mixn.²

Brit.

/mɪks/, U.S.

/mɪks/

Origin: Formed within English, by conversion. Etymon: mix v.

Etymology: < mix v. Compare earlier mixture n.Rare before the 19th cent.

a. The act or result of mixing; a mixture; (formerly esp.) a muddle, a state of confusion.

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the world > relative properties > wholeness > mutual relation of parts to whole > condition or state of being mixed or blended > [noun] > action or fact of mixing

mingingOE

mongling?c1225

mellinga1375

commixtiona1398

mixtiona1398

compounding1398

meddlinga1400

intermelling1413

mashing1440

medlure?a1475

commistion1495

contemperation1502

intermixtion?1520

mixing1525

mixture1530

mixting1532

minglinga1535

mingle1548

temperature1550

contemperament1565

commixture1567

intermingling1576

commixing1583

intermixture1592

mixc1595

minglement1602

interblending1605

contempering1609

intermeddling1611

contemperating1617

mistion1617

immixtion1653

immistion1658

alloy1672

intermixing1690

blendure1701

intermingledom1753

blending1795

comminglement1833

commingling1854

co-mingling1856

immixture1859

interminglement1873

interfuse1887

melding1939

the world > relative properties > order > disorder > confusion or disorder > [noun] > a state of confused disorder

feery-fary1535

puddle1587

bauchle1600

vertigo1702

whemmel1817

mull1821

mix-up1841

scrimmage1852

embroilment1856

hash-up1860

brangle1865

mucker1867

unplight1876

car wreck1877

mix1882

mess-up1902

stirabout1905

pot mess1914

boorach1928

balls-up1929

muck-up1930

balls1938

box1941

Chinese fire drill1943

snafu1943

foul-up1944

screw-up1950

snarl-up1960

tiswas1960

bumble-bath1965

clusterfuck1969

headfuck1983

car crash1992

katogo1994

dumpster fire2008

c1595 Countess of Pembroke Psalme cxlvii. 23 in Coll. Wks. (1998) II. 249 O make harmonious mix of voice and string.

1839 T. Hood Hood's Own 377 Conceive the snoring of a greedy swine, The slobbering of a hungry Ursine Sloth—If you have ever heard such creature dine—And—for Hog's Norton, make a mix of both!

1879 Appletons' Jrnl. May 447/1 I fell down, and they all capsized, turned turtle..one after the other, over each other's legs. Never saw such a mix.

1882 W. D. Howells Likely Story (1897) iii. 56 She'll show the note to Miss Greenway, and you'll be ruined. Oh, poor Mr. Welling! Oh, what a fatal, fatal—mix!

1893 A. Fuller Lit. Courtship xv. 156 I thought of her clear eye and her healthy way of looking and talking, and I was more in a mix than ever.

1901 Harper's Mag. Apr. 761/1 ‘It has all been a mix and a muddle’, she answered.

1905 Speaker 3 June 231/1 They made an indescribable mix and blend of colour.

1912 L. Greenbaum & M. Greenbaum Pract. Dentistry xxvii. 457 It is best to subject the mass to the least amount of stirring conducive to a homogeneous mix.

1977 N.Z. Herald 8 Jan. i. 1/9 The Maori mix came when the Cairns' eldest daughter Isobel married a Maori.

b. Printing. An instance of the accidental running together of unconnected portions of text. Now rare.

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1897 Daily News 29 Nov. 6/3 A somewhat different class of Printers' errors are those that arise from what are technically known as ‘mixes’—that is the accidental running together of sentences..which have no connexion.

1909 Daily Chron. 2 June 4/6 When the Imperial Press Conference gets through its serious business, it might devote an afternoon to cable ‘mixes’, and how to prevent them.

a. A prepared mixture of ingredients from which a cake or other item of food or drink is made, usually with the addition of further ingredients. More generally: any mixture of two or more physical components or constituents.Often with modifying word: for more established compounds see the first element.

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the world > food and drink > food > substances for food preparation > [noun] > batter or cake-mix

battera1475

pancake batter1615

cake mix1913

mix1922

sponge mixture1926

1922 T. Mojonnier & H. C. Troy Techn. Control Dairy Products xiii. 276 Ice cream made from mix No. 9 will feel about 12·00 per cent warmer to the tongue than ice cream made from mix No. 1.

1937 Archit. Rev. 82 57/3 The hearth-scene surround is constructed of re-inforced concrete, rendered in a mix of latex-rubber and ciment fondu.

1938 F. Fiene & S. Blumenthal Handbk. Food Manuf. 332 Sponge cake mix.

1962 Listener 29 Mar. 579/2 When the egg mix is light and foamy add to it the sauce.

1966 Economist 9 Apr. 175/1 Acrylics (woolly, fluffy fibres used in knitwear mostly) and polyesters (mostly used in wool mixes, now bulked in jersey-knits) are bound to follow the same course as nylon.

1971 M. McCarthy Birds of Amer. 31 First a cake made with a mix and then a real one.

2000 Caterer & Hotelkeeper 25 May 68/4 The Vegetarian Mini-Drummer is a mix of sweetcorn, green beans and carrots.

b. figurative. A combination of different qualities, features, etc., which make an integrated whole.

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the world > relative properties > wholeness > mutual relation of parts to whole > condition or state of being mixed or blended > [noun] > a mixture

mingingOE

mungc1175

meddlingc1384

mellaya1400

mixture?a1425

commixtion?a1439

medley1440

brothc1515

mingly1545

mingle1548

maslin1574

miscellane1582

commixture1590

flaumpaump1593

salad1603

miscellany1609

common1619

cento1625

misturea1626

mixtil1654

concrete1656

contemperation1664

ragout1672

crasis1677

alloy1707

mixtible1750

galimatias1762

misc.1851

syllabub1859

mixtry1862

cocktail1868

blend1883

admix1908

mix-up1918

mix1959

meld1973

katogo1994

1959 Life (Internat. ed.) 13 Apr. 20/2 The new term is ‘mix’. There is, says the Administration, an adequate ‘mix’ of forces to maintain our deterrent.

1964 M. McLuhan Understanding Media (1967) v. 60 Oral societies are made up of people differentiated..by their unique emotional mixes.

1970 Daily Tel. 9 Apr. 36/5 The mix of dancing, cabaret, drinking and gaming created an undesirable temptation to young people.

1982 T. A. Shippey Road to Middle-Earth vii. 174 In repeated versions he explains laboriously that Gandalf forced Bilbo on Thorin..because he thought Bilbo had the right ‘mix’ of Took and Baggins.

1990 Public Relations Jrnl. May 16/3 Executives, recently asked whether they've yet used LPTV as part of their public relations mix, confessed ignorance.

a. Film, Broadcasting, etc. The action or an act of combining or merging film pictures or soundtracks; a transition between two pictures or sounds in which one fades out as the other fades in; a dissolve. Cf. mix v. 7.

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society > communication > broadcasting > putting on or producing broadcast > [noun] > various techniques

fade1918

mix1922

pre-emphasis1940

society > leisure > the arts > performance arts > cinematography > filming > special effect > [noun] > others

mix1922

iris-in1929

iris-out1929

superimposition1931

wipe1933

hanging miniature1937

matched dissolve1953

match dissolve1959

super1959

multiple image1965

1922 L. C. Macbean Kinematogr. Studio Technique ix. 71 The number of turns in which a ‘mix’ or ‘fade’ should be accomplished.

1932 Wireless World 16 Mar. 276/1 A sound-mix, which corresponds to a picture-mix (when the picture dissolves into another picture) is done by starting with one microphone set at its gain figure and the second microphone set at zero gain.

1932 Wireless World 16 Mar. 276/1 For a smooth mix, the two knobs must be turned as nearly as possible at the same speed.

1960 D. Wilson Television Playwright 15 By means of ‘mixes’ and ‘fades’ short or long time-lapses can be established.

1987 D. Clandfield Canad. Film vi. 113 McLaren's C'est l'aviron (1944) used staggered overlapping mixes to produce the illusion of a canoe's forward movement through landscape.

b. Sound Recording. The combination of separate sound signals in suitable proportions to create a single composite recording; a version of a record produced by this process (cf. remix n.).

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society > communication > record > recording or reproducing sound or visual material > sound recording and reproduction > [noun] > result of combining different sounds

sound-mix1932

mixdown1969

mix1972

1972 G. Gould Let. 8 Jan. in Sel. Lett. (1992) 173 The voice-track was taped approximately six weeks ago, a four-track was moved into my apartment for two days, and mix was done a month back.

1977 Rolling Stone 13 Jan. 52/2 One would hardly be able to hear it in Jack Douglas' overpowering mix.

1987 Making Music Feb. 11/5 Some record companies still consider 12in mixes to be ‘promotion’ even though they sometimes outsell the 7in version.

1995 Alternative Press May 83/1 ‘Vali’ pushes an acoustic guitar up in the mix while washes of electronic sound cycle in and out.

c. Music. A set of continuous uninterrupted music (typically dance music) produced by mixing a number of recordings, tracks, samples, etc. Cf. mix v. 9.

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society > leisure > the arts > music > piece of music > type of piece > [noun] > medley or mix

medley1626

pasticcio1742

pot-pourri1790

quodlibet?c1809

selection1857

pastiche1934

mix1976

1976 Billboard 23 Oct. 42/1 Miller, who programs only disco product, accepts no requests... He admits he visits other discos, stealing other mixes, and blends their techniques with his own.

1987 Blues & Soul 3 Feb. 14/1 From New York comes this ‘garage’ instrumental, basically more useful for deejays in a ‘House’ mix rather than a great record on its own merit.

2002 N.Y. Times (National ed.) 5 May ii. 48/5 Where house and techno tracks present themselves meekly as mere components for the D.J.'s seamless mix, the electro songs compete for your attention.

2012 Metro (Nexis) 2 Aug. 58 A mix he put together for his London visit can be downloaded.

4. A soft drink intended for mixing with alcoholic drinks. Cf. mixer n. 7a.

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the world > food and drink > drink > mixers or flavourings > [noun]

mixer1925

pink1942

twist1958

mix1962

1962 L. Deighton Ipcress File xviii. 110 A bottle of Scotch, gin, some assorted mixes.

1971 Guardian 9 June 13/1 Alcoholic mixes like bitter lemon.

1990 D. Bailey Sunflowers never Sleep x. 166 There's no mix in it. I can't drink that straight!

Phrases

in the mix: involved, in effect; possible; at play.

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the world > relative properties > wholeness > mutual relation of parts to whole > incorporation or inclusion > [adjective] > incorporated or included

inclusive1573

comprisedc1575

included1590

incorpsed1604

incorporated1715

unexcluded1780

corporate1850

in the mix1962

1962 N.Y. Times 30 Sept. f13/5 Business is said to be better, but there's a ‘but’ in the mix.

1996 Observer 29 Dec. (Sport & Business section) 5/4 Watching football certainly had a little more spice when there was an element of discomfort and physical danger in the mix.

2016 K. Parks Lifeboat Clique viii. 93 My mother wanted to name me after a city... She said Cancun was in the mix, but I think she was just trying to be funny.

Compounds

(Chiefly in sense 3c.)

mix album n.

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1974 Billboard 7 Sept. 32/4 Two unique ‘mix’ albums.

1996 Sunday Mail (Nexis) 9 June 9 This really is the best mix album I've heard this year.

2010 Gleaner (Kingston, Jamaica) 4 Nov. (Entertainment section) d1/4 Fabric has seized on its popularity by releasing mix albums which rock dancehalls as far away as Australia and New Zealand.

mix CD n.

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1990 Martika in rec.music.misc (Usenet newsgroup) 8 May It is also possible that ‘Exchange of Hearts’ is only available on the mix CD and on single CD.

2002 Time Out N.Y. 22 Aug. 59/2 The track ‘I'm Sick’ showed up on a mix-CD compiled by Liam Howlett from shouty aggrotronica act Prodigy.

2012 M. Miller Ultimate Digital Music Guide vii. xxx. 469 It used to be that before you'd take a long road trip, you'd burn a few mix CDs with your favorite tunes.

mix disc n.

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1995 Sun (Baltimore) (Nexis) 6 Aug. 1 j Rhino is planning a trio of ‘Cocktail Mix’ discs for release early next year.]

1997 Guardian 11 July (Review section) 16/2 A Decade of Ibiza..comes on three separate mix discs.

mix tape n.

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1991 Washington Post (Nexis) 19 Apr. n11 Like many other runners, I made a mix tape of my favorite inspirational songs, varying it so there are peaks and valleys.

1999 Blues & Soul 13 July 33/1 This bomb first made its debut on a DJ Doo Wop's mixtape.

This entry has been updated (OED Third Edition, September 2002; most recently modified version published online March 2022).

mixv.

Brit.

/mɪks/, U.S.

/mɪks/

Forms: 1500s myx, 1500s myxe, 1500s–1600s mixe, 1500s– mix; Scottish pre-1700 mex, pre-1700 mixe, pre-1700 myx, pre-1700 1700s– mix. Past tense 1500s myxt, 1500s myxte, 1600s mixte, 1600s– mixed, 1600s– mixt (now archaic and nonstandard); Scottish pre-1700 mext, pre-1700 myxit, pre-1700 myxt, pre-1700 1700s– mixed, pre-1700 1700s– mixt (now rare). Past participle late Middle English–1500s myxte, late Middle English–1500s myxyd, late Middle English–1600s mixte, late Middle English– mixt (now archaic and nonstandard), 1500s mixid, 1500s myxced, 1500s myxed, 1500s myxt, 1500s– mixed, 1600s– mixd (poetic); Scottish pre-1700 mexit, pre-1700 mext, pre-1700 mixd, pre-1700 mixit, pre-1700 mixte, pre-1700 myxit, pre-1700 myxt, pre-1700 ymixt (pseudo-archaic), pre-1700 1700s–1800s mixt, pre-1700 1700s– mixed.

Origin: Formed within English, by back-formation. Etymon: mixed adj.²

Etymology: Back-formation < mixed adj.², apprehended as a past participle (compare -ed suffix¹). Compare later mixt v.Rare in any form other than the past participle before the 17th cent. The prefixed form ymixt (in quot. ?a1610 at sense 1a) perhaps arose by confusion with immix v. Old English miscian (rare) to apportion (cognate with Middle Dutch mischen, Middle Low German mischen, Old High German miscan, misgen, misken (Middle High German mischen, German mischen)) almost certainly shows no continuity with the present word. This and its cognates probably represent an early West Germanic loan < classical Latin miscēre, perhaps in the context of the continental wine trade (although in terms of form they could also be explained as cognates of the Latin word).

a. transitive. To put together or combine (two or more substances or things) so that the constituents or particles of each are interspersed or diffused more or less evenly among those of the rest; to unite (one or more substances or things) in this manner with another or others; to make a mixture of, to mingle, blend.

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the world > relative properties > wholeness > mutual relation of parts to whole > condition or state of being mixed or blended > mix or blend [verb (transitive)]

mingeOE

blandOE

mongle?c1225

meddlec1350

sprengea1382

compoundc1384

intermeddlec1384

temperc1386

mell1387

found?c1390

joinc1400

intermell1413

commix?a1425

medley?a1425

mix?a1425

amenge?c1450

immix?a1475

immixt?a1475

minglea1475

tremp1480

commixt1481

incarry1486

mixtionc1500

mixta1513

demelle1516

confect1540

intermixt1551

intermingle1555

bemix1559

intermix1562

contemper1567

blenge1570

bemingle1574

contemperate1590

masha1591

commeddle1604

immingle1606

blenda1616

intemper1627

commingle1648

conferment1651

subigate1657

to mix up1672

mould1701

meine1736

caudle1795

combine1799

interblenda1849

inmix1892

meld1936

?a1425 tr. Guy de Chauliac Grande Chirurgie (N.Y. Acad. Med.) f. 49 Medulle of white brede infused in mylke & tempred, wele mixte with ȝolke of eiren semicocte [etc.].

tr. Palladius De re Rustica (Duke Humfrey) (1896) i. 405 (MED) Lyme & grauel commixt ther on do glide, With marbul greet ygrounde & mixt with lyme.

a1500 in R. L. Greene Early Eng. Carols (1935) 298 (MED) Butt now prosyrs glorius be myxyd with gall.

1509–10 Act 1 Henry VIII xiv in Statutes of Realm (1817) III. 8 That no manne undre the degree of a Baron use in his Apparell..eny clothe of golde or clothe of Sylver..ne no other..Clothe myxte or broderd wyth Golde or Sylver.

1526 Grete Herball ccxliv. sig. Oiv^v/1 At moost put not but .v. dragmes & myxe mastycke, or gomme called bedelium.

1535 Bible (Coverdale) 2 Esdras xiii. 11 And they were all myxte together: the blast of fyre, the wynde of the flammes, and y^e greate storme.

1538 T. Elyot Dict. Misceo,..to myxe [so 1545; 1548 myxt, 1552 myxte] or meddyll together.

1558 T. Phaer tr. Virgil Seuen First Bks. Eneidos ii. E iij b & mixt w^t dust & smoke [Virgil 2. 609 mixtoque undantem puluere fumum] thick streames of reekings rise.

