mingle

Meanings

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
• To associate or unite in a figurative way, or by ties of relationship
• to cause or allow to intermarry
• to intermarry.
• To deprive of purity by mixture; to contaminate.
• To make or prepare by mixing the ingredients of.
• To put together; to join.
• To become mixed or blended.
• To socialize with different people at a social event.

Noun

• A mixture.
• The act of informally meeting numerous people in a group

Origin

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