Meld vs Mingle - What's the difference?
meld | mingle |
(US) to combine two similar objects into one
In card games, especially of the rummy family, to announce or display a combination of cards.
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 meld and mingle
is that meld is (us) to combine two similar objects into one or meld can be in card games, especially of the rummy family, to announce or display a combination of cards 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 nouns the difference between meld and mingle
is that meld is a combination of cards which is melded while mingle is (obsolete) a mixture.meld
English
Etymology 1
Possibly a portmanteau of “melt” and “weld”; alternatively, from English “melled” (“blended”), from (etyl) meller (“to mix”).Verb
(en verb)- One can meld copper and zinc together to form brass.
- Much as America's motto celebrates melding many into one, South Africa's says that it doesn't matter what you look like — we can all be proud of our young country. - The New York Times, 26/02/2007 [http://www.nytimes.com/2007/02/27/world/africa/27safrica.html?_r=1&oref=login]
Synonyms
* conflateEtymology 2
Probably from (etyl) .Verb
(en verb)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.