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mixer|ˈmɪksə(r)|
[f. mix v. + -er1.]
1. a. One who mixes (in various senses of the vb.); spec. in various manufactures, the workman who performs the operation of ‘mixing’.
1611Cotgr., Meslangeur, a mingler, mixer, blender. 1828Scott Tales Grandf. Ser. ii. xlvii. (1841) 207/2 The wretched mixer of the poison was tried and executed. 1854Longfellow Catawba Wine ix, To the sewers and sinks With all such drinks, And after them tumble the mixer. 1884Manch. Exam. 16 Sept. 7/1 Professional mixers [of cotton] had been less successful in their operations. 1897Allbutt's Syst. Med. II. 928 The ‘mixers’ and ‘dippers’ are particularly liable to suffer from phossy jaw [in match factories].
b. One who mixes drinks; a bartender. orig. U.S.
1858Longfellow Catawba Wine in Atlantic Monthly Jan. 271 To the sewers and sinks With all such drinks, And after them tumble the mixer. 1919T. K. Holmes Man from Tall Timber viii. 93 He..drank several insidious concoctions of the hotel's most famous ‘mixer’. 1934M. Allingham Death of Ghost xxiii. 262 There was too much gin in the cocktails, he decided, and reflected that the fault was a common one among unprofessional mixers. 1939C. Isherwood Goodbye to Berlin 21 Bobby is a mixer at a west-end bar.
c. Cinemat. and Broadcasting. One who operates the mixer (sense 2 b) during sound recording and is responsible for balancing different signal sources and producing transitions from one source to another.
1929F. Green Film finds its Tongue xiii. 186 A ‘mixing booth’ or monitor room had been built about 15 feet up... It had glass sides through which the ‘mixer’ could view everything that was going on. 1948L. Levy Music for Movies iv. 35 Just before writing this I had been sitting at the control desk in a mixer's cabinet during the rehearsals for a new picture. 1957Manvell & Huntley Technique Film Music iv. 183 Regular consultation with the Music Mixer is necessary to ensure that the complete intention of the composer is..being registered on the sound-track.
2. a. A machine or mechanical contrivance for mixing. Also with defining word. spec. a domestic electrical appliance for mixing foods, ingredients for cookery, etc. See also cake-mixer, electric mixer.
1876Catal. Sci. App. S. Kens. Mus. (1877) 248 Mixoscope (colour-mixer). 1883Fisheries Exhib. Catal. p. lxxxiii, Patent mixer for mixing hard water supply and lime water. 1898Allbutt's Syst. Med. V. 443 The smaller end of the stirrer may be used to remove the drop of diluted blood from the mixer to the cell. 1901Westm. Gaz. 1 July 7/3 The fall of a workman into a sugar mixer. 1957M. Gair Sapphires on Wednesday xi. 134 It was a kitchen,..American style, complete with refrigerator, dishwasher, mixer, and garbage disposal unit. 1960Harper's Bazaar Oct. 98/2 You must become accustomed to your oven, to your mixer, to your omelette pan. 1974Trafford Catal. Spring–Summer 781/1 Three machines in one—a mixer, a liquidiser and a mincer.
b. Cinemat., Broadcasting, etc. A device designed to receive two or more separate signals, from microphones or other sources, and combine them (usu. in variable proportions) in a single output.
1929F. Green Film finds its Tongue xi. 171 When more than one microphone was used, each of them had an amplifying dial for monitoring. A panel containing more than one such dial was called a ‘Mixer’. 1935Nilson & Hornung Pract. Radio Communication viii. 356 The program fed into the mixer does not always come directly from a microphone but may be fed in from a phonograph pick-up. 1962A. Nisbett Technique Sound Studio ix. 152 Where no mixer is available, it may be that linking music, etc., can be cut in by editing the tape; but I would regard a simple mixer—with two faders—as the very minimum for creative programme work. 1968C. N. G. Matthews Tape Recording xi. 109 To do full justice to any group of instrumentalists you need more than one microphone and also a mixer.
c. Electronics. A valve or circuit that produces an output signal containing frequencies equal to the sum and the difference of the frequencies of two input signals. Freq. attrib., as mixer tube, mixer valve, etc.
