Mingle vs Mangle - What's the difference?
mingle | mangle |
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.
To change, mutilate or disfigure by cutting, tearing, rearranging etc.
* Milton
* Jonathan Swift
(archaic) To wring laundry.
(computing) To modify (an identifier from source code) so as to produce a unique identifier for internal use by the compiler, etc.
A hand-operated device with rollers, for wringing laundry.
The mangle attached to wringer washing machines, often called the wringer.
As verbs the difference between mingle and mangle
is that 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 while mangle is to change, mutilate or disfigure by cutting, tearing, rearranging etc.As nouns the difference between mingle and mangle
is that mingle is a mixture while mangle is a hand-operated device with rollers, for wringing laundry.mingle
English
(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.
Derived terms
* comminglemangle
English
(wikipedia mangle)Verb
(mangl)- mangled with ghastly wounds through plate and mail
- when they are disposed to mangle a play or novel