mixern.

Brit.

/ˈmɪksə/, U.S.

/ˈmɪksər/

Origin: Formed within English, by derivation. Etymons: mix v., -er suffix¹.

Etymology: < mix v. + -er suffix¹.

I. Personal uses.

a. A person who blends or mixes materials, liquids, etc., esp. in the course of manufacturing a product.

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the world > relative properties > wholeness > mutual relation of parts to whole > condition or state of being mixed or blended > [noun] > causing to become mixed > one who or that which mixes

meddlera1450

composer1561

mingler1581

mixer1598

mixeress1830

society > occupation and work > worker > workers according to type of work > manual or industrial worker > worker performing process or spec. task > [noun] > who mixes

mixer1598

temperera1617

subacter1657

blender1872

1598 J. Florio Worlde of Wordes Mescitore, a skinker, a filler of wine, a cubboord keeper, a mixer, a mingler, a medler.

1611 R. Cotgrave Dict. French & Eng. Tongues Meslangeur, a mingler, mixer, blender.

1784 H. Cowley More Ways than One iv. 68 There is a vile story in circulation, which, if true, would sink me beneath the lowest med'cine grinder—beneath a mixer of eggs and turpentine.

1818 T. H. Bayly Parl. Lett. 102 It seems 'tis their firm resolution to stop All medical people who smell of the shop: No pounder or mixer of physic may see Their new operations.

1884 Manch. Examiner 16 Sept. 7/1 Professional mixers [of cotton] had been less successful in their operations.

1897 T. C. Allbutt et al. Syst. Med. II. 928 The ‘mixers’ and ‘dippers’ are particularly liable to suffer from phossy jaw [in match factories].

1910 Encycl. Brit. I. 230/2 It is obvious that there is an ample margin of profit for the mixer who starts with Russian butter.

1996 Time Out 31 July 52/4 Leah's teenage son Kim, a trouble-stirrer and manic mixer of love potions.

b. Originally U.S. A person who mixes drinks; a bartender.

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the world > food and drink > drink > providing or serving drink > [noun] > serving liquor > tapster or barmaid

tapsterc1000

drawer1379

wine-drawer1415

birlerc1440

shenkerc1440

trayer1473

tranter1500

skinker1575

lick-spigot1599

shot-shark1600

runner1601

skink1603

Hebe1606

Ganymede1608

squire of the gimlet1611

skinkard1615

bombard-man1616

bar-boy1631

faucet1631

tapstress1631

potman1652

barmaida1658

pot-boyc1662

tavern-drawer1709

tavern-boy1796

pot-girl1797

tap-boy1801

knight of the spigot1821

pewter-carrier1834

bartender1836

tap-waiter1836

barman1837

beer-boy1841

mixologist1856

bar-girl1857

mixer1858

gin slinger1871

swamper1907

tap-man1907

pot-woman1918

bar-staff1965

bar-person1976

1858 H. W. Longfellow Catawba Wine in Atlantic Monthly Jan. 271 To the sewers and sinks With all such drinks, And after them tumble the mixer!

1879 Decatur (Illinois) Weekly Republican 31 July 3/6 Every other senate committee-room is a bar-room, and the clerk must be a good mixer.

1919 T. K. Holmes Man from Tall Timber viii. 93 He..drank several insidious concoctions of the hotel's most famous ‘mixer’.

1934 M. Allingham Death of Ghost xxiii. 262 There was too much gin in the cocktails, he decided, and reflected that the fault was a common one among unprofessional mixers.

1939 C. Isherwood Goodbye to Berlin 21 Bobby is a mixer at a west-end bar.

1997 Independent 1 May i. 22/5 I went along to meet their top mixer..to discover the secret of his martinis.

a. Originally U.S. A person in respect of his or her capacity, desire, or tendency to mix socially with others; frequently with modifying word, as good, bad, etc. Also simply: a sociable person.

