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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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