BLEND
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BLEND, also blend word, word blend, amalgam, fusion. A word formed by fusing elements of two other words, such as Lewis
CARROLL's slithy from slimy and lithe. He called such forms
portmanteau words, because they were like a two-part portmanteau bag. Blending is related to
ABBREVIATION, derivation, and compounding, but distinct from them all. In the making of slithy it is hard to identify the precise contributions of the source words, but some blends follow clear-cut boundaries, as in
Oxbridge, formed from
Oxford and
Cambridge. Others serve as slogans:
Cocacolonization asserting that a country has been taken over by American values. Although blending is distinct from derivation, it may affect it. Forms like
electrocute (1880s) bring
electro and
execute together so as to suggest a suffix
-cute that means ‘kill by means of’. This element has not been exploited, but
motorcade (
c.1913) blends
motor and
cavalcade and has prompted
aerocade,
aquacade, and
camelcade.
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Magazine article from: Crain's Detroit Business; 4/17/2006; 700+ words
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Magazine article from: World and I; 2/1/1999; ; 700+ words
; The Great Sphinx at Giza has exerted a powerful hold over...Appealing to our sense of mystery, the Sphinx continues to beguile and fascinate us...adventurers, and tourists. The Great Sphinx looks old and worn. Yet, nothing has...
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Sphinx' age stirs heated debate
Newspaper article from: The Boston Globe; 10/23/1991; ; 700+ words
; The great Sphinx of Egypt, one of the world's most famous...controversial conclusions by saying that the Sphinx shows signs of extensive weathering apparently...plain, Schoch said. This redating of the Sphinx would make it by far the oldest monument...
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Newspaper article from: BT Catalyst; 8/1/1992; 700+ words
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Restored Sphinx faces new era
Newspaper article from: Chicago Sun-Times; 1/4/1998; ; 700+ words
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AILING SPHINX RETURNS TO GLORY
Newspaper article from: The Columbian; 3/12/1998; ; 700+ words
; ...prince fell asleep in the sands by the Sphinx’s head and dreamed that the...million later, Egypt has again repaired the Sphinx, using the same type of limestone and...though no date has been set. “The Sphinx is a symbol of the whole nation...
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Shape tells all: how a sphinx looks can tell you a lot about its history.
Magazine article from: Dig; 1/1/2008; ; 700+ words
; The Great Sphinx was one of the first sphinxes ever made. The only other sphinx found so far that might be...What a Find! Kings used sphinxes in a variety of ways. Tutankhamun...himself represented as a sphinx on many of the objects found...
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Pulling strings; Sphinx Organization founder works to build $20M endowment.(News)(Aaron Dworkin)(Sphinx Organization )
Magazine article from: Crain's Detroit Business; 1/24/2005; ; 700+ words
; ...budget hasn't kept the Detroit-based Sphinx Organization from making a national impact...but to expand them. Toward that end, Sphinx has its first gift of $100,000 from...campaign as it prepares for its eighth annual Sphinx Competition, an event that draws amateur...
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Egypt restores the Sphinx, pharaonic style
News Wire article from: AP Online; 3/12/1998; ; 700+ words
; ...prince fell asleep in the sands by the Sphinx's head and dreamed that the beast offered...million later, Egypt has again repaired the Sphinx, using the same type of limestone and...though no date has been set. ``The Sphinx is a symbol of the whole nation...
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The Sphinx
Encyclopedia entry from: Gale Encyclopedia of the Unusual and Unexplained
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Sphinx
Book article from: Myths and Legends of the World
...Oedipus's answer, the Sphinx killed herself. pharaoh...type of figure called a sphinx, which had a lion's body...of the pharaoh. Egyptian sphinxes, which guarded temples...were unrelated to the Greek Sphinx. See also .
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sphinx
Book article from: The Columbia Encyclopedia, Sixth Edition
...heads. Thousands of sphinxes were built in ancient...most famous is the Great Sphinx at Giza, a colossal figure...Wonders of the World . Sphinxes, however, were not peculiar...mythology and art the Sphinx was a winged monster with...
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Khafre, Great Sphinx of
Book article from: World Encyclopedia
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Sphinx, The
Book article from: The Oxford Companion to American Literature
Sphinx, The, poem by Emerson , first published in The Dial (1841) and collected...x2010; and three‐stress lines, it tells of a poet meeting the Sphinx and solving the riddle of the all‐inclusive divine spirit...
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