1566 T. Drant tr. Horace Medicinable Morall sig. Gviij Aufidius, myxt heddy wyne, And honey all in one.

1572 L. Mascall tr. in Bk. Plant & Graffe Trees 86 Clense the ground of weedes, and mixe it well with good molde and fat earth.

?a1610 A. Montgomerie Poems (1887) 70 Hir comelie cheeks of vive colour, Of rid and vhyt ymixt.

1638 F. Junius Painting of Ancients 272 He who vainly mixing many faire colours representeth nothing else in his worke but a painted tempest.

1667 J. Milton Paradise Lost xii. 181 Thunder mixt with Haile, Haile mixt with fire must rend th' Egyptian Skie.

1670 Lady M. Bertie in 12th Rep. Royal Comm. Hist. MSS (1890) App. v. 21 Some ware all small ribban, others brode ribbans, others broad and small mixed.

1716 Lady M. W. Montagu Let. 14 Sept. (1965) I. 265 Their own Hair..they mix with a great deal of false.

1800 tr. E. J. B. Bouillon-Lagrange Man. Course Chem. I. 129 If you mix nitrous vapour with oxygen gas, there will be no absorption.

1853 J. F. Royle Man. Materia Med. (ed. 2) 701 Spirit of Ether..Mix Sulphuric Ether..with Rectified Spirit.

1871 ‘L. Carroll’ Through Looking-glass ix. 203 Mix sand with the cider, and wool with the wine.

1891 T. Hardy Tess of the D'Urbervilles II. xxix. 109 There's no time to-day to take it home and mix it [sc. milk] with the bulk afore sending off.

1910 Encycl. Brit. I. 526/2 In certain cases it is sufficient to mix the alcohol with a reagent necessary for the purpose in hand.

1944 D. E. Warland Teach yourself Constructional Details ii. 25 Cement mortar is made by mixing Portland cement and sand in definite proportions.

1999 R. Tremain Music & Silence (2000) i. 172 Emilia mixes the powders as instructed.

b. transitive. (With abstract object.) To associate or blend (different qualities, features, techniques, etc.), or combine (one quality, etc.) with another.

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the world > relative properties > wholeness > mutual relation of parts to whole > condition or state of being mixed or blended > mix or blend [verb (transitive)] > specific immaterial things

blendc1400

mixa1475

mixta1513

a1475 (a1447) O. Bokenham Mappula Angliae in Englische Studien (1887) 10 30 (MED) Toungis and languagis..been not alle pure, but sum ben mixte & medlis [read medlid] on sundry wysys.

?1532 T. Elyot tr. Plutarch Educ. Children (new ed.) vii. sig. Dij Assured and perfecte men, whiche can myxe polytike wysedome with philosophie.

c1550 Complaynt Scotl. (1979) Prol. 13 Mixand ther purposis, vitht oncoutht exquisite termis.

1560 Bible (Geneva) Heb. iv. 2 The worde that they heard, profitted not them, because it was not mixed [Gk. συγκεκραμένος] with faith in those that heard it.

1600 W. Shakespeare Henry IV, Pt. 2 v. ii. 46 Brothers, you mixt your sadnesse with some feare.

1662 E. Stillingfleet Origines Sacræ ii. vi. §11 Now there had been no reason at all for this, if he had mixed promises together with his threatnings.

1707 J. Floyer Physician's Pulse-watch 277 In this case we must mix both the hot and the cold Method.

1726 Bp. J. Butler 15 Serm. i. 11 Two Principles which are frequently mixt together, and which run up into each other.

1815 M. Elphinstone Acct. Kingdom Caubul ii. viii. 255 They also mix trade and agency with their regular banking business.

1875 B. Jowett in tr. Plato Dialogues (ed. 2) V. 124 In the election of the Council, the legislator attempts to mix aristocracy and democracy.

1935 G. Greene in Spectator 19 July 94/2 It doesn't mix the romantic and the realistic, but is all romance in the Elizabethan, or perhaps only the Rostand, manner.

1991 Advocate 15 Jan. 62/1 Mixing gay life with Chicano life, street life with Catholic life, cholo life with my life, is what I'm trying to do.

†c. transitive. poetic. To cause (eyes) to meet in an exchange of glances; (also) to join, clasp (hands). Obsolete. to mix one's thigh with: to have sexual intercourse with (cf. sense 3b).

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the world > physical sensation > sexual relations > sexual activity > engage in sexual activity with [verb (transitive)] > have sexual intercourse with

mingeOE

haveOE

knowc1175

ofliec1275

to lie with (or by)a1300

knowledgec1300

meetc1330

beliea1350

yknowc1350

touchc1384

deala1387

dightc1386

usea1387

takec1390

commona1400

to meet witha1400

servea1400

occupy?a1475

engender1483

jangle1488

to be busy with1525

to come in1530

visitc1540

niggle1567

mow1568

to mix one's thigh with1593

do1594

grind1598

pepper1600

yark1600

tumble1603

to taste of1607

compressc1611

jumble1611

mix?1614

consort?1615

tastea1616

bumfiddle1630

ingressa1631

sheet1637

carnal1643

night-work1654

bump1669

bumble1680

frig?c1680

fuck1707

stick1707

screw1719

soil1722

to do over1730

shag1770

hump1785

subagitatec1830

diddle1879

to give (someone) onec1882

charver1889

fuckeec1890

plugc1890

dick1892

to make a baby1911

to know (a person) in the biblical sense1912

jazz1920

rock1922

yentz1924

roll1926

to make love1927

shtupa1934

to give (or get) a tumble1934

shack1935

bang1937

to have it off1937

rump1937

tom1949

to hop into bed (with)1951

ball1955

to make it1957

plank1958

score1960

naughty1961

pull1965

pleasurea1967

to have away1968

to have off1968

dork1970

shaft1970

bonk1975

knob1984

boink1985

fand-

the world > space > relative position > posture > position of specific body parts > position specific body part [verb (transitive)] > arms or hands > specific hand > hold or clasp (one's or another's hands)

fold1535

to take a person's hand1536

hand1643

mix1713

clasp1859

1593 W. Shakespeare Venus & Adonis sig. Diij Were neuer foure such lamps, together mixt, Had not his clouded with his browes repine.

1606 J. Marston Parasitaster iv. i The Romans..thought that a woman might mix her thigh with a stranger wantonly, and yet still love her husband matrimonially.

?1609 G. Chapman tr. Homer Twelue Bks. Iliads vi. 103 Hector..smil'd vpon his ioy: Andromache cryed out, mixt hands, and to the strength of Troy, Thus wept forth her affection.

1713 J. Addison Cato iii. ii. 36 Never to mix my plighted Hands with thine.

1714 D. Manley Adventures of Rivella 62 He affected so prodigious a Passion, that he could not breathe without mixing Eyes, pressing and kissing her Hands and Neck.

1868 Ld. Tennyson Lucretius 56 And hands they mixt, and yell'd and round me drove In narrowing circles.

†d. transitive. To put in or introduce as an additional ingredient. Also with in, to. Obsolete.

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the world > relative properties > wholeness > mutual relation of parts to whole > condition or state of being mixed or blended > mix or blend [verb (transitive)] > add as ingredient to a mixture

admixt1529

mix1607

1607 E. Topsell Hist. Foure-footed Beastes 237 The milke also of a Goat mixed to a womans milke is best for the nourishment of man, because it is not too fat.

a1715 Bp. G. Burnet Hist. Own Time (1724) I. 18 They were very factious and insolent; and both in their sermons and prayers were always mixing severe reflections on their enemies.

1745 E. Young Complaint: Night the Eighth 25 Knows he, that Mankind praise against their Will, And mix as much Detraction as they can?

†e. transitive. Hyperbolically: to confound; to mingle or confuse so as to make indistinguishable. Obsolete.

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the mind > mental capacity > belief > uncertainty, doubt, hesitation > perplexity, bewilderment > act of perplexing > confuse, perplex, bewilder [verb (transitive)] > confuse parts

confounda1538

confuse1550

mix1667

1667 J. Milton Paradise Lost vii. 215 They view'd the vast immeasurable Abyss.., Up from the bottom turn'd by furious windes And surging waves, as Mountains to assault Heav'ns highth, and with the Center mix the Pole.

f. transitive. colloquial. to mix one's drinks and variants: to drink different kinds of alcohol in close succession, esp. wine and beer, with ill effects. Occasionally intransitive with object implied.

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the world > food and drink > drink > drinking > [verb (intransitive)] > drink intoxicating liquor > mix drinks

to mix one's drinks1890

the world > food and drink > drink > thirst > excess in drinking > [verb (intransitive)] > get drunk > by mixing drinks

to mix one's drinks1890

1890 R. Kipling in Pioneer Mail (Allahabad) 16 July 87/2 Never mix your liquors. I'm nearly dead.

1898 J. D. Brayshaw Slum Silhouettes 238 'E was gettin' a bit beargered—not that 'e'd 'ad so much, but 'e would keep mixin'; first one thing an' then annuver.

1933 J. B. Priestley Wonder Hero vii. 269 Had a thick night last night... Mixed 'em a bit. Always a mistake—mixing 'em.

1950 G. Greene Third Man ii. 13 If you stayed around in a hotel lounge, sooner or later..one mixed one's drinks.

1985 S. Rees Devil's Looking-glass (1986) xv. 124 All that burgundy and stuff. Doesn't do to mix your drinks, and spirits on top of that was asking for trouble.

g. transitive. colloquial. to mix it: to quarrel, fight; to start fighting; to cause trouble; to tangle with an adversary; (later also simply) to keep company with.See also to mix it up at Phrasal verbs.

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society > society and the community > dissent > fighting > fight [verb (intransitive)]

fightc900

deal993

wraxlec1000

skirm?c1225

makec1275

mellc1300

to fight togethera1400

meddlec1400

match1440

wring1470

cobc1540

toilc1540

strike1579

beat1586

scuffle1590

exchange blows1594

to bang it out or aboutc1600

buffeta1616

tussle1638

dimicate1657

to try a friskin1675

to battle it1821

muss1851

scrap1874

to mix it1905

dogfight1929

yike1940

to go upside (someone's) head1970

society > society and the community > dissent > be in dissension or at variance [verb (intransitive)] > cause dissension

to make strife1303

to make the feathers flyc1430

to stir the coals1539

to make mischiefc1572

to blow the bellows1590

to blow the fire1670

to stir the pot1826

to stir (also rouse) the possum1900

to mix it1950

1905 C. H. Day Actress & Clerk xv. 149 As Hard Knox would have himself described in the technique of the ring, the men ‘mixed it’.

1918 E. M. Roberts Flying Fighter 91 He grew angry and we mixed it. I gave him a black eye.

1945 Aeronautics Feb. 50/3 Pilots took full advantage of every opportunity of ‘mixing it’ with the Hun.

1950 P. Tempest Lag's Lexicon 136 Mix it, to, to put one man against another. To make trouble.

1973 D. Lees Rape of Quiet Town vi. 92 These lads don't want to fight for nothing. If they can get away without mixing it they will.

1987 Speedway Star 26 Sept. 10/1 Despite mixing it with the best in the world to finish fourth in Sunday's Longtrack Final.

1992 Daily Tel. (BNC) Author Margaret Drabble will be mixing it with Michael Foot and Labour supporters at a private party.

a. transitive. To prepare (a mixture, compound, etc.) by combining various ingredients. In early use also: †to adulterate (wine, etc.) (obsolete).

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the world > relative properties > wholeness > mutual relation of parts to whole > condition or state of being mixed or blended > mix or blend [verb (transitive)] > prepare by mixing

mingOE

meddlec1350

compoundc1384

temper1390

mix1482

comfit1483

confect1575

mingle1587

to make up1649

concoct1676

amalgamate1821

to rub in1844

1482 Acts Parl. Scotl. (1814) II. 144/1 That na persoun..take apon hand..to mix wyne or beir.

c1520 M. Nisbet New Test. in Scots (1905) III. Rev. xviii. 6 In the drink that scho mengit to yow, mex ye doubile to hir.

?1553 (c1501) G. Douglas Palice of Honour (London) iii. l. 1809 in Shorter Poems (1967) 112 Mercy is copper, and mixis weil his wyne.

1597 W. Shakespeare Romeo & Juliet iii. iii. 44 Hadst thou no strong poyson mixt .

1617 F. Moryson Itinerary iii. 156 They had not our Vinteners fraud to mixe their Wines.

1697 J. Dryden tr. Virgil Georgics iii, in tr. Virgil Wks. 116 From the Founts where living Sulphurs boyl, They mix a Med'cine to foment their Limbs.

1726 J. Swift Gulliver II. iii. v. 65 Their Employment was to mix colours for Painters, which their Master taught them to distinguish by feeling and smelling.

1818 W. Kitchiner Cook's Oracle (ed. 2) 577 Puddings are best when mixed over night.

1853 E. C. Gaskell Uncle Peter i, in Fraser's Mag. Oct. 444/2 ‘Shall I mix it for you, ma'am?’ asked Hannah, standing in the middle of the apartment.

1887 P. McNeill Blawearie 100 He had mixed and otherwise prepared as much of his layering compound as he thought he might use.

1917 E. R. Burroughs Princess of Mars xiii. 133 They have had me..helping them mix their awful radium powder, and make their terrible projectiles.

1952 P. Bowles Let it come Down i. ii. 15 Daisy wanted Wilcox to mix sidecars.

1980 G. Lord Fortress xvii. 133 Sarah, will you bring the paints up? I've mixed them.

b. transitive. In passive with of. Now somewhat archaic.

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1555 R. Eden tr. Peter Martyr of Angleria Decades of Newe Worlde i. iv. f. 19^v Electrum is a metall naturally mixt of one portion of golde & an other of siluer.

a1591 H. Smith Wks. (1867) II. 444 Thou art not God, neither art thou man, but neuter, mixed of both!

1622 F. Bacon Advt. Holy Warre Ep. Ded. Therefore I haue chosen an Argument, mixt of Religious and Ciuill Considerations; And likewise mixt between Contemplatiue and Actiue.

1639 R. Gentilis tr. P. Sarpi Hist. Inquisition 16 This is the beginning in Venice of the Office of th' inquisition mixed of secular and Ecclesiasticall Persons.

1674 Hogan-Moganides 51 A Vapour mixt of Form and Matter Like Will oth' wisp of Fire and Water.

1694 R. South 12 Serm. II. 247 With an odd kind of Passion, mixed of Pleasure, and Envy too.

1760 A. Murphy Desert Island iii. 43 This wonderful emotion, Unfelt till now, and mix'd of pain and joy.

1820 C. Lamb Let. 16 May (1935) II. 275 The line you cannot appropriate is Gray's sonnet, specimenifyed by Wordsworth..as mixed of bad and good style.

1847 R. W. Emerson Poems 127 Swifter-fashioned than the fairies, Substance mixed of pure contraries.

1883 R. W. Dixon Mano i. xi. 33 This story mixed of spiteful falsity My wicked daughter gave.

1991 Esquire June 121/2 Avis..made color Xeroxes of masterpieces out of art books and then signed them in an ink mixed of her own blood and urine.

a. transitive. To unite (a person or persons) in dealings or acquaintance; to bring together; to associate; †to join in sexual intercourse (obsolete). Frequently reflexive. Now rare.

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society > society and the community > social relations > association, fellowship, or companionship > associate with [verb (transitive)]

seeOE

drawc1275

mella1300

meeta1325

fellow1340

usec1384

conjoinc1386

joinc1390

knitc1400

accompany1461

enfellowship1470

frequent1477

haunt1477

mixa1513

encompanya1533

combinea1535

contract1548

to take with ——1562

associate1581

to have a saying toa1593

cope1594

sort1594

to take in1597

consort1600

herd1606

factionate1611

to keep company (with)a1616

accost1633

solder1641

converse1649

walk1650

consociate1653

coalite1734

to get with ——a1772

forgather1786

unionize1810

to go rounda1867

to mix in1870

cop1940

the world > physical sensation > sexual relations > sexual activity > engage in sexual activity with [verb (transitive)] > bring (couple) together for intercourse

beda1300

couplea1340

assemblec1386

minga1400

mixa1513

a1513 J. Irland Meroure of Wyssdome (1926) I. 39 Heire we are mixt, gud luffaris and synnaris togiddir.

1535 Bible (Coverdale) Ezra ix. (Contents) Eszdras is sory that the people haue myxte them selues with the Heythenish wemen.

1592 T. Nashe Pierce Penilesse (Brit. Libr. copy) sig. G2 ^v Euer since we haue mixt our selues with the Low-countries.

1601 B. Jonson Fountaine of Selfe-love iv. v. sig. I3^v We must mixe this gentleman with you in acquaintance.

1667 J. Milton Paradise Lost i. 579 Th' Heroic Race..That fought at Theb's and Ilium, on each side Mixt with auxiliar Gods.

