mix (mĭks)

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[Back-formation from Middle English mixt, mixed, mixed, from Anglo-Norman mixte, from Latin mixtus past participle of miscēre, to mix.]

verb: mixed, mix·ing, mix·es. 

transitive verb 

1. 1. To combine or blend into one mass or mixture.
   2. To create or form by combining ingredients: mix a drink; mix cement.
   3. To add (an ingredient or element) to another: mix an egg into batter.
2. To combine or join: mix joy with sorrow.
3. To bring into social contact: mix boys and girls in the classroom.
4. To produce (an organism) by crossbreeding.
5. Electronics
   1. To combine (two or more audio tracks or channels) to produce a composite audio recording.
   2. To produce (a soundtrack or recording) in this manner.

intransitive verb 

1. 1. To become mixed or blended together.
   2. To be capable of being blended together: Oil does not mix with water.
2. To associate socially or get along with others: He does not mix well at parties.
3. To mate so as to produce a hybrid; crossbreed.
4. To become involved: In the case of a family argument, a friend should not mix in.

noun 

1. An act of mixing.
2. 1. A mixture, especially of ingredients packaged and sold commercially: a cake mix.
   2. A blend of diverse elements; an amalgamation: “a mix of mean streets and the grandest boulevards—no other place in Paris is as eclectic and eccentric . . . as the 17th” (Jean Rafferty)
3. Electronics A recording that is produced by combining and adjusting two or more audio tracks or channels.

phrasal verbs

mix down

To combine all of the audio components of a recording into a final soundtrack or mix.

mix up

To confuse; confound: His explanation just mixed me up more. I always mix up the twins.

To involve or implicate: He got himself mixed up with the wrong people.

idioms

mix it up

To fight.

derivatives

mix́a·ble

adjective

synonyms:

mix, blend, mingle, merge, amalgamate, coalesce, fuse² These verbs mean to put into or come together in one mass so that constituent parts or elements are diffused or commingled. Mix is the least specific: The cook mixed eggs, flour, and sugar. Greed and charity don't mix. To blend is to mix intimately and harmoniously so that the components lose their original definition: The clerk blended mocha and java coffee beans. Snow-covered mountains blended into the clouds. Mingle implies combination without loss of individual characteristics: “Respect was mingled with surprise” (Sir Walter Scott) “His companions mingled freely and joyously with the natives” (Washington Irving) Merge and amalgamate imply resultant homogeneity: Tradition and innovation are merged in this new composition. Twilight merged into night. “The four sentences of the original are amalgamated into two” (William Minto) Coalesce implies a slow merging: Indigenous peoples and conquerors coalesced into the present-day population. Fuse emphasizes an enduring union, as that formed by heating metals: “He diffuses a tone and spirit of unity, that blends, and (as it were) fuses, each into each” (Samuel Taylor Coleridge)