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[miks]
verb, mixed or mixt, mix⋅ing, noun –verb (used with object)
| 1. | to combine (substances, elements, things, etc.) into one mass, collection, or assemblage, generally with a thorough blending of the constituents. |
| 2. | to put together indiscriminately or confusedly (often fol. by up). |
| 3. | to combine, unite, or join: to mix business and pleasure. |
| 4. | to add as an element or ingredient: Mix some salt into the flour. |
| 5. | to form or make by combining ingredients: to mix a cake; to mix mortar. |
| 6. | to crossbreed. |
| 7. | Movies.
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| 8. | to combine (two or more separate recordings or microphone signals) to make a single recording or composite signal. |
–verb (used without object)
| 9. | to become mixed: a paint that mixes easily with water. |
| 10. | to associate or mingle, as in company: to mix with the other guests at a party. |
| 11. | to be crossbred, or of mixed breeding. |
| 12. | Boxing. to exchange blows vigorously and aggressively: The crowd jeered as the fighters clinched, refusing to mix. |
–noun
—Verb phrases| 13. | an act or instance of mixing. |
| 14. | the result of mixing; mixture: cement mix; an odd mix of gaiety and sadness. |
| 15. | a commercially prepared blend of ingredients to which usually only a liquid must be added to make up the total of ingredients necessary or obtain the desired consistency: a cake mix; muffin mix. |
| 16. | mixer (def. 4). |
| 17. | the proportion of ingredients in a mixture; formula: a mix of two to one. |
| 18. | Informal. a mess or muddle; mix-up. |
| 19. | Music. an electronic blending of tracks or sounds made to produce a recording. |
| 20. | mix down, to mix the tracks of an existing recording to make a new recording with fewer tracks: the four-track tape was mixed down to stereo. |
| 21. | mix up,
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| 22. | mix it up, Slang.
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Related forms:
mix⋅a⋅ble, adjective
mix⋅a⋅bil⋅i⋅ty, mix⋅a⋅ble⋅ness, noun
Synonyms:
1, 9. commingle, jumble, unite, amalgamate, fuse. Mix, blend, combine, mingle concern the bringing of two or more things into more or less intimate association. Mix is the general word for such association: to mix fruit juices. Blend implies such a harmonious joining of two or more types of colors, feelings, etc., that the new product formed displays some of the qualities of each: to blend fragrances or whiskeys. Combine implies such a close or intimate union that distinction between the parts is lost: to combine forces. Mingle usually suggests retained identity of the parts: to mingle voices. 9. coalesce. 14. concoction; formula.
1, 9. commingle, jumble, unite, amalgamate, fuse. Mix, blend, combine, mingle concern the bringing of two or more things into more or less intimate association. Mix is the general word for such association: to mix fruit juices. Blend implies such a harmonious joining of two or more types of colors, feelings, etc., that the new product formed displays some of the qualities of each: to blend fragrances or whiskeys. Combine implies such a close or intimate union that distinction between the parts is lost: to combine forces. Mingle usually suggests retained identity of the parts: to mingle voices. 9. coalesce. 14. concoction; formula.
mix⋅er
[mik-ser]
–noun
| 1. | a person or thing that mixes. |
| 2. | a person, with reference to sociability: She's a good mixer to have at a large party. |
| 3. | a kitchen utensil or an electrical appliance having one or more beaters and used in mixing, beating, or blending foods. |
| 4. | Also, mix. a beverage, as ginger ale, fruit juice, or soda water that can be combined with liquor to produce a mixed drink, esp. a highball. |
| 5. | Audio. an electronic device for blending, fading, substitution, etc., of sounds from various sources, as from microphones or separately recorded soundtracks, for broadcast or recording. |
| 6. | Radio and Television, Recording. a technician who operates a mixer in a studio. |
| 7. | the person responsible for the original recording of a movie soundtrack. Compare recordist. |
| 8. | a social event, as a party or dance, where people can meet informally. |
| 9. | mixing faucet. |
| 10. | Metallurgy. a container for blending and storing molten pig iron from several blast furnaces. |
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Mix
Mix\, v. t. [imp. & p. p. Mixed(less properly Mixt); p. pr. & vb. n. Mixing.] [AS. miscan; akin to OHG. misken, G. mischen, Russ. mieshate, W. mysgu, Gael. measg, L. miscere, mixtum, Gr. ?, ?, Skr. mi[,c]ra mixed. The English word has been influenced by L. miscere, mixtum (cf. Mixture), and even the AS. miscan may have been borrowed fr. L. miscere. Cf. Admix, Mash to bruise, Meddle.]1. To cause a promiscuous interpenetration of the parts of, as of two or more substances with each other, or of one substance with others; to unite or blend into one mass or compound, as by stirring together; to mingle; to blend; as, to mix flour and salt; to mix wines. Fair persuasions mixed with sugared words. --Shak. 2. To unite with in company; to join; to associate. Ephraim, he hath mixed himself among the people. --Hos. vii. 8. 3. To form by mingling; to produce by the stirring together of ingredients; to compound of different parts. Hast thou no poison mixed? --Shak. I have chosen an argument mixed of religious and civil considerations. --Bacon.Mix
Mix\, v. i. 1. To become united into a compound; to be blended promiscuously together. 2. To associate; to mingle. He had mixed Again in fancied safety with his kind. --Byron.
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mix (v.)
1538, back-formation from M.E. myxte (c.1480), from Anglo-Fr. mixte, from L. mixtus, pp. of miscere "to mix," from PIE *meik- "to mix" (cf. Skt. misrah "mixed," Gk. misgein "to mix, mingle," O.C.S. meso, mesiti "to mix," Rus. meshat, Lith. maisau "to mix, mingle," Welsh mysgu). Also borrowed in O.E. as miscian. The noun is attested from c.1586. Mixer "troublemaker" is from 1938; in sense of "social gathering to mingle and get acquainted" it dates from 1916. Mixture is attested from c.1460, from L. mixtura, from mixtus. Slang mixologist "bartender" is from 1856. Mixed marriage is from 1698. Mixed bag "heterogeneous collection" is from 1936. Mixed up "confused" is from 1862; mix-up "confusion" first recorded 1898.
Online Etymology Dictionary, © 2001 Douglas Harper
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MIX
Knuth's hypothetical machine, used in The Art of Computer Programming v.1, Donald Knuth, A-W 1969.
The Free On-line Dictionary of Computing, © 1993-2007 Denis Howe
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| MIX multiservice interchange |
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