MINGLING

mingling

(noun) the action of people mingling and coming into contact; “all the random mingling and idle talk made him hate literary parties”

Source: WordNet® 3.1


Verb

mingling

present participle of mingle

Noun

mingling (plural minglings)

A mixture; a blending.

Source: Wiktionary


MINGLE

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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25 December 2024

UNAMBIGUOUS

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


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