mix
mix definition
mix (miks)
transitive verb
- to put or blend together in a single mass, collection, or compound
- to make by putting ingredients together to mix a cake
- to join; combine to mix work and play
- to cause to join or associate to mix the boys with the girls in a school
- to hybridize
- to combine or blend electronically (the various sounds of a recording or live performance) on (a tape, record, etc.)
Etymology: prob. back-form. < mixt, mixed, taken as pp. < Fr mixte < L mixtus, pp. of miscere, to mix (> OE miscian) < IE base *meik- > Gr meignynai, Welsh mysgu, to mix
intransitive verb
- to be mixed or capable of being mixed; be blended; mingle
- to associate or get along to mix with other people
- to hybridize
noun
- a mixing or being mixed
- a muddle; state of confusion
- ☆
- a product of mixing; mixture cement mix
- a commercial mixture of ingredients for preparing a food, usually by adding liquid cake mix
- mixer (sense )
- the blend or combination of sounds in a recording or live performance
- Informal a mixture of dissimilar components, elements, parts, ideas, etc.
Related Forms:
- mixable mix′·able adjective
mix Idioms
mix up
- to mix thoroughly; mingle together
- to confuse; specif.,
- to cause confusion in
- to mistake for another (with with)
- to involve or implicate (in some matter): usually used in the passive
mix it up
Slang to fight with or as with the fists
Webster's New World College Dictionary Copyright © 2009 by Wiley Publishing, Inc., Cleveland, Ohio.
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