Blend vs. Compound — What's the Difference?

To combine or mix (different substances) so that the constituent parts are indistinguishable from one another

To combine so as to form a whole; mix

To combine (varieties or grades of the same substance) to obtain a mixture of a particular character, quality, or consistency

To produce or create by combining two or more ingredients or parts; compose or make up

To combine (different elements) into a single entity

To settle (a debt, for example) by agreeing on an amount less than the claim; adjust.

To form a uniform mixture

To compute (interest) on the principal and accrued interest.

To be unobtrusive or harmonious by resembling the surroundings or behaving like others in a group. Often used with in

To add to or intensify so as to make worse

To create a harmonious effect or result

To make worse by being an additional or intensifying factor

The act of blending

To combine in or form a compound.

Something, such as an effect or a product, that is created by blending

To come to terms; agree.

(Linguistics) A word produced by combining parts of other words, as smog from smoke and fog.

Consisting of two or more substances, ingredients, elements, or parts.

A mixture of two or more things.

(Botany) Composed of more than one part

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

A combination of two or more elements or parts.

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

(Linguistics) A word that consists either of two or more elements that are independent words, such as loudspeaker, self-portrait, or high school, or of specially modified combining forms of words, such as Greek philosophia, from philo-, "loving," and sophia, "wisdom."

(intransitive) To be mingled or mixed.

(Chemistry) A pure, macroscopically homogeneous substance consisting of atoms or ions of two or more different elements in definite proportions that cannot be separated by physical means. A compound usually has properties unlike those of its constituent elements.

(obsolete) To pollute by mixture or association; to spoil or corrupt; to blot; to stain.

A building or buildings, especially a residence or group of residences, set off and enclosed by a barrier.

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.

An enclosed area used for confining prisoners of war.

To pollute by mixture or association; to spoil or corrupt; to blot; to stain.

An enclosure within which workers, prisoners, or soldiers are confined.

To mingle; to mix; to unite intimately; to pass or shade insensibly into each other, as colors.

An enclosure for secure storage.

To make blind, literally or figuratively; to dazzle; to deceive.

A group of buildings situated close together, e.g. for a school or block of offices.

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.

Anything made by combining several things.

An occurrence of thorough mixing

(chemistry) A substance formed by chemical bonding of two or more elements in definite proportions by weight.

A new word formed by joining two others and combining their meanings;

A substance made from any combination of ingredients.

The act of blending components together thoroughly

(linguistics) A lexeme that consists of more than one stem.

Combine into one;

(linguistics) A lexeme that consists of more than one stem or an affix, e.g. bookshop, high school or non-standard.

Blend or harmonize;

(rail) A compound locomotive, a steam locomotive with both high-pressure and low-pressure cylinders.

Mix together different elements;

Composed of elements; not simple.

(math) Dealing with numbers of various denominations of quantity, or with processes more complex than the simple process.

(music) An octave higher than originally (i.e. a compound major second is equivalent to a major ninth).

(transitive) To form (a resulting mixture) by combining different elements, ingredients, or parts; to mingle with something else.

To settle by agreeing on less than the claim, or on different terms than those stipulated.

(transitive) To settle amicably; to adjust by agreement.

(intransitive) To come to terms of agreement; to settle by a compromise.

To compose; to constitute.

To increase in value with interest, where the interest is earned on both the principal sum and prior earned interest.

To worsen a situation.

Of a horse: to fail to maintain speed.

In the East Indies, an inclosure containing a house, outbuildings, etc.

That which is compounded or formed by the union or mixture of elements ingredients, or parts; a combination of simples; a compound word; the result of composition.

A union of two or more ingredients in definite proportions by weight, so combined as to form a distinct substance; as, water is a compound of oxygen and hydrogen.

To form or make by combining different elements, ingredients, or parts; as, to compound a medicine.

To put together, as elements, ingredients, or parts, in order to form a whole; to combine, mix, or unite.

To modify or change by combination with some other thing or part; to mingle with something else.

To compose; to constitute.

To settle amicably; to adjust by agreement; to compromise; to discharge from obligation upon terms different from those which were stipulated; as, to compound a debt.

To effect a composition; to come to terms of agreement; to agree; to settle by a compromise; - usually followed by with before the person participating, and for before the thing compounded or the consideration.

Composed of two or more elements, ingredients, parts; produced by the union of several ingredients, parts, or things; composite; as, a compound word.

(chemistry) a substance formed by chemical union of two or more elements or ingredients in definite proportion by weight

A whole formed by a union of two or more elements or parts

An enclosure of residences and other building (especially in the Orient)

Make more intense, stronger, or more marked;

Put or add together;

Calculate principal and interest

Create by mixing or combining

Combine so as to form a whole; mix;

Of leaf shapes; of leaves composed of several similar parts or lobes

Consisting of two or more substances or ingredients or elements or parts;

Composed of many distinct individuals united to form a whole or colony;