different between mingle vs intermeddle

English

Etymology

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.

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): /?m??.??l/
• Rhymes: -????l

Verb

mingle (third-person singular simple present mingles, present participle mingling, simple past and past participle mingled)

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

   Synonyms: confuse, confound
2. (transitive) To associate or unite in a figurative way, or by ties of relationship
3. to cause or allow to intermarry
4. to intermarry.
5. (transitive) To deprive of purity by mixture; to contaminate.
   • a. 1729, John Rogers, The Necessity of Universal Obedience

     a mingled, imperfect virtue

6. (transitive) To make or prepare by mixing the ingredients of.

   • [He] proceeded to mingle another draught.

7. (transitive, obsolete) To put together; to join.
8. (intransitive) To become mixed or blended.
9. (intransitive) To socialize with different people at a social event.
   • 2009, Jane Buckingham, The Modern Girl's Guide to Life

     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.

Conjugation

Derived terms

• bemingle
• commingle
• mingler
• overmingle
• undermingle
• unmingle

Translations

Noun

mingle (plural mingles)

1. (obsolete) A mixture.
2. The act of informally meeting numerous people in a group
   • 2019, Sally Lou Oaks Loveman, Speak: Love Your Story, Your Audience Is Waiting

     When speakers engage their audiences before they speak with a quick mingle and keep the engagement going throughout the speech, the access point for fear is cut off because there is no silence.

Related terms

• among
• mongrel

Anagrams

• Leming, leming

English

Etymology

From Anglo-Norman entremedler (= Old French entremesler), from inter- + medler.

Pronunciation

• (UK) IPA^(key): /??nt??m?d(?)l/
• (US) IPA^(key): /??nt??m?d?l/
• Rhymes: -?d?l

Verb

intermeddle (third-person singular simple present intermeddles, present participle intermeddling, simple past and past participle intermeddled)

1. (obsolete, transitive) To mix, mingle together. [14^th-18^thc.]
2. (obsolete, reflexive) To get mixed up (with). [15^th-17^thc.]
3. (intransitive) To butt in, to interfere in or with. [from 15^thc.]
   • 1623, Francis Bacon, A Discourse of a War with Spain

     The practice of Spain hath been, […] by war{{..}} and […] by conditions of treaty, to intermeddle with foreign states.

   • 1749, Henry Fielding, Tom Jones, Book I, Ch.2:

     I must desire all those critics to mind their own business, and not to intermeddle with affairs or works which no ways concern them; for till they produce the authority by which they are constituted judges, I shall not plead to their jurisdiction.

Synonyms

• butt in, meddle