Mixing

1. 1. To combine or blend into one mass or mixture.

   2. To create or form by combining ingredients: mix a drink; mix cement.

   3. To add (an ingredient or element) to another: mix an egg into batter.

   4. To combine (two or more audio tracks or channels) to produce a composite audio recording.

   5. To produce (a soundtrack or recording) in this manner.

2. To combine or join: mix joy with sorrow.

3. To bring into social contact: mix boys and girls in the classroom.

4. To produce (an organism) by crossbreeding.

5. Electronics

   1. To combine (two or more audio tracks or channels) to produce a composite audio recording.

   2. To produce (a soundtrack or recording) in this manner.

1. 1. To become mixed or blended together.

   2. To be capable of being blended together: Oil does not mix with water.

2. To associate socially or get along with others: He does not mix well at parties.

3. To mate so as to produce a hybrid; crossbreed.

4. To become involved: In the case of a family argument, a friend should not mix in.

1. An act of mixing.

2. 1. A mixture, especially of ingredients packaged and sold commercially: a cake mix.

   2. A blend of diverse elements; an amalgamation: "a mix of mean streets and the grandest boulevards—no other place in Paris is as eclectic and eccentric . . . as the 17th" (Jean Rafferty).

3. Electronics A recording that is produced by combining and adjusting two or more audio tracks or channels.

4. To confuse; confound: His explanation just mixed me up more. I always mix up the twins.

5. To involve or implicate: He got himself mixed up with the wrong people.

1. To confuse; confound: His explanation just mixed me up more. I always mix up the twins.

2. To involve or implicate: He got himself mixed up with the wrong people.

Synonyms: These verbs mean to put into or come together in one mass so that constituent parts or elements are diffused or commingled. Mix is the least specific: The cook mixed eggs, flour, and sugar. Greed and charity don't mix.
To blend is to mix intimately and harmoniously so that the components lose their original definition: The clerk blended mocha and java coffee beans. Snow-covered mountains blended into the clouds.
Mingle implies combination without loss of individual characteristics: "Respect was mingled with surprise" (Sir Walter Scott). "His companions mingled freely and joyously with the natives" (Washington Irving).
Merge and amalgamate imply resultant homogeneity: Tradition and innovation are merged in this new composition. Twilight merged into night. "The four sentences of the original are amalgamated into two" (William Minto).
Coalesce implies a slow merging: Indigenous peoples and conquerors coalesced into the present-day population.
Fuse emphasizes an enduring union, as that formed by heating metals: "He diffuses a tone and spirit of unity, that blends, and (as it were) fuses, each into each" (Samuel Taylor Coleridge).