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noun

Mixer n.

One who, or that which, mixes.

A person who has social intercourse with others of many sorts; a person viewed as to his casual sociability; commonly used with some characterizing adjective; as, a good mixer; a bad mixer. (Colloq. or Slang, U. S.)

A social gathering, game, or dance organized to provide an opportunity for people to meet each other; as, on the first night of the conference they had a wine-and-cheese mixer.

A nonalcoholic beverage (such as fruit juice, club soda or ginger ale) added to an alcoholic beverage to produce a mixed drink.

Any device used for mixing.

An electronic device for blending or manipulating sounds from different sources to produce a composite soundtrack, for an audio recording, video recording, or a movie.

The technician who operates a mixer 6.

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Etymology of 'Mixer'

Collaborative International Dictionary of English 0.48

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"Mixer" Quotes from Famous Books

... mixer in a carpet mill these forty years, and Metcalf's the only 'Supe' I ever knew could run one without swearing," often remarked the master of the dyeing room. "He does; and a fellow may count himself lucky to ...

— Reels and Spindles - A Story of Mill Life • Evelyn Raymond

... itself the body is for all practical purposes so far as the mind is concerned a petrifaction-machine, a kind of transcendental concrete mixer for pouring one's soul in with some Portland Cement and making one's living idea over into matter, that preserve them and statuefy them in one—just as they are. Unless great spiritual pains are taken to keep things moving, ...

— The Ghost in the White House • Gerald Stanley Lee

... there was one old fellow in the settlement who could read," observed Phil, thoughtfully. "Don't you remember he told us a queer story about old Daddy Mixer, who seems to be some sort of natural doctor among these people, and comes by his name from mixing all sorts of herbs as medicine. He can read; and besides, McGee would believe him where he mightn't ...

— Chums in Dixie - or The Strange Cruise of a Motorboat • St. George Rathborne

... is sufficient for a large number of Bessemer charges, say from seven to twelve charges, or, in other words, from 70 to 120 tons of pig iron, is placed in a mixing vessel. Only a portion of pig iron placed in the mixer is taken for further treatment for steel, while new supplies of pig iron are brought from the blast furnace. In this way homogeneity sufficient ...

— Scientific American Supplement, No. 829, November 21, 1891 • Various

... bend in the road upon a gang of men, road mending. There was a huge concrete mixer and she wondered at the sight of it, a new sign of progress for Bloomfield. There was a stretch of loose rock and a wooden bar blocking the road. Zeke muttered his dismay but did not stop. They rolled right up to the barrier. A man in khaki breeches and ...

— Stubble • George Looms

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