Blend

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.

Blends, also known as portmanteau words, are not an original part of English. That is, none occur in Old or Middle English, nor even in Elizabethan English, with the earliest known example being the rare and now obsolete term tomaxe, a blend of tomahawk and axe.

To make hummus you need to blend chickpeas, olive oil, lemon juice and garlic.

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

To feel no other breezes than are blown / Through its tall woods with high romances blent

Sepia Delft tiles surrounded the fireplace, their crudely drawn Biblical scenes in faded cyclamen blending with the pinkish pine, while above them, instead of a mantelshelf, there was an archway high enough to form a balcony with slender balusters and a tapestry-hung wall behind.

Earless ghost swift moths become “invisible” to echolocating bats by forming mating clusters close[…]above vegetation and effectively blending into the clutter of echoes that the bat receives from the leaves and stems around them. Many insects probably use this strategy, which is a close analogy to crypsis in the visible world—camouflage and other methods for blending into one’s visual background.

These stormes, which now his beauty blend, Shall turn to calmes.