Mingle vs Amalgamate - What's the difference?
mingle | amalgamate | Synonyms |
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 merge, to combine, to blend, to join.
* Burke
To make an alloy of a metal and mercury.
(mathematics) To combine (free groups) by identifying respective isomorphic subgroups.
As verbs the difference between mingle and amalgamate
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 amalgamate is to merge, to combine, to blend, to join.As a noun mingle
is a mixture.As an adjective amalgamate is
coalesced; united; combined.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
* commingleamalgamate
English
Verb
(amalgamat)- to amalgamate''' two races; to '''amalgamate one race with another
- Ingratitude is indeed their four cardinal virtues compacted and amalgamated into one.
