(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.
Merge
Definition:
(v. t.) To cause to be swallowed up; to immerse; to sink; to absorb.
(v. i.) To be sunk, swallowed up, or lost.
Example Sentences:
(1) Still higher intensities caused the 2 phases of inhibition to merge, giving the appearance of a single, prolonged, inhibitory response.
(2) White lines 2 and 5 tended to merge with lines 1 and 4, respectively, in collagen fibrils formed from a solution containing a significant amount of type I collagen or pure type I collagen.
(3) As alcohol concentration is increased the lower L beta I to P beta' and main P beta' to L alpha transitions of DHPC merge at the threshold concentration of the biphasic effect, so that above this concentration there is one phase transition from L beta I directly to L alpha.
(4) In addition, if a preceding procedural step is a subset of the next one, merging between the two steps occurs.
(5) The subicular area, best expressed in the temporal sector, extends anteriorly over the corpus callosum to the subcallosal gyrus and, throughout its extent from the uncal to the septal junction, is clearly demarcated from limbic neocortex by a transition zone characterized by archicortical cells merging with cells in the deep layer of the bordering neocortex.
(6) Reorganisation can deliver better outcomes, as the merging of care for stroke victims in London has shown.
(7) Merged scanning sequences did not influence volume determination.
(8) In more mature granulocytic cells of chronic myelogenous leukemia the three enzymes merged within a single group of denser particles; such particles were absent in myeloblasts.
(9) More could certainly be done to help charities who would like to investigate merging; there needs to be better guidance available, as well as more open and positive dialogue on the subject within the sector.
(10) Small cell carcinoma was merging with the adenocarcinoma in 11 cases and represented 30% to 90% of total tumor volume.
(11) When merged with repeated-measures data, this technique permits the estimation of parameters representing both individual and group dynamics.
(12) Talking to clinicians at each of the three sites, it was evident that the vast majority felt no particular allegiance to the larger, merged organisation (SLHT) and, the majority wished to continue working on the individual site they had always worked, in the same manner as prior to the merger.
(13) Fibres are branching off from one bundle and merge again either with a branch of the same bundle or with a branch of another bundle, in a higher or a lower layer of this 3 dimensional texture.
(14) They merge individual stripes spaced less than one field diameter apart and show a pause in firing at wider spacing.
(15) There are no explanations for the unusual affinity of possible pathogenic immune reactions to the spine and other organs, the induction of ossification, the merging of cartilage, or the development of sacroilitis.
(16) Such cells do not complete cytokinesis but merge together several hours after telophase.
(17) Merging of these junctions forms the main dense line of myelin.
(18) Areas of ependymoma merged with others that displayed the appearance of a paraganglioma, including lobules and nests of chief cells immunoreactive for neuron-specific enolase, synaptophysin, chromogranin, and serotonin.
(19) The Health Situation and Trend Assessment Program, initiated in 1982, merged the program on health statistics and the program on epidemiological surveillance of communicable diseases.
(20) We should also plan a fast cross-Pennine line, to join the northern city centres, and high-speed lines from Cardiff and Bristol merging, and then splitting again towards Birmingham and west London.