Mingle vs Huddle - What's the difference?
mingle | huddle |
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.
a dense and disorderly crowd
(American football) a brief meeting of all the players from one team that are on the field with the purpose of planning the following play.
To crowd together as when distressed or in fear.
* 1912 : (Edgar Rice Burroughs), (Tarzan of the Apes), Chapter 4
To curl one's legs up to the chest and keep one's arms close to the torso; to crouch; to assume a position similar to that of an embryo in the womb.
To get together and discuss.
* 2012 November 2, Ken Belson, "[http://www.nytimes.com/2012/11/03/sports/new-york-city-marathon-will-not-be-held-sunday.html?hp&_r=0]," New York Times (retrieved 2 November 2012):
(American football) To form a huddle.
To crowd (things) together; to mingle confusedly; to assemble without order or system.
* (John Locke)
To do, make, or put, in haste or roughly; hence, to do imperfectly; usually with a following preposition or adverb (huddle on'', ''huddle up'', ''huddle together ).
* J. H. Newman
* (John Dryden)
* (Jonathan Swift)
As a verb 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 a noun mingle
is (obsolete) a mixture.As a proper noun huddle is
.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
* comminglehuddle
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Noun
(en noun)Verb
(huddl)- During all these operations the apes who had entered sat huddled near the door watching their chief, while those outside strained and crowded to catch a glimpse of what transpired within.
- George Hirsch, chairman of the board of Road Runners, said officials huddled all day Friday, hoping to devise an alternate race. They considered replacing the marathon with a race that would comprise the final 10 miles of marathon, starting at the base of the Queensboro 59th Street Bridge on the Manhattan side. But that was not deemed plausible, Mr. Hirsch said.
- Our adversary, huddling several suppositions together,makes a medley and confusion.
- Huddle up a peace.
- Let him forecast his work with timely care, / Which else is huddled when the skies are fair.
- Now, in all haste, they huddle on / Their hoods, their cloaks, and get them gone.
