mix
/ˈmɪks/ verb, noun, proper noun
Forms mixes mixing mixed mix'd mixt mixest mixedst mixeth
- verb (transitive) To stir together. “Mix the eggs and milk with the flour until the consistency is smooth.”
- verb (transitive) To combine (items from two or more sources normally kept separate). “to mix business with pleasure”
- verb (ambitransitive) 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.”
- verb (transitive) To blend by the use of a mixer (machine). “Mix the egg whites until they are stiff.”
- verb (transitive, music) To combine (several tracks). “I'll mix the rhythm tracks down to a single track.”
- verb (transitive, music) To produce a finished version of (a recording). “I'm almost done mixing this song.”
- verb (ambitransitive) To unite with in company; to join; to associate.
- noun The result of mixing two or more substances; a mixture. “Now add the raisins to the mix.”
- noun The result of combining items normally kept separate. “My recipe file was now a mix of meat and dairy.”
- noun 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.”
- noun (music) The result of mixing several tracks. “The rhythm mix sounds muddy.”
- noun (music) The finished version of a recording. “I've almost finished the mix for this song.”
- noun (US, slang, uncountable) A substance used to dilute or adulterate an illicit drug.
- proper noun A surname.
- proper noun An unincorporated community in Pointe Coupee Parish, Louisiana, United States. From the surname.
Synonyms
blend mix together mix up muddle muddle up combine mingle intermix admix amalgamate bemingle commingle intermingle involve mang meddle ming cut premix mixture commixture admixture intermixture mixing flux conflate immix fuse coalesce meld
Antonyms
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.
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.
Webster’s 1913
- verb To cause a promiscuous interpenetration of the parts of, as of two or more substances with each other, or of one substance with others; to unite or blend into one mass or compound, as by stirring together; to mingle; to blend; as, to mix flour and salt; to mix wines.
- verb To unite with in company; to join; to associate.
- verb To become united into a compound; to be blended promiscuously together.
- verb To associate; to mingle.
Etymology [AS. miscan; akin to OHG. misken, G. mischen, Russ. mieshate, W. mysgu, Gael. measg, L. miscere, mixtum, Gr. miçra mixed. The English word has been influenced by L. miscere, mixtum (cf. Mixture), and even the AS. miscan may have been borrowed fr. L. miscere. Cf. Admix, Mash to bruise, Meddle.]
Sources: Wiktionary · WordNet 3.0 · Webster’s 1913 — from the Wiktionary entry “mix”, CC BY-SA 4.0. Details