mingle vs smelt

mingle

verb
  • To make or prepare by mixing the ingredients of. 

  • 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 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 

smelt

verb
  • To fuse or melt two things into one, especially in order to extract metal from ore; to meld. 

noun
  • Any small anadromous fish of the family Osmeridae, found in the Atlantic and Pacific Oceans and in lakes in North America and northern part of Europe. 

  • Production of metal, especially iron, from ore in a process that involves melting and chemical reduction of metal compounds into purified metal. 

  • Any of the various liquids or semi-molten solids produced and used during the course of such production. 

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