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Mingle

//ˈmɪŋ.ɡəl// name, noun, verb

Definitions

Proper Noun
  1. 1
    A surname.
Noun
  1. 1
    The act of informally meeting numerous people in a group.

    "When speakers engage their audiences before they speak with a quick mingle and keep the engagement going throughout the speech, the access point for fear is cut off because there is no silence."

  2. 2
    A mixture. obsolete
Verb
  1. 1
    To intermix; to combine or join, as an individual or part, with other parts, but commonly so as to be distinguishable in the product. transitive

    "[T]here was hayle ãd fyre mẽgled with the hayle, […]"

  2. 2
    to bring or combine together or with something else wordnet
  3. 3
    To associate or unite in a figurative way, or by ties of relationship. transitive
  4. 4
    get involved or mixed-up with wordnet
  5. 5
    To cause or allow to intermarry.
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  1. 6
    be all mixed up or jumbled together wordnet
  2. 7
    To intermarry.

    "[W]e haue bꝛokẽ thy ſtatutes ⁊ cõmaundementes agayne, ⁊ mengled o^ꝛ ſelues wᵗ the vnclẽnes of the outlandiſh heithen."

  3. 8
    To deprive of purity by mixture; to contaminate. transitive

    "a mingled, imperfect virtue"

  4. 9
    To make or prepare by mixing the ingredients of. transitive

    "The physician […] proceeded to mingle another draught."

  5. 10
    To put together; to join. obsolete, transitive

    "Some dozen Romanes of vs, and your Lord (The beſt Feather of our wing) haue mingled ſummes To buy a Preſent for the Emperor: […]"

  6. 11
    To become mixed or blended. intransitive
  7. 12
    To socialize with different people at a social event. intransitive

    "And allow a bit of a cocktail hour before the meal so that when your guests arrive, you have time to mingle before you step into the kitchen."

Etymology

Etymology 1

From earlier mingil, mengle, from Middle English menglen, equivalent to ming + -le. Cognate with Dutch mengelen (“to mingle, mix”), German mengen (“to mingle, mix”). More at ming.

Etymology 2

From earlier mingil, mengle, from Middle English menglen, equivalent to ming + -le. Cognate with Dutch mengelen (“to mingle, mix”), German mengen (“to mingle, mix”). More at ming.

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