Mingle vs Connect - What's the difference?
mingle | connect |
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.
(of an object) To join (to another object): to attach, or to be intended to attach or capable of attaching, to another object.
(of two objects) To join: to attach, or to be intended to attach or capable of attaching, to each other.
(of an object) To join (two other objects), or to join (one object) to (another object): to be a link between two objects, thereby attaching them to each other.
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, title= (of a person) To join (two other objects), or to join (one object) to (another object): to take one object and attach it to another.
To join an electrical or telephone line to a circuit or network.
To associate.
To make a travel connection; to switch from one means of transport to another as part of the same trip.
As verbs the difference between mingle and connect
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 connect is (of an object) to join (to another object): to attach, or to be intended to attach or capable of attaching, to another object.As a noun mingle
is (obsolete) a mixture.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
* commingleconnect
English
Verb
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