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min⋅gle

[ming-guh

verb, -gled, -gling, noun

–verb (used without object)

1.	to become mixed, blended, or united.

2.	to associate or mix in company: She refuses to mingle with bigots.

3.	to associate or take part with others; participate.

–verb (used with object)

4.	to mix or combine; put together in a mixture; blend.

5.	to unite, join, or conjoin.

6.	to associate in company: a hostess who mingles diplomats with executives.

7.	to form by mixing; compound; concoct.

–noun

8.	mingles, two or more single, unrelated adults who live together.

Origin:
1425–75; late ME menglen, equiv. to meng(en) to mix (OE mengan; c. D, G mengen) + -(e)len -le

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Language Translation for : mingle

Spanish:

mezclarse,

German:

sich vermischen,

Japanese:

混ざる

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min·gle   (mĭng'gəl) Pronunciation Key
v.   min·gled, min·gling, min·gles

v.   tr.

To mix or bring together in combination, usually without loss of individual characteristics. See Synonyms at mix.
To mix so that the components become united; merge.

v. intr.

To be or become mixed or united.
To join or take part with others: The faculty mingled with the trustees.

[Middle English menglen, frequentative of mengen, to mix, from Old English mengan; see mag- in Indo-European roots.]
min'gler n.

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mingle (v.)

c.1450, freq. of M.E. myngen "to mix," from O.E. mengan (related to among), from P.Gmc. *mangijanan (cf. O.S. mengian, O.N. menga, O.Fris. mendza, Ger. mengen), from PIE *menq- "to knead, mix" (see mix). The formation may have been suggested by cognate M.Du. mengelen.

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mingle
verb
1.	to bring or combine together or with something else; "resourcefully he mingled music and dance" [syn: mix]
2.	get involved or mixed-up with; "He was about to mingle in an unpleasant affair"
3.	be all mixed up or jumbled together; "His words jumbled" [syn: jumble]

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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.]

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.

There was . . . fire mingled with the hail. --Ex. ix. 24.

2. 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. --Ezra ix. 2.

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

A mingled, imperfect virtue. --Rogers.

4. To put together; to join. [Obs.] --Shak.

5. To make or prepare by mixing the ingredients of.

[He] proceeded to mingle another draught. --Hawthorne.

Mingle

Min"gle\, v. i. To become mixed or blended.

Mingle

Min"gle\, n. A mixture. [Obs.] --Dryden.