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From The Collaborative International Dictionary of English v.0.44 [gcide]:
Mingle \Min"gle\, verb (used with an object) [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.
From WordNet (r) 2.0 [wn]:
mingling
adjective: combining or mixing [syn: {blending}, {merging}]
noun: 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
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