Mingling
['mɪŋgl]
Definition
(noun.) the action of people mingling and coming into contact; 'all the random mingling and idle talk made him hate literary parties'.
Typist: Shane--From WordNet
Definition
(p. pr. & vb. n.) of Mingle
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Examples
- But there is no longer any of the horrible merging, mingling self-abnegation of love. D. H. Lawrence. Women in Love .
- From the mingling of two liquids a solid is sometimes formed. Bertha M. Clark. General Science.
- They, their Excellencies, met her eyes in each line, mingling an evil potion that poisoned her very blood. Mary Shelley. The Last Man.
- This formation of a solid substance from the mingling of two liquids is called precipitation; such a process occurs daily in the rocks beneath the surface of the earth. Bertha M. Clark. General Science.
- A venerable man, bald and shining at the top of his head, and with long grey hair flowing down at its sides and mingling with his beard. Charles Dickens. Our Mutual Friend.
- His hair is ragged, mingling with his whiskers and his beard--the latter, ragged too, and grown, like the scum and mist around him, in neglect. Charles Dickens. Bleak House.
- The merging, the clutching, the mingling of love was become madly abhorrent to him. D. H. Lawrence. Women in Love .
- The wine Mrs. Boultby insisted on mingling with hot water, and qualifying with sugar and nutmeg. Charlotte Bronte. Shirley.
- Mingling with the coward band there assembled, they reviled their admirable leader, and asserted their own superiority and exemption. Mary Shelley. The Last Man.
- The mingling liquids interact and liberate carbon dioxide. Bertha M. Clark. General Science.
- Pardon me, sir, replied the Count, who spoke English admirably, but we Greeks are partial to such mingling. Fergus Hume. The Island of Fantasy.
- We surely shall be happy: quiet in our native country, and not mingling in the world, what can disturb our tranquillity? Mary Shelley. Frankenstein_Or_The Modern Prometheus.
- They were certainly already mingling in Central Asia with Mongolian tribes, but the Mongolian tribes were not then prevalent there. H. G. Wells. The Outline of History_Being a Plain History of Life and Mankind.
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