1697 J. Dryden tr. Virgil Æneis iv, in tr. Virgil Wks. 301 Lest he forbid, with absolute Command, To mix the People in one common Land.

1697 J. Dryden tr. Virgil Æneis vii, in tr. Virgil Wks. 429 And the cold Nursians come to close the Reer: Mix'd with the Natives born of Latine Blood.

1753 B. Franklin Let. 9 May in Papers (1961) IV. 485 I am not for refusing entirely to admit them into our Colonies: all that seems to be necessary is, to..mix them with the English.

1869 A. Trollope Phineas Finn II. xlii. 35 Sir Gregory Greeswing; you mix your people nicely at any rate.

1917 E. R. Burroughs Princess of Mars xv. 164 She hoped..to mix me with the other young assigned to the quarters of Tal Hajus.

b. intransitive. To have sexual intercourse. Usually with with. Now rare.Often with the suggestion of reproduction between or mixing of different racial groups, breeds, species, etc. (cf. sense 6).

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the world > physical sensation > sexual relations > sexual activity > engage in sexual activity with [verb (transitive)] > have sexual intercourse with

mingeOE

haveOE

knowc1175

ofliec1275

to lie with (or by)a1300

knowledgec1300

meetc1330

beliea1350

yknowc1350

touchc1384

deala1387

dightc1386

usea1387

takec1390

commona1400

to meet witha1400

servea1400

occupy?a1475

engender1483

jangle1488

to be busy with1525

to come in1530

visitc1540

niggle1567

mow1568

to mix one's thigh with1593

do1594

grind1598

pepper1600

yark1600

tumble1603

to taste of1607

compressc1611

jumble1611

mix?1614

consort?1615

tastea1616

bumfiddle1630

ingressa1631

sheet1637

carnal1643

night-work1654

bump1669

bumble1680

frig?c1680

fuck1707

stick1707

screw1719

soil1722

to do over1730

shag1770

hump1785

subagitatec1830

diddle1879

to give (someone) onec1882

charver1889

fuckeec1890

plugc1890

dick1892

to make a baby1911

to know (a person) in the biblical sense1912

jazz1920

rock1922

yentz1924

roll1926

to make love1927

shtupa1934

to give (or get) a tumble1934

shack1935

bang1937

to have it off1937

rump1937

tom1949

to hop into bed (with)1951

ball1955

to make it1957

plank1958

score1960

naughty1961

pull1965

pleasurea1967

to have away1968

to have off1968

dork1970

shaft1970

bonk1975

knob1984

boink1985

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?1614 G. Chapman tr. Homer Odysses i. 4 She mixt [Gk. μιγεῖσα] with Neptune in his hollow caues.

1630 T. May Contin. Lucan i. 265 There goates..Doe mix with woman kinde.

1630 T. Dekker Second Pt. Honest Whore i. sig. G4 Besides of dalliance, she so well does mix, That she's in Latine called the Meretrix.

1774 O. Goldsmith Hist. Earth III. 363 Warreners assert, that the polecat will mix with the ferret.

1889 R. B. Anderson tr. V. Rydberg Teutonic Mythol. 151 They mixed with the wood sprites, and thus became the progenitors of the Huns.

1925 V. Woolf Mrs. Dalloway 185 Was it that some Mongol..had mixed with the Dalloway ladies, perhaps a hundred years ago?

a. intransitive. To undergo mixing or combination; to be able to be mixed; to blend, mingle, or unite with something else; to be compatible, to go (well or badly) with.

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the world > relative properties > wholeness > mutual relation of parts to whole > condition or state of being mixed or blended > become mixed or blended [verb (intransitive)]

mingOE

meddlec1350

mella1387

blenda1400

commix?1520

admixa1522

mixa1522

mingle1530

wallc1598

co-minglea1616

comminglea1626

congregate1626

intermingle1626

intermella1641

conflux1662

intermix1722

partake1731

to work up1841

interfuse1851

interblend1854

immingle1858

inmix1892

meld1959

a1522 G. Douglas tr. Virgil Æneid (1959) ix. vii. 114 In the harn pan the schaft he hes affixt, Quhile blude and brane al togidder mixt.

1632 S. Marmion Hollands Leaguer iii. iii O divine counsel! that so rare a beauty Should mix with wisdom.

1647 A. Cowley Platonick Love in Mistress i When Souls mix 'tis an Happiness; But not compleat 'till Bodies too combine.

1667 J. Milton Paradise Lost xi. 529 But is there yet no other way,..how we may come To Death, and mix with our connatural dust?

1707 J. Floyer Physician's Pulse-watch 385 The salt Limpha mixes naturally with the Blood.

a1745 J. Swift Abstr. Hist. Eng. in Wks. (1765) VIII. i. 125 The Danes..[i]n process of time..mixed with the English.

1762 O. Goldsmith Citizen of World II. 123 Her dear idea mixes with every scene of pleasure.

1774 O. Goldsmith Hist. Earth I. 311 All the bodies of the earth are continually sending up a part of their substance by evaporation, to mix in this great alembic [sc. the atmosphere], and to float a-while in common.

1797 C. Lamb Let. 7 Jan. in Lett. C. & M. A. Lamb (1975) I. 87 I do long to see our names together—not for vanity's-sake..altogether..—& yet there is a little vanity mixes in it.

1798 C. Marshall Introd. Knowl. & Pract. Gardening (ed. 2) xix. 364 The pyramidal sort [of the Star of Bethlehem] is a proper flower to pot, mixing [1796 intermixing] with others very ornamentally.

1815 M. Elphinstone Acct. Kingdom Caubul iii. iv. 409 The Afghaun Humsauyehs mix well with the Dooraunees.

1842 C. Whitehead Richard Savage (1845) II. iii. 203 I'll write the letter while the punch is mixing.

1845 Encycl. Metrop. XXV. 169/1 Some builders prefer receiving the grey-stone lime ground dry, as it mixes more readily when made up into mortar.

1889 J. H. Skrine Mem. E. Thring 164 He floated in their element, not soluble. It is often the way with heroes: they will not mix.

1939 Fortune Nov. 4 (advt.) Oil companies improve the anti-knock quality of motor fuels by adding tetraethyl lead..a powerful, volatile liquid that completely mixes with gasoline.

1988 ‘R. Deacon’ Spyclopaedia 135 Espionage and politics do not mix.

†b. intransitive. poetic. Of eyes: to meet. Obsolete. rare.

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1879 E. Arnold Light of Asia 29 Their eyes mixed, and from the look sprang love.

a. intransitive. To associate, keep company with; to move socially in or among; to take part in.

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society > society and the community > social relations > association, fellowship, or companionship > associate together or with [verb (intransitive)]

mingc1275

company1387

joinc1390

meddlec1390

herd?a1400

fellowshipc1430

enfellowship1470

to step in1474

accompany?1490

yoke?a1513

to keep with ——c1515

conjoin1532

wag1550

frequent1577

encroach1579

consort1588

sort1595

commerce1596

troop1597

converse1598

to keep (also enter, come into, etc.) commons1598

to enter common1604

atone1611

to walk (also travel) in the way with1611

minglea1616

consociate1638

associate1644

corrive1647

co-unite1650

walk1650

cohere1651

engage1657

mix1667

accustom1670

to make one1711

coalite1735

commerciate1740

to have nothing to say to (also with)1780

gang?1791

companion1792

mess1795

matea1832

comrade1865

to go around1904

to throw in with1906

to get down1975

1667 J. Milton Paradise Lost vi. 21 Gladly then he mixt Among those friendly Powers who him receav'd With joy.

1697 J. Dryden tr. Virgil Æneis vii, in tr. Virgil Wks. 416 She flies the Town, and, mixing with a throng Of madding Matrons, bears the Bride along.

1711 J. Addison Spectator No. 69. ¶1 I am infinitely delighted in mixing with these several Ministers of Commerce.

1725 R. Wodrow Corr. (1843) III. 232 I hope still to be guarded by better principles. Indeed, it's hard mixing in with self-willed and peremptory people.

1771 ‘Junius’ Stat Nominis Umbra (1772) II. liv. 228 He never mixed with the world.

1792 M. Wollstonecraft Vindic. Rights Woman xiii. 429 I recollect many other women who..have obtained, by mixing in the world, a little of what is termed common sense.

1816 W. Scott Old Mortality x, in Tales of my Landlord 1st Ser. II. 249 Have you, who used to mix so little in these unhappy feuds, become so suddenly and deeply implicated.

1846 Mirror of Lit. Sept. 109 Here he mixed among the primitive and rude inhabitants of the district.

1868 E. Edwards Life Sir W. Ralegh I. xxiii. 521 He had mixed largely with his countrymen, in every rank of life.

1915 W. S. Maugham Of Human Bondage lviii. 298 Of course it isn't very nice for me having to mix with them girls in the shop, it's not the class of person I've been used to.

1928 D. H. Lawrence Lady Chatterley's Lover x. 168 He had been an officer for some years, and had mixed among the other officers and civil servants.

1991 Independent 5 Jan. 46/5 I wasn't one of the lads... I didn't mix with the sporting types.

†b. intransitive. poetic. To join battle, engage in conflict. Obsolete.

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society > armed hostility > armed encounter > contending in battle > contend in battle or give battle [verb (intransitive)] > join or meet in battle

to come togetherOE

to lay togetherc1275

smitec1275

to have, keep, make, smite, strike, battle1297

joustc1330

meetc1330

copec1350

assemblea1375

semblea1375

coup?a1400

to fight togethera1400

strikea1400

joinc1400

to join the battle1455

to commit battle?a1475

rencounter1497

to set ina1500

to pitch a battlea1513

concura1522

rescounter1543

scontre1545

journey1572

shock1575

yoke1581

to give in1610

mix1697

to engage a combat1855

to run (or ride) a-tilt1862

1697 J. Dryden tr. Virgil Georgics iv, in tr. Virgil Wks. 133 Wasps infest the Camp with loud Alarms, And mix in Battel with unequal Arms.

1700 J. Dryden tr. Ovid Twelfth Bk. Metamorphoses in Fables 448 Where Greeks and Trojans mix'd in mortal Fight.

c. intransitive. To be sociable.

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society > society and the community > social relations > have social communication [verb (intransitive)] > mix in society

show1631

to go out1735

to see life1763

mix1816

to get out1835

the mind > emotion > love > friendliness > social intercourse or companionship > be sociable [verb (intransitive)]

mix1816

1816 J. Austen Emma III. vii. 113 Mr. and Mrs. Elton..showed no unwillingness to mix, and be..agreeable.

1905 Dial. Notes 3 88 He doesn't mix much.

1940 A. Christie Sad Cypress i. vi. 83 Rather a funny crowd of people, but I don't mix much. You told me once that I wasn't a good mixer.

1965 M. Spark Mandelbaum Gate i. 7 He was in no great hurry for the flat, preferring hotel life where one need not mix.

1993 P. Falconer War in High Heels (BNC) viii. 104 Her date was a dull, insular major in the RA who had no wish to mix.

d. intransitive. colloquial (chiefly U.S.). To take part in a fight. Cf. sense 1g.

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society > society and the community > dissent > fighting > fight [verb (intransitive)] > start or join a fight

mix1895

to steam in1961

to throw down1979

1895 G. Ade in F. J. Meine Chicago Stories (1963) 134 ‘W'at yer mixin' fer?’ says the barkip.

1947 P. Dawson High Country 23 Quit the dancin' and let's mix, boys.

1958 F. C. Avis Boxing Ref. Dict. (U.S. ed.) 71 Mix, to fight at close quarters.

6. transitive. To cross in breeding, subject to cross-breeding. Also intransitive. rare.

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the world > life > biology > biological processes > genetic activity > heredity or hereditary descent > [verb (intransitive)] > cross

mix1740

cross18..

intercross1859

hybridize1865

outcross1949

outbreed1962

the world > life > biology > biological processes > genetic activity > heredity or hereditary descent > [verb (transitive)] > cross

mella1387

cross-breed1675

mix1740

cross1754

hybridize1845

mongrelize1859

interbreed1865

outbreed1888

back-cross1904

outcross1918

1740 H. Bracken Farriery Improv'd (ed. 2) II. i. 55 When a good English Mare is mixed with a Barb, she produces a better Foal.

1892 A. A. Crozier Pop. Errors about Plants App. 157 Plants mix or cross in the blossom only.

1991 Longevity Jan. 25/1 He also created the first large artificial chimera by mixing a sheep and goat.

7. Chiefly Film and Broadcasting.

a. transitive. To blend or merge (two pictures or sounds) temporarily by fading one out as the other is faded in. Cf. fade v.¹ 9.

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society > leisure > the arts > performance arts > cinematography > filming > special effect > special effects [verb (transitive)] > others

mix1922

soft-focus1928

1922 L. C. Macbean Kinematogr. Studio Technique ix. 82 On occasions..it is necessary..to fade or mix titles into a scene to which they relate.

1929 Radio Times 8 Nov. 389/1 The D.C. Panel..which allows a producer..to mix and fade speech, music, and sound-effects.

1961 G. Millerson Technique Television Production xvi. 305 Mixing opposite directions of movement can sometimes arouse feelings of expansion or impact.

b. intransitive. To pass from one picture or sound to another by fading one out as the other is faded in.

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society > leisure > the arts > performance arts > cinematography > filming > special effect > special effects [verb (intransitive)] > others

iris-in1934

iris-out1934

wipe1951

mix1952

1952 Cinema 7 Jan. 97/1 [The Director] can cut, fade, wipe or mix at will.

1953 K. Reisz Technique Film Editing i. i. 25 From the scene in the present, Griffith simply mixed to the earlier scene and then mixed back again.

1962 Listener 6 Dec. 983/1 Mr Cooper uses..the language and grammar of film-making in his radio plays. He will cut sharply from scene to scene; or he will mix from one scene into the next.

1986 N. Livingston Fatality at Bath & Wells i. 27 Hilary mixed through to Vernon in his white leather chair.

8. Sound Recording and Video Recording, Broadcasting, etc.

a. transitive. To combine (two or more sound or video signals) into one. Also: to combine (one signal, etc.) with another in this way.This combining of signals may be done either linearly, by adding together a fraction of each in a mixer (mixer n. 5c), or non-linearly, by causing one signal to modulate a second in a mixer (mixer n. 5d).

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society > communication > record > recording or reproducing sound or visual material > sound recording and reproduction > make recording [verb (transitive)] > combine signals

mix1928

mix1974

1928 B.B.C. Handbk. 1929 68 A..new design of control room has been decided upon, wherein effects, echoes, background music, etc. can be mixed together and so balanced by a specially-trained operator.

1958 W. F. Lovering Radio Communication viii. 172 Suppressor-grid control may be used to ‘mix’ two signals to produce a modulated output.

1974 Encycl. Brit. Macropædia XII. 549/1 When several microphones are used on the set, their outputs are often mixed and reproduced on a single film or tape.

1990 Great Hospitality Sept. 56/1 (advt.) Add music, sound effects or the voice overs as you mix sound from a second source with live while recording.

1991 Electronic Musician Nov. 35/1 Video signals cannot be mixed as easily as audio. They first must be synchronized.

b. transitive. To create (a recording) by combining a number of separate recordings or tracks.

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society > communication > record > recording or reproducing sound or visual material > sound recording and reproduction > make recording [verb (transitive)] > combine signals

mix1928

mix1974

1974 Audio Nov. 166/1 His performance doesn't have the sound of one big crash cymbal having just fallen off a 10-foot stand, as in person. This might be attributed to good judgement in mixing the recording.

1984 Sounds 1 Dec. 2/4 In the event Virgin mixed a third soundtrack which now consists predominantly of the Eurythmics' music.

1993 D. Shay & J. Duncan Making of Jurassic Park 194 Film credits..This film mixed and recorded in a thx sound system.

1997 Select June 104/2 Jason Pierce on..why it took nigh on two years to mix his album.

9. transitive. Music. To play a number of (recordings, tracks, samples, etc.) in such a way as to produce a set of continuous uninterrupted music, using techniques such as beat-matching to enable smooth transitions; to produce (music, typically dance music) in this way. Also intransitive.

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1976 Billboard 23 Oct. 42/3 We are disco deejays, not radio DJs, and we mix our records, not talk over them.

1988 St. Petersburg (Florida) Times (Nexis) 4 Sept. f2 Salt 'N Pepa's DJ, Spinderella, can cut, scratch and mix with the best of them.

1991 Time Out 20 Nov. 58/1 Lazy and Miss Bliss..mix the best upfront dance at this vibey, underground Brixton venue.

1994 D. Rushkoff Cyberia iii. ix. 117 DJs at smaller, private parties and membership-only clubs..began aggressively mixing records, adding their own electronic percussion and sampling tracks, making music that..was called ‘house.’

2000 Tuam (County Galway) Herald & Western Advertiser 8 July 12/3 (advt.) 2 ‘vinyl’ D.J.s mixing live.

2007 Condé Nast Traveller May 72/2 A DJ-ette with a blunt fringe was mixing electro-house for a crowd that looked as if it had been styled for a Scissor Sisters video.

