资料来源 : Webster's Revised Unabridged Dictionary (1913)

Mingle \Min"gle\, v. t. [imp. & p. p. {Mingled}; p. pr. & vb. n.
   {Mingling}.] [From OE. mengen, AS. mengan; akin to D. & G.
   mengen, Icel. menga, also to E. among, and possibly to mix.
   Cf. {Among}, {Mongrel}.]
   1. 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.

            There was . . . fire mingled with the hail. --Ex.
                                                  ix. 24.

   2. To associate or unite in society or by ties of
      relationship; to cause or allow to intermarry; to
      intermarry.

            The holy seed have mingled themselves with the
            people of those lands.                --Ezra ix. 2.

   3. To deprive of purity by mixture; to contaminate.

            A mingled, imperfect virtue.          --Rogers.

   4. To put together; to join. [Obs.] --Shak.

   5. To make or prepare by mixing the ingredients of.

            [He] proceeded to mingle another draught.
                                                  --Hawthorne.

资料来源 : WordNet®

mingling
     adj : combining or mixing [syn: {blending}, {merging}]
     n : the action of people mingling and coming into contact; "all
         the random mingling and idle talk made him hate literary
         parties"