(v. t.) To mix in a confused mass; to put or throw together without order; -- often followed by together or up.
(v. i.) To meet or unite in a confused way; to mix confusedly.
(n.) A confused mixture; a mass or collection without order; as, a jumble of words.
(n.) A small, thin, sugared cake, usually ring-shaped.
Example Sentences:
(1) British students now occupy fourth place in the ethnic jumble in Maastricht and their numbers are rising relatively fast.
(2) The surprise move came after Tuesday's much-noticed stumble, when the US supreme court chief justice, John Roberts, jumbled the words, prompting Obama to follow suit.
(3) Spectators were so closely packed that emergency services had to gather up a macabre jumble of body parts, and the final toll was never confirmed.
(4) Surely we could manage clothes banks as well, even if they do put jumble sales and charity shops out of business, which in turn are putting ordinary shops out of business.
(5) Within a year, however, its jumble of metal shops would be making bombs, the first generation of largely nationalist and tribal insurgents already being replaced by a more dangerous group of jihadi fighters.
(6) This statement is a jumble of buzzwords that makes no sense.
(7) He compounded the error by offering up a jumbled reply whereas Bill Clinton moved across the stage towards the questioner and spoke about the impact he had witnessed on people in Arkansas, where he was governor.
(8) Cascades of golden light overpower the sun, rising from a jumble of massive titanium forms piled on top of each other, part train crash and part explosion in a bullion vault.
(9) Promoted as a new way to make art accessible by removing the barriers between exhibition and mass consumption, it was criticised for turning art into a "jumble sale".
(10) Why keep daytime TV churning through the wastes of the day on both BBC1 and BBC2 when one channel could do the threadbare run of Angela Lansbury series and jumble-sale reality without anyone missing or caring?
(11) In experiment 3, significant effects of familiarity were also observed when the task was to distinguish intact faces from jumbled faces.
(12) The hall where it was held is only a stone’s throw from Jaywick , the jumble of former holiday chalets and potholed streets that is reckoned to be the poorest council ward in England: on the face of it, a symbol of the kind of deep social problems that tend to be synonymous with political apathy.
(13) We're going to fob you off with some old jumble from the attic."
(14) The route that is laid anew each year through the icefall, one of the most dangerous passages though low down the peak, has been largely destroyed and local Sherpa guides who specialise in preparing a path through the jumble of ice blocks and crevasses are reported to have refused to repair it.
(15) In the living room beyond, a toilet, bathtub and sink are clustered among a jumble of tools and building materials.
(16) To the east, across a deep railway cutting and a jumble of industrial sheds, lie the terraced streets of Leyton and Stratford, home to some of London's most deprived wards, where over a third of children still live in poverty .
(17) Jumbling remained an effective variable even when the subject knew where to look and what to look for.
(18) The test is also useful in monitoring recovery from jumbling.
(19) Nothing of it shows above ground; 20ft down is a confused, inaccessible jumble of rooms, corridors and frescoes, buried beyond the reach of the public, an enormous Tut's tomb with nothing of value in it.
(20) But look beyond this thin crust of decent homes – a block-deep Potemkin facade of regeneration – and a sea of jumbled shacks continues to stretch endlessly into the distance.
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.