Phrases

to mix and match: to select and combine different but complementary items (originally of clothing) to form a coordinated set; (of clothing, etc.) to be able to be combined in this way. Also as a compound verb and in extended use.

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1948 Sun (Baltimore) 3 Apr. 3/7 (advt.) Tropical separates... Of crisp tropical rayon suiting nicely tailored... You can either ‘mix 'em or match 'em’.]

1960 Science 19 Feb. 457 Mix and match! Order anything in the complete Kimble line.

1964 McCall's Sewing in Colour i. 13/1 Separates are the answer to the schoolgirl's needs. Skirts, sweaters, jackets and blouses that can mix and match are perfect.

1976 Daily Times (Lagos) 27 Aug. 4/1 (advt.) Each Phillips HiFi component couples with every other unit to make an instant system..you can mix and match to your heart's content.

1979 Daily Tel. 14 Nov. 17/6 The conventional tea or dinner service is not an obligatory inclusion on the French bride's present list. Instead, she prefers to mix and match with perhaps one different bowl or plate for each member of the family.

1988 Gay Times Nov. 83/3 Harold Faltermeyer..has provided the latest Arnold Schwarzenegger epic wiuth a fashionable pseudo-minimalist soundtrack which adroitly mix'n'matches disco sounds with Wagnerian interludes.

1993 Hockey News (Toronto) 5 Feb. 10/3 Gainey has mixed and matched players most of the season but has left one line together.

Phrasal verbs

With adverbs in specialized senses. to mix down

transitive. To convert (a multi-track recording or multiple signal) into one consisting of fewer tracks or components.

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1969 Audio May 24/3 The complete 8-track tape was ‘mixed down’ to a single-track ¼″ tape, which will be used for tape-to-disc transfer to a 45 RPM record.

1974 Nature 13 Dec. 535/2 In the recording industry it is customary to mix-down multi-microphone recordings onto four-track master tape.

1989 Empire Sept. 50/2 The boxing scenes required nine tracks to be mixed down for the master recording.

to mix in

intransitive. To join in, take part (sometimes spec. in a fight); to mingle socially. Frequently with with.

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society > society and the community > social relations > association, fellowship, or companionship > associate with [verb (transitive)]

seeOE

drawc1275

mella1300

meeta1325

fellow1340

usec1384

conjoinc1386

joinc1390

knitc1400

accompany1461

enfellowship1470

frequent1477

haunt1477

mixa1513

encompanya1533

combinea1535

contract1548

to take with ——1562

associate1581

to have a saying toa1593

cope1594

sort1594

to take in1597

consort1600

herd1606

factionate1611

to keep company (with)a1616

accost1633

solder1641

converse1649

walk1650

consociate1653

coalite1734

to get with ——a1772

forgather1786

unionize1810

to go rounda1867

to mix in1870

cop1940

1870 J. P. Smith Widow Goldsmith's Daughter vi. 69 Of course they couldn't expect to mix in with the rich children.

1895 M. Halstead 100 Bear Stories 117 Elk killing didn't seem half so great an achievement as it had before the bear had mixed in with the proceedings.

1912 R. A. Wason Friar Tuck xxi. 211 ‘Well, what if he did shoot,’ sez Slim, ‘we wouldn't have to mix in, would we?’

1928 D. H. Lawrence Lady Chatterley's Lover iv. 35 Sex is a private thing between me and Julia; and of course I should mind anyone else trying to mix in.

1971 P. G. Wodehouse Much Obliged, Jeeves ix. 89 If you see any more gnats headed in her direction, hold their coats and wish them luck, but restrain the impulse to mix in.

1992 European Travel & Life May 34/2 The young crowd that arrives for dinner mixes in with the regulars sipping pastis at the wooden tables along the bar.

to mix up

1. transitive. To concoct by mixing. Cf. sense 2a.

ΘΚΠ

the world > relative properties > wholeness > mutual relation of parts to whole > condition or state of being mixed or blended > mix or blend [verb (transitive)]

mingeOE

blandOE

mongle?c1225

meddlec1350

sprengea1382

compoundc1384

intermeddlec1384

temperc1386

mell1387

found?c1390

joinc1400

intermell1413

commix?a1425

medley?a1425

mix?a1425

amenge?c1450

immix?a1475

immixt?a1475

minglea1475

tremp1480

commixt1481

incarry1486

mixtionc1500

mixta1513

demelle1516

confect1540

intermixt1551

intermingle1555

bemix1559

intermix1562

contemper1567

blenge1570

bemingle1574

contemperate1590

masha1591

commeddle1604

immingle1606

blenda1616

intemper1627

commingle1648

conferment1651

subigate1657

to mix up1672

mould1701

meine1736

caudle1795

combine1799

interblenda1849

inmix1892

meld1936

1672 O. Walker Of Educ. i. ix. 77 Of angry persons some are..sullen, intractable, unadvisable (a disposition mixed up of pride and melancholy).

1725 J. Glanvill Poems 253 Sweets we extract, and mix up fat Perfumes, To scent our Hair, our Garments, and our Rooms.

1745 E. Young Complaint: Night the Eighth 41 Nature..Drinks to Man, in her nectareous Cup, Mixt up of Delicates for ev'ry Sense.

1848 Amer. Rev. Oct. 438/2 A singer of comic songs, and pieces mixed up of song and recitative.

1885 Littell's Living Age 19 Dec. 724/1 The company thus thrown together by chance is often mixed up of very different elements.

1909 L. M. Montgomery Anne of Avonlea xxvii. 317 She always gives me the scrapings out of a pan she's mixed up a plum cake in.

1989 N. Cave And Ass saw Angel ii. xvi. 157 He mixed up a bucket of whiting, size and water and set about first scrubbing then whitewashing the bloody, tell-tale wall.

2. transitive. To mix together thoroughly; to work into a mixture with.

ΘΚΠ

the world > relative properties > wholeness > mutual relation of parts to whole > condition or state of being mixed or blended > mix or blend [verb (transitive)] > specific with something

mingeOE

allaya1425

compose1477

blend1591

to mix up1688

1688 R. Holme Acad. Armory iii. 293/2 Ordinary flour and suet minced small, and mixed up with Milk or Water.

1743 J. Isham Observ. Hudsons Bay (1949) 156 Pimmegan as the Natives styles itt, is some of the Ruhiggan fatt and cranberries mixd up togeather.

1753 J. Bartlet Gentleman's Farriery vi. 64 Then give him two drams of calomel, mixed up with an ounce of diapente, for two nights.

1845 Encycl. Metrop. XXV. 168/2 Mortar... Its composition varies..according to the various ingredients which may be mixed up with it.

1881 Trans. & Proc. N.Z. Inst. 1880 13 28 To use it as food it is mixed up with water into cakes and baked.

1932 ‘N. Shute’ Lonely Road iv. 67 The parfaits came, and proved to be a tinned peach and ice mixed up together in a cup.

1995 Visit'n (Vermont Folklife Center) 44/2 It was sulphur mixed up with molasses, I believe. They used to say we needed a spring tonic after the winter.

3. transitive. To combine or associate (qualities, ideas, memories, etc.), now esp. inappropriately or confusedly; to confuse with something else. †to mix it up (slang): to plot a deception (obsolete).

ΘΚΠ

the mind > attention and judgement > judgement or decision > misjudgement > indiscriminateness > fail to distinguish or confuse [verb (transitive)]

confound1581

muddy1604

blunder1676

blend1780

to mix upa1806

muddle1836

confuse1862

a1806 S. Horsley Serm. (1816) I. iv. 75 Who is he that shall determine in what proportions the attributes of justice and mercy, forbearance and severity, ought to be mixed up in the character of the Supreme Governor of the universe?

1819 Ld. Byron Don Juan: Canto I xx. 13 But then she had a devil of a spirit, And sometimes mix'd up fancies with realities.

1823 ‘J. Bee’ Slang To Mix it up, to agree secretly how the parties shall make up a tale, or colour a transaction in order to cheat or deceive another party, as in case of a justice-hearing, of a law-suit, or a cross in a boxing-match for money.

1850 J. C. Hare Mission of Comforter (ed. 2) 403 One virtue was mixt up with a thousand crimes.

1875 B. Jowett in tr. Plato Dialogues (ed. 2) III. 188 His manner of mixing up real and imaginary persons.

1912 J. Conrad Personal Record i. 43 The events..are inextricably mixed up with the details of the proper management of a waterside warehouse.

1950 R. Macaulay World my Wilderness xxviii. 20 They were for ever mixing up past and present consorts, with no embarrassment in the world.

1988 A. Tyler Breathing Lessons i. i. 8 How could you mix up the brake with the gas pedal?

4. transitive. To associate with (suspicious or discreditable company); to connect with or involve in (a compromising or discreditable affair, activity, etc.). Chiefly reflexive and passive.

ΘΚΠ

the world > action or operation > doing > activity or occupation > be occupied or busy (in or at something) [verb (intransitive)] > be involved in or have to do with something

entermetec1300

to make (a) market1340

meddlec1390

to do with ——a1400

mell1416

intermeddle1477

intermell1480

to have art or (and) part ina1500

participate1531

to have a finger (also hand) in the pie?1553

tigc1598

get1727

concern1791

involve1843

to mix up1882

tew1891

to screw with ——1973

1847 F. Marryat Children of New Forest II. xi. 259 It is not fit that the heiress of Arnwood, should mix herself up with foresters' daughters.

1882 E. Dicey Victor Emanuel v. 53 An Italian exile, who in his hot youth had been mixed up, very much against the grain, in an abortive plot for the assassination of the late King.

1915 W. S. Maugham Of Human Bondage xl. 185 I wouldn't mix myself up with any foreigners.

1934 D. Hammett Thin Man ix. 42 I didn't want to get mixed up with these people.

1994 Independent on Sunday 14 Aug. 21/5 We have had to live from week to week and got mixed up with loan sharks at one stage.

5. transitive. colloquial. To cause (a person) to become mentally or emotionally confused; to perplex, disconcert.

ΚΠ

1862 Queen Victoria Let. 15 Jan. in Dearest Mama (1968) 41 I only want your advice—not to get you further mixed up.

1966 A. Christie Third Girl xiv. 155 Reflection had never been Mrs Oliver's strong point. ‘You always mix me up,’ she complained.

1990 S. Gates Lock (BNC) 101 You're just trying to get me confused, aren't you? Trying to mix me up!

6. intransitive. colloquial (chiefly U.S.). To fight or argue vigorously. Also transitive as to mix it up, in same sense.

ΘΚΠ

society > society and the community > dissent > fighting > fight [verb (intransitive)] > fight vigorously

to stand to it1544

slog1846

to mix it up1898

society > leisure > sport > types of sport or game > fighting sports > boxing > box [verb (intransitive)] > exchange blows rapidly

to mix up1898

1898 Daily News 24 Nov. 7/3 The men were in the centre of the ring mixing up in the liveliest manner.

1900 A. H. Lewis Sandburrs 207 My only idee at d'time is..to mix it up wit' d'drunken bum who's soaked Sal.

1900 A. Conan Doyle Green Flag 165 This round must decide it. ‘Mix it oop, lad; mix it oop!’ the iron-men whooped.

1906 H. Green At Actors' Boarding House 359 They're goin' to mix it up. The little un'll win out, see if she don't. My eye! dames is allus fightin'.

1941 Time 8 Dec. 22/1 The tanks..face the approaching column... Then they begin to mix it up.

1993 R. Limbaugh See, I told you So iii. 32 I still do parody and satire and I love to mix it up with people on substantive issues, but I never try to be cruel.

This entry has been updated (OED Third Edition, September 2002; most recently modified version published online March 2022).

