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noun

Mixture n.

1.

The act of mixing, or the state of being mixed; as, made by a mixture of ingredients.

2.

That which results from mixing different ingredients together; a compound; as, to drink a mixture of molasses and water; also, a medley. "There is also a mixture of good and evil wisely distributed by God, to serve the ends of his providence."

3.

An ingredient entering into a mixed mass; an additional ingredient. "Cicero doubts whether it were possible for a community to exist that had not a prevailing mixture of piety in its constitution."

4.

(Med.) A kind of liquid medicine made up of many ingredients; esp., as opposed to solution, a liquid preparation in which the solid ingredients are not completely dissolved.

5.

(Physics & Chem.) A mass of two or more ingredients, the particles of which are separable, independent, and uncompounded with each other, no matter how thoroughly and finely commingled; contrasted with a compound and solution; thus, gunpowder is a mechanical mixture of carbon, sulphur, and niter.

6.

(Mus.) An organ stop, comprising from two to five ranges of pipes, used only in combination with the foundation and compound stops; called also furniture stop. It consists of high harmonics, or overtones, of the ground tone.

Synonyms: Union; admixture; intermixture; medley.

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Etymology of 'Mixture'

Collaborative International Dictionary of English 0.48

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"Mixture" Quotes from Famous Books

... passage from Taylor's HOLY DYING. That horns were the emblem of power and sovereignty among the Eastern nations, and are still retained as such in Abyssinia; the Achelous of the ancient Greeks; and the probable ideas and feelings, that originally suggested the mixture of the human and the brute form in the figure, by which they realized the idea of their mysterious Pan, as representing intelligence blended with a darker power, deeper, mightier, and more universal than the conscious ...

— Biographia Literaria • Samuel Taylor Coleridge

... Vamhidy was obliged to lie one night at a village within his jurisdiction whose inhabitants were a strong mixture of Hungarian, Servian and Wallachian ingredients. Arriving late, it was a long time before he could go to sleep, and he was awakened rather late next morning by an unusual hubbub. His bedchamber was only separated from the large drinking room ...

— The Poor Plutocrats • Maurus Jokai

... his caution, and he took himself away: leaving me in a mixture of contrarious feelings, part ashamed to have played on one so gullible, part raging that I should have burned so much incense before the vanity of England; yet, in the bottom of my soul, delighted to think I had made a friend—or, at least, begun to make ...

— The Works of Robert Louis Stevenson - Swanston Edition Vol. 20 (of 25) • Robert Louis Stevenson

... sideboards painted brown facing each other down at the dark end, with a collection of miscellaneous articles on them: a vinegar cruet that had stood there for years, with remains of vinegar dried up at the bottom; mustard pots containing a dark and wicked mixture that had once been mustard; a broken hand-bell used at long-past dinners, to summon servants long since dead; an old wine register with entries in it of a quarter of a century back; a mouldy bottle of Worcester sauce, still boasting on ...

— The Benefactress • Elizabeth Beauchamp

... prevents the need for extra food—which is a purely theoretical conclusion—now guides the fattening of cattle. By keeping cattle warm, fodder is saved. Experiments of physiologists have proved, not only that change of diet is beneficial, but that digestion is facilitated by a mixture of ingredients in each meal. Both these truths are now influencing cattle-feeding. In the keen race of competition, the farmer who has a competent knowledge of the laws of animal and vegetable physiology and of ...

— In the School-Room - Chapters in the Philosophy of Education • John S. Hart

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