different between mash vs blend

English

Pronunciation

• enPR: m?sh, IPA^(key): /mæ?/
• Rhymes: -æ?

Etymology 1

From Middle English mash, from Old English m?s?-, m?s?-, m?x-, from Proto-Germanic *maiskaz, *maisk? (“mixture, mash”), from Proto-Indo-European *mey?-, *mey?- (“to mix”). Akin to German Meisch, Maische (“mash”), (compare meischen, maischen (“to mash, wash”)), Swedish mäsk (“mash”), and to Old English miscian (“to mix”). See mix.

Noun

mash (countable and uncountable, plural mashes)

1. (uncountable) A mass of mixed ingredients reduced to a soft pulpy state by beating or pressure; a mass of anything in a soft pulpy state.
2. (brewing) Ground or bruised malt, or meal of rye, wheat, corn, or other grain (or a mixture of malt and meal) steeped and stirred in hot water for making the wort.
3. Mashed potatoes.
4. A mixture of meal or bran and water fed to animals.
5. (obsolete) A mess; trouble.

   • For your vows and oaths, Or I doubt mainly, I shall be i' the mash " too

6. (countable, MLE, slang) A gun.

   Synonyms: see Thesaurus:firearm

Derived terms

• bangers and mash
• instant mash
• mash tun
• mash vat
• monster mash

Translations

Etymology 2

From Middle English mashen, maschen, meshen, from Old English *m?s?an, *m?s?an, from Proto-Germanic *maiskijan?. Cognate with German maischen. Compare also Middle Low German meskewert, m?schewert (“beerwort”).

Verb

mash (third-person singular simple present mashes, present participle mashing, simple past and past participle mashed)

1. (transitive) To convert into a mash; to reduce to a soft pulpy state by beating or pressure

   We had fun mashing apples in a mill.

   The potatoes need to be mashed.

2. (transitive) In brewing, to convert (for example malt, or malt and meal) into the mash which makes wort.
3. (transitive, intransitive) To press down hard (on).

   to mash on a bicycle pedal

4. (transitive, Southern US, informal) To press. (Can we add an example for this sense?)
5. (transitive, Britain, chiefly Northern England) To prepare a cup of tea in a teapot; to brew (tea).
   • 1913, D.H. Lawrence, Sons and Lovers, chapter 10

     He took the kettle off the fire and mashed the tea.

6. (intransitive, archaic) To act violently.

Derived terms

• mashing
• mashed potato, mashed potatoes
• mashup

Translations

Etymology 3

See mesh.

Noun

mash (plural mashes)

1. (obsolete) A mesh.

Etymology 4

Either by analogy with mash (“to press, to soften”), or more likely from Romani masha (“a fascinator, an enticer”), mashdva (“fascination, enticement”). Originally used in theater, and recorded in US in 1870s. Either originally used as mash, or a backformation from masher, from masha. Leland writes of the etymology:

It was introduced by the well-known gypsy family of actors, C., among whom Romany was habitually spoken. The word “masher” or “mash” means in that tongue to allure, delude, or entice. It was doubtless much aided in its popularity by its quasi-identity with the English word. But there can be no doubt as to the gypsy origin of “mash” as used on the stage. I am indebted for this information to the late well-known impresario [Albert Marshall] Palmer of New York, and I made a note of it years before the term had become at all popular.

Verb

mash (third-person singular simple present mashes, present participle mashing, simple past and past participle mashed)

1. to flirt, to make eyes, to make romantic advances

Noun

mash (plural mashes)

1. (obsolete) an infatuation, a crush, a fancy
2. (obsolete) a dandy, a masher
3. (obsolete) the object of one’s affections (either sex)

Derived terms

• mash note
• masher

Translations

References

Anagrams

• AMHS, HMAS, HSAM, Hams, MHAs, MSHA, Mahs, SAHM, Sahm, Sham, hams, sham

English

Etymology

From Middle English blenden, either from Old English blandan, blondan, ?eblandan, ?eblendan or from Old Norse blanda (“to blend, mix”) (which was originally a strong verb with the present-tense stem blend; compare blendingr (“a blending, a mixture; a half-breed”)), whence also Danish blande, or from a blend of the Old English and Old Norse terms; both ultimately from Proto-Germanic *blandan? (“to blend; mix; combine”). Compare Middle Dutch blanden (“to mix”), Gothic ???????????????????????????? (blandan), Old Church Slavonic ?????? (blesti, “to go astray”).

Pronunciation

• enPR: bl?nd, IPA^(key): /bl?nd/
• Rhymes: -?nd
• Homophone: blende

Noun

blend (plural blends)

1. 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.

2. (linguistics) A word formed by combining two other words; a grammatical contamination, portmanteau word.

   The word brunch is a blend of the words breakfast and lunch.

Synonyms

• (mixture): combination, mix, mixture
• (in linguistics): frankenword, portmanteau, portmanteau word

Translations

Verb

blend (third-person singular simple present blends, present participle blending, simple past and past participle blended or (poetic) blent)

1. (transitive) To mingle; to mix; to unite intimately; to pass or shade insensibly into each other.

2. (intransitive) To be mingled or mixed.

   • There is a tone of solemn and sacred feeling that blends with our conviviality.

   • 1817, John Keats, Happy is England!

     To feel no other breezes than are blown / Through its tall woods with high romances blent
3. (obsolete) To pollute by mixture or association; to spoil or corrupt; to blot; to stain.

   (Can we find and add a quotation of Spenser to this entry?)

Quotations

• For quotations using this term, see Citations:blend.

Synonyms

• (to mix; to unite intimately): See also Thesaurus:homogenize, Thesaurus:mix, and Thesaurus:coalesce

Derived terms

• blender
• blended
• blend in
• blendingly

Translations

References

Anagrams

• L-bend

Central Franconian

Alternative forms

• blenk (Ripuarian; now chiefly western dialects)
• blond, blönd (Eifel)

Etymology

From Old High German blind, northern variant of blint.

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): /blent/

Adjective

blend (masculine blenne or blende, feminine blenn or blend, comparative blenner or blender, superlative et blendste)

1. (Moselle Franconian, some dialects of Ripuarian) blind; unable to see

Usage notes

• The inflected forms with -nn- are used in those dialects in which blend is the inherited form (Moselle Franconian, southern Ripuarian). The forms with -nd- are used in Ripuarian to the extent to which inherited blenk has been replaced with blend.

Dutch

Verb

blend

1. first-person singular present indicative of blenden
2. imperative of blenden