单词	mix
释义	† mixn.¹adj. Forms: Old English meocs (rare), Old English meohs (rare), Old English meohx (rare), Old English meox, Old English miox (rare), Old English–Middle English mix, Old English–Middle English myx, late Old English–Middle English mex, Middle English mexe, Middle English mixe, Middle English myxe. Origin: A word inherited from Germanic. Etymology: Cognate with North Frisian mjuks , West Frisian mjoks , Middle Dutch mes , Old Saxon mehs (Middle Low German mes ) < a Germanic base parallel to that of Middle Dutch mest , mist (Dutch mest ), Old Saxon mist (Middle Low German mest , mist ), Old High German mist (Middle High German mist , German Mist ) dung (also in Gothic maihstau (dative) dung heap) < the Germanic base of mig n.¹ Compare mixen n.Although the word is not attested as a simplex beyond the Middle English period, it survives in regional use as the first element of the compound mixhill n. Compare also Old English mes (rare) dung:eOE Bald's Leechbk. (Royal) (1865) i. xxxviii. 98 To ælcum dolge sealf, gesomna cue mesa cu migoþa gewyrce to flynan þa swa mon sapan wyrcð micelne citel fulne. Obsolete. A. n.¹ 1. Dung; filth. Also figurative. ΘΚΠ the world > life > the body > organs of excretion > excretions > faeces > [noun] gorec725 mixeOE quedeeOE turdeOE dungOE worthinga1225 dirta1300 drega1300 naturea1325 fen1340 ordurec1390 fimea1475 merd1486 stercory1496 avoidc1503 siegec1530 fex1540 excrement1541 hinder-fallings1561 gong1562 foil1565 voiding1577 pilgrim-salvec1580 egestion1583 shita1585 sir-reverence1592 purgament1597 filinga1622 faecesa1625 exclusion1646 faecality1653 tantadlin1654 surreverence1655 draught1659 excrementitiousness1660 jakes1701 old golda1704 dejection1728 dejecture1731 shitea1733 feculence1733 doll1825 crap1846 excreta1857 excretes1883 hockey1886 dejecta1887 job1899 number two1902 mess1903 ming1923 do1930 tomtit1930 pony1931 No. 21937 dog shit1944 Shinola1944 big job1945 biggie1953 doo-doo1954 doings1957 gick1959 pooh1960 pooh-pooh1962 dooky1965 poopy1970 whoopsie1973 pucky1980 jobbie1981 the world > physical sensation > cleanness and dirtiness > dirtiness > dirt > [noun] > dirt removed in cleaning > dung removed from stables, etc. mixeOE worthingc1582 stable-dung1763 rakes1774 eOE King Ælfred tr. Boethius De Consol. Philos. (Otho) xxxvi. 104 Se wisdom & eac oðre cræftas..licgað forsewe[ne] swa [swa] miox under feltune. OE Ælfric Homily: De Duodecim Abusivis (Corpus Cambr. 178) in R. Morris Old Eng. Homilies (1868) 1st Ser. 301 God..ahefð of meohse [a1225 Lamb. of mexe] þone mann þe he wile, þeah þe he wædla wære, & wyrcð hine to ealdre. OE West Saxon Gospels: Luke (Corpus Cambr.) xiii. 8 Oð ic hine bedelfe & ic hine bewurpe mid meoxe. a1300 (?c1200) Prov. Alfred (Jesus Oxf.) (1955) 510 (MED) Vyches cunnes madmes to mixe schulen i-multen. c1350 (a1333) William of Shoreham Poems (1902) 107 Prede..ledeþ þane flok..myx of alle myxe In heuene hy by-gan. 2. A wretch; a vile person; a fool. ΘΚΠ the mind > goodness and badness > inferiority or baseness > wretchedness > wretch > [noun] argha1275 mixa1300 caitiffc1325 crachouna1400 crathona1400 wretcheda1425 fouling?a1475 meschant1490 miscredent?a1500 ketterela1572 miscreant1590 scroyle1602 frummer1659 fustya1732 ramscallion1734 the mind > attention and judgement > contempt > condition of being held in contempt > [noun] > state or quality of being contemptible > contemptible person wormc825 wretchOE thingOE hinderlingc1175 harlot?c1225 mixa1300 villain1303 whelpc1330 wonnera1340 bismera1400 vilec1400 beasta1425 creaturec1450 dog bolt1465 fouling?a1475 drivel1478 shit1508 marmoset1523 mammeta1529 pilgarlica1529 pode1528 slave1537 slim1548 skit-brains?1553 grasshopper1556 scavenger1563 old boss1566 rag1566 shrub1566 ketterela1572 shake-rag1571 skybala1572 mumpsimus1573 smatchetc1582 squib1586 scabship1589 vassal1589 baboon1592 Gibraltar1593 polecat1593 mushroom1594 nodc1595 cittern-head1598 nit1598 stockfish1598 cum-twang1599 dish-wash1599 pettitoe1599 mustard-token1600 viliaco1600 cargo1602 stump1602 snotty-nose1604 sprat1605 wormling1605 brock1607 dogfly?1611 shag-rag1611 shack-rag1612 thrum1612 rabbita1616 fitchock1616 unworthy1616 baseling1618 shag1620 glow-worm1624 snip1633 the son of a worm1633 grousea1637 shab1637 wormship1648 muckworm1649 whiffler1659 prig1679 rotten egg1686 prigster1688 begged fool1693 hang-dog1693 bugger1694 reptile1697 squinny1716 snool1718 ramscallion1734 footer1748 jackass1756 hallion1789 skite1790 rattlesnake1791 snot1809 mudworm1814 skunk1816 stirrah1816 spalpeen1817 nyaff1825 skin1825 weed1825 tiger1827 beggar1834 despicability1837 squirt1844 prawn1845 shake1846 white mouse1846 scurf1851 sweep1853 cockroach1856 bummer1857 medlar1859 cunt1860 shuck1862 missing link1863 schweinhund1871 creepa1876 bum1882 trashbag1886 tinhorn1887 snot-rag1888 rodent1889 whelpling1889 pie eatera1891 mess1891 schmuck1892 fucker1893 cheapskate1894 cocksucker1894 gutter-bird1896 perisher1896 skate1896 schmendrick1897 nyamps1900 ullage1901 fink1903 onion1904 punk1904 shitepoke1905 tinhorn sport1906 streeler1907 zob1911 stink1916 motherfucker1918 Oscar1918 shitass1918 shit-face1923 tripe-hound1923 gimp1924 garbage can1925 twerp1925 jughead1926 mong1926 fuck?1927 arsehole1928 dirty dog1928 gazook1928 muzzler1928 roach1929 shite1929 mook1930 lug1931 slug1931 woodchuck1931 crud1932 dip1932 bohunkus1933 lint-head1933 Nimrod1933 warb1933 fuck-piga1935 owl-hoot1934 pissant1935 poot1935 shmegegge1937 motheree1938 motorcycle1938 squiff1939 pendejo1940 snotnose1941 jerkface1942 slag1943 yuck1943 fuckface?1945 fuckhead?1945 shit-head1945 shite-hawk1948 schlub1950 asswipe1953 mother1955 weenie1956 hard-on1958 rass hole1959 schmucko1959 bitch ass1961 effer1961 lamer1961 arsewipe1962 asshole1962 butthole1962 cock1962 dipshit1963 motherfuck1964 dork1965 bumhole1967 mofo1967 tosspot1967 crudball1968 dipstick1968 douche1968 frickface1968 schlong1968 fuckwit1969 rassclaat1969 ass1970 wank1970 fecker1971 wanker1971 butt-fucker1972 slimeball1972 bloodclaat1973 fuckwad1974 mutha1974 suck1974 cocksuck1977 tosser1977 plank1981 sleazebag1981 spastic1981 dweeb1982 bumboclaat1983 dickwad1983 scuzzbag1983 sleazeball1983 butt-face1984 dickweed1984 saddie1985 butt plug1986 jerkweed1988 dick-sucker1989 microcephalic1989 wankstain1990 sadster1992 buttmunch1993 fanny1995 jackhole1996 fassyhole1997 fannybaws2000 fassy2002 a1300 in R. Morris Old Eng. Misc. (1872) 140 (MED) Crune of þornes þu heuedest on heued. Ne myhte þe mixes þo wurse þe don. a1333 Gloss. W. de Bibbesworth (BL Add.) (1929) 503 A myx [v.r. fool; glossing Fr. bricoun]. a1375 (c1350) William of Palerne (1867) 125 Þe quene his moder..as a mix þouȝt..þat it no schuld neuer kuuere to be king..whille þe kinges ferst sone wer þer a-liue. c1400 Femina (Trin. Cambr.) (1909) 41 (MED) Dronkenesse makeþ þe visage of a myx [Fr. brykon] fful red wyþ oute vermyloun. B. adj. Filthy, foul. ΘΚΠ the world > physical sensation > cleanness and dirtiness > dirtiness > [adjective] uncleaneOE horyc1000 foulOE fennilicha1225 sutya1225 mixc1225 blackc1300 solwyc1325 bawdy1377 filthyc1384 nastyc1390 sowlyc1400 soryc1440 uncleanly1447 mossyc1450 dungyc1494 bedirted1528 slubberly?1529 filthish1530 deturpate?1533 mucky1538 stercorous1542 bluterc1550 dungish?1550 puddly1559 drumly1563 suddle1568 parbruilyiedc1586 sluttered1589 dirty1600 ordurous?1606 immund1621 turpie1633 sterquilinious1647 bruckled1648 cloacal1656 foede1657 stercorose1727 murky1755 sterquilinian1772 cloacinean1814 floy1820 poucey1829 stoachy1836 mullocky1839 muckering1841 sewery1851 dutty1853 dauby1855 cloacean1859 mucky1863 bilgy1878 cloacaline1879 muck-heapy1881 cloacinal1887 schmutzig1911 grufty1922 scabrous1939 mawkit1962 feechie1975 c1225 (?c1200) St. Katherine (1973) 202 Þet euch waried weoued of þe mix maumez ron of þet balefule blod al biblodeget. c1225 (?c1200) St. Katherine (1973) 2069 (MED) Tine mix maumez alle beon amanset. This entry has been updated (OED Third Edition, September 2002; most recently modified version published online June 2022). mixn.² Brit. /mɪks/, U.S. /mɪks/ Origin: Formed within English, by conversion. Etymon: mix v. Etymology: < mix v. Compare earlier mixture n.Rare before the 19th cent. 1. a. The act or result of mixing; a mixture; (formerly esp.) a muddle, a state of confusion. ΘΚΠ the world > relative properties > wholeness > mutual relation of parts to whole > condition or state of being mixed or blended > [noun] > action or fact of mixing mingingOE mongling?c1225 mellinga1375 commixtiona1398 mixtiona1398 compounding1398 meddlinga1400 intermelling1413 mashing1440 medlure?a1475 commistion1495 contemperation1502 intermixtion?1520 mixing1525 mixture1530 mixting1532 minglinga1535 mingle1548 temperature1550 contemperament1565 commixture1567 intermingling1576 commixing1583 intermixture1592 mixc1595 minglement1602 interblending1605 contempering1609 intermeddling1611 contemperating1617 mistion1617 immixtion1653 immistion1658 alloy1672 intermixing1690 blendure1701 intermingledom1753 blending1795 comminglement1833 commingling1854 co-mingling1856 immixture1859 interminglement1873 interfuse1887 melding1939 the world > relative properties > order > disorder > confusion or disorder > [noun] > a state of confused disorder feery-fary1535 puddle1587 bauchle1600 vertigo1702 whemmel1817 mull1821 mix-up1841 scrimmage1852 embroilment1856 hash-up1860 brangle1865 mucker1867 unplight1876 car wreck1877 mix1882 mess-up1902 stirabout1905 pot mess1914 boorach1928 balls-up1929 muck-up1930 balls1938 box1941 Chinese fire drill1943 snafu1943 foul-up1944 screw-up1950 snarl-up1960 tiswas1960 bumble-bath1965 clusterfuck1969 headfuck1983 car crash1992 katogo1994 dumpster fire2008 c1595 Countess of Pembroke Psalme cxlvii. 23 in Coll. Wks. (1998) II. 249 O make harmonious mix of voice and string. 1839 T. Hood Hood's Own 377 Conceive the snoring of a greedy swine, The slobbering of a hungry Ursine Sloth—If you have ever heard such creature dine—And—for Hog's Norton, make a mix of both! 1879 Appletons' Jrnl. May 447/1 I fell down, and they all capsized, turned turtle..one after the other, over each other's legs. Never saw such a mix. 1882 W. D. Howells Likely Story (1897) iii. 56 She'll show the note to Miss Greenway, and you'll be ruined. Oh, poor Mr. Welling! Oh, what a fatal, fatal—mix! 1893 A. Fuller Lit. Courtship xv. 156 I thought of her clear eye and her healthy way of looking and talking, and I was more in a mix than ever. 1901 Harper's Mag. Apr. 761/1 ‘It has all been a mix and a muddle’, she answered. 1905 Speaker 3 June 231/1 They made an indescribable mix and blend of colour. 1912 L. Greenbaum & M. Greenbaum Pract. Dentistry xxvii. 457 It is best to subject the mass to the least amount of stirring conducive to a homogeneous mix. 1977 N.Z. Herald 8 Jan. i. 1/9 The Maori mix came when the Cairns' eldest daughter Isobel married a Maori. b. Printing. An instance of the accidental running together of unconnected portions of text. Now rare. ΚΠ 1897 Daily News 29 Nov. 6/3 A somewhat different class of Printers' errors are those that arise from what are technically known as ‘mixes’—that is the accidental running together of sentences..which have no connexion. 1909 Daily Chron. 2 June 4/6 When the Imperial Press Conference gets through its serious business, it might devote an afternoon to cable ‘mixes’, and how to prevent them. 2. a. A prepared mixture of ingredients from which a cake or other item of food or drink is made, usually with the addition of further ingredients. More generally: any mixture of two or more physical components or constituents.Often with modifying word: for more established compounds see the first element. ΘΚΠ the world > food and drink > food > substances for food preparation > [noun] > batter or cake-mix battera1475 pancake batter1615 cake mix1913 mix1922 sponge mixture1926 1922 T. Mojonnier & H. C. Troy Techn. Control Dairy Products xiii. 276 Ice cream made from mix No. 9 will feel about 12·00 per cent warmer to the tongue than ice cream made from mix No. 1. 1937 Archit. Rev. 82 57/3 The hearth-scene surround is constructed of re-inforced concrete, rendered in a mix of latex-rubber and ciment fondu. 1938 F. Fiene & S. Blumenthal Handbk. Food Manuf. 332 Sponge cake mix. 1962 Listener 29 Mar. 579/2 When the egg mix is light and foamy add to it the sauce. 1966 Economist 9 Apr. 175/1 Acrylics (woolly, fluffy fibres used in knitwear mostly) and polyesters (mostly used in wool mixes, now bulked in jersey-knits) are bound to follow the same course as nylon. 1971 M. McCarthy Birds of Amer. 31 First a cake made with a mix and then a real one. 2000 Caterer & Hotelkeeper 25 May 68/4 The Vegetarian Mini-Drummer is a mix of sweetcorn, green beans and carrots. b. figurative. A combination of different qualities, features, etc., which make an integrated whole. ΘΚΠ the world > relative properties > wholeness > mutual relation of parts to whole > condition or state of being mixed or blended > [noun] > a mixture mingingOE mungc1175 meddlingc1384 mellaya1400 mixture?a1425 commixtion?a1439 medley1440 brothc1515 mingly1545 mingle1548 maslin1574 miscellane1582 commixture1590 flaumpaump1593 salad1603 miscellany1609 common1619 cento1625 misturea1626 mixtil1654 concrete1656 contemperation1664 ragout1672 crasis1677 alloy1707 mixtible1750 galimatias1762 misc.1851 syllabub1859 mixtry1862 cocktail1868 blend1883 admix1908 mix-up1918 mix1959 meld1973 katogo1994 1959 Life (Internat. ed.) 13 Apr. 20/2 The new term is ‘mix’. There is, says the Administration, an adequate ‘mix’ of forces to maintain our deterrent. 1964 M. McLuhan Understanding Media (1967) v. 60 Oral societies are made up of people differentiated..by their unique emotional mixes. 1970 Daily Tel. 9 Apr. 36/5 The mix of dancing, cabaret, drinking and gaming created an undesirable temptation to young people. 1982 T. A. Shippey Road to Middle-Earth vii. 174 In repeated versions he explains laboriously that Gandalf forced Bilbo on Thorin..because he thought Bilbo had the right ‘mix’ of Took and Baggins. 1990 Public Relations Jrnl. May 16/3 Executives, recently asked whether they've yet used LPTV as part of their public relations mix, confessed ignorance. 3. a. Film, Broadcasting, etc. The action or an act of combining or merging film pictures or soundtracks; a transition between two pictures or sounds in which one fades out as the other fades in; a dissolve. Cf. mix v. 7. ΘΚΠ society > communication > broadcasting > putting on or producing broadcast > [noun] > various techniques fade1918 mix1922 pre-emphasis1940 society > leisure > the arts > performance arts > cinematography > filming > special effect > [noun] > others mix1922 iris-in1929 iris-out1929 superimposition1931 wipe1933 hanging miniature1937 matched dissolve1953 match dissolve1959 super1959 multiple image1965 1922 L. C. Macbean Kinematogr. Studio Technique ix. 71 The number of turns in which a ‘mix’ or ‘fade’ should be accomplished. 1932 Wireless World 16 Mar. 276/1 A sound-mix, which corresponds to a picture-mix (when the picture dissolves into another picture) is done by starting with one microphone set at its gain figure and the second microphone set at zero gain. 1932 Wireless World 16 Mar. 276/1 For a smooth mix, the two knobs must be turned as nearly as possible at the same speed. 1960 D. Wilson Television Playwright 15 By means of ‘mixes’ and ‘fades’ short or long time-lapses can be established. 1987 D. Clandfield Canad. Film vi. 113 McLaren's C'est l'aviron (1944) used staggered overlapping mixes to produce the illusion of a canoe's forward movement through landscape. b. Sound Recording. The combination of separate sound signals in suitable proportions to create a single composite recording; a version of a record produced by this process (cf. remix n.). ΘΚΠ society > communication > record > recording or reproducing sound or visual material > sound recording and reproduction > [noun] > result of combining different sounds sound-mix1932 mixdown1969 mix1972 1972 G. Gould Let. 8 Jan. in Sel. Lett. (1992) 173 The voice-track was taped approximately six weeks ago, a four-track was moved into my apartment for two days, and mix was done a month back. 1977 Rolling Stone 13 Jan. 52/2 One would hardly be able to hear it in Jack Douglas' overpowering mix. 1987 Making Music Feb. 11/5 Some record companies still consider 12in mixes to be ‘promotion’ even though they sometimes outsell the 7in version. 1995 Alternative Press May 83/1 ‘Vali’ pushes an acoustic guitar up in the mix while washes of electronic sound cycle in and out. c. Music. A set of continuous uninterrupted music (typically dance music) produced by mixing a number of recordings, tracks, samples, etc. Cf. mix v. 9. ΘΚΠ society > leisure > the arts > music > piece of music > type of piece > [noun] > medley or mix medley1626 pasticcio1742 pot-pourri1790 quodlibet?c1809 selection1857 pastiche1934 mix1976 1976 Billboard 23 Oct. 42/1 Miller, who programs only disco product, accepts no requests... He admits he visits other discos, stealing other mixes, and blends their techniques with his own. 1987 Blues & Soul 3 Feb. 14/1 From New York comes this ‘garage’ instrumental, basically more useful for deejays in a ‘House’ mix rather than a great record on its own merit. 