mix

Meanings

Verb

• To stir together.
• To combine (items from two or more sources normally kept separate).
• To form by mingling; to produce by the stirring together of ingredients; to concoct from different parts.
• To blend by the use of a mixer .
• To combine (several tracks).
• To produce a finished version of (a recording).
• To unite with in company; to join; to associate.

Noun

• The result of mixing two or more substances; a mixture.
• The result of combining items normally kept separate.
• The result of mixing several tracks.
• The finished version of a recording.
• A substance used to dilute or adulterate an illicit drug.

Related

Similar words

• mix together, mix up, muddle, muddle up

Origin

• From Middle English mixen, from Old English *mixian, miscian, from Proto-Germanic *miskijaną, from Proto-Indo-European *meyǵ-, *meyḱ-. Cognate with Saterland Frisian miskje ("to mix, blend"), Middle Dutch mischen ("to mix"), Low German misken, mischen, Old High German miskian, miskēn (German mischen), Welsh mysgu ("to mix"), Latin misceō ("mix"), Ancient Greek μίγνυμι ("to mix"), Old Church Slavonic мѣсити ("to mix"), Lithuanian mišti and maišyti, Sanskrit मिश्र ("mixed"), Persian آمیختن ("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. Nowadays regarded automatically as the nominal form of the verb.