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  1. transitive verb To combine or blend into one mass or mixture.
  2. transitive verb To create or form by combining ingredients: mix a drink; mix cement.
  3. transitive verb To add (an ingredient or element) to another: mix an egg into batter.
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  • Back in the mix is the ability for the defense to score on its own. —  Trojans Football News
  • Further complicating the mix are the continued OPEC production cuts. —  The Bonddad Blog
  • What's missing in the mix is the feeling that those negative reviews that do slam out the door every once in a while (from Logan or whoever) are doing so because the work means so much, has so much potentially at stake. —  PoetryFoundation.org
  • All of the components of this mix are about micro interactions, but I believe that public relations is the discipline that gets to the single interactions, the relationships, more closely —  Conversation Agent
  • Gas producers have been historically close-mouthed about what actually goes into the well bore, claiming the mix is a confidential trade secret. —  Gotham Gazette: New York City News and Public Policy
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mixture ·  combination ·  butter ·  amount ·  blend ·  cake ·  product ·  fruit ·  composition ·  sauce ·  cup ·  smell

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mix:   mixes ·  mixing ·  mixed
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  1. Back-formation from Middle English mixt, mixed, mixed, from Anglo-Norman mixte, from Latin mixtus, past participle of miscēre, to mix; see meik- in Indo-European roots.

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  1. from Middle English mixen, transposed from misken (as ax for ask), from Anglo-Saxon miscian = Middle Low German mischen = Old High German miskan, misken, Middle High German G. mischen = Welsh mysgu = Gaelic measg = Old Bulgarian mieshati = Servian mijeshati = Bohemian misheti = Polish mieszac = Russian mieshatĭ, mix; also, Old Bulgarian mieshiti = Servian mijesiti = Bohemian misiti = Polish miesic = Russian miesiti, knead, in Old Bulgarian and Bohemian also mix; = Latin miscere (past participle mistus, mixtus) = Greek μίσγειν, mix; cf. Sanskrit miçro, mixed; with orig. formative -sk, from Teutonic √ mik, Indo-European √ mig, as in Greek μιγνύναι, μιγη̆ναι, mix. The Teutonic forms are prob. native, as the apparently deriv. mash indicates; but. they have prob. been influenced by the L., to which also the Celtic forms may be referred, and to which most of the English words associated with mix are due, namely mixtion, mistion, mixture, etc., admix, commix, etc. From the L. miscere are also derived maslin, maslin, mastiff, messin.
  2. from mix, v.
  3. Also dial. mux; from Middle English mix, mex, from Anglo-Saxon meox (dative meoxe, mixe, myxe) = Friesic miux, miuhs, muck, dung; akin to muck and to forms cited under mist. Hence mixen.
  4. from mix, n. Cf. muck, v.
 

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