(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.
Meld
Definition:
Example Sentences:
(1) But Goodman added: "The line between advice on policy (which Crosby doesn't give) and advice on strategy (which he certainly does) isn't the iron wall that Downing Street and CCHQ would like to assert: the one tends to meld into the other.
(2) Mixing of membrane components was demonstrated by transfer of fluorescent lipophilic dye, and melding of granule contents was seen with differential interference microscopy.
(3) It was through these now-remote valleys that ideas of art, decorum, dress, religion and court culture passed backwards and forwards, east to west and back again, mixing and melding to create the most unexpected conjuctions.
(4) Helping to meld everyone's creativity into an artistic whole is different from handing down dictats from on high, even if they are dressed up as helpful suggestions.
(5) This thickens the sauce and melds the flavours together.
(6) The doctor's lectures were a linguistic and topical pastiche, melding Indian and Western biologies, psychologies, and sociologies.
(7) It all melds together to make one of the finest examples of tight design, and of understanding by the designers of their game’s core.
(8) Rather, traditional pharmacy should be melded with the values system fostered by the clinical movement so that pharmacy as a whole will become more fully professionalized.
(9) "There is a depth and honesty in his music, in the way his beats meld together," Atwood-Ferguson says.
(10) Assuming senators back the bill, the Senate and the House of Representatives versions will then be melded into one and voted on again by both chambers before passing to Obama for his signature.
(11) This is why a new sports strategy is being worked on that will further build on the cross-government work on sport and physical activity that happens.” However, that £1bn “public funding” for community sport melds money from the national lottery, of which sport is one of the direct, statutory beneficiaries, with funding Crouch’s government provides.
(12) The uniqueness is in the melding of arcane British crafts (lacemakers, embroiderers, feather specialists, leather workers, corset-makers) with modern technology to create extraordinarily dramatic designs.
(13) This article reports the progress of 13 students at the end of 1 year of planning and 1 year of implementing the MELD model in one urban elementary school.
(14) Such overlapping segments are then melded into one continuous string of nucleotides.
(15) FKA Twigs’ LP1 sees 26-year-old solo artist Tahliah Debrett Barnett meld a variety of genres – from trip hop and jazz to ambient and R&B – to conjure up a sensual sound that is both ethereal and unique.
(16) The combined intracellular injection of Lucifer Yellow and biocytin provides a simple means of melding the advantages of a fluorescent label (compatible with other fluorescence labels and with immunocytochemistry) with the benefits of a stable, non-fading, electron-dense marker.
(17) Melding these various inputs required close attention to detail and diplomatic flexibility.
(18) Inorganic capillary electrophoresis (ICE) is a new separations technology which melds the technique of classical electrophoresis with the separations approach of ion chromatography.
(19) This article presents the rationale for education in nutrition in the preparation of agriculturalists and reviews some of the past efforts and present activities of national and international organizations to meld nutrition into agricultural world development programs.
(20) Perhaps even more exciting is what the future holds, as the continued march of molecular biology is melded with novel approaches to the definitive treatment of thalassemias.