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society > society and the community > social relations > [noun] > person able to mix with others

mixer1883

the mind > emotion > love > friendliness > social intercourse or companionship > [noun] > sociable person

company-keeper1554

sociable1801

mixer1883

extravert1916

extrovert1918

1883 Newark (Ohio) Daily Advocate 20 June After eating his supper he mingled in the crowd and showed to his opponents that he was not only a good lawyer, but a good mixer.

1896 G. Ade Artie xii. 105 I'm a good mixer and I've kind o' got next to the live ones.

1904 W. H. Smith Promoters xx. 287 He was a most excellent ‘mixer’, told a story well [etc.].

1917 P. G. Wodehouse Man with Two Left Feet 91 Some men are shy and some men are mixers.

1930 R. Macaulay Staying with Relations xix. 281 Good plumbers, but poor mixers; that's what we are.

1955 Times 18 Aug. 4/6 A man who is a ready mixer and with a natural flair for salesmanship may make £1,000 a year.

1975 Listener 24 July 126/3 He is neither so astute a tactician nor so gifted a mixer with his own men.

1988 ‘R. Deacon’ Spyclopaedia 163 He was a good mixer in all classes of society.

b. U.S. A woman employed in a bar or nightclub to socialize with the male patrons and encourage them to buy drinks. Cf. hostess n. 2b.

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society > leisure > entertainment > pastimes > nightlife > [noun] > employee entertaining customers in nightclub

hostess1931

mixer1948

1948 H. L. Mencken Amer. Lang. Suppl. II. 682 Women who frequent taverns or night-clubs, getting a percentage on the drinks they induce male patrons to buy, are taxi-drinkers, mixers, percentage-girls or sitters.

1950 J. Lait & L. Mortimer Chicago: Confidential iv. 305 Personality girl, chief ‘B’ girl. A mixer with a following.

1981 W. Safire in N.Y. Times Mag. 2 May 18/2 Mixers are women hired strictly to make money for the house..by drinking with the men. They're sometimes called hostesses.

3. Film, Broadcasting, etc. A person who operates a sound mixer (sense 5c) during a concert or in making a sound recording.

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society > communication > record > recording or reproducing sound or visual material > sound recording and reproduction > [noun] > mixer operator

mixer1928

sound mixer1938

1928 Paramount Studio News 20 Sept. in F. J. Wilstack Motion Picture Slang Mixer, the engineer and his equipment, designed to maintain a proper volume of sound during the recording process.

1929 F. Green Film finds its Tongue xiii. 186 A ‘mixing booth’ or monitor room had been built about 15 feet up... It had glass sides through which the ‘mixer’ could view everything that was going on.

1982 T. Barr Acting for Camera iv. xxvi. 190 The mixer is the [sound] crew chief. He is responsible for the overall quality of the sound.

1995 GQ Jan. 23/2 She is..one of the best jungle mixers, and the only one who looks any good in hot pants.

4. British slang. A troublemaker.

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the mind > goodness and badness > harmfulness > harmful mischievousness > harmfully mischievous person > [noun]

disturberc1290

troublera1382

distroublerc1440

disturblerc1440

boutefeu?1584

mischief1586

breed-bate1593

trouble-feast1603

flight-head1605

trouble-rest1605

trouble-house1608

trouble-cupa1610

trouble-state1609

seek-trouble1611

fling-brand1616

trouble-town1619

blow-coal1622

trouble-world1663

mischief-maker1675

fire-sprit1847

firebug1869

ratbag1890

disturbant1894

mixer1938

society > society and the community > dissent > [noun] > causing dissension > one who

sower1380

firebranda1382

barratorc1430

makebate1529

bate-makera1564

mischief-master1567

boutefeu?1584

make-debate1588

breed-bate1593

kindle-fire1595

brew-bate1602

brand1608

fling-brand1616

make-strife1617

mischief-monger1620

blow-coal1622

kindle-coal1630

fire spirit1647

mischief-maker1675

mischief-doer1822

mixer1938

1938 E. Partridge Dict. Slang (ed. 2) 1014/1 He's a reg'lar mixer!

1964 J. Burke Hard Day's Night i. 21 He's a king mixer.

1964 J. Burke Hard Day's Night iv. 84 ‘The old mixer,’ growled Paul. ‘Come on—we'll have to put him right.’

1966 A. E. Lindop I start Counting xviii. 226 I knew what a mixer she was, and I knew she was not capable of keeping a secret.

