blende

• blind, blinde

From German Blende, from blenden (“deceive”) (because it resembles galena).

• IPA^(key): /blɛnd/
• Rhymes: -ɛnd
• Homophone: blend

blende (countable and uncountable, plural blendes)

1. (mineralogy) sphalerite (a naturally-occurring sulfide of zinc)
   • 2006, Thomas Pynchon, Against the Day, Vintage, published 2007, page 310:

     The procedure up here with ordinary local zinc blende had been straightforward—first you got the sulfur to go off by roasting the blende to zinc oxide, and then you reduced the oxide to zinc metal.

• blendous
• ruby blende

• Belden, Bendel, bendel

• IPA^(key): /ˈblɛn.də/

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• Hyphenation: blen‧de
• Rhymes: -ɛndə

Borrowed from German Blende.

blende f (uncountable)

1. metallic sulphide, in particular blende

• pekblende

See the etymology of the corresponding lemma form.

blende

1. (dated or formal) singular present subjunctive of blenden

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blende m (plural blendes)

1. (mineralogy) blende

• “blende”, in Trésor de la langue française informatisé [Digitized Treasury of the French Language], 2012.

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blende

1. inflection of blenden:
   1. first-person singular present
   2. first/third-person singular subjunctive I
   3. singular imperative

Borrowed from German Blende, from blenden (“to blind”).[1]

• IPA^(key): [ˈblɛndɛ]
• Hyphenation: blen‧de
• Rhymes: -dɛ

blende (plural blendék)

1. (photography) aperture (the opening of a photographic lens that can be adjusted to control the amount of light passing through)

   Synonym: rekesz

• blende in Ittzés, Nóra (ed.). A magyar nyelv nagyszótára (‘A Comprehensive Dictionary of the Hungarian Language’). Budapest: Akadémiai Kiadó, 2006–2031 (work in progress; published A–ez as of 2024)

• IPA^(key): /ˈblɛn.de/
• Rhymes: -ɛnde
• Hyphenation: blèn‧de

blende f

1. plural of blenda