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Mixed

adjective
1.
Consisting of a haphazard assortment of different kinds.  Synonyms: assorted, miscellaneous, motley, sundry.  "Assorted sizes" , "Miscellaneous accessories" , "A mixed program of baroque and contemporary music" , "A motley crew" , "Sundry sciences commonly known as social"
2.
Involving or composed of different races.  Synonym: interracial.  "A mixed neighborhood"



Mix

verb
(past & past part. mixed, less properly mixt; pres. part. mixing)
1.
Mix together different elements.  Synonyms: blend, coalesce, combine, commingle, conflate, flux, fuse, immix, meld, merge.
2.
Open (a place) to members of all races and ethnic groups.  Synonyms: desegregate, integrate.
3.
Combine (electronic signals).
4.
Add as an additional element or part.  Synonym: mix in.
5.
To bring or combine together or with something else.  Synonyms: amalgamate, commix, mingle, unify.
6.
Mix so as to make a random order or arrangement.  Synonyms: ruffle, shuffle.



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"Mixed" Quotes from Famous Books



... I seem to want something different from that stuff that the doctor has mixed for me. If I could only get a little fruit now—a bit of one of those pines you brought on board at Kingston, for instance—I believe it would refresh me ...
— Under the Meteor Flag - Log of a Midshipman during the French Revolutionary War • Harry Collingwood

... fruit, the Scandinavian gods, who, because they sprang from a mixed race, were not all immortal, warded off the approach of old age and disease, and remained vigorous, beautiful, and young through countless ages. These apples were therefore considered very precious indeed, and Idun carefully treasured them in her magic ...
— Myths of the Norsemen - From the Eddas and Sagas • H. A. Guerber

... teeth since late noon-tide? 'Tis Ruffio: Trow'st thou where he dined to-day? In sooth I saw him sit with Duke Humfray. Many good welcomes, and much gratis cheer, Keeps he for every straggling cavalier. An open house, haunted with great resort; Long service mixed with musical disport. Many fair younker with a feathered crest, Chooses much rather be his shot-free guest, To fare so freely with so little cost, Than stake his twelve-pence to a meaner host. Hadst thou not told me, I should surely say He touched no meat of all this ...
— Character Writings of the 17th Century • Various

... remembered about this so-called "octopus" is that there has been no "water" introduced into its capital (perhaps we felt that oil and water would not have mixed); nor in all these years has any one had to wait for money which the Standard owed. It has suffered from great fires and losses, but it has taken care of its affairs in such a way that it has not found it necessary to ...
— Random Reminiscences of Men and Events • John D. Rockefeller

... all of a sudden on Cicero's villa—one of them at least, the Formian—with a mosaic pavement leading thro' lemon gardens down to the sea, and a little fountain as old as the Augustan age bubbling up as fresh, Tennyson says, 'as when its silver sounds mixed with the deep voice of the orator as he sate there in the stillness of the noon day, devoting the siesta-hours to study.' When I first read of these things I wish to see them; but, on reflection, I am sure I see them much better in such letters ...
— Letters of Edward FitzGerald - in two volumes, Vol. 1 • Edward FitzGerald


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