II. Impersonal uses.

a. A machine or device for mixing; esp. an electrical appliance for mixing foods, or a machine for mixing concrete or cement, usually in a rotating drum fitted with blade-like arms.Frequently with modifying word, as cake-, concrete, electric, paint-mixer, etc.: see the first element.

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society > occupation and work > equipment > equipment for altering consistency > [noun] > mixing apparatus

pug mill1824

concrete mixer1834

concrete paver1834

paste-maker1875

mixer1876

planet stirrer1902

agitant1918

agitator1937

truck mixer1954

the world > food and drink > food > food manufacture and preparation > equipment for food preparation > [noun] > mixer

chocolate mill1703

cake mixer1867

mixer1876

electric mixer1900

food mixer1917

mixmaster1930

Osterizer1948

Waring blender1948

liquidizer1950

1876 Catal. Special Coll. Sci. Apparatus S. Kensington Mus. (1877) 248 Mixoscope (colour-mixer).

a1877 E. H. Knight Pract. Dict. Mech. I. 732/1 Dough-mixer.

1883 Great Internat. Fisheries Exhib. Catal. p. lxxxiii Patent mixer for mixing hard water supply and lime water.

1898 T. C. Allbutt et al. Syst. Med. V. 443 The smaller end of the stirrer may be used to remove the drop of diluted blood from the mixer to the cell.

1930 Engineering 12 Sept. 337/3 The correct proportions of sand and cement in the dry state are put into an ordinary mixer, of the pan type.

1957 M. Gair Sapphires on Wednesday xi. 134 It was a kitchen,..American style, complete with refrigerator, dishwasher, mixer, and garbage disposal unit.

1979 F. Iyayi Violence xviii. 244 They stood by the mixer. The cement and the sand were there by the heaps of stones all ready to be fed in.

1991 Processing June (inside back cover) (advt.) A range of Silverson workheads are available for each mixer providing customers with the ability to mix,..disperse and disintegrate solids.

b. A flask or similar container in which drinks are mixed; a cocktail shaker.

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the world > food and drink > drink > preparation of drinks > [noun] > stirring or shaking utensil

toddy stick1823

cocktail shaker1868

shaker1868

cocktail mixer1875

swizzle-stick1879

mixer1895

1895 Montgomery Ward Catal. Spring & Summer 435/1 Liquor Mixers or Lemonade Shakers of tin.

1924 M. Kennedy Constant Nymph xx. 275 Decanters and a mixer stood..on the chimney piece.

c. Film, Broadcasting, etc. A device designed to receive two or more separate signals from microphones or other sources, and combine them (usually in variable proportions) in a single output.

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society > communication > record > recording or reproducing sound or visual material > sound recording and reproduction > sound recording or reproducing equipment > [noun] > device for combining signals

mixer1929

1929 F. Green Film finds its Tongue xi. 171 When more than one microphone was used, each of them had an amplifying dial for monitoring. A panel containing more than one such dial was called a ‘Mixer’.

1935 A. R. Nilson & J. L. Hornung Pract. Radio Communication viii. 356 The program fed into the mixer does not always come directly from a microphone but may be fed in from a phonograph pick-up.

1962 A. Nisbett Technique Sound Studio ix. 152 Where no mixer is available, it may be that linking music, etc., can be cut in by editing the tape; but I would regard a simple mixer—with two faders—as the very minimum for creative programme work.

