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/mˈɪksɪŋ/ Listen

verb

Mix v. t. (past & past part. mixed, less properly mixt; pres. part. mixing)

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. "Fair persuasions mixed with sugared words."

To unite with in company; to join; to associate. "Ephraim, he hath mixed himself among the people."

To form by mingling; to produce by the stirring together of ingredients; to compound of different parts. "Hast thou no poison mixed?" "I have chosen an argument mixed of religious and civil considerations."

To combine (two or more activities) within a specified or implied time frame; as, to mix studying and partying while at college.

Mix v. i.

To become united into a compound; to be blended promiscuously together.

To associate; to mingle; as, Democrats and Republicans mixed freely at the party. "He had mixed Again in fancied safety with his kind."

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Etymology of 'Mixing'

Collaborative International Dictionary of English 0.48

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"Mixing" Quotes from Famous Books

... for me," was the laconic reply. "Yur right 'bout that. Its from old Hatcher's still—whar they us'ally put the water in afore they give ye the licker. I s'pose they do it to save a fellur the trouble o' mixing—Ha! ha! ha!" The squatter laughed at his own jest-mot as if he enjoyed it to any great extent, but rather as if desirous of putting his visitor in good-humour. The only evidence of his success was a dry smile, that curled upon the thin ...

— The Wild Huntress - Love in the Wilderness • Mayne Reid

... lamp. He gazed with astonishment at the piano. But that could wait. He was hungry. In a few minutes he had a fire going, plates laid for two, had made coffee and cut bacon. He was mixing the dough for hot biscuit when he heard some one ride up. He stepped to the door. A bulky figure was pulling a saddle from a ...

— Jim Waring of Sonora-Town - Tang of Life • Knibbs, Henry Herbert

... Londoners by their walk, the flagstones having no grip for their feet, or, if they had come south late in life, by their backs, which they carried at the angle on which webs are most easily supported. When mixing with the world they talked the English tongue, which came out of them as broad as if it had been squeezed through a mangle, but when the day's work was done, it was only a few of the giddier striplings ...

— Sentimental Tommy - The Story of His Boyhood • J. M. Barrie

... great change comes over the throwing-stick, just as though it had been stopped by Cape Romanzoff, or new game had called for modification, or a mixing of new peoples had modified their tools (Figs. 15-17). The index-finger cavity and the hole for the index finger are here dropped entirely, after extending from Greenland uninterruptedly to Cape Romanzoff. The handle is conspicuously wide, while the body of the implement is very ...

— Throwing-sticks in the National Museum • Otis T. Mason

... the storing of powder because of the danger, seeing they could, on his calculation, from the materials lying ready for mixing, in one week prepare enough to keep all the ordnance on the castle walls busy for two. But indeed he had not such a high opinion of gunpowder but that he believed engines for projection, more powerful as well as less ...

— St. George and St. Michael • George MacDonald

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