Crossword clues for mingle
mingle
Longman Dictionary of Contemporary English
The Collaborative International Dictionary
Mingle \Min"gle\, v. i.
To become mixed or blended.
To associate (with certain people); as, he's too highfalutin to mingle with working stiffs.
To move (among other people); -- of people; as, the president left his car to mingle with the crowd; a host at a a party should mingle with his guests.
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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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.
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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.
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To deprive of purity by mixture; to contaminate.
A mingled, imperfect virtue.
--Rogers. To put together; to join. [Obs.]
--Shak.-
To make or prepare by mixing the ingredients of.
[He] proceeded to mingle another draught.
--Hawthorne.
Mingle \Min"gle\, n.
A mixture. [Obs.]
--Dryden.
Douglas Harper's Etymology Dictionary
mid-15c., "to bring together," frequentative of Middle English myngen "to mix," from Old English mengan (related to second element in among), from Proto-Germanic *mangjan "to knead together" (cognates: Old Saxon mengian, Old Norse menga, Old Frisian mendza, German mengen), from PIE *mag- "to knead, fashion, fit" (see macerate). The formation may have been suggested by cognate Middle Dutch mengelen. Of persons, "to join with others, be sociable" (intransitive), from c.1600. Related: Mingled; mingling.
Wiktionary
n. (context obsolete English) A mixture. vb. 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. 2 To associate or unite in society or by ties of relationship; to cause or allow to intermarry; to intermarry. 3 To deprive of purity by mixture; to contaminate. 4 (context obsolete English) To put together; to join. 5 To make or prepare by mixing the ingredients of. 6 (context intransitive English) To become mixed or blended.
WordNet
v. to bring or combine together or with something else; "resourcefully he mingled music and dance" [syn: mix, commix, unify, amalgamate]
get involved or mixed-up with; "He was about to mingle in an unpleasant affair"
be all mixed up or jumbled together; "His words jumbled" [syn: jumble]
Usage examples of "mingle".
I put the bowl with mangoes, apples, vinegar, sugar, onion, garlic, salt, pepper, cinnamon, ginger, raisins, allspice, carrots and cloves into the fridge, to let it all sit, and soak and mingle and swell with misery.
The smells of allspice and ginger and coriander and turmeric and apples and mangoes and raisins and lemons and peaches and cranberries and apricots and onions mingle together in an orgy of fragrance, and leave my apartment through the window, reaching for the sky.
The bellowing of the basto mingled with the roars and growls of the tharban in a hideous diapason of bestial rage that seemed to rock the forest.
De Batz looked round him with keen curiosity with which disgust was ready enough to mingle.
Repulsive beings, scaled, mailed, leathered, feathered, beastlike, or bizarre, mingled with the beauteous.
Within the space of minutes, she glimpsed beggars, peasant labourers, tradesmen and shopkeepers, market women and grisettes, students, liveried servants and footmen, assorted soberly clad bourgeois, sailors, uniformed gendarmes, Royal Guardsmen and shabbily bedizened females who could only have been prostitutes, mingling freely in the streets.
In the smaller compartiments, the swains, mingled with the fair, danced along the level green, or flew, with a velocity that beguiled the eager sight, beneath the extended arms of their fellows.
He was tired of worshipping or tyrannizing over the bistred or umbered beauties of mingled blood among whom he had been living.
The day was one of those balmy ones in June, when it is neither too hot nor too blowy, when the breeze seems fairly laden with the sweet scent of flowers, and the lazy hum of bees mingles with the call of birds.
Sleep was difficult, the boomy thunder-noise kept going the whole time, mingling with the higher pitched sounds of crying.
There were sounds of battering upon wood, loud growls and roars, mingled with weird shrieks and screams and the strange, uncanny gibbering of brainless things.
Several dozen absurdly dressed people mingled around a makeshift bar while models in Brinker Bras circulated the perimeter.
It is true that a few of the sterner natures among them mingled menaces against the Bravo with their prayers for the dead, but these had no other effect on the matter in hand, than is commonly produced by the by-players on the principal action of the piece.
The sea-freshened air brought with it the fragrance of jasmine which bloomed alongside the veranda, mingled with the tantalizing aroma of hot, glazed meats, bread, brewed coffee, and tangy fresh fruits that graced the table for the morning meal and presented to Captain Beauchamp as he paused in the doorway a most heavenly scent after long months of sea fare.
Hackworth swung his top hat into place and stepped out of the Flea Circus, blinking at the reek of China: smoky like the dregs of a hundred million pots of lapsang souchong, mingled with the sweet earthy smell of pork fat and the brimstony tang of plucked chickens and hot garlic.