What's the difference between join and mingle?

Join


Definition:

  • (v. t.) To bring together, literally or figuratively; to place in contact; to connect; to couple; to unite; to combine; to associate; to add; to append.
  • (v. t.) To associate one's self to; to be or become connected with; to league one's self with; to unite with; as, to join a party; to join the church.
  • (v. t.) To unite in marriage.
  • (v. t.) To enjoin upon; to command.
  • (v. t.) To accept, or engage in, as a contest; as, to join encounter, battle, issue.
  • (v. i.) To be contiguous, close, or in contact; to come together; to unite; to mingle; to form a union; as, the hones of the skull join; two rivers join.
  • (n.) The line joining two points; the point common to two intersecting lines.

Example Sentences:

  • (1) At the time, with a regular supply of British immigrants arriving in large numbers in Australia, Biggs was able to blend in well as "Terry Cook", a carpenter, so well in fact that his wife, Charmian, was able to join him with his three sons.
  • (2) Prior to joining JOE Media, Will was chief commercial officer at Dazed Group, where he also sat on the board of directors.
  • (3) I hope this movement will continue and spread for it has within itself the power to stand up to fascism, be victorious in the face of extremism and say no to oppressive political powers everywhere.” Appearing via videolink from Tehran, and joined by London mayor Sadiq Khan and Palme d’Or winner Mike Leigh, Farhadi said: “We are all citizens of the world and I will endeavour to protect and spread this unity.” The London screening of The Salesman on Sunday evening wasintended to be a show of unity and strength against Trump’s travel ban, which attempted to block arrivals in the US from seven predominantly Muslim countries: Iran, Iraq, Libya, Sudan, Somalia, Syria and Yemen.
  • (4) Helsby, who joined the estate agent in 1980, saw his basic salary unchanged at £225,000, but gains a £610,000 windfall in shares, available from May, as well as a £363,000 increase in cash and shares under the company profits-sharing scheme.
  • (5) Join a Twitter book club It all started last summer, when 12,000 people took to Twitter to discuss Neil Gaiman's American Gods .
  • (6) I am rooting hard for you.” Ronald Reagan simply told his former vice-president Bush: “Don’t let the turkeys get you down.” By 10.30am Michelle Obama and Melania Trump will join the outgoing and incoming presidents in a presidential limousine to drive to the Capitol.
  • (7) All children enrolled in grade 2 were invited to join the study.
  • (8) Using a novel method for joining DNA sequences, we have exploited this difference between the two enzymes to identify the regions of the RT that contribute to the compounds' inhibitory activities.
  • (9) Henderson was given permission to join Fulham when Brendan Rodgers arrived at Anfield in 2012 but has since developed into an important asset for the Liverpool manager, to the extent that the 24-year-old is the leading candidate to succeed Steven Gerrard as club captain when the 34-year-old leaves for LA Galaxy.
  • (10) He continued: "I don't think there could be a better move for me: to retire from one of the world's best football clubs at the end of the season and then join one of the world's best broadcasters.
  • (11) As Russian companies Polymetal, Polyus Gold and Evraz race to join Eurasian Natural Resources as FTSE100 companies, despite their murky practices, because of London's incredibly lax listing requirements, one future scenario is becoming clearer.
  • (12) Unless you are part of some Unite-esque scheme to join up as part of a grand revolutionary plan, why would you bother shelling out for a membership card?
  • (13) The method involves the selective joining of two synthetic fragments, namely residues 1-65 of the apopeptide with Met65 replaced by homoserine lactone and residues 66-104 of the protein in the presence of fragment 1-25 of the native heme-containing peptide.
  • (14) Despite tthree resignations and his reputation as a tribal operator in the Blair-Brown wars, however, his belief in the party he joined on his 15th birthday is undimmed.
  • (15) Because many individuals begin smoking soon after joining the Navy, effective prevention programs need to be implemented in recruit training and repeated in early training schools.
  • (16) Fine, but the most important new political fact is the unprecedented wave of support that has latched on to Corbyn: the hundreds of thousands who joined Labour, the thumping majority that handed him the leadership, the huge sections of the country that have tuned out of Westminster droid-talk.
  • (17) The ninaC gene encodes two retinal specific proteins (p132 and p174) consisting of a protein kinase domain joined to a domain homologous to the head region of the myosin heavy chain.
  • (18) A focus on preventing children from joining gangs in the first place, as well as on offering gang members the access to education and employment that they have been lacking is more likely to be effective.
  • (19) I’m so happy to be joining Arsenal, a club which has a great manager, a fantastic squad of players, huge support around the world and a great stadium in London,” said Sánchez.
  • (20) From the decreased alignment at the N-terminus and the presence of additional residues compared with bacterial phosphorylases, we conclude that the regulatory sequences that also carry the phosphorylation site in the muscle enzyme were joined to a presumed ancestral precursor gene by gene fusion after separation of the eukaryotic and prokaryotic lines of descent.

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.