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Mixed adj. Formed by mixing; united; mingled; blended. See Mix, v. t. & i.

Mixed action (Law), a suit combining the properties of a real and a personal action.

Mixed angle, a mixtilineal angle.

Mixed fabric, a textile fabric composed of two or more kinds of fiber, as a poplin.

Mixed marriage, a marriage between persons of different races or religions; specifically, one between a Roman Catholic and a Protestant.

Mixed number, a whole number and a fraction taken together.

Mixed train, a railway train containing both passenger and freight cars.

Mixed voices (Mus.), voices of both males and females united in the same performance.

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Etymology of 'Mixed'

Collaborative International Dictionary of English 0.48

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"Mixed" Quotes from Famous Books

... returning from his father's house to the Mission with equally mixed emotions. He knew he had dealt an almost unforgivable blow to those beloved parents whom he had honored and obeyed from his babyhood. Once he almost turned back. Then a vision arose of a fair young English ...

— The Moccasin Maker • E. Pauline Johnson

... last was," retorted Eldrick. He turned to Collingwood as the junior partner sauntered out of the room. "Rather odd that Pascoe should draw my attention to that just now," he remarked. "This man Parrawhite was, in a certain sense, mixed up with Pratt—at least, Pratt and I are the only two people who know the secret of Parrawhite's disappearance from these offices. That was just about the time of your ...

— The Talleyrand Maxim • J. S. Fletcher

... not a man to trouble himself with the affairs of other people unless his own interests were in some way affected thereby. M. Paul Platzoff might have been mixed up with all the plots in Europe for anything the Captain cared: it was a mere question of taste, and he never interfered with another man's tastes when they did not clash with his own. Besides, in the present case, his attention was claimed by what to him was a matter of far more serious interest. ...

— The Argosy - Vol. 51, No. 3, March, 1891 • Various

... companies in which Enguerrand de Vandemar and Victor de Mauleon commanded. In the first were many young men of good family, or in the higher ranks of the bourgeoisie, known to numerous lookers-on; there was something inspiriting in their gay aspects, and in the easy carelessness of their march. Mixed with this company, however, and forming of course the bulk of it, were those who belonged to the lower classes of the population; and though they too might seem gay to an ordinary observer, the gaiety was forced. Many of them were evidently ...

— The Parisians, Complete • Edward Bulwer-Lytton

... they say they live like Pashas now they have only the lady to please; that it will be a pleasure to 'lick my shoes clean,' whereas the boots of the Cameriera were intolerable. The feeling of the Arab servants towards European colleagues is a little like that of 'niggers' about 'mean whites'—mixed hatred, fear, and scorn. The two have done so well to make me comfortable that I have no possible reason for insisting on encumbering myself with 'an old man of the sea,' in the shape of a maid; and the ...

— Letters from Egypt • Lucie Duff Gordon

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