MINGLE

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 Dictionary entry overview: What does mingle mean? 

• MINGLE (verb)
  The verb MINGLE has 3 senses:

1. to bring or combine together or with something else

2. get involved or mixed-up with

3. be all mixed up or jumbled together

  Familiarity information: MINGLE used as a verb is uncommon.

 Dictionary entry details 

• MINGLE (verb)

Present simple: I / you / we / they mingle    ... he / she / it mingles   
Past simple: mingled   
Past participle: mingled   
-ing form: mingling   

Sense 1

Meaning:

To bring or combine together or with something else

Classified under:

Verbs of touching, hitting, tying, digging

Synonyms:

amalgamate; commix; mingle; mix; unify

Context example:

resourcefully he mingled music and dance

Hypernyms (to "mingle" is one way to...):

alter; change; modify (cause to change; make different; cause a transformation)

Troponyms (each of the following is one way to "mingle"):

aggregate; combine (gather in a mass, sum, or whole)

concoct (make a concoction (of) by mixing)

combine; compound (combine so as to form a whole; mix)

blend; immingle; intermingle; intermix (combine into one)

Sentence frames:

Something ----s
Somebody ----s something
Something ----s something

Sense 2

Meaning:

Get involved or mixed-up with

Classified under:

Verbs of political and social activities and events

Context example:

He was about to mingle in an unpleasant affair

Sentence frames:

Something is ----ing PP
Somebody ----s PP

Derivation:

mingling (the action of people mingling and coming into contact)

Sense 3

Meaning:

Be all mixed up or jumbled together

Classified under:

Verbs of being, having, spatial relations

Synonyms:

jumble; mingle

Context example:

His words jumbled

Hypernyms (to "mingle" is one way to...):

be (have the quality of being; (copula, used with an adjective or a predicate noun))

Sentence frames:

Something ----s
Something is ----ing PP

 Context examples 

The day was just breaking when we were about to start, and then, as I sat thinking of her, came struggling up the coach side, through the mingled day and night, Uriah's head.

(David Copperfield, by Charles Dickens)

"How beautifully you do it! I wish I could draw," said Meg, with mingled admiration and regret in her voice.

(Little Women, by Louisa May Alcott)

You minutely described in these papers every step you took in the progress of your work; this history was mingled with accounts of domestic occurrences.

(Frankenstein, by Mary Wollstonecraft Shelley)

His carriage was one of mingled triumph and caution.

(White Fang, by Jack London)

Mingled with these were a few scattered pines, some fifty, some nearer seventy, feet high.

(Treasure Island, by Robert Louis Stevenson)

Her purple riding-habit almost swept the ground, her veil streamed long on the breeze; mingling with its transparent folds, and gleaming through them, shone rich raven ringlets.

(Jane Eyre, by Charlotte Brontë)

All this became gradually evident, and gradually placed Susan before her sister as an object of mingled compassion and respect.

(Mansfield Park, by Jane Austen)

If you are single, your outlook for finding love is strong in March, but you must be willing to leave the house to mix and mingle.

(AstrologyZone.com, by Susan Miller)

I often got honey out of hollow trees, which I mingled with water, or ate with my bread.

(Gulliver's Travels into several remote nations of the world, by Jonathan Swift)

The energy in places where salty ocean water and freshwater mingle could provide a massive source of renewable power.

(Researchers develop technology to harness energy from mixing of freshwater and seawater, National Science Foundation)