(v. t.) To prepare, as sweetmeats; to make a confection of.
(v. t.) To construct; to form; to mingle or mix.
(n.) A comfit; a confection.
Example Sentences:
(1) Here's a certainty: When you play out your personal dramas, hurt and self-interest in the media, it's a confection.
(2) This 90s pop confection had torn tights, a sulky attitude and high regard for Quentin Tarantino.
(3) Quite often, when the media reports a coalition "row" between the Tories and the Lib Dems, it has been confected by one or both of them because someone thinks it suits them to be seen on opposing sides of an issue.
(4) Apart from the confected row about the renewal of Trident , the two main parties seem curiously indifferent to what is going on beyond Britain’s shores, unless it involves immigration.
(5) There are palatial piles, puffed up confections of domes and turrets, alongside low-slung sheds, streamlined intersecting planes oozing the free flow of democracy.
(6) It is surely one of the intellectual catastrophes of history that an imperialist war confected by a small group of unelected US officials was waged against a devastated third world dictatorship on thoroughly ideological grounds having to do with world dominance, security control and scarce resources, but disguised for its true intent, hastened and reasoned for by orientalists who betrayed their calling as scholars.
(7) MIA emerged on the music scene in the mid-2000s, the perfect antidote to confection pop.
(8) Such metaphysical questions underlie the confection of her plot.
(9) In view of the considerable sales success of sugarless confections, accounting for over an estimated 30,000,000 lbs.
(10) On the other hand, the mutagen-negative diet was significantly frequent in fresh vegetables, cooked potatoes, cooked carrots, milk, bean curd, devils' tongue and confections.
(11) Fifty monkeys were fed SMA, a formula designed for human infants (9% protein, 43% carbohydrate, and 48% fat); 46 were fed one of three laboratory-confected diets varying in the amount of protein and carbohydrates provided.
(12) In 1987’s No Way Out, she glints brilliantly in a Hitchcocky confection.
(13) The results confirmed that Lycasin would be preferred to sucrose as a sweetener for confections and medicines, although some softening of enamel by Lycasin was evident when compared to the saline controls.
(14) Andy Burnham , Caroline Flint – sensible Labour falls over itself to show who is the most realistic, where realism stands for accepting without question a vision of the country confected by their opponents.
(15) Most that claimed "Jeremy thinks" and "Jeremy is furious with Vince" turned out to be – so Hunt insisted – exaggerated by Michel or mere recycled titbits confected by Smith to feed the News Corp beast.
(16) Whether this highly aerated, minimally nutritious confection was actually invented in the United States or here remains fiercely contested, though sadly the myth that Margaret Thatcher was involved in its creation while working as a research chemist at the food conglomerate J Lyons & Co has been fairly thoroughly debunked.
(17) Apart from the approach routes, particular features of the technique used were essentially the size of the frontal flap extending to orbital roof, and mainly the confection of a pericranial flap formed of epicranial aponeurosis lined with frontoparietal periosteum and pedunculated at the orbital border.
(18) Others argue that the sense of a sectarian crisis – most notably over Syria – has been confected by the Assad regime.
(19) A controversial issue will often bring a blizzard of identikit protest of apparently confected anger but while clearly this lobby was organised most of the emails and letters we received were personal and heartfelt.
(20) I know what you're thinking: Christmas DVDs, promotional tours, robotically confected controversy … none of these really feel like the answer to the question: "What would Spartacus do?"
Mingle
Definition:
(v. t.) 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.
(v. t.) To associate or unite in society or by ties of relationship; to cause or allow to intermarry; to intermarry.
(v. t.) To deprive of purity by mixture; to contaminate.
(v. t.) To put together; to join.
(v. t.) To make or prepare by mixing the ingredients of.
(v. i.) To become mixed or blended.
(n.) A mixture.
Example Sentences:
(1) For the best part of a week, the world’s leaders – more than 150 of them – will mingle, bargain and argue over the state of the world at the UN general assembly in New York.
(2) It is thought that the mechanisms of resorption are: co-mingling with CSF and redistribution in the more acute variety and in instances of subdural hydromas; and thru the healing and reparative process in the chronic type.
(3) Biopsy findings of the m. quadriceps femoris and the n. gastrocnemius revealed clustered atrophy of myofibrils and segmental demyelinization mingled with remyelinization.
(4) Fibrillar substance also mingled with such fibroblastic cell protrusions.
(5) Rudd goes to mingle in the crowds, a cool bottle of XXXX thrust into his hands.
(6) Whereas mitochondria may be found mingled with yolk bodies, we have never observed lipid droplets nor pigment bodies among any of the other inclusions.
(7) A number of immature eosinophils were present mingled with ordinary leukemic cells, which infiltrated in the bone marrow, lymph nodes, spleen, liver, lungs and testes.
(8) While others decried his work, he wrote that his paintings “move and mingle among the pale stars, and rise up into the brightness of the illimitable heaven, whose soft, and blue eye gazes down into the deep waters of the sea for ever”.
(9) Sentinels (AGID test-negative) were allowed to mingle with EIA-infected mares and their foals in pasture situations in an area with high populations of potential vectors.
(10) Bikubi's fear of witchcraft was mingled with a strange kind of arrogance.
(11) Since in the pineal organ lymphatics are lacking it may well be that, due to a reduced drainage of tissue fluid, the coagulation of intercellular organic debris mingled with minerals increases with age.
(12) Such seeds and others are co-harvested and are often found mingling with commercial grain destined for human consumption.
(13) The 3H-RNA thus extracted was treated with electrophoretically purified DNase to break down and remove DNA that mingled with it.
(14) The juices from the chicken, spiced with chillies, sweet paprika and lime juice, ran down into the vegetables and mingled with the olive oil in the pan.
(15) Not without personal vanity, he took a positively Pooterish joy in mingling with the powerful.
(16) In those cupboards our family still existed, man and woman still mingled, children were still interleaved with their parents, intimacy survived.
(17) Prices for a stall start at £3,700 and come with at least three passes, enabling company representatives and lobbyists to mingle freely with politicians and other delegates.
(18) Histologically, components of the cortex and medulla were mingled in the tissue, and the glomeruli and convoluted tubules were scattered in disorder, and connective tissue proliferation was also observed.
(19) The 100-110 quadratus motoneurons and the 45-55 pyramidalis motoneurons mingled in the accessory abducens nucleus were larger than the lateral rectus motoneurons and sent their axons into the ipsilateral abducens nerve.
(20) A tongue of flattened epithelial cells extended across the wound surface, mingling with the superficial crust and migrating over eosinophilic fibrillar material.