Commingle vs Mingle - What's the difference?
commingle | mingle |
To mix, to blend.
To become mixed or blended.
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.
* Bible, Exodus ix. 24
To associate or unite in society or by ties of relationship; to cause or allow to intermarry; to intermarry.
* Bible, Ezra ix. 2
To deprive of purity by mixture; to contaminate.
* Henry Rogers
(obsolete) To put together; to join.
To make or prepare by mixing the ingredients of.
* (Nathaniel Hawthorne)
To become mixed or blended.
Mingle is a derived term of commingle.
In intransitive terms the difference between commingle and mingle
is that commingle is to become mixed or blended while mingle is to become mixed or blended.As verbs the difference between commingle and mingle
is that commingle is to mix, to blend while mingle is 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.As a noun mingle is
a mixture.commingle
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(Commingling)Alternative forms
* co-mingleVerb
(commingl)Usage notes
Particularly used in financial law to refer to mixing funds – see (commingling).mingle
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(Webster 1913)Verb
(mingl)- There was fire mingled with the hail.
- Across the city yesterday, there was a feeling of bittersweet reunion as streams of humanity converged and mingled at dozens of memorial services. —
New York Times
- The holy seed have mingled themselves with the people of those lands.
- a mingled , imperfect virtue
- (Shakespeare)
- [He] proceeded to mingle another draught.
