affiliate vs mingle

affiliate

verb
  • to bring or receive into close connection; to ally. 

  • To adopt; to receive into a family as one's offspring 

  • To connect in the way of descent; to trace origin to. 

  • To fix the paternity of 

  • To attach (to) or unite (with); to receive into a society as a member, and initiate into its mysteries, plans, etc. 

noun
  • Someone or something, especially, a television station, that is associated with a larger, related organization, such as a television network; a member of a group of associated things. 

mingle

verb
  • To associate or unite in a figurative way, or by ties of relationship 

  • to cause or allow to intermarry 

  • To become mixed or blended. 

  • to intermarry. 

  • To socialize with different people at a social event. 

  • To deprive of purity by mixture; to contaminate. 

  • To make or prepare by mixing the ingredients of. 

  • To intermix; to combine or join, as an individual or part, with other parts, but commonly so as to be distinguishable in the product 

noun
  • The act of informally meeting numerous people in a group 

How often have the words affiliate and mingle occurred in a corpus of books? (source: Google Ngram Viewer )