Mingle meaning

mĭng'gəl
To mingle is defined as to mix together, or participate with others at a party or social event.

When a bunch of voices all mix together to become a general hum of conversation, this is an example of a situation where the voices mingle.

When you move about a party and talk to different people, this is an example of a situation where you mingle.

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To mix or bring together in combination.

A breeze that mingles the sea air with the scent of pines; love that is mingled with grief.

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To bring or mix together; combine; blend.
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To be or become mixed or united.

The children's voices mingled in the hall.

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To associate or take part with others.

The faculty mingled with the trustees.

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To make by mixing ingredients; compound.
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To be or become mixed, blended, etc.
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To join, unite, associate, or take part with others; specif., to interact with others at a party or other social gathering.
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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.

Across the city yesterday, there was a feeling of bittersweet reunion as streams of humanity converged and mingled at dozens of memorial services. "” New York Times.

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To associate or unite in society or by ties of relationship; to cause or allow to intermarry; to intermarry.
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To deprive of purity by mixture; to contaminate.
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To make or prepare by mixing the ingredients of.
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(intransitive) To become mixed or blended.
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(obsolete) A mixture.
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Origin of mingle

  • Middle English menglen frequentative of mengen to mix from Old English mengan mag- in Indo-European roots
    From American Heritage Dictionary of the English Language, 5th Edition
  • From earlier mingil, mengle, from Middle English *mengelen, equivalent to ming +"Ž -le. Cognate with Dutch mengelen (“to mingle, mix"), German menglen (“to mingle, mix"). More at ming.
    From Wiktionary

Mingle Sentence Examples

  • He lived a very retired life, and saw little or nothing of society; when he did mingle in it, his dogmatism and pugnacity caused him to be generally shunned.

  • To diversify properly and mingle well together the reds, whites, purples, yellows and blues, with all their intervening shades, requires considerable taste and powers of combination; and ascertained failures may be rectified at the proper time the next season.

  • Its waters, as stated above, mingle with those of the Victoria Nile, their united volume flowing north towards the Mediterranean.

  • The bull was to be sacrificed to Mithras, who was to mingle its fat with consecrated wine and give to drink of it to the just, rendering them immortal, while the unjust, together with Ahriman and his spirits, were to be destroyed by a fire sent from Heaven by Ormazd.

  • The Laos predominate in northern and eastern Siam, Malays mingle with the Siamese in southern Siam, and the Chinese are found scattered all over, but keeping mostly to the towns.

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