2002 N.Y. Times (National ed.) 5 May ii. 48/5 Where house and techno tracks present themselves meekly as mere components for the D.J.'s seamless mix, the electro songs compete for your attention. 2012 Metro (Nexis) 2 Aug. 58 A mix he put together for his London visit can be downloaded. 4. A soft drink intended for mixing with alcoholic drinks. Cf. mixer n. 7a. ΘΚΠ the world > food and drink > drink > mixers or flavourings > [noun] mixer1925 pink1942 twist1958 mix1962 1962 L. Deighton Ipcress File xviii. 110 A bottle of Scotch, gin, some assorted mixes. 1971 Guardian 9 June 13/1 Alcoholic mixes like bitter lemon. 1990 D. Bailey Sunflowers never Sleep x. 166 There's no mix in it. I can't drink that straight! Phrases in the mix: involved, in effect; possible; at play. ΘΚΠ the world > relative properties > wholeness > mutual relation of parts to whole > incorporation or inclusion > [adjective] > incorporated or included inclusive1573 comprisedc1575 included1590 incorpsed1604 incorporated1715 unexcluded1780 corporate1850 in the mix1962 1962 N.Y. Times 30 Sept. f13/5 Business is said to be better, but there's a ‘but’ in the mix. 1996 Observer 29 Dec. (Sport & Business section) 5/4 Watching football certainly had a little more spice when there was an element of discomfort and physical danger in the mix. 2016 K. Parks Lifeboat Clique viii. 93 My mother wanted to name me after a city... She said Cancun was in the mix, but I think she was just trying to be funny. Compounds (Chiefly in sense 3c.) mix album n. ΚΠ 1974 Billboard 7 Sept. 32/4 Two unique ‘mix’ albums. 1996 Sunday Mail (Nexis) 9 June 9 This really is the best mix album I've heard this year. 2010 Gleaner (Kingston, Jamaica) 4 Nov. (Entertainment section) d1/4 Fabric has seized on its popularity by releasing mix albums which rock dancehalls as far away as Australia and New Zealand. mix CD n. ΚΠ 1990 Martika in rec.music.misc (Usenet newsgroup) 8 May It is also possible that ‘Exchange of Hearts’ is only available on the mix CD and on single CD. 2002 Time Out N.Y. 22 Aug. 59/2 The track ‘I'm Sick’ showed up on a mix-CD compiled by Liam Howlett from shouty aggrotronica act Prodigy. 2012 M. Miller Ultimate Digital Music Guide vii. xxx. 469 It used to be that before you'd take a long road trip, you'd burn a few mix CDs with your favorite tunes. mix disc n. ΚΠ 1995 Sun (Baltimore) (Nexis) 6 Aug. 1 j Rhino is planning a trio of ‘Cocktail Mix’ discs for release early next year.] 1997 Guardian 11 July (Review section) 16/2 A Decade of Ibiza..comes on three separate mix discs. mix tape n. ΚΠ 1991 Washington Post (Nexis) 19 Apr. n11 Like many other runners, I made a mix tape of my favorite inspirational songs, varying it so there are peaks and valleys. 1999 Blues & Soul 13 July 33/1 This bomb first made its debut on a DJ Doo Wop's mixtape. This entry has been updated (OED Third Edition, September 2002; most recently modified version published online March 2022). mixv. Brit. /mɪks/, U.S. /mɪks/ Forms: 1500s myx, 1500s myxe, 1500s–1600s mixe, 1500s– mix; Scottish pre-1700 mex, pre-1700 mixe, pre-1700 myx, pre-1700 1700s– mix. Past tense 1500s myxt, 1500s myxte, 1600s mixte, 1600s– mixed, 1600s– mixt (now archaic and nonstandard); Scottish pre-1700 mext, pre-1700 myxit, pre-1700 myxt, pre-1700 1700s– mixed, pre-1700 1700s– mixt (now rare). Past participle late Middle English–1500s myxte, late Middle English–1500s myxyd, late Middle English–1600s mixte, late Middle English– mixt (now archaic and nonstandard), 1500s mixid, 1500s myxced, 1500s myxed, 1500s myxt, 1500s– mixed, 1600s– mixd (poetic); Scottish pre-1700 mexit, pre-1700 mext, pre-1700 mixd, pre-1700 mixit, pre-1700 mixte, pre-1700 myxit, pre-1700 myxt, pre-1700 ymixt (pseudo-archaic), pre-1700 1700s–1800s mixt, pre-1700 1700s– mixed. Origin: Formed within English, by back-formation. Etymon: mixed adj.² Etymology: Back-formation < mixed adj.², apprehended as a past participle (compare -ed suffix¹). Compare later mixt v.Rare in any form other than the past participle before the 17th cent. The prefixed form ymixt (in quot. ?a1610 at sense 1a) perhaps arose by confusion with immix v. Old English miscian (rare) to apportion (cognate with Middle Dutch mischen, Middle Low German mischen, Old High German miscan, misgen, misken (Middle High German mischen, German mischen)) almost certainly shows no continuity with the present word. This and its cognates probably represent an early West Germanic loan < classical Latin miscēre, perhaps in the context of the continental wine trade (although in terms of form they could also be explained as cognates of the Latin word). 1. a. transitive. To put together or combine (two or more substances or things) so that the constituents or particles of each are interspersed or diffused more or less evenly among those of the rest; to unite (one or more substances or things) in this manner with another or others; to make a mixture of, to mingle, blend. ΘΚΠ the world > relative properties > wholeness > mutual relation of parts to whole > condition or state of being mixed or blended > mix or blend [verb (transitive)] mingeOE blandOE mongle?c1225 meddlec1350 sprengea1382 compoundc1384 intermeddlec1384 temperc1386 mell1387 found?c1390 joinc1400 intermell1413 commix?a1425 medley?a1425 mix?a1425 amenge?c1450 immix?a1475 immixt?a1475 minglea1475 tremp1480 commixt1481 incarry1486 mixtionc1500 mixta1513 demelle1516 confect1540 intermixt1551 intermingle1555 bemix1559 intermix1562 contemper1567 blenge1570 bemingle1574 contemperate1590 masha1591 commeddle1604 immingle1606 blenda1616 intemper1627 commingle1648 conferment1651 subigate1657 to mix up1672 mould1701 meine1736 caudle1795 combine1799 interblenda1849 inmix1892 meld1936 ?a1425 tr. Guy de Chauliac Grande Chirurgie (N.Y. Acad. Med.) f. 49 Medulle of white brede infused in mylke & tempred, wele mixte with ȝolke of eiren semicocte [etc.]. tr. Palladius De re Rustica (Duke Humfrey) (1896) i. 405 (MED) Lyme & grauel commixt ther on do glide, With marbul greet ygrounde & mixt with lyme. a1500 in R. L. Greene Early Eng. Carols (1935) 298 (MED) Butt now prosyrs glorius be myxyd with gall. 1509–10 Act 1 Henry VIII xiv in Statutes of Realm (1817) III. 8 That no manne undre the degree of a Baron use in his Apparell..eny clothe of golde or clothe of Sylver..ne no other..Clothe myxte or broderd wyth Golde or Sylver. 1526 Grete Herball ccxliv. sig. Oiv^v/1 At moost put not but .v. dragmes & myxe mastycke, or gomme called bedelium. 1535 Bible (Coverdale) 2 Esdras xiii. 11 And they were all myxte together: the blast of fyre, the wynde of the flammes, and y^e greate storme. 1538 T. Elyot Dict. Misceo,..to myxe [so 1545; 1548 myxt, 1552 myxte] or meddyll together. 1558 T. Phaer tr. Virgil Seuen First Bks. Eneidos ii. E iij b & mixt w^t dust & smoke [Virgil 2. 609 mixtoque undantem puluere fumum] thick streames of reekings rise. 1566 T. Drant tr. Horace Medicinable Morall sig. Gviij Aufidius, myxt heddy wyne, And honey all in one. 1572 L. Mascall tr. in Bk. Plant & Graffe Trees 86 Clense the ground of weedes, and mixe it well with good molde and fat earth. ?a1610 A. Montgomerie Poems (1887) 70 Hir comelie cheeks of vive colour, Of rid and vhyt ymixt. 1638 F. Junius Painting of Ancients 272 He who vainly mixing many faire colours representeth nothing else in his worke but a painted tempest. 1667 J. Milton Paradise Lost xii. 181 Thunder mixt with Haile, Haile mixt with fire must rend th' Egyptian Skie. View more context for this quotation 1670 Lady M. Bertie in 12th Rep. Royal Comm. Hist. MSS (1890) App. v. 21 Some ware all small ribban, others brode ribbans, others broad and small mixed. 1716 Lady M. W. Montagu Let. 14 Sept. (1965) I. 265 Their own Hair..they mix with a great deal of false. 1800 tr. E. J. B. Bouillon-Lagrange Man. Course Chem. I. 129 If you mix nitrous vapour with oxygen gas, there will be no absorption. 1853 J. F. Royle Man. Materia Med. (ed. 2) 701 Spirit of Ether..Mix Sulphuric Ether..with Rectified Spirit. 1871 ‘L. Carroll’ Through Looking-glass ix. 203 Mix sand with the cider, and wool with the wine. 1891 T. Hardy Tess of the D'Urbervilles II. xxix. 109 There's no time to-day to take it home and mix it [sc. milk] with the bulk afore sending off. 1910 Encycl. Brit. I. 526/2 In certain cases it is sufficient to mix the alcohol with a reagent necessary for the purpose in hand. 1944 D. E. Warland Teach yourself Constructional Details ii. 25 Cement mortar is made by mixing Portland cement and sand in definite proportions. 1999 R. Tremain Music & Silence (2000) i. 172 Emilia mixes the powders as instructed. b. transitive. (With abstract object.) To associate or blend (different qualities, features, techniques, etc.), or combine (one quality, etc.) with another. ΘΚΠ the world > relative properties > wholeness > mutual relation of parts to whole > condition or state of being mixed or blended > mix or blend [verb (transitive)] > specific immaterial things blendc1400 mixa1475 mixta1513 a1475 (a1447) O. Bokenham Mappula Angliae in Englische Studien (1887) 10 30 (MED) Toungis and languagis..been not alle pure, but sum ben mixte & medlis [read medlid] on sundry wysys. ?1532 T. Elyot tr. Plutarch Educ. Children (new ed.) vii. sig. Dij Assured and perfecte men, whiche can myxe polytike wysedome with philosophie. c1550 Complaynt Scotl. (1979) Prol. 13 Mixand ther purposis, vitht oncoutht exquisite termis. 1560 Bible (Geneva) Heb. iv. 2 The worde that they heard, profitted not them, because it was not mixed [Gk. συγκεκραμένος] with faith in those that heard it. 1600 W. Shakespeare Henry IV, Pt. 2 v. ii. 46 Brothers, you mixt your sadnesse with some feare. View more context for this quotation 1662 E. Stillingfleet Origines Sacræ ii. vi. §11 Now there had been no reason at all for this, if he had mixed promises together with his threatnings. 1707 J. Floyer Physician's Pulse-watch 277 In this case we must mix both the hot and the cold Method. 1726 Bp. J. Butler 15 Serm. i. 11 Two Principles which are frequently mixt together, and which run up into each other. 1815 M. Elphinstone Acct. Kingdom Caubul ii. viii. 255 They also mix trade and agency with their regular banking business. 1875 B. Jowett in tr. Plato Dialogues (ed. 2) V. 124 In the election of the Council, the legislator attempts to mix aristocracy and democracy. 1935 G. Greene in Spectator 19 July 94/2 It doesn't mix the romantic and the realistic, but is all romance in the Elizabethan, or perhaps only the Rostand, manner. 1991 Advocate 15 Jan. 62/1 Mixing gay life with Chicano life, street life with Catholic life, cholo life with my life, is what I'm trying to do. †c. transitive. poetic. To cause (eyes) to meet in an exchange of glances; (also) to join, clasp (hands). Obsolete. to mix one's thigh with: to have sexual intercourse with (cf. sense 3b). ΘΚΠ the world > physical sensation > sexual relations > sexual activity > engage in sexual activity with [verb (transitive)] > have sexual intercourse with mingeOE haveOE knowc1175 ofliec1275 to lie with (or by)a1300 knowledgec1300 meetc1330 beliea1350 yknowc1350 touchc1384 deala1387 dightc1386 usea1387 takec1390 commona1400 to meet witha1400 servea1400 occupy?a1475 engender1483 jangle1488 to be busy with1525 to come in1530 visitc1540 niggle1567 mow1568 to mix one's thigh with1593 do1594 grind1598 pepper1600 yark1600 tumble1603 to taste of1607 compressc1611 jumble1611 mix?1614 consort?1615 tastea1616 bumfiddle1630 ingressa1631 sheet1637 carnal1643 night-work1654 bump1669 bumble1680 frig?c1680 fuck1707 stick1707 screw1719 soil1722 to do over1730 shag1770 hump1785 subagitatec1830 diddle1879 to give (someone) onec1882 charver1889 fuckeec1890 plugc1890 dick1892 to make a baby1911 to know (a person) in the biblical sense1912 jazz1920 rock1922 yentz1924 roll1926 to make love1927 shtupa1934 to give (or get) a tumble1934 shack1935 bang1937 to have it off1937 rump1937 tom1949 to hop into bed (with)1951 ball1955 to make it1957 plank1958 score1960 naughty1961 pull1965 pleasurea1967 to have away1968 to have off1968 dork1970 shaft1970 bonk1975 knob1984 boink1985 fand- the world > space > relative position > posture > position of specific body parts > position specific body part [verb (transitive)] > arms or hands > specific hand > hold or clasp (one's or another's hands) fold1535 to take a person's hand1536 hand1643 mix1713 clasp1859 1593 W. Shakespeare Venus & Adonis sig. Diij Were neuer foure such lamps, together mixt, Had not his clouded with his browes repine. View more context for this quotation 1606 J. Marston Parasitaster iv. i The Romans..thought that a woman might mix her thigh with a stranger wantonly, and yet still love her husband matrimonially. ?1609 G. Chapman tr. Homer Twelue Bks. Iliads vi. 103 Hector..smil'd vpon his ioy: Andromache cryed out, mixt hands, and to the strength of Troy, Thus wept forth her affection. 1713 J. Addison Cato iii. ii. 36 Never to mix my plighted Hands with thine. 1714 D. Manley Adventures of Rivella 62 He affected so prodigious a Passion, that he could not breathe without mixing Eyes, pressing and kissing her Hands and Neck. 1868 Ld. Tennyson Lucretius 56 And hands they mixt, and yell'd and round me drove In narrowing circles. †d. transitive. To put in or introduce as an additional ingredient. Also with in, to. Obsolete. ΘΚΠ the world > relative properties > wholeness > mutual relation of parts to whole > condition or state of being mixed or blended > mix or blend [verb (transitive)] > add as ingredient to a mixture admixt1529 mix1607 1607 E. Topsell Hist. Foure-footed Beastes 237 The milke also of a Goat mixed to a womans milke is best for the nourishment of man, because it is not too fat. a1715 Bp. G. Burnet Hist. Own Time (1724) I. 18 They were very factious and insolent; and both in their sermons and prayers were always mixing severe reflections on their enemies. 1745 E. Young Complaint: Night the Eighth 25 Knows he, that Mankind praise against their Will, And mix as much Detraction as they can? †e. transitive. Hyperbolically: to confound; to mingle or confuse so as to make indistinguishable. Obsolete. ΘΚΠ the mind > mental capacity > belief > uncertainty, doubt, hesitation > perplexity, bewilderment > act of perplexing > confuse, perplex, bewilder [verb (transitive)] > confuse parts confounda1538 confuse1550 mix1667 1667 J. Milton Paradise Lost vii. 215 They view'd the vast immeasurable Abyss.., Up from the bottom turn'd by furious windes And surging waves, as Mountains to assault Heav'ns highth, and with the Center mix the Pole. View more context for this quotation f. transitive. colloquial. to mix one's drinks and variants: to drink different kinds of alcohol in close succession, esp. wine and beer, with ill effects. Occasionally intransitive with object implied. ΘΚΠ the world > food and drink > drink > drinking > [verb (intransitive)] > drink intoxicating liquor > mix drinks to mix one's drinks1890 the world > food and drink > drink > thirst > excess in drinking > [verb (intransitive)] > get drunk > by mixing drinks to mix one's drinks1890 1890 R. Kipling in Pioneer Mail (Allahabad) 16 July 87/2 Never mix your liquors. I'm nearly dead. 1898 J. D. Brayshaw Slum Silhouettes 238 'E was gettin' a bit beargered—not that 'e'd 'ad so much, but 'e would keep mixin'; first one thing an' then annuver. 1933 J. B. Priestley Wonder Hero vii. 269 Had a thick night last night... Mixed 'em a bit. Always a mistake—mixing 'em. 1950 G. Greene Third Man ii. 13 If you stayed around in a hotel lounge, sooner or later..one mixed one's drinks. 1985 S. Rees Devil's Looking-glass (1986) xv. 124 All that burgundy and stuff. Doesn't do to mix your drinks, and spirits on top of that was asking for trouble. g. transitive. colloquial. to mix it: to quarrel, fight; to start fighting; to cause trouble; to tangle with an adversary; (later also simply) to keep company with.See also to mix it up at Phrasal verbs. ΘΚΠ society > society and the community > dissent > fighting > fight [verb (intransitive)] fightc900 deal993 wraxlec1000 skirm?c1225 makec1275 mellc1300 to fight togethera1400 meddlec1400 match1440 wring1470 cobc1540 toilc1540 strike1579 beat1586 scuffle1590 exchange blows1594 to bang it out or aboutc1600 buffeta1616 tussle1638 dimicate1657 to try a friskin1675 to battle it1821 muss1851 scrap1874 to mix it1905 dogfight1929 yike1940 to go upside (someone's) head1970 society > society and the community > dissent > be in dissension or at variance [verb (intransitive)] > cause dissension to make strife1303 to make the feathers flyc1430 to stir the coals1539 to make mischiefc1572 to blow the bellows1590 to blow the fire1670 to stir the pot1826 to stir (also rouse) the possum1900 to mix it1950 1905 C. H. Day Actress & Clerk xv. 149 As Hard Knox would have himself described in the technique of the ring, the men ‘mixed it’. 