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mix (m

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v. mixed, mix·ing, mix·es

v.tr.

a. To combine or blend into one mass or mixture.

b. To create or form by combining ingredients: mix a drink; mix cement.

c. To add (an ingredient or element) to another: mix an egg into batter.

2. To combine or join: mix joy with sorrow.

3. To bring into social contact: mix boys and girls in the classroom.

4. To produce (an organism) by crossbreeding.

5. Electronics

a. To combine (two or more audio tracks or channels) to produce a composite audio recording.

b. To produce (a soundtrack or recording) in this manner.

v.intr.

a. To become mixed or blended together.

b. To be capable of being blended together: Oil does not mix with water.

2. To associate socially or get along with others: He does not mix well at parties.

3. To mate so as to produce a hybrid; crossbreed.

4. To become involved: In the case of a family argument, a friend should not mix in.

1. An act of mixing.

a. A mixture, especially of ingredients packaged and sold commercially: a cake mix.

b. A blend of diverse elements; an amalgamation: "a mix of mean streets and the grandest boulevards

no other place in Paris is as eclectic and eccentric . . . as the 17th" Jean Rafferty.

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

Phrasal Verbs:

mix down Electronics

To combine all of the audio components of a recording into a final soundtrack or mix.

mix up

1. To confuse; confound: His explanation just mixed me up more. I always mix up the twins.

2. To involve or implicate: He got himself mixed up with the wrong people.

Idiom:

mix it up Slang

To fight.

[Back-formation from Middle English mixt, mixed, mixed, from Anglo-Norman mixte, from Latin mixtus, past participle of miscre, to mix; see meik- in Indo-European roots.]

mixa·ble adj.

Synonyms: mix, blend, mingle, merge, amalgamate, coalesce, fuse²
These verbs mean to put into or come together in one mass so that constituent parts or elements are diffused or commingled. Mix is the least specific: The cook mixed eggs, flour, and sugar. Greed and charity don't mix.
To blend is to mix intimately and harmoniously so that the components lose their original definition: The clerk blended mocha and java coffee beans. Snow-covered mountains blended into the clouds.
Mingle implies combination without loss of individual characteristics: "Respect was mingled with surprise" Sir Walter Scott. "His companions mingled freely and joyously with the natives" Washington Irving.
Merge and amalgamate imply resultant homogeneity: Tradition and innovation are merged in this new composition. Twilight merged into night. "The four sentences of the original are amalgamated into two" William Minto.
Coalesce implies a slow merging: Indigenous peoples and conquerors coalesced into the present-day population.
Fuse emphasizes an enduring union, as that formed by heating metals: "He diffuses a tone and spirit of unity, that blends, and (as it were) fuses, each into each" Samuel Taylor Coleridge.

mix

Verb

1. to combine or blend into one mass or substance: mix the water, yeast, and flour into a smooth dough

2. to be able to combine into one substance: oil and water do not mix

3. to form by combining different substances: to mix cement

4. to do at the same time: to mix business and pleasure

5. to be outgoing in social situations: he mixed well

6. Music to balance and adjust individual performers' parts to make an overall sound by electronic means

Noun

1. something produced by mixing; mixture

2. a mixture of ingredients, esp. one commercially prepared for making a cake

3. Music the sound produced by mixing

See also mix-up [Latin miscere]

mixed adj

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Noun	1.	mix - a commercially prepared mixture of dry ingredients premix ready-mix - a commercial preparation containing most of the ingredients for a dish self-raising flour, self-rising flour - a commercially prepared mixture of flour and salt and a leavening agent concoction, intermixture, mixture - any foodstuff made by combining different ingredients; "he volunteered to taste her latest concoction"; "he drank a mixture of beer and lemonade"
	2.	mix - an event that combines things in a mixture; "a gradual mixture of cultures" mixture combining, combine - an occurrence that results in things being united concoction - an occurrence of an unusual mixture; "it suddenly spewed out a thick green concoction" blend - an occurrence of thorough mixing
	3.	mix - the act of mixing together; "paste made by a mix of flour and water"; "the mixing of sound channels in the recording studio" commixture, mixing, intermixture, admixture, mixture compounding, combining, combination - the act of combining things to form a new whole
Verb	1.	mix - mix together different elements; "The colors blend well" coalesce, conflate, fuse, immix, commingle, merge, blend, meld, flux, combine change integrity - change in physical make-up gauge - mix in specific proportions; "gauge plaster" absorb - cause to become one with; "The sales tax is absorbed into the state income tax" meld, melt - lose its distinct outline or shape; blend gradually; "Hundreds of actors were melting into the scene" mix in, blend in - cause (something) to be mixed with (something else); "At this stage of making the cake, blend in the nuts" accrete - grow together (of plants and organs); "After many years the rose bushes grew together" conjugate - unite chemically so that the product is easily broken down into the original compounds admix - mix or blend; "Hyaline casts were admixed with neutrophils" alloy - make an alloy of syncretise, syncretize - become fused stump, mix up - cause to be perplexed or confounded; "This problem stumped her"
	2.	mix - open (a place) to members of all races and ethnic groups; "This school is completely desegregated" desegregate, integrate
	3.	mix - combine (electronic signals); "mixing sounds" combine, compound - put or add together; "combine resources"
	4.	mix - add as an additional element or part; "mix water into the drink" mix in add - make an addition (to); join or combine or unite with others; increase the quality, quantity, size or scope of; "We added two students to that dorm room"; "She added a personal note to her letter"; "Add insult to injury"; "Add some extra plates to the dinner table" dash - add an enlivening or altering element to; "blue paint dashed with white"
	5.	mix - to bring or combine together or with something else; "resourcefully he mingled music and dance" amalgamate, commix, mingle, unify alter, change, modify - cause to change; make different; cause a transformation; "The advent of the automobile may have altered the growth pattern of the city"; "The discussion has changed my thinking about the issue" aggregate, combine - gather in a mass, sum, or whole concoct - make a concoction (of) by mixing combine, compound - combine so as to form a whole; mix; "compound the ingredients" blend, immingle, intermingle, intermix - combine into one; "blend the nuts and raisins together"; "he blends in with the crowd"; "We don't intermingle much"
	6.	mix - mix so as to make a random order or arrangement; "shuffle the cards" shuffle, ruffle manipulate - hold something in one's hands and move it reshuffle - shuffle again; "So as to prevent cheating, he was asked to reshuffle the cards" riffle - shuffle (playing cards) by separating the deck into two parts and riffling with the thumbs so the cards intermix cut - divide a deck of cards at random into two parts to make selection difficult; "Wayne cut"; "She cut the deck for a long time"