1995 Melody Maker 25 Mar. 52/6 The DM-800 is an eight-track system housed with a 12-channel digital mixer in a compact package.

d. Electronics. A valve or circuit which produces an output signal containing frequencies equal to the sum and the difference of the frequencies of two input signals; the frequency changer in a superheterodyne receiver. Frequently attributive.

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the world > matter > physics > electromagnetic radiation > electronics > electronic devices or components > [noun] > output device

limiter1919

tripler1924

mixer1936

quadrupler1938

quantizer1948

summer1958

1936 Proc. IRE 24 208 (caption) Typical mixer circuit using 6L7 tube.

1936 Proc. IRE 24 210 The conversion conductance of a mixer tube.

1938 F. E. Terman Fund. Radio ix. 249 The heterodyne detector.., commonly referred to as first detector, converter, or mixer, is required to develop a difference frequency..by combining the incoming radio wave with a local oscillation.

1952 E. Armitage Wireless Fund. xviii. 324 The frequency-changing stage of a superhet consists of two parts—(1) a beat oscillator generating a signal of constant amplitude, and (2) a mixer valve into which are fed..both the aerial signal and the beat oscillator signal.

1988 V. Capel Audio & Hi-Fi Engineer's Pocket Bk. 113 An acceptor circuit (series coil and capacitor) is shunted across the input of the frequency changer (also termed the mixer).

6. North American colloquial. A social gathering designed to enable people to get to know one another.

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society > leisure > social event > social gathering > [noun] > others

aleOE

carola1300

dinnerc1425

love-feast1622

family party1735

aleingc1736

street meeting1820

sausage party1848

church social1862

funfest1904

mixer1916

love-in1967

potlatch1974

raft-up1977

crafternoon1978

geekfest1987

1916 Dial. Notes 4 277 A very successful mixer was given on Charter day.

1948 Downers Grove (Illinois) Reporter 21 Oct. 1/8 The Trojan Fathers Fall Mixer will take place Tuesday, Oct. 26 at the high school auditorium.

1988 Muscular Devel. Nov. 33/1 After his shows, Mits always throws a mixer where workers, guest posers, contestants and Mits himself can kick back and relax.

1995 Maclean's 7 Aug. 48/1 ‘It's like a college mixer,’ Brandon Tartikoff says, ‘except here no one wants to go home with an unfunny person.’

a. Originally U.S. A soft drink such as soda water, used in a mixed drink; (also occasionally) an alcoholic beverage used in cocktails and other mixed drinks. More fully mixer drink.

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

mixer1925

pink1942

twist1958

mix1962

1925 Story of Pantry Shelf (Butterick, N.Y.) 63 ‘Canada Dry’ was the order of the day. The Royal Canadian Yacht Club accorded it a real favorite. Its patrons liked it as a Ginger Ale as well as a mixer with other beverages.

1937 Life 26 July 60/1 (advt.) In our school of thought, only a mixer can fortify the lemon, sugar and soda, yet turn out a finished Tom Collins in which you neither smell nor taste the gin.

1948 Sun (Baltimore) 1 Jan. 15/1 In the case of the Tom Collins, it's largely a matter of which mixer should be used, plain soda or ginger ale.

1961 Guardian 21 Nov. 13/1 Vodka has become, like gin, an international ‘mixer’,..used to make martinis or to drink with tonic water.

1968 Daily Tel. 13 Dec. (Colour Suppl.) 41/4 Port was traditionally enjoyed here as a mixer—mulled..with spices, orange, and cloves.

1990 Which? Dec. 714/3 The fizz in a fizzy mixer added to your drink means more alcohol in your blood more quickly.

1996 Northern Echo (Electronic ed.) 28 June The choice of non-alcoholic drinks is limited to..a range of small mixer drinks.

b. A type of dog food intended to be mixed with a different type; (now) spec. a cereal-based food intended to be mixed with meat.

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1973 Philadelphia Inquirer 7 Oct. (Today Suppl.) 54/1 Alpo..was marketed as a mixer; the label said to mix it half-and-half with cereal or kibble.

