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Mix

//ˈmɪks// name, noun, verb, slang

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Proper Noun
  1. 1
    A surname.
  2. 2
    An unincorporated community in Pointe Coupee Parish, Louisiana, United States. From the surname.
Noun
  1. 1
    The result of mixing two or more substances; a mixture.

    "Now add the raisins to the mix."

  2. 2
    the act of mixing together wordnet
  3. 3
    The result of combining items normally kept separate.

    "My recipe file was now a mix of meat and dairy."

  4. 4
    an event that combines things in a mixture wordnet
  5. 5
    A preparation, usually in the form of a powder, into which other ingredients can be mixed to prepare a specified foodstuff.

    "Cake mix. Pancake mix. Hot chocolate mix."

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  1. 6
    a commercially prepared mixture of dry ingredients wordnet
  2. 7
    The result of mixing several tracks.

    "The rhythm mix sounds muddy."

  3. 8
    The finished version of a recording.

    "I've almost finished the mix for this song."

  4. 9
    A substance used to dilute or adulterate an illicit drug. US, slang, uncountable

    "Eventually I could taste different drugs and tell how much mix in it or if there’s too much mix in it or what have you."

Verb
  1. 1
    To stir together. transitive

    "Mix the eggs and milk with the flour until the consistency is smooth."

  2. 2
    add as an additional element or part wordnet
  3. 3
    To combine (items from two or more sources normally kept separate). transitive

    "to mix business with pleasure"

  4. 4
    mix together different elements wordnet
  5. 5
    To form by mingling; to produce by the stirring together of ingredients; to concoct from different parts. ambitransitive

    "Yellow and blue paint mix to make green."

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  1. 6
    combine (electronic signals) wordnet
  2. 7
    To blend by the use of a mixer (machine). transitive

    "Mix the egg whites until they are stiff."

  3. 8
    mix so as to make a random order or arrangement wordnet
  4. 9
    To combine (several tracks). transitive

    "I'll mix the rhythm tracks down to a single track."

  5. 10
    to bring or combine together or with something else wordnet
  6. 11
    To produce a finished version of (a recording). transitive

    "I'm almost done mixing this song."

  7. 12
    open (a place) to members of all races and ethnic groups wordnet
  8. 13
    To unite with in company; to join; to associate. ambitransitive

    "Ephraim, he hath mixed himself among the people."

Etymology

Etymology 1

From Middle English mixen (attested in past tense as mixed, myxyd), from Old English *mixian, miscian, from Proto-West Germanic *miskijan, from Proto-Germanic *miskijaną, from Proto-Indo-European *miḱ-sḱé-ti, from *meyǵ-, *meyḱ- (“to mix”). Cognate with Saterland Frisian miskje (“to mix, blend”), Middle Dutch mischen (“to mix”), Low German misken, mischen (“to mix”), Old High German miskian, miskēn (“to mix”) (German mischen), Welsh mysgu (“to mix”), Latin misceō (“mix”), Ancient Greek μίγνυμι (mígnumi, “to mix”), Old Church Slavonic мѣсити (měsiti, “to mix”), Lithuanian mišti and maišyti (“to mix”), Sanskrit मिश्र (miśra, “mixed”), Persian آمیختن (âmixtan, “to mix”), Old English māsc (“mixture, mash”). More at mash.

Etymology 2

A merger of a nominal use of the verb and a borrowing from Anglo-Norman mixte, from Latin mixtus, past participle of misceō (“mix”). Nowadays regarded automatically as the nominal form of the verb.

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