Mix Definition

mĭks

mixed, mixes, mixing

verb

mixed, mixes, mixing

To put or blend together in a single mass, collection, or compound.

Webster's New World

To create or form by combining ingredients.

Mix a drink; mix cement.

American Heritage

To add (an ingredient or element) to another.

Mix an egg into batter.

American Heritage

To hybridize.

Webster's New World

To join; combine.

To mix work and play.

Webster's New World

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noun

mixes

A mixing or being mixed.

Webster's New World

A muddle; state of confusion.

Webster's New World

A commercial mixture of ingredients for preparing a food, usually by adding liquid.

Cake mix.

Webster's New World

A product of mixing; mixture.

Cement mix.

Webster's New World

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

American Heritage

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idiom

mix it up

To fight.

American Heritage

mix up

to mix thoroughly; mingle together
to confuse

Webster's New World

mix it up

to fight with or as with the fists

Webster's New World

Other Word Forms of Mix

Noun

Singular:

mix

Plural:

mixes

Idioms, Phrasal Verbs Related to Mix

Origin of Mix

From Middle English mixen, from Old English mixian, miscian (“to blend, mix, combine"), from Proto-Germanic *miskijanÄ… (“to mix"), from Proto-Indo-European *meiǵ-, *meiḱ- (“to mix"). Cognate with Old High German miskian, miskan (German mischen, “to mix"), Welsh mysgu (“to mix"), Latin misceō (“mix", verb), Ancient Greek μίγνυμι (mignumi, “to mix"), Old Church Slavonic [script?] (mieshati, “to mix"), Lithuanian miÅ¡ti and maiÅ¡yti (“to mix"), Albanian mushk (“a mule, lit. a mixed animal"), Sanskrit [script?] (miçro, “mixed"), Old English māsc (“mixture, mash"). More at mash.

From Wiktionary
Back-formation from Middle English mixt, mixed mixed from Anglo-Norman mixte from Latin mixtus past participle of miscēre to mix meik- in Indo-European roots

From American Heritage Dictionary of the English Language, 5th Edition