1990 Good Housek. (U.K. ed.) May 169 (advt.) Right from when he was just a few months old, his breeder fed him Pedigree Chum and Pedigree Chum Mixer.

2000 Mail on Sunday (Electronic ed.) 9 July How the bills add up for owners. Two tins of dog food a day. One bag of mixer a fortnight.

8. Short for mixer tap n. at Compounds.

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society > occupation and work > equipment > other specific types of equipment > [noun] > tap > types of

washer1596

plug1707

ballcock1734

bib cock1797

draw-off1826

plug cock1826

screw tap1842

waste-cock1844

ball tap1849

self-tapping1878

mixing valve1902

mixer tap1936

combination tap1951

mixer1973

1973 Times 15 Dec. 3/1 Shower Units, Taps, Mixers, Splashbacks.

1990 Do it Yourself Apr. 10/4 Choose shower fittings with modern thermostatic mixers.

Compounds

mixer-settler n. Chemistry and Engineering an apparatus for solvent extraction of substances in liquid solution, in which the liquid and solvent are dispersed in each other (often repeatedly by means of a countercurrent system) and then allowed to separate gravitationally.

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1958 Engineering 14 Feb. 205/2 In the solvent extraction processes..the solvent is dispersed and caused to contact the aqueous phase by flowing counter-current in the process units, which may take the form of packed columns, pulsed columns or mixer-settlers.

1987 G. Schmidt-Kastner & C. F. Gölker in J. Bu'Lock & B. Kristiansen Basic Biotechnol. vi. 182 The extraction of whole broth can also be achieved using extraction-decanters, extraction columns, or mixer-settlers.

mixer tap n. a tap through which both hot and cold water can be drawn at the same time, in any proportions.

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society > occupation and work > equipment > other specific types of equipment > [noun] > tap > types of

washer1596

plug1707

ballcock1734

bib cock1797

draw-off1826

plug cock1826

screw tap1842

waste-cock1844

ball tap1849

self-tapping1878

mixing valve1902

mixer tap1936

combination tap1951

mixer1973

1936 Archit. Rev. 80 325/2 Mixer taps or hand showers are worth the extra cost of £2 or £3 they entail.

1972 House & Garden Dec.–Jan. 85/3 Mixer taps by Trufords..gold-plated.

1991 Do it Yourself Feb. 44/3 A mixer tap cannot be fitted if the cold water comes from the rising main and the hot water comes from the storage cistern.

mixer valve n. a valve for regulating the proportions of liquids, gases, etc., in a mixture (see also sense 5d).

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society > occupation and work > equipment > machine > parts of machines > control(s) > [noun] > valve > others

washer1596

turncock1702

air cock1709

Jack-in-the-box1728

runner1754

stop-valve1829

three-way cock1838

ball valve1839

relief valve1846

poppet valve1851

plunger valve1854

pot-lid1856

reflux valve1857

screw-down1864

mica valve1880

tide flap1884

tube-valve1884

swing-tap1892

relay valve1894

Schrader1895

pilot valve1900

mixer valve1904

spool valve1908

spill valve1922

safety valving1930

three-way1939

1904 Electr. World & Engineer 2 Jan. 22/1 This magnet controls a compressed air valve, and this compressed air valve in turn controls a large mixer valve.

1991 Which? Aug. 453/3 To minimise temperature variations, it's best to supply cold water directly to it from the cold water cistern, or get a thermostatic mixer valve.