1936Proc. IRE XXIV. 208 (caption) Typical mixer circuit using 6L7 tube. Ibid. 210 The conversion conductance of a mixer tube. 1938F. E. Terman Fund. Radio ix. 249 The heterodyne detector.., commonly referred to as first detector, converter, or mixer, is required to develop a difference frequency..by combining the incoming radio wave with a local oscillation differing in frequency by the desired amount. 1952E. Armitage Wireless Fund. xviii. 324 The frequency-changing stage of a superhet consists of two parts—(1) a beat oscillator generating a signal of constant amplitude, and (2) a mixer valve into which are fed, on to different grids, both the aerial signal and the beat oscillator signal. 1968Radio Communication Handbk. (ed. 4) 48/2 Any non-linear circuit element will act as a mixer, that is to say if frequencies f1, f2 are combined in the element, frequencies f1, f2, f1 + f2 and f1 - f2 will be present in the output.
3. A person in respect of his capacity for mixing with others; a sociable person; esp. good mixer, one who mixes readily with others. orig. U.S.
1896Ade Artie xii. 105 I'm a good mixer and I've kind o' got next to the live ones. 1904W. H. Smith Promoters xx. 287 He was a most excellent ‘mixer’, told a story well [etc.]. 1917Wodehouse Man with Two Left Feet 91 Some men are shy and some men are mixers. 1925W. S. Maugham in Good Housekeeping Sept. 15/2 He was a good mixer, and in three days he knew everyone on the ship. 1930R. Macaulay Staying with Relations xix. 281 Good plumbers, but poor mixers; that's what we are. 1937[see cerebrotonic a. and n.]. 1955Times 18 Aug. 4/6 A man who is a ready mixer and with a natural flair for salesmanship may make {pstlg}1,000 a year. 1967N. Freeling Strike Out 148 You needed to..get on well with all the murderers? A ‘good mixer’—a ‘good team man’. 1975Listener 24 July 126/3 He is neither so astute a tactician nor so gifted a mixer with his own men.
4. A social gathering for making people acquainted with each other. U.S. colloq.
1916Dialect Notes IV. 277 A very successful mixer was given on Charter day. 1948Downers Grove (Illinois) Reporter 21 Oct. 1/8 The Trojan Fathers Fall Mixer will take place Tuesday, Oct. 26 at the high school auditorium.
5. A drink with which an alcoholic liquor is diluted, as soda water, etc.; an alcoholic drink used in cocktails. Also attrib. orig. U.S.
1938D. Baker Young Man with Horn iii. i. 147 They worked all possible combinations of bootleg gin and mixers, orange juice, lemon juice, grapefruit juice..and..root beer. 1948Sun (Baltimore) 1 Jan. 15/1 In the case of the Tom Collins, it's largely a matter of which mixer should be used, plain soda or ginger ale. 1961Encounter XVI. v. 81 Using Coca-cola as what the Americans call ‘a mixer’. 1961Guardian 21 Nov. 13/1 Vodka has become, like gin, an international ‘mixer’,..used to make martinis or to drink with tonic water. 1965Economist 11 Dec. 1251/1 It [sc. Beechams] has just introduced a number of ‘mixer’ drinks to compete with Schweppes. 1968Daily Tel. (Colour Suppl.) 13 Dec. 41/4 Port was traditionally enjoyed here as a mixer—mulled, say, in the way Dr Johnson liked it, with spices, orange, and cloves. 1975T. Teal tr. Sjöwall & Wahlöö's Cop Killer vii. 69 ‘Do you drink?’ ‘Yes... But..not lukewarm vodka with no mixer.’
6. A trouble-maker. slang.
1938Partridge Dict. Slang (ed. 2) 1014/1 He's a reg'lar mixer! 1964J. Burke Hard Day's Night i. 21 He's a king mixer. Ibid. iv. 84 ‘The old mixer,’ growled Paul. ‘Come on—we'll have to put him right.’ Ibid. v. 116 ‘Look,’ said Paul slowly and deliberately, ‘he's a mixer and a trouble⁓maker!’ 1966A. E. Lindop I start Counting xviii. 226, I knew what a mixer she was, and I knew she was not capable of keeping a secret.
7. attrib., as mixer tap, a tap through which both hot and cold water can be drawn in various proportions; mixer valve, a valve by which the proportions of the fluids or gases in a mixture are regulated.
1936Archit. Rev. LXXX. 325/2 Mixer taps or hand showers are worth the extra cost of {pstlg}2 or {pstlg}3 they entail. 1972House & Garden Dec.–Jan. 85/3 Mixer taps by Trufords..gold-plated.
1904Electr. World & Engin. 2 Jan. 22/1 This magnet controls a compressed air valve, and this compressed air valve in turn controls a large mixer valve.
So ˈmixeress, a female mixer.
1830W. Taylor Hist. Surv. Germ. Poetry II. 480 A poison-mixeress Ought not to sully England's royal throne. |