Mingling

3 definitions found

From The Collaborative International Dictionary of English v.0.48 [gcide]:

  Mingle \Min"gle\, v. t. [imp. & p. p. {Mingled}; p. pr. & vb. n.
     {Mingling}.] [From OE. mengen, AS. mengan; akin to D. & G.
     mengen, Icel. menga, also to E. among, and possibly to mix.
     Cf. {Among}, {Mongrel}.]
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     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.
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              There was . . . fire mingled with the hail. --Ex.
                                                    ix. 24.
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     2. To associate or unite in society or by ties of
        relationship; to cause or allow to intermarry; to
        intermarry.
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              The holy seed have mingled themselves with the
              people of those lands.                --Ezra ix. 2.
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     3. To deprive of purity by mixture; to contaminate.
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              A mingled, imperfect virtue.          --Rogers.
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     4. To put together; to join. [Obs.] --Shak.
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     5. To make or prepare by mixing the ingredients of.
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              [He] proceeded to mingle another draught.
                                                    --Hawthorne.
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From WordNet (r) 2.0 [wn]:

  mingling
       adj : combining or mixing [syn: {blending}, {merging}]
       n : the action of people mingling and coming into contact; "all
           the random mingling and idle talk made him hate literary
           parties"

From Moby Thesaurus II by Grady Ward, 1.0 [moby-thes]:

  25 Moby Thesaurus words for "mingling":
     admixture, alloyage, amalgamation, blending, coalescence,
     combination, comminglement, commingling, commixture, composition,
     eclecticism, fusion, immixture, integration, interfusion,
     interlarding, interlardment, interminglement, intermingling,
     intermixture, merger, mixing, mixture, pluralism, syncretism