The argument that this was a vote about “economic” issues – since the hated European migrants were not brown or black – is belied by the deliberate commingling of every type of foreigner.
(10) For both the Canadian and US samples significant commingling was found in the child's but not the adult's IgE distribution.
(11) Based on this commingling analysis, the occurrence of a hyperkinetic state was five-fold as frequent in patients with borderline hypertension than in the normotensive population.
(12) In this report, we examine the distributions of these age and sex adjusted variables in a large family study from Québec in terms of evidence for commingling and skewness, and evaluate the inter-relationships among the measures.
(13) The microscopic picture of organizing hematoma may be supplemented by the appearance of amorphous polysaccharide masses commingled with iron pigment.
(14) A second objective was to determine shrinkage as a result of a 24-h fast immediately after the 21-d study of hogs commingled vs those not commingled for both environmental treatments (CD vs TN).
(15) Facebook has clarified alterations to the privacy policy of its newly acquired activity tracker, Moves, explaining the difference between "sharing" and "commingling" of data.
(16) While mean IgM levels in females were approximately 25% higher than that in males, the pattern of familial correlations did not follow the expectations under a sex-linked model, and there was no commingling in the distribution of IgM levels as expected when a trait is under the influence of a major gene.
(17) Although evidence was not unequivocal, both segregation and commingling analyses provided some support for a major gene influence on TL PST activity, with other variation due to polygenic background.
(18) While many users questioned the change in the privacy policy, coming just 11 days after Moves had promised that it had no plans to "commingle data with Facebook", the Facebook spokesman argued that "commingling" data is different from simply "sharing" it.
(19) Commingling analysis and segregation analysis were also performed, and our findings imply that in the Israeli population there is no evidence for a major gene for high uric acid levels segregating in families.
(20) These ectopic glomerular structures are formed by the commingling of the olfactory axon terminals and the dendrites of brain neurons that lie in their proximity.