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Mingled vs Entangled - What's the difference?

mingled | entangled |

As verbs the difference between mingled and entangled

is that mingled is (mingle) while entangled is (entangle).

As an adjective entangled is

tangled or twisted together.

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.
  • entangled

    English

    Verb

    (head)
  • (entangle)
  • Adjective

    (en adjective)
  • tangled or twisted together
  • confused or complicated
  • (physics) (of two quantum states'') correlated, even though physically separated; (''referring to a state of a composite system ) not separable
  • See also

    * quantum entanglement