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Mingled vs Complex - What's the difference?

mingled | complex |

As verbs the difference between mingled and complex

is that mingled is (mingle) while complex is (chemistry|intransitive) to form a complex with another substance.

As an adjective complex is

made up of multiple parts; composite; not simple.

As a noun complex is

a problem.

mingled

English

Verb

(head)
  • (mingle)

    • Anagrams

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    mingle

    English

    (Webster 1913)

    Verb

    (mingl)
  • 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
    • 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
  • To associate or unite in society or by ties of relationship; to cause or allow to intermarry; to intermarry.
  • * Bible, Ezra ix. 2
    • The holy seed have mingled themselves with the people of those lands.
  • To deprive of purity by mixture; to contaminate.
  • * Henry Rogers
    • a mingled , imperfect virtue
  • (obsolete) To put together; to join.
    • (Shakespeare)
  • To make or prepare by mixing the ingredients of.
  • * (Nathaniel Hawthorne)
    • [He] proceeded to mingle another draught.
  • To become mixed or blended.

    • Derived terms

    * commingle

    Noun

    (en noun)
  • (obsolete) A mixture.

    • Related terms

    * among * mongrel

    complex

    English

    (wikipedia complex)

    Adjective

    (complex number) (en adjective)
  • Made up of multiple parts; composite; not simple.
    • a complex''' being; a '''complex idea
  • * John Locke
    • Ideas thus made up of several simple ones put together, I call complex ; such as beauty, gratitude, a man, an army, the universe.
  • Not simple, easy, or straightforward; complicated.
  • * Whewell
    • When the actual motions of the heavens are calculated in the best possible way, the process is difficult and complex .
  • (mathematics) Of a number, of the form a + bi'', where ''a'' and ''b'' are real numbers and ''i is a square root of −1.
    • complex function
  • (geometry) A curve, polygon or other figure that crosses or intersects itself.

    • Synonyms

    * (not simple) complicated, detailed, difficult, hard, intricate, involved, tough

    Antonyms

    * (not simple) basic, easy, simple, straightforward

    Derived terms

    * complexity * complexness

    Related terms

    * complexion * (mathematics) symplectic

    Noun

  • A problem.
  • A collection of buildings with a common purpose, such as a university or military base.
  • Assemblage of related things; collection.
  • * South
    • This parable of the wedding supper comprehends in it the whole complex of all the blessings and privileges exhibited by the gospel.
  • A psychological dislike or fear of a particular thing.
  • An organized cluster of thunderstorms.
  • (chemistry) A structure consisting of a central atom or molecule weakly connected to surrounding atoms or molecules.
  • * {{quote-magazine, year=2013, month=September-October, author= Katie L. Burke
    • , magazine=(American Scientist), title= In the News , passage=Oxygen levels on Earth skyrocketed 2.4 billion years ago, when cyanobacteria evolved photosynthesis:

    Derived terms

    * military-entertainment complex * military-industrial complex * Oedipus complex * prison-industrial complex * vitamin B complex * protein complex * chelate complex

    Verb

    (es)
  • (chemistry) To form a complex with another substance

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