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mix
Pronunciation: (miks), [key]
—v., mixed or mixt, mix•ing,
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v.t.
1. to combine (substances, elements, things, etc.) into one mass, collection, or assemblage, generally with a thorough blending of the constituents.
2. to put together indiscriminately or confusedly (often fol. by
up).
3. to combine, unite, or join:
to mix business and pleasure.
4. to add as an element or ingredient:
Mix some salt into the flour.
5. to form or make by combining ingredients:
to mix a cake; to mix mortar.
6. to crossbreed.
7. Motion Pictures.
a. to combine, blend, edit, etc. (the various components of a soundtrack):
to mix dialogue and sound effects.
b. to complete the mixing process on (a film, soundtrack, etc.):
an important movie that took months to mix.
8. to combine (two or more separate recordings or microphone signals) to make a single recording or composite signal.
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v.i.
1. to become mixed:
a paint that mixes easily with water.
2. to associate or mingle, as in company:
to mix with the other guests at a party.
3. to be crossbred, or of mixed breeding.
4. Boxing.to exchange blows vigorously and aggressively:
The crowd jeered as the fighters clinched, refusing to mix.
5. mix down, to mix the tracks of an existing recording to make a new recording with fewer tracks:
the four-track tape was mixed down to stereo.
6. mix it up, Slang.
a. to engage in a quarrel.
b. to fight with the fists.
Also,mix it.
7. mix up,
a. to confuse completely, esp. to mistake one person or thing for another:
The teacher was always mixing up the twins.
b. to involve or entangle.
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n.
1. an act or instance of mixing.
2. the result of mixing; mixture:
cement mix; an odd mix of gaiety and sadness.
3. a commercially prepared blend of ingredients to which usually only a liquid must be added to make up the total of ingredients necessary or obtain the desired consistency:
a cake mix; muffin mix.
4. mixer (def. 4).
5. the proportion of ingredients in a mixture; formula:
a mix of two to one.
6. Informal.a mess or muddle; mix-up.
7. Music.an electronic blending of tracks or sounds made to produce a recording.
Mix
Pronunciation: (miks), [key]—
n.
Thomas Edwin (Tom), 1880–1940, U.S. film actor in westerns.
Random House Unabridged Dictionary, Copyright © 1997, by Random House, Inc., on Infoplease.
