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Mixed   /mɪkst/   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."


adjective
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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"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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