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mix (miks)

transitive verb

  1. to put or blend together in a single mass, collection, or compound
  2. to make by putting ingredients together to mix a cake
  3. to join; combine to mix work and play
  4. to cause to join or associate to mix the boys with the girls in a school
  5. to hybridize
  6. 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

  1. to be mixed or capable of being mixed; be blended; mingle
  2. to associate or get along to mix with other people
  3. to hybridize

noun

  1. a mixing or being mixed
  2. a muddle; state of confusion
    1. a product of mixing; mixture cement mix
    2. a commercial mixture of ingredients for preparing a food, usually by adding liquid cake mix
  3. mixer (sense )
  4. the blend or combination of sounds in a recording or live performance
  5. Informal a mixture of dissimilar components, elements, parts, ideas, etc.

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mix Idioms

mix up

  1. to mix thoroughly; mingle together
  2. to confuse; specif.,
    1. to cause confusion in
    2. to mistake for another (with with)
  3. 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.
Used by arrangement with John Wiley & Sons, Inc.

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