mix
verbnouncommon in dialogue
- //ˈmɪks//
To stir together.
verb
- 1
To stir together.
Mix the eggs and milk with the flour until the consistency is smooth.
- 2
To combine (items from two or more sources normally kept separate).
to mix business with pleasure
Don't mix the meat recipes with the dairy recipes.
What here shall miss, our toil shall strive to mend.
She mixed furniture with the same fatal profligacy as she mixed drinks, and this outrageous contact between things which were intended by Nature to be kept poles apart gave her an inexpressible thrill.
- 3
To form by mingling; to produce by the stirring together of ingredients; to concoct from different parts.
Yellow and blue paint mix to make green.
Hast thou no poison mixed?
Therefore J haue chosen an Argument, mixt of Religious and Ciuill Considerations; And likewise mixt between Contemplatiue, and Actiue.
In order to the diſcovery of ſome hints of the account, upon which the above mentioned mixtures were more intenſely frigefactive than ſnow alone, we ſealed up a ſingle vial of ſnow unmingled with any other ingredient, and found it to thaw much more ſlowly than any of thoſe parcels of ſnow, which we had mixt with ſalts or ſpirits.
- 4
To blend by the use of a mixer (machine).
Mix the egg whites until they are stiff.
- 5
To combine (several tracks).
I'll mix the rhythm tracks down to a single track.
- 6
To produce a finished version of (a recording).
I'm almost done mixing this song.
- 7
To unite with in company; to join; to associate.
Ephraim, he hath mixed himself among the people.
The mention of the six knots of elderwood is curious, for that tree mixes largely in folk lore.
Etymology
From Middle English mixen (attested in past tense as mixed, myxyd), from Old English *mixian, miscian, from Proto-West Germanic *miskijan, from Proto-West Germanic *miskijan (“to mix”), 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 μῑ́γνῡμῐ (mī́gnūmĭ, “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.
noun
- 1
The result of mixing two or more substances; a mixture.
Now add the raisins to the mix.
[…] fifteen flavors of powdered mixes in traditional scoop-out packages, seven flavors of single-serve bottled drinks, and three flavors of multiserve bottles.
- 2
The result of combining items normally kept separate.
My recipe file was now a mix of meat and dairy.
The combination of classical music and hip hop is a surprisingly good mix.
A Chronicle of Higher Education tracker of nearly 3,000 colleges found that of those with firm plans, 19% are opening primarily in person; 27% are primarily online; and 16% are, like Penn State, a mix.
- 3
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.
- 4
The result of mixing several tracks.
The rhythm mix sounds muddy.
- 5
The finished version of a recording.
I've almost finished the mix for this song.
- 6
slangA substance used to dilute or adulterate an illicit drug.
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.
Etymology
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.
Forms
- plural
- mixes
- past tense
- mixed
- past participle
- mixed
- present participle
- mixing
- third person singular
- mixes