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mix

/ˈmɪks/

mix verb: to stir together.

Verb

mix (third-person singular simple present mixes, present participle mixing, simple past and past participle mixed)

  1. (transitive) To stir together.
    • Mix the eggs and milk with the flour until the consistency is smooth.
    • In a medium bowl, mix together the leeks, lemon zest, the remaining ¼ teaspoon salt, and the remaining 1½ tablespoons oil.2022, Melissa Clark, Dinner in One, →ISBN
    Synonyms:
    blend
  2. (transitive) To combine (items from two or more sources normally kept separate).
    • to mix business with pleasure
    • Don't mix the meat recipes with the dairy recipes.
    Synonyms:
    mix together, mix up, muddle, muddle up
  3. (ambitransitive) To form by mingling; to produce by the stirring together of ingredients; to concoct from different parts.
    • Yellow and blue paint mix to make green.
    • Hast thou no poison mixed?c. 1591–1595 (date written), William Shakespeare, “The Tragedie of Romeo and Ivliet”, in Mr. William Shakespeares Comedies, Histories, & Tragedies […] (First Folio), London: […] Isaac Iaggard, and...
  4. (transitive) To blend by the use of a mixer (machine).
    • Mix the egg whites until they are stiff.
  5. (transitive) To combine (several tracks).
    • I'll mix the rhythm tracks down to a single track.
  6. (transitive) To produce a finished version of (a recording).
    • I'm almost done mixing this song.
  7. (ambitransitive) To unite with in company; to join; to associate.
    • Ephraim, he hath mixed himself among the people.1611, The Holy Bible, […] (King James Version), London: […] Robert Barker, […], →OCLC, Hosea 7:8
    • The mention of the six knots of elderwood is curious, for that tree mixes largely in folk lore.1866, William Henderson, Notes on the Folk-lore of the Northern Counties of England and the Borders, page 183

Noun

mix (plural mixes)

  1. The result of mixing two or more substances; a mixture.
    • Now add the raisins to the mix.
    • […] fifteen flavors of powdered mixes in traditional scoop-out packages, seven flavors of single-serve bottled drinks, and three flavors of multiserve bottles.2015, Don E. Schultz, Beth E. Barnes, Heidi F. Schultz, Building Customer-brand Relationships, page 102
  2. The result of combining items normally kept separate.
    • My recipe file was now a mix of meat and dairy.
    • The combination of classical music and hip hop is a surprisingly good mix.
  3. A preparation, usually in the form of a powder, into which other ingredients can be mixed to prepare a specified foodstuff.
    • Cake mix. Pancake mix. Hot chocolate mix.
  4. The result of mixing several tracks.
    • The rhythm mix sounds muddy.
  5. The finished version of a recording.
    • I've almost finished the mix for this song.
  6. (US, slang, uncountable) A substance used to dilute or adulterate an illicit drug.
    • Eventually I could taste different drugs and tell how much mix in it or if there’s too much mix in it or what have you.1977, John Allen, chapter 11, in Assault with a Deadly Weapon: The Autobiography of a Street Criminal,, New York: Pantheon Books, page 160
    Synonyms:
    cut

