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Mix   /mɪks/   Listen
verb
Mix  v. t.  (past & past part. mixed, less properly mixt; pres. part. mixing)  
1.
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."
2.
To unite with in company; to join; to associate. "Ephraim, he hath mixed himself among the people."
3.
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."
4.
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.  
1.
To become united into a compound; to be blended promiscuously together.
2.
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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"Mix" Quotes from Famous Books



... you require to live in a place some time, and must probably buy your experience pretty dearly, before you find these out. And even they in many trades cannot help contamination. It is very difficult to mix thoroughly in business without dirtying your hands; it requires no ordinary moral courage to keep them clean when there is so much filthy lucre about. A man who is determined never to diverge from the ...
— Town Life in Australia - 1883 • R. E. N. (Richard) Twopeny
... war's been such a mix-up that seven men out of ten will change their careers, when they come back. . . . Babs . . . do you care for Jack ...
— The Education of Eric Lane • Stephen McKenna
... least my uncle had no other children, and there were neither brothers nor sisters except him and my father. Still, as he left a widow who had a good big property on her own account, and was connected with a lot of grandee families, there was no occasion for me to mix myself up in the affair; and, indeed, it never entered my head to do so. Yet, Clancy and I were great friends, and I should be glad to know what has become of his girl. I fancy that she is about your age, and if Moore ...
— With Moore At Corunna • G. A. Henty
... second-best course of action, in order to avoid stagnation or retrogression. We misunderstand all this, and go on to suppose that there are the same grounds why we should in our own minds acquiesce in second-best opinions; why we should mix a little alloy of conventional expression with the too fine ore of conviction; why we should adopt beliefs that we suspect in our hearts to be of more than equivocal authenticity, but into whose antecedents we do not greatly care to inquire, because they stand so well with the general public. This ...
— On Compromise • John Morley
... straight rows of plants, or that such an one, [1] being ignorant what soil was best suited to bear vines, had set his plants in sterile ground, or that another [2] was in ignorance that fallow must be broken up for purposes of sowing, or that a third [3] was not aware that it is good to mix manure in with the soil. No, you are much more likely to hear said of So-and-so: No wonder the man gets in no wheat from his farm, when he takes no pains to have it sown or properly manured. Or of some other ...
— The Economist • Xenophon


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