mingle

Meanings

1. 1
   verb

   to bring or combine together or with something else

   Resourcefully, the artists mingled music and dance.

2. 2
   verb

   to get involved or mixed-up with

   It's a bad idea to mingle in an unpleasant affair.

3. 3
   verb

   To intermix; to combine or join, as an individual or part, with other parts, but commonly so as to be distinguishable in the product.

   [T]here was hayle ãd fyre mẽgled with the hayle, […]

4. 4
   verb

   To intermarry.

   [W]e haue bꝛokẽ thy ſtatutes ⁊ cõmaundementes agayne, ⁊ mengled o^ꝛ ſelues wᵗ the vnclẽnes of the outlandiſh heithen.

5. 5
   verb

   To deprive of purity by mixture; to contaminate.

   a mingled, imperfect virtue

6. 6
   verb

   To make or prepare by mixing the ingredients of.

   The physician […] proceeded to mingle another draught.

7. 7
   verb

   To put together; to join.

   Some dozen Romanes of vs, and your Lord (The beſt Feather of our wing) haue mingled ſummes To buy a Preſent for the Emperor: […]

8. 8
   verb

   To socialize with different people at a social event.

   And allow a bit of a cocktail hour before the meal so that when your guests arrive, you have time to mingle before you step into the kitchen.

Etymology

From earlier mingil, mengle, from Middle English menglen, equivalent to ming + -le. Cognate with Dutch mengelen (“to mingle, mix”), German mengen (“to mingle, mix”). More at ming.