1918 E. M. Roberts Flying Fighter 91 He grew angry and we mixed it. I gave him a black eye. 1945 Aeronautics Feb. 50/3 Pilots took full advantage of every opportunity of ‘mixing it’ with the Hun. 1950 P. Tempest Lag's Lexicon 136 Mix it, to, to put one man against another. To make trouble. 1973 D. Lees Rape of Quiet Town vi. 92 These lads don't want to fight for nothing. If they can get away without mixing it they will. 1987 Speedway Star 26 Sept. 10/1 Despite mixing it with the best in the world to finish fourth in Sunday's Longtrack Final. 1992 Daily Tel. (BNC) Author Margaret Drabble will be mixing it with Michael Foot and Labour supporters at a private party. 2. a. transitive. To prepare (a mixture, compound, etc.) by combining various ingredients. In early use also: †to adulterate (wine, etc.) (obsolete). ΘΚΠ the world > relative properties > wholeness > mutual relation of parts to whole > condition or state of being mixed or blended > mix or blend [verb (transitive)] > prepare by mixing mingOE meddlec1350 compoundc1384 temper1390 mix1482 comfit1483 confect1575 mingle1587 to make up1649 concoct1676 amalgamate1821 to rub in1844 1482 Acts Parl. Scotl. (1814) II. 144/1 That na persoun..take apon hand..to mix wyne or beir. c1520 M. Nisbet New Test. in Scots (1905) III. Rev. xviii. 6 In the drink that scho mengit to yow, mex ye doubile to hir. ?1553 (c1501) G. Douglas Palice of Honour (London) iii. l. 1809 in Shorter Poems (1967) 112 Mercy is copper, and mixis weil his wyne. 1597 W. Shakespeare Romeo & Juliet iii. iii. 44 Hadst thou no strong poyson mixt . View more context for this quotation 1617 F. Moryson Itinerary iii. 156 They had not our Vinteners fraud to mixe their Wines. 1697 J. Dryden tr. Virgil Georgics iii, in tr. Virgil Wks. 116 From the Founts where living Sulphurs boyl, They mix a Med'cine to foment their Limbs. View more context for this quotation 1726 J. Swift Gulliver II. iii. v. 65 Their Employment was to mix colours for Painters, which their Master taught them to distinguish by feeling and smelling. 1818 W. Kitchiner Cook's Oracle (ed. 2) 577 Puddings are best when mixed over night. 1853 E. C. Gaskell Uncle Peter i, in Fraser's Mag. Oct. 444/2 ‘Shall I mix it for you, ma'am?’ asked Hannah, standing in the middle of the apartment. 1887 P. McNeill Blawearie 100 He had mixed and otherwise prepared as much of his layering compound as he thought he might use. 1917 E. R. Burroughs Princess of Mars xiii. 133 They have had me..helping them mix their awful radium powder, and make their terrible projectiles. 1952 P. Bowles Let it come Down i. ii. 15 Daisy wanted Wilcox to mix sidecars. 1980 G. Lord Fortress xvii. 133 Sarah, will you bring the paints up? I've mixed them. b. transitive. In passive with of. Now somewhat archaic. ΚΠ 1555 R. Eden tr. Peter Martyr of Angleria Decades of Newe Worlde i. iv. f. 19^v Electrum is a metall naturally mixt of one portion of golde & an other of siluer. a1591 H. Smith Wks. (1867) II. 444 Thou art not God, neither art thou man, but neuter, mixed of both! 1622 F. Bacon Advt. Holy Warre Ep. Ded. Therefore I haue chosen an Argument, mixt of Religious and Ciuill Considerations; And likewise mixt between Contemplatiue and Actiue. 1639 R. Gentilis tr. P. Sarpi Hist. Inquisition 16 This is the beginning in Venice of the Office of th' inquisition mixed of secular and Ecclesiasticall Persons. 1674 Hogan-Moganides 51 A Vapour mixt of Form and Matter Like Will oth' wisp of Fire and Water. 1694 R. South 12 Serm. II. 247 With an odd kind of Passion, mixed of Pleasure, and Envy too. 1760 A. Murphy Desert Island iii. 43 This wonderful emotion, Unfelt till now, and mix'd of pain and joy. 1820 C. Lamb Let. 16 May (1935) II. 275 The line you cannot appropriate is Gray's sonnet, specimenifyed by Wordsworth..as mixed of bad and good style. 1847 R. W. Emerson Poems 127 Swifter-fashioned than the fairies, Substance mixed of pure contraries. 1883 R. W. Dixon Mano i. xi. 33 This story mixed of spiteful falsity My wicked daughter gave. 1991 Esquire June 121/2 Avis..made color Xeroxes of masterpieces out of art books and then signed them in an ink mixed of her own blood and urine. 3. a. transitive. To unite (a person or persons) in dealings or acquaintance; to bring together; to associate; †to join in sexual intercourse (obsolete). Frequently reflexive. Now rare. ΘΚΠ society > society and the community > social relations > association, fellowship, or companionship > associate with [verb (transitive)] seeOE drawc1275 mella1300 meeta1325 fellow1340 usec1384 conjoinc1386 joinc1390 knitc1400 accompany1461 enfellowship1470 frequent1477 haunt1477 mixa1513 encompanya1533 combinea1535 contract1548 to take with ——1562 associate1581 to have a saying toa1593 cope1594 sort1594 to take in1597 consort1600 herd1606 factionate1611 to keep company (with)a1616 accost1633 solder1641 converse1649 walk1650 consociate1653 coalite1734 to get with ——a1772 forgather1786 unionize1810 to go rounda1867 to mix in1870 cop1940 the world > physical sensation > sexual relations > sexual activity > engage in sexual activity with [verb (transitive)] > bring (couple) together for intercourse beda1300 couplea1340 assemblec1386 minga1400 mixa1513 a1513 J. Irland Meroure of Wyssdome (1926) I. 39 Heire we are mixt, gud luffaris and synnaris togiddir. 1535 Bible (Coverdale) Ezra ix. (Contents) Eszdras is sory that the people haue myxte them selues with the Heythenish wemen. 1592 T. Nashe Pierce Penilesse (Brit. Libr. copy) sig. G2 ^v Euer since we haue mixt our selues with the Low-countries. 1601 B. Jonson Fountaine of Selfe-love iv. v. sig. I3^v We must mixe this gentleman with you in acquaintance. View more context for this quotation 1667 J. Milton Paradise Lost i. 579 Th' Heroic Race..That fought at Theb's and Ilium, on each side Mixt with auxiliar Gods. View more context for this quotation 1697 J. Dryden tr. Virgil Æneis iv, in tr. Virgil Wks. 301 Lest he forbid, with absolute Command, To mix the People in one common Land. 1697 J. Dryden tr. Virgil Æneis vii, in tr. Virgil Wks. 429 And the cold Nursians come to close the Reer: Mix'd with the Natives born of Latine Blood. 1753 B. Franklin Let. 9 May in Papers (1961) IV. 485 I am not for refusing entirely to admit them into our Colonies: all that seems to be necessary is, to..mix them with the English. 1869 A. Trollope Phineas Finn II. xlii. 35 Sir Gregory Greeswing; you mix your people nicely at any rate. 1917 E. R. Burroughs Princess of Mars xv. 164 She hoped..to mix me with the other young assigned to the quarters of Tal Hajus. b. intransitive. To have sexual intercourse. Usually with with. Now rare.Often with the suggestion of reproduction between or mixing of different racial groups, breeds, species, etc. (cf. sense 6). ΘΚΠ the world > physical sensation > sexual relations > sexual activity > engage in sexual activity with [verb (transitive)] > have sexual intercourse with mingeOE haveOE knowc1175 ofliec1275 to lie with (or by)a1300 knowledgec1300 meetc1330 beliea1350 yknowc1350 touchc1384 deala1387 dightc1386 usea1387 takec1390 commona1400 to meet witha1400 servea1400 occupy?a1475 engender1483 jangle1488 to be busy with1525 to come in1530 visitc1540 niggle1567 mow1568 to mix one's thigh with1593 do1594 grind1598 pepper1600 yark1600 tumble1603 to taste of1607 compressc1611 jumble1611 mix?1614 consort?1615 tastea1616 bumfiddle1630 ingressa1631 sheet1637 carnal1643 night-work1654 bump1669 bumble1680 frig?c1680 fuck1707 stick1707 screw1719 soil1722 to do over1730 shag1770 hump1785 subagitatec1830 diddle1879 to give (someone) onec1882 charver1889 fuckeec1890 plugc1890 dick1892 to make a baby1911 to know (a person) in the biblical sense1912 jazz1920 rock1922 yentz1924 roll1926 to make love1927 shtupa1934 to give (or get) a tumble1934 shack1935 bang1937 to have it off1937 rump1937 tom1949 to hop into bed (with)1951 ball1955 to make it1957 plank1958 score1960 naughty1961 pull1965 pleasurea1967 to have away1968 to have off1968 dork1970 shaft1970 bonk1975 knob1984 boink1985 fand- ?1614 G. Chapman tr. Homer Odysses i. 4 She mixt [Gk. μιγεῖσα] with Neptune in his hollow caues. 1630 T. May Contin. Lucan i. 265 There goates..Doe mix with woman kinde. 1630 T. Dekker Second Pt. Honest Whore i. sig. G4 Besides of dalliance, she so well does mix, That she's in Latine called the Meretrix. 1774 O. Goldsmith Hist. Earth III. 363 Warreners assert, that the polecat will mix with the ferret. 1889 R. B. Anderson tr. V. Rydberg Teutonic Mythol. 151 They mixed with the wood sprites, and thus became the progenitors of the Huns. 1925 V. Woolf Mrs. Dalloway 185 Was it that some Mongol..had mixed with the Dalloway ladies, perhaps a hundred years ago? 4. a. intransitive. To undergo mixing or combination; to be able to be mixed; to blend, mingle, or unite with something else; to be compatible, to go (well or badly) with. ΘΚΠ the world > relative properties > wholeness > mutual relation of parts to whole > condition or state of being mixed or blended > become mixed or blended [verb (intransitive)] mingOE meddlec1350 mella1387 blenda1400 commix?1520 admixa1522 mixa1522 mingle1530 wallc1598 co-minglea1616 comminglea1626 congregate1626 intermingle1626 intermella1641 conflux1662 intermix1722 partake1731 to work up1841 interfuse1851 interblend1854 immingle1858 inmix1892 meld1959 a1522 G. Douglas tr. Virgil Æneid (1959) ix. vii. 114 In the harn pan the schaft he hes affixt, Quhile blude and brane al togidder mixt. 1632 S. Marmion Hollands Leaguer iii. iii O divine counsel! that so rare a beauty Should mix with wisdom. 1647 A. Cowley Platonick Love in Mistress i When Souls mix 'tis an Happiness; But not compleat 'till Bodies too combine. 1667 J. Milton Paradise Lost xi. 529 But is there yet no other way,..how we may come To Death, and mix with our connatural dust? View more context for this quotation 1707 J. Floyer Physician's Pulse-watch 385 The salt Limpha mixes naturally with the Blood. a1745 J. Swift Abstr. Hist. Eng. in Wks. (1765) VIII. i. 125 The Danes..[i]n process of time..mixed with the English. 1762 O. Goldsmith Citizen of World II. 123 Her dear idea mixes with every scene of pleasure. 1774 O. Goldsmith Hist. Earth I. 311 All the bodies of the earth are continually sending up a part of their substance by evaporation, to mix in this great alembic [sc. the atmosphere], and to float a-while in common. 1797 C. Lamb Let. 7 Jan. in Lett. C. & M. A. Lamb (1975) I. 87 I do long to see our names together—not for vanity's-sake..altogether..—& yet there is a little vanity mixes in it. 1798 C. Marshall Introd. Knowl. & Pract. Gardening (ed. 2) xix. 364 The pyramidal sort [of the Star of Bethlehem] is a proper flower to pot, mixing [1796 intermixing] with others very ornamentally. 1815 M. Elphinstone Acct. Kingdom Caubul iii. iv. 409 The Afghaun Humsauyehs mix well with the Dooraunees. 1842 C. Whitehead Richard Savage (1845) II. iii. 203 I'll write the letter while the punch is mixing. 1845 Encycl. Metrop. XXV. 169/1 Some builders prefer receiving the grey-stone lime ground dry, as it mixes more readily when made up into mortar. 1889 J. H. Skrine Mem. E. Thring 164 He floated in their element, not soluble. It is often the way with heroes: they will not mix. 1939 Fortune Nov. 4 (advt.) Oil companies improve the anti-knock quality of motor fuels by adding tetraethyl lead..a powerful, volatile liquid that completely mixes with gasoline. 1988 ‘R. Deacon’ Spyclopaedia 135 Espionage and politics do not mix. †b. intransitive. poetic. Of eyes: to meet. Obsolete. rare. ΚΠ 1879 E. Arnold Light of Asia 29 Their eyes mixed, and from the look sprang love. 5. a. intransitive. To associate, keep company with; to move socially in or among; to take part in. ΘΚΠ society > society and the community > social relations > association, fellowship, or companionship > associate together or with [verb (intransitive)] mingc1275 company1387 joinc1390 meddlec1390 herd?a1400 fellowshipc1430 enfellowship1470 to step in1474 accompany?1490 yoke?a1513 to keep with ——c1515 conjoin1532 wag1550 frequent1577 encroach1579 consort1588 sort1595 commerce1596 troop1597 converse1598 to keep (also enter, come into, etc.) commons1598 to enter common1604 atone1611 to walk (also travel) in the way with1611 minglea1616 consociate1638 associate1644 corrive1647 co-unite1650 walk1650 cohere1651 engage1657 mix1667 accustom1670 to make one1711 coalite1735 commerciate1740 to have nothing to say to (also with)1780 gang?1791 companion1792 mess1795 matea1832 comrade1865 to go around1904 to throw in with1906 to get down1975 1667 J. Milton Paradise Lost vi. 21 Gladly then he mixt Among those friendly Powers who him receav'd With joy. View more context for this quotation 1697 J. Dryden tr. Virgil Æneis vii, in tr. Virgil Wks. 416 She flies the Town, and, mixing with a throng Of madding Matrons, bears the Bride along. 1711 J. Addison Spectator No. 69. ¶1 I am infinitely delighted in mixing with these several Ministers of Commerce. 1725 R. Wodrow Corr. (1843) III. 232 I hope still to be guarded by better principles. Indeed, it's hard mixing in with self-willed and peremptory people. 1771 ‘Junius’ Stat Nominis Umbra (1772) II. liv. 228 He never mixed with the world. 1792 M. Wollstonecraft Vindic. Rights Woman xiii. 429 I recollect many other women who..have obtained, by mixing in the world, a little of what is termed common sense. 1816 W. Scott Old Mortality x, in Tales of my Landlord 1st Ser. II. 249 Have you, who used to mix so little in these unhappy feuds, become so suddenly and deeply implicated. 1846 Mirror of Lit. Sept. 109 Here he mixed among the primitive and rude inhabitants of the district. 1868 E. Edwards Life Sir W. Ralegh I. xxiii. 521 He had mixed largely with his countrymen, in every rank of life. 1915 W. S. Maugham Of Human Bondage lviii. 298 Of course it isn't very nice for me having to mix with them girls in the shop, it's not the class of person I've been used to. 1928 D. H. Lawrence Lady Chatterley's Lover x. 168 He had been an officer for some years, and had mixed among the other officers and civil servants. 1991 Independent 5 Jan. 46/5 I wasn't one of the lads... I didn't mix with the sporting types. †b. intransitive. poetic. To join battle, engage in conflict. Obsolete. ΘΚΠ society > armed hostility > armed encounter > contending in battle > contend in battle or give battle [verb (intransitive)] > join or meet in battle to come togetherOE to lay togetherc1275 smitec1275 to have, keep, make, smite, strike, battle1297 joustc1330 meetc1330 copec1350 assemblea1375 semblea1375 coup?a1400 to fight togethera1400 strikea1400 joinc1400 to join the battle1455 to commit battle?a1475 rencounter1497 to set ina1500 to pitch a battlea1513 concura1522 rescounter1543 scontre1545 journey1572 shock1575 yoke1581 to give in1610 mix1697 to engage a combat1855 to run (or ride) a-tilt1862 1697 J. Dryden tr. Virgil Georgics iv, in tr. Virgil Wks. 133 Wasps infest the Camp with loud Alarms, And mix in Battel with unequal Arms. View more context for this quotation 1700 J. Dryden tr. Ovid Twelfth Bk. Metamorphoses in Fables 448 Where Greeks and Trojans mix'd in mortal Fight. c. intransitive. To be sociable. ΘΚΠ society > society and the community > social relations > have social communication [verb (intransitive)] > mix in society show1631 to go out1735 to see life1763 mix1816 to get out1835 the mind > emotion > love > friendliness > social intercourse or companionship > be sociable [verb (intransitive)] mix1816 1816 J. Austen Emma III. vii. 113 Mr. and Mrs. Elton..showed no unwillingness to mix, and be..agreeable. View more context for this quotation 1905 Dial. Notes 3 88 He doesn't mix much. 1940 A. Christie Sad Cypress i. vi. 83 Rather a funny crowd of people, but I don't mix much. You told me once that I wasn't a good mixer. 1965 M. Spark Mandelbaum Gate i. 7 He was in no great hurry for the flat, preferring hotel life where one need not mix. 1993 P. Falconer War in High Heels (BNC) viii. 104 Her date was a dull, insular major in the RA who had no wish to mix. d. intransitive. colloquial (chiefly U.S.). To take part in a fight. Cf. sense 1g. ΘΚΠ society > society and the community > dissent > fighting > fight [verb (intransitive)] > start or join a fight mix1895 to steam in1961 to throw down1979 1895 G. Ade in F. J. Meine Chicago Stories (1963) 134 ‘W'at yer mixin' fer?’ says the barkip. 1947 P. Dawson High Country 23 Quit the dancin' and let's mix, boys. 1958 F. C. Avis Boxing Ref. Dict. (U.S. ed.) 71 Mix, to fight at close quarters. 