blende
See also: Blende
English
Alternative forms
- blind, blinde
Etymology
From German Blende, from blenden (“deceive”) (because it resembles galena).
Pronunciation
- IPA(key): /blɛnd/
- Rhymes: -ɛnd
- Homophone: blend
Noun
blende (countable and uncountable, plural blendes)
- (mineralogy) sphalerite (a naturally-occurring sulfide of zinc)
- 2006, Thomas Pynchon, Against the Day, Vintage 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.
- 2006, Thomas Pynchon, Against the Day, Vintage 2007, page 310:
Derived terms
- ruby blende
Translations
sphalerite — see sphalerite
Anagrams
- Belden, Bendel, bendel
Dutch
Pronunciation
- IPA(key): /ˈblɛn.də/
Audio (file) - Hyphenation: blen‧de
- Rhymes: -ɛndə
Etymology 1
Borrowed from German Blende.
Noun
blende f (uncountable)
- metallic sulphide, in particular blende
Derived terms
- pekblende
Etymology 2
See the etymology of the corresponding lemma form.
Verb
blende
- (archaic) singular present subjunctive of blenden
French
Pronunciation
Audio (file)
Noun
blende m (plural blendes)
- (mineralogy) blende
Further reading
- “blende”, in Trésor de la langue française informatisé [Digitized Treasury of the French Language], 2012.
German
Pronunciation
Audio (file)
Verb
blende
- inflection of blenden:
- first-person singular present
- first/third-person singular subjunctive I
- singular imperative
Hungarian
Etymology
Borrowed from German Blende, from blenden (“to blind”).[1]
Pronunciation
- IPA(key): [ˈblɛndɛ]
- Hyphenation: blen‧de
- Rhymes: -dɛ
Noun
blende (plural blendék)
- (photography) aperture (the opening of a photographic lens that can be adjusted to control the amount of light passing through)
- Synonym: rekesz
Declension
| Inflection (stem in long/high vowel, front unrounded harmony) | ||
|---|---|---|
| singular | plural | |
| nominative | blende | blendék |
| accusative | blendét | blendéket |
| dative | blendének | blendéknek |
| instrumental | blendével | blendékkel |
| causal-final | blendéért | blendékért |
| translative | blendévé | blendékké |
| terminative | blendéig | blendékig |
| essive-formal | blendeként | blendékként |
| essive-modal | — | — |
| inessive | blendében | blendékben |
| superessive | blendén | blendéken |
| adessive | blendénél | blendéknél |
| illative | blendébe | blendékbe |
| sublative | blendére | blendékre |
| allative | blendéhez | blendékhez |
| elative | blendéből | blendékből |
| delative | blendéről | blendékről |
| ablative | blendétől | blendéktől |
| non-attributive possessive - singular | blendéé | blendéké |
| non-attributive possessive - plural | blendééi | blendékéi |
| Possessive forms of blende | ||
|---|---|---|
| possessor | single possession | multiple possessions |
| 1st person sing. | blendém | blendéim |
| 2nd person sing. | blendéd | blendéid |
| 3rd person sing. | blendéje | blendéi |
| 1st person plural | blendénk | blendéink |
| 2nd person plural | blendétek | blendéitek |
| 3rd person plural | blendéjük | blendéik |
References
- Tótfalusi, István. Idegenszó-tár: Idegen szavak értelmező és etimológiai szótára (’A Storehouse of Foreign Words: an explanatory and etymological dictionary of foreign words’). Budapest: Tinta Könyvkiadó, 2005. →ISBN
Italian
Pronunciation
- IPA(key): /ˈblɛn.de/
- Rhymes: -ɛnde
- Hyphenation: blèn‧de
Noun
blende f
- plural of blenda