mix
To stir together.
Verb 4 meanings
To stir together.
“Mix the eggs and milk with the flour until the consistency is smooth.”
To combine (items from two or more sources normally kept separate).
“to mix business with pleasure”
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.”
To blend by the use of a mixer (machine).
“Mix the egg whites until they are stiff.”
Noun 4 meanings
The result of mixing two or more substances; a mixture.
“Now add the raisins to the mix.”
The result of combining items normally kept separate.
“My recipe file was now a mix of meat and dairy.”
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.”
The result of mixing several tracks.
“The rhythm mix sounds muddy.”
Etymology
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”).
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MIX at a glance
MIX has 3 letters and scores 12 points in Scrabble (M 3 + I 1 + X 8) and 13 in Words With Friends, before board bonuses. It ranks #1,954 by how often it appears in everyday English. It is valid in ENABLE, NWL2023, Collins/SOWPODS.
Rhymes with mix
All rhymes- REMIX14
- COMIX16
- INTERMIX17
- PREMIX17
- OVERMIX19
- UNMIX14
- ADMIX15
- BEMIX16
- COMMIX19
- IMMIX16
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