mix
Forms
- present (v1)
- mix
- past (v2)
- mixed
- past participle (v3)
- mixed
- present participle
- mixing
- 3rd person singular
- mixes
- Plural
- mixes
Definitions
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).
- 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.
- Therefore J haue chosen an Argument, mixt of Religious and Ciuill Considerations; And likewise mixt between Contemplatiue, and Actiue.
- 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.
4.To blend by the use of a mixer (machine).
- Mix the egg whites until they are stiff.
1.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.
2.The result of mixing two or more substances; a mixture.
- Now add the raisins to the 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.
Frequency
Overall
Uncommon· #2091
By learning goal
- Everyday conversation
- Rare
- General reading & writing
- Uncommon
- Academic
- Rare
- Literature
- Rare
Related words
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”).