6. transitive. To cross in breeding, subject to cross-breeding. Also intransitive. rare. ΘΚΠ the world > life > biology > biological processes > genetic activity > heredity or hereditary descent > [verb (intransitive)] > cross mix1740 cross18.. intercross1859 hybridize1865 outcross1949 outbreed1962 the world > life > biology > biological processes > genetic activity > heredity or hereditary descent > [verb (transitive)] > cross mella1387 cross-breed1675 mix1740 cross1754 hybridize1845 mongrelize1859 interbreed1865 outbreed1888 back-cross1904 outcross1918 1740 H. Bracken Farriery Improv'd (ed. 2) II. i. 55 When a good English Mare is mixed with a Barb, she produces a better Foal. 1892 A. A. Crozier Pop. Errors about Plants App. 157 Plants mix or cross in the blossom only. 1991 Longevity Jan. 25/1 He also created the first large artificial chimera by mixing a sheep and goat. 7. Chiefly Film and Broadcasting. a. transitive. To blend or merge (two pictures or sounds) temporarily by fading one out as the other is faded in. Cf. fade v.¹ 9. ΘΚΠ society > leisure > the arts > performance arts > cinematography > filming > special effect > special effects [verb (transitive)] > others mix1922 soft-focus1928 1922 L. C. Macbean Kinematogr. Studio Technique ix. 82 On occasions..it is necessary..to fade or mix titles into a scene to which they relate. 1929 Radio Times 8 Nov. 389/1 The D.C. Panel..which allows a producer..to mix and fade speech, music, and sound-effects. 1961 G. Millerson Technique Television Production xvi. 305 Mixing opposite directions of movement can sometimes arouse feelings of expansion or impact. b. intransitive. To pass from one picture or sound to another by fading one out as the other is faded in. ΘΚΠ society > leisure > the arts > performance arts > cinematography > filming > special effect > special effects [verb (intransitive)] > others iris-in1934 iris-out1934 wipe1951 mix1952 1952 Cinema 7 Jan. 97/1 [The Director] can cut, fade, wipe or mix at will. 1953 K. Reisz Technique Film Editing i. i. 25 From the scene in the present, Griffith simply mixed to the earlier scene and then mixed back again. 1962 Listener 6 Dec. 983/1 Mr Cooper uses..the language and grammar of film-making in his radio plays. He will cut sharply from scene to scene; or he will mix from one scene into the next. 1986 N. Livingston Fatality at Bath & Wells i. 27 Hilary mixed through to Vernon in his white leather chair. 8. Sound Recording and Video Recording, Broadcasting, etc. a. transitive. To combine (two or more sound or video signals) into one. Also: to combine (one signal, etc.) with another in this way.This combining of signals may be done either linearly, by adding together a fraction of each in a mixer (mixer n. 5c), or non-linearly, by causing one signal to modulate a second in a mixer (mixer n. 5d). ΘΚΠ society > communication > record > recording or reproducing sound or visual material > sound recording and reproduction > make recording [verb (transitive)] > combine signals mix1928 mix1974 1928 B.B.C. Handbk. 1929 68 A..new design of control room has been decided upon, wherein effects, echoes, background music, etc. can be mixed together and so balanced by a specially-trained operator. 1958 W. F. Lovering Radio Communication viii. 172 Suppressor-grid control may be used to ‘mix’ two signals to produce a modulated output. 1974 Encycl. Brit. Macropædia XII. 549/1 When several microphones are used on the set, their outputs are often mixed and reproduced on a single film or tape. 1990 Great Hospitality Sept. 56/1 (advt.) Add music, sound effects or the voice overs as you mix sound from a second source with live while recording. 1991 Electronic Musician Nov. 35/1 Video signals cannot be mixed as easily as audio. They first must be synchronized. b. transitive. To create (a recording) by combining a number of separate recordings or tracks. ΘΚΠ society > communication > record > recording or reproducing sound or visual material > sound recording and reproduction > make recording [verb (transitive)] > combine signals mix1928 mix1974 1974 Audio Nov. 166/1 His performance doesn't have the sound of one big crash cymbal having just fallen off a 10-foot stand, as in person. This might be attributed to good judgement in mixing the recording. 1984 Sounds 1 Dec. 2/4 In the event Virgin mixed a third soundtrack which now consists predominantly of the Eurythmics' music. 1993 D. Shay & J. Duncan Making of Jurassic Park 194 Film credits..This film mixed and recorded in a thx sound system. 1997 Select June 104/2 Jason Pierce on..why it took nigh on two years to mix his album. 9. transitive. Music. To play a number of (recordings, tracks, samples, etc.) in such a way as to produce a set of continuous uninterrupted music, using techniques such as beat-matching to enable smooth transitions; to produce (music, typically dance music) in this way. Also intransitive. ΚΠ 1976 Billboard 23 Oct. 42/3 We are disco deejays, not radio DJs, and we mix our records, not talk over them. 1988 St. Petersburg (Florida) Times (Nexis) 4 Sept. f2 Salt 'N Pepa's DJ, Spinderella, can cut, scratch and mix with the best of them. 1991 Time Out 20 Nov. 58/1 Lazy and Miss Bliss..mix the best upfront dance at this vibey, underground Brixton venue. 1994 D. Rushkoff Cyberia iii. ix. 117 DJs at smaller, private parties and membership-only clubs..began aggressively mixing records, adding their own electronic percussion and sampling tracks, making music that..was called ‘house.’ 2000 Tuam (County Galway) Herald & Western Advertiser 8 July 12/3 (advt.) 2 ‘vinyl’ D.J.s mixing live. 2007 Condé Nast Traveller May 72/2 A DJ-ette with a blunt fringe was mixing electro-house for a crowd that looked as if it had been styled for a Scissor Sisters video. Phrases to mix and match: to select and combine different but complementary items (originally of clothing) to form a coordinated set; (of clothing, etc.) to be able to be combined in this way. Also as a compound verb and in extended use. ΚΠ 1948 Sun (Baltimore) 3 Apr. 3/7 (advt.) Tropical separates... Of crisp tropical rayon suiting nicely tailored... You can either ‘mix 'em or match 'em’.] 1960 Science 19 Feb. 457 Mix and match! Order anything in the complete Kimble line. 1964 McCall's Sewing in Colour i. 13/1 Separates are the answer to the schoolgirl's needs. Skirts, sweaters, jackets and blouses that can mix and match are perfect. 1976 Daily Times (Lagos) 27 Aug. 4/1 (advt.) Each Phillips HiFi component couples with every other unit to make an instant system..you can mix and match to your heart's content. 1979 Daily Tel. 14 Nov. 17/6 The conventional tea or dinner service is not an obligatory inclusion on the French bride's present list. Instead, she prefers to mix and match with perhaps one different bowl or plate for each member of the family. 1988 Gay Times Nov. 83/3 Harold Faltermeyer..has provided the latest Arnold Schwarzenegger epic wiuth a fashionable pseudo-minimalist soundtrack which adroitly mix'n'matches disco sounds with Wagnerian interludes. 1993 Hockey News (Toronto) 5 Feb. 10/3 Gainey has mixed and matched players most of the season but has left one line together. Phrasal verbs With adverbs in specialized senses. to mix down transitive. To convert (a multi-track recording or multiple signal) into one consisting of fewer tracks or components. ΚΠ 1969 Audio May 24/3 The complete 8-track tape was ‘mixed down’ to a single-track ¼″ tape, which will be used for tape-to-disc transfer to a 45 RPM record. 1974 Nature 13 Dec. 535/2 In the recording industry it is customary to mix-down multi-microphone recordings onto four-track master tape. 1989 Empire Sept. 50/2 The boxing scenes required nine tracks to be mixed down for the master recording. to mix in intransitive. To join in, take part (sometimes spec. in a fight); to mingle socially. Frequently with with. ΘΚΠ society > society and the community > social relations > association, fellowship, or companionship > associate with [verb (transitive)] seeOE drawc1275 mella1300 meeta1325 fellow1340 usec1384 conjoinc1386 joinc1390 knitc1400 accompany1461 enfellowship1470 frequent1477 haunt1477 mixa1513 encompanya1533 combinea1535 contract1548 to take with ——1562 associate1581 to have a saying toa1593 cope1594 sort1594 to take in1597 consort1600 herd1606 factionate1611 to keep company (with)a1616 accost1633 solder1641 converse1649 walk1650 consociate1653 coalite1734 to get with ——a1772 forgather1786 unionize1810 to go rounda1867 to mix in1870 cop1940 1870 J. P. Smith Widow Goldsmith's Daughter vi. 69 Of course they couldn't expect to mix in with the rich children. 1895 M. Halstead 100 Bear Stories 117 Elk killing didn't seem half so great an achievement as it had before the bear had mixed in with the proceedings. 1912 R. A. Wason Friar Tuck xxi. 211 ‘Well, what if he did shoot,’ sez Slim, ‘we wouldn't have to mix in, would we?’ 1928 D. H. Lawrence Lady Chatterley's Lover iv. 35 Sex is a private thing between me and Julia; and of course I should mind anyone else trying to mix in. 1971 P. G. Wodehouse Much Obliged, Jeeves ix. 89 If you see any more gnats headed in her direction, hold their coats and wish them luck, but restrain the impulse to mix in. 1992 European Travel & Life May 34/2 The young crowd that arrives for dinner mixes in with the regulars sipping pastis at the wooden tables along the bar. to mix up 1. transitive. To concoct by mixing. Cf. sense 2a. ΘΚΠ the world > relative properties > wholeness > mutual relation of parts to whole > condition or state of being mixed or blended > mix or blend [verb (transitive)] mingeOE blandOE mongle?c1225 meddlec1350 sprengea1382 compoundc1384 intermeddlec1384 temperc1386 mell1387 found?c1390 joinc1400 intermell1413 commix?a1425 medley?a1425 mix?a1425 amenge?c1450 immix?a1475 immixt?a1475 minglea1475 tremp1480 commixt1481 incarry1486 mixtionc1500 mixta1513 demelle1516 confect1540 intermixt1551 intermingle1555 bemix1559 intermix1562 contemper1567 blenge1570 bemingle1574 contemperate1590 masha1591 commeddle1604 immingle1606 blenda1616 intemper1627 commingle1648 conferment1651 subigate1657 to mix up1672 mould1701 meine1736 caudle1795 combine1799 interblenda1849 inmix1892 meld1936 1672 O. Walker Of Educ. i. ix. 77 Of angry persons some are..sullen, intractable, unadvisable (a disposition mixed up of pride and melancholy). 1725 J. Glanvill Poems 253 Sweets we extract, and mix up fat Perfumes, To scent our Hair, our Garments, and our Rooms. 1745 E. Young Complaint: Night the Eighth 41 Nature..Drinks to Man, in her nectareous Cup, Mixt up of Delicates for ev'ry Sense. 1848 Amer. Rev. Oct. 438/2 A singer of comic songs, and pieces mixed up of song and recitative. 1885 Littell's Living Age 19 Dec. 724/1 The company thus thrown together by chance is often mixed up of very different elements. 1909 L. M. Montgomery Anne of Avonlea xxvii. 317 She always gives me the scrapings out of a pan she's mixed up a plum cake in. 1989 N. Cave And Ass saw Angel ii. xvi. 157 He mixed up a bucket of whiting, size and water and set about first scrubbing then whitewashing the bloody, tell-tale wall. 2. transitive. To mix together thoroughly; to work into a mixture with. ΘΚΠ the world > relative properties > wholeness > mutual relation of parts to whole > condition or state of being mixed or blended > mix or blend [verb (transitive)] > specific with something mingeOE allaya1425 compose1477 blend1591 to mix up1688 1688 R. Holme Acad. Armory iii. 293/2 Ordinary flour and suet minced small, and mixed up with Milk or Water. 1743 J. Isham Observ. Hudsons Bay (1949) 156 Pimmegan as the Natives styles itt, is some of the Ruhiggan fatt and cranberries mixd up togeather. 1753 J. Bartlet Gentleman's Farriery vi. 64 Then give him two drams of calomel, mixed up with an ounce of diapente, for two nights. 1845 Encycl. Metrop. XXV. 168/2 Mortar... Its composition varies..according to the various ingredients which may be mixed up with it. 1881 Trans. & Proc. N.Z. Inst. 1880 13 28 To use it as food it is mixed up with water into cakes and baked. 1932 ‘N. Shute’ Lonely Road iv. 67 The parfaits came, and proved to be a tinned peach and ice mixed up together in a cup. 1995 Visit'n (Vermont Folklife Center) 44/2 It was sulphur mixed up with molasses, I believe. They used to say we needed a spring tonic after the winter. 3. transitive. To combine or associate (qualities, ideas, memories, etc.), now esp. inappropriately or confusedly; to confuse with something else. †to mix it up (slang): to plot a deception (obsolete). ΘΚΠ the mind > attention and judgement > judgement or decision > misjudgement > indiscriminateness > fail to distinguish or confuse [verb (transitive)] confound1581 muddy1604 blunder1676 blend1780 to mix upa1806 muddle1836 confuse1862 a1806 S. Horsley Serm. (1816) I. iv. 75 Who is he that shall determine in what proportions the attributes of justice and mercy, forbearance and severity, ought to be mixed up in the character of the Supreme Governor of the universe? 1819 Ld. Byron Don Juan: Canto I xx. 13 But then she had a devil of a spirit, And sometimes mix'd up fancies with realities. 1823 ‘J. Bee’ Slang To Mix it up, to agree secretly how the parties shall make up a tale, or colour a transaction in order to cheat or deceive another party, as in case of a justice-hearing, of a law-suit, or a cross in a boxing-match for money. 1850 J. C. Hare Mission of Comforter (ed. 2) 403 One virtue was mixt up with a thousand crimes. 1875 B. Jowett in tr. Plato Dialogues (ed. 2) III. 188 His manner of mixing up real and imaginary persons. 1912 J. Conrad Personal Record i. 43 The events..are inextricably mixed up with the details of the proper management of a waterside warehouse. 1950 R. Macaulay World my Wilderness xxviii. 20 They were for ever mixing up past and present consorts, with no embarrassment in the world. 1988 A. Tyler Breathing Lessons i. i. 8 How could you mix up the brake with the gas pedal? 4. transitive. To associate with (suspicious or discreditable company); to connect with or involve in (a compromising or discreditable affair, activity, etc.). Chiefly reflexive and passive. ΘΚΠ the world > action or operation > doing > activity or occupation > be occupied or busy (in or at something) [verb (intransitive)] > be involved in or have to do with something entermetec1300 to make (a) market1340 meddlec1390 to do with ——a1400 mell1416 intermeddle1477 intermell1480 to have art or (and) part ina1500 participate1531 to have a finger (also hand) in the pie?1553 tigc1598 get1727 concern1791 involve1843 to mix up1882 tew1891 to screw with ——1973 1847 F. Marryat Children of New Forest II. xi. 259 It is not fit that the heiress of Arnwood, should mix herself up with foresters' daughters. 1882 E. Dicey Victor Emanuel v. 53 An Italian exile, who in his hot youth had been mixed up, very much against the grain, in an abortive plot for the assassination of the late King. 1915 W. S. Maugham Of Human Bondage xl. 185 I wouldn't mix myself up with any foreigners. 1934 D. Hammett Thin Man ix. 42 I didn't want to get mixed up with these people. 1994 Independent on Sunday 14 Aug. 21/5 We have had to live from week to week and got mixed up with loan sharks at one stage. 5. transitive. colloquial. To cause (a person) to become mentally or emotionally confused; to perplex, disconcert. ΚΠ 1862 Queen Victoria Let. 15 Jan. in Dearest Mama (1968) 41 I only want your advice—not to get you further mixed up. 1966 A. Christie Third Girl xiv. 155 Reflection had never been Mrs Oliver's strong point. ‘You always mix me up,’ she complained. 1990 S. Gates Lock (BNC) 101 You're just trying to get me confused, aren't you? Trying to mix me up! 6. intransitive. colloquial (chiefly U.S.). To fight or argue vigorously. Also transitive as to mix it up, in same sense. ΘΚΠ society > society and the community > dissent > fighting > fight [verb (intransitive)] > fight vigorously to stand to it1544 slog1846 to mix it up1898 society > leisure > sport > types of sport or game > fighting sports > boxing > box [verb (intransitive)] > exchange blows rapidly to mix up1898 1898 Daily News 24 Nov. 7/3 The men were in the centre of the ring mixing up in the liveliest manner. 1900 A. H. Lewis Sandburrs 207 My only idee at d'time is..to mix it up wit' d'drunken bum who's soaked Sal. 1900 A. Conan Doyle Green Flag 165 This round must decide it. ‘Mix it oop, lad; mix it oop!’ the iron-men whooped. 1906 H. Green At Actors' Boarding House 359 They're goin' to mix it up. The little un'll win out, see if she don't. My eye! dames is allus fightin'. 1941 Time 8 Dec. 22/1 The tanks..face the approaching column... Then they begin to mix it up. 1993 R. Limbaugh See, I told you So iii. 32 I still do parody and satire and I love to mix it up with people on substantive issues, but I never try to be cruel. This entry has been updated (OED Third Edition, September 2002; most recently modified version published online March 2022). < n.¹adj.eOEn.²c1595v.?a1425
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