MINGLE

mix, mingle, commix, unify, amalgamate

(verb) to bring or combine together or with something else; “resourcefully he mingled music and dance”

mingle

(verb) get involved or mixed-up with; “He was about to mingle in an unpleasant affair”

jumble, mingle

(verb) be all mixed up or jumbled together; “His words jumbled”

Source: WordNet® 3.1


Etymology

Verb

mingle (third-person singular simple present mingles, present participle mingling, simple past and past participle mingled)

(transitive) To mix; intermix; to combine or join, as an individual or part, with other parts, but commonly so as to be distinguishable in the product; to confuse; to confound.

(transitive) To associate or unite in society or by ties of relationship; to cause or allow to intermarry; to intermarry.

(transitive) To deprive of purity by mixture; to contaminate.

(transitive) To make or prepare by mixing the ingredients of.

(transitive, obsolete) To put together; to join.

(intransitive) To become mixed or blended.

Noun

mingle (plural mingles)

(obsolete) A mixture.

Anagrams

• Leming

Proper noun

Mingle (plural Mingles)

A surname.

Statistics

• According to the 2010 United States Census, Mingle is the 18633rd most common surname in the United States, belonging to 1477 individuals. Mingle is most common among White (83.21%) and Black/African American (12.39%) individuals.

Anagrams

• Leming

Source: Wiktionary


Min"gle, v. t. [imp. & p. p. Mingled; p. pr. & vb. n. Mingling.] Etym: [From OE. mengen, AS. mengan; akin to D. & G. mengen, Icel. menga, also to E. among, and possibly to mix. Cf. Among, Mongrel.]

1. To mix; intermix; to combine or join, as an individual or part, with other parts, but commonly so as to be distinguishable in the product; to confuse; to confound. There was... fire mingled with the hail. Ex. ix. 24.

2. To associate or unite in society or by ties of relationship; to cause or allow to intermarry; to intermarry. The holy seed have mingled themselves with the people of those lands. Ezra ix. 2.

3. To deprive of purity by mixture; to contaminate. A mingled, imperfect virtue. Rogers.

4. To put together; to join. [Obs.] Shak.

5. To make or prepare by mixing the ingredients of. [He] proceeded to mingle another draught. Hawthorne.

Min"gle, v. i.

Definition: To become mixed or blended.

Min"gle, n.

Definition: A mixture. [Obs.] Dryden.

Source: Webster’s Unabridged Dictionary 1913 Edition



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(adjective) having or exhibiting a single clearly defined meaning; “As a horror, apartheid...is absolutely unambiguous”- Mario Vargas Llosa


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