Mingle vs Mingler - What's the difference?
mingle | mingler |
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.
One who, or that which, mingles.
*{{quote-news, year=2007, date=May 4, author=The New York Times, title=Pop and Rock Listings, work=New York Times
, passage=? MARTIRIO (Tuesday and Wednesday) This Spanish singer, long a curious mingler of pop, jazz and flamenco, recorded her new album, “Primavera en Nueva York” (Calle 54), in New York with a jazz band, its boleros reinterpreted as a languorous, savory jazz suite. }}
As nouns the difference between mingle and mingler
is that mingle is (obsolete) a mixture while mingler is one who, or that which, mingles.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.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
* comminglemingler
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