Tingle vs Mingle - What's the difference?
tingle | mingle |
To have a prickling or mildly stinging sensation.
To make ringing sounds, to twang.
*1851 ,
*:Sideways leaning, we sideways darted; every ropeyarn tingling like a wire; the two tall masts buckling like Indian canes in land tornadoes.
* Charles Dickens
To ring
To cause to ring
* 1874 , , fit 2:
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.
As verbs the difference between tingle and mingle
is that tingle is to have a prickling or mildly stinging sensation or tingle can be to ring while 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 nouns the difference between tingle and mingle
is that tingle is a prickling or stinging sensation while mingle is (obsolete) a mixture.tingle
English
Etymology 1
Verb
(tingl)- sharp tingling bells
Etymology 2
Verb
(tingl)- the Captain they trusted so well
- Had only one notion for crossing the ocean,
- And that was to tingle his bell.
Anagrams
*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.