Mingle
name, noun, verb ·Common ·High school level
Definitions
- 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 A mixture. obsolete
- 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 to bring or combine together or with something else wordnet
- 3 To associate or unite in a figurative way, or by ties of relationship. transitive
- 4 get involved or mixed-up with wordnet
- 5 To cause or allow to intermarry.
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- 6 be all mixed up or jumbled together wordnet
- 7 To intermarry.
"[W]e haue bꝛokẽ thy ſtatutes ⁊ cõmaundementes agayne, ⁊ mengled o^ꝛ ſelues wᵗ the vnclẽnes of the outlandiſh heithen."
- 8 To deprive of purity by mixture; to contaminate. transitive
"a mingled, imperfect virtue"
- 9 To make or prepare by mixing the ingredients of. transitive
"The physician […] proceeded to mingle another draught."
- 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: […]"
- 11 To become mixed or blended. intransitive
- 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."
- 1 A surname.
Example
More examples"Mingle your joys sometimes with your earnest occupation."
Etymology
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.