Definition of "mingle"

mingle

/ˈmɪŋ.ɡəl/

verb
third-person singular simple present mingles, present participle mingling, simple past and past participle mingled
1. (transitive) To intermix; to combine or join, as an individual or part, with other parts, but commonly so as to be distinguishable in the product.
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  There was […] fire mingled with the hail.
  1611, The Holy Bible, […] (King James Version), London: […] Robert Barker, […], Exodus 9:24
  Be aware of the smiling enemy, that openly sheatheth his weapon, / But mingleth poison in secret with the sacred salt of hospitality.
  1838, Martin Farquhar Tupper, “Of Searching for Pride”, in Proverbial Philosophy: A Book of Thoughts and Arguments, Originally Treated, London: Joseph Rickerby, […], page 69
  Across the city yesterday, there was a feeling of bittersweet reunion as streams of humanity converged and mingled at dozens of memorial services.
  2006 September 11, Sheryl Gay Stolberg, “Bush Mourns 9/11 at Ground Zero as N.Y. Remembers”, in New York Times‎
2. (transitive) To associate or unite in a figurative way, or by ties of relationship.
3. To cause or allow to intermarry.
4. To intermarry.
  Quotations
  The holy seed have mingled themselves with the people of those lands.
  1611, The Holy Bible, […] (King James Version), London: […] Robert Barker, […], Ezra 9:2
5. (transitive) To deprive of purity by mixture; to contaminate.
  Quotations
  a mingled, imperfect virtue
  a. 1729, John Rogers, The Necessity of Universal Obedience
6. (transitive) To make or prepare by mixing the ingredients of.
  Quotations
  [He] proceeded to mingle another draught.
  1850, Nathaniel Hawthorne, chapter 4, in The Scarlet Letter, a Romance, Boston, Mass.: Ticknor, Reed, and Fields
7. (transitive, obsolete) To put together; to join.
  Quotations
  The best feather of our wing have mingled sums To buy a present for the emperor
  1611 April (first recorded performance), William Shakespeare, “The Tragedie of Cymbeline”, in Mr. William Shakespeares Comedies, Histories, & Tragedies […] (First Folio), London: […] Isaac Iaggard, and Ed[ward] Blount, published 1623, [Act I, scene vi]
8. (intransitive) To become mixed or blended.
9. (intransitive) To socialize with different people at a social event.
  Quotations
  And allow a bit of a cocktail hour before the meal so that when your guests arrive, you have time to mingle before you step into the kitchen.
  2009, Jane Buckingham, The Modern Girl's Guide to Life
noun
plural mingles
1. (obsolete) A mixture.
2. The act of informally meeting numerous people in a group
  Quotations
  When speakers engage their audiences before they speak with a quick mingle and keep the engagement going throughout the speech, the access point for fear is cut off because there is no silence.
  2019, Sally Lou Oaks Loveman, Speak: Love Your Story, Your Audience Is Waiting

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