Proper noun capitalized: Mix

Mix

  1. A surname.
  2. An unincorporated community in Pointe Coupee Parish, Louisiana, United States. From the surname.

mix meaning in Hindi, Tamil, Marathi and Urdu

mix in Hindi

stir two or more substances together
मिलाना milānā

mix in Tamil

கலக்கு, கலந்து பழகு, கலவை

mix in Marathi

to mix
कालवणे kālavṇe, मिसळणे misaḷṇe

mix in Urdu

stir two or more substances together
ملانا milānā
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mix in Bengali
মাখা makha
mix in Telugu
కలుపు kalupu, కలయు kalayu, మేళవించు mēḷaviñcu
mix in Malayalam
കലരുക kalaruka, കലർത്തുക kalaṟttuka, കുഴയ്ക്കുക kuḻaykkuka
mix in Kannada
ಬೆರಕೆ, ಮಿಶ್ರಣ, ಬೆರೆಸು, ಕಲಸು
mix in Punjabi
گھلنا ghulṇā, رلنا ralṇā
mix in Gujarati
મિશ્રણ કરો, મિક્સ કરો
mix in Odia
ମିଶ୍ରଣ କରନ୍ତୁ
mix in Sanskrit
श्रीणाति śrīṇāti
mix in Assamese
মিহলা mihola, মিহলোৱা miholüa
mix in Arabic
خَلَطَ ḵalaṭa, مَزَجَ mazaja
mix in Malay
campur
mix in Indonesian
mencampurkan
mix in Persian
آمیختن âmixtan, آمیزه âmize, مخلوط maxlut, میکساژ miksâž
mix in Thai
ผสม pà-sǒm
mix in Vietnamese
pha
mix in Myanmar
နယ် nai, မွှေ hmwe, စရနယ် ca.ra.nai

Examples of mix in a sentence

  • You can create the color orange by mixing yellow and red.
  • The mix should include a good selection of large, medium, and small ag.
  • If the mix is too fluid, the ags can sink away from the surface.

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Synonyms of mix

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Antonyms

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Forms of mix

third-person singular presentmixes
present participlemixing
past participlemixed
pastmixed
first-person singular past (archaic)mix'd
first-person singular past (archaic)mixt
second-person singular present (archaic)mixest
second-person singular past (archaic)mixedst
second-person singular past (archaic)mix'd
second-person singular past (archaic)mixt
third-person singular present (archaic)mixeth
third-person singular past (archaic)mix'd
third-person singular past (archaic)mixt
plural past (archaic)mix'd
plural past (archaic)mixt
past subjunctive (archaic)mix'd
past subjunctive (archaic)mixt

Past tense of mix: mixed

Plural of mix: mixes

Origin of mix

From Middle English mixen (attested in past tense as mixed, myxyd), from Old English *mixian, miscian, from Proto-West Germanic *miskijan, from Proto-West Germanic *miskijan (“to mix”), from Proto-Indo-European *miḱ-sḱé-ti, from *meyǵ-, *meyḱ- (“to mix”). Cognate with Saterland Frisian miskje (“to mix, blend”), Middle Dutch mischen (“to mix”), Low German misken, mischen (“to mix”), Old High German miskian, miskēn (“to mix”) (German mischen), Welsh mysgu (“to mix”), Latin misceō (“mix”), Ancient Greek μῑ́γνῡμῐ (mī́gnūmĭ, “to mix”), Old Church Slavonic мѣсити (měsiti, “to mix”), Lithuanian mišti and maišyti (“to mix”), Sanskrit मिश्र (miśra, “mixed”), Persian آمیختن (âmixtan, “to mix”), Old English māsc (“mixture, mash”). More at mash.

A merger of a nominal use of the verb and a borrowing from Anglo-Norman mixte, from Latin mixtus, past participle of misceō (“mix”). Nowadays regarded automatically as the nominal form of the verb.

Words formed from mix

Phrases with mix

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Words that rhyme with mix

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Questions about mix

What does mix mean?
Mix means to stir together.
What is mix in Hindi?
Mix in Hindi is मिलाना (milānā). See Mix meaning in Hindi.
What part of speech is mix?
Mix can be a verb, a noun or a proper noun.
How do you pronounce mix?
Mix is pronounced /ˈmɪks/.
What is the past tense of mix?
The past tense of mix is mixed.

Words near mix in the dictionary

  1. Miwokans
  2. Miwoks
  3. MIWs
  4. Miwuk
  5. Miwuks
  6. mix
  7. mix and match
  8. mix apples and oranges
  9. mix bag
  10. mix bags
  11. mix belt

Source and license

Adapted from Wiktionary: mix (page history and authors); Mix (page history and authors); mix (Tamil Wiktionary) (page history and authors); कालवणे (Marathi) (page history and authors); মাখা (Bengali) (page history and authors); కలయు (Telugu) (page history and authors); കലരുക (Malayalam) (page history and authors); mix (Kannada Wiktionary) (page history and authors); رلنا (Punjabi) (page history and authors); mix (Gujarati, IndicTrans2 machine translation) (model and license); mix (Odia, IndicTrans2 machine translation) (model and license). Text available under the Creative Commons Attribution-ShareAlike 4.0 license. Word.ws reformatted the entry and added links. Wiktionary data of 2026-09-02.

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