Jostled vs Mingled - What's the difference?
jostled | mingled |
(jostle)
(ambitransitive) To bump into or brush against while in motion; to push aside.
* Macaulay
* I. Taylor
To move through by pushing and shoving.
To be close to or in physical contact with.
To contend or vie in order to acquire something.
(dated, slang) To pick or attempt to pick pockets.
(mingle)
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.
As verbs the difference between jostled and mingled
is that jostled is past tense of jostle while mingled is past tense of mingle.jostled
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(head)jostle
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(jostl)- Bullies jostled him.
- Systems of movement, physical, intellectual, and moral, which are perpetually jostling each other.
mingled
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(head)Anagrams
*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.