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

单词	mixer
释义	mixern. Brit. /ˈmɪksə/, U.S. /ˈmɪksər/ Origin: Formed within English, by derivation. Etymons: mix v., -er suffix¹. Etymology: < mix v. + -er suffix¹. I. Personal uses. 1. a. A person who blends or mixes materials, liquids, etc., esp. in the course of manufacturing a product. ΘΚΠ the world > relative properties > wholeness > mutual relation of parts to whole > condition or state of being mixed or blended > [noun] > causing to become mixed > one who or that which mixes meddlera1450 composer1561 mingler1581 mixer1598 mixeress1830 society > occupation and work > worker > workers according to type of work > manual or industrial worker > worker performing process or spec. task > [noun] > who mixes mixer1598 temperera1617 subacter1657 blender1872 1598 J. Florio Worlde of Wordes Mescitore, a skinker, a filler of wine, a cubboord keeper, a mixer, a mingler, a medler. 1611 R. Cotgrave Dict. French & Eng. Tongues Meslangeur, a mingler, mixer, blender. 1784 H. Cowley More Ways than One iv. 68 There is a vile story in circulation, which, if true, would sink me beneath the lowest med'cine grinder—beneath a mixer of eggs and turpentine. 1818 T. H. Bayly Parl. Lett. 102 It seems 'tis their firm resolution to stop All medical people who smell of the shop: No pounder or mixer of physic may see Their new operations. 1884 Manch. Examiner 16 Sept. 7/1 Professional mixers [of cotton] had been less successful in their operations. 1897 T. C. Allbutt et al. Syst. Med. II. 928 The ‘mixers’ and ‘dippers’ are particularly liable to suffer from phossy jaw [in match factories]. 1910 Encycl. Brit. I. 230/2 It is obvious that there is an ample margin of profit for the mixer who starts with Russian butter. 1996 Time Out 31 July 52/4 Leah's teenage son Kim, a trouble-stirrer and manic mixer of love potions. b. Originally U.S. A person who mixes drinks; a bartender. ΘΚΠ the world > food and drink > drink > providing or serving drink > [noun] > serving liquor > tapster or barmaid tapsterc1000 drawer1379 wine-drawer1415 birlerc1440 shenkerc1440 trayer1473 tranter1500 skinker1575 lick-spigot1599 shot-shark1600 runner1601 skink1603 Hebe1606 Ganymede1608 squire of the gimlet1611 skinkard1615 bombard-man1616 bar-boy1631 faucet1631 tapstress1631 potman1652 barmaida1658 pot-boyc1662 tavern-drawer1709 tavern-boy1796 pot-girl1797 tap-boy1801 knight of the spigot1821 pewter-carrier1834 bartender1836 tap-waiter1836 barman1837 beer-boy1841 mixologist1856 bar-girl1857 mixer1858 gin slinger1871 swamper1907 tap-man1907 pot-woman1918 bar-staff1965 bar-person1976 1858 H. W. Longfellow Catawba Wine in Atlantic Monthly Jan. 271 To the sewers and sinks With all such drinks, And after them tumble the mixer! 1879 Decatur (Illinois) Weekly Republican 31 July 3/6 Every other senate committee-room is a bar-room, and the clerk must be a good mixer. 1919 T. K. Holmes Man from Tall Timber viii. 93 He..drank several insidious concoctions of the hotel's most famous ‘mixer’. 1934 M. Allingham Death of Ghost xxiii. 262 There was too much gin in the cocktails, he decided, and reflected that the fault was a common one among unprofessional mixers. 1939 C. Isherwood Goodbye to Berlin 21 Bobby is a mixer at a west-end bar. 1997 Independent 1 May i. 22/5 I went along to meet their top mixer..to discover the secret of his martinis. 2. a. Originally U.S. A person in respect of his or her capacity, desire, or tendency to mix socially with others; frequently with modifying word, as good, bad, etc. Also simply: a sociable person. ΘΚΠ society > society and the community > social relations > [noun] > person able to mix with others mixer1883 the mind > emotion > love > friendliness > social intercourse or companionship > [noun] > sociable person company-keeper1554 sociable1801 mixer1883 extravert1916 extrovert1918 1883 Newark (Ohio) Daily Advocate 20 June After eating his supper he mingled in the crowd and showed to his opponents that he was not only a good lawyer, but a good mixer. 1896 G. Ade Artie xii. 105 I'm a good mixer and I've kind o' got next to the live ones. 1904 W. H. Smith Promoters xx. 287 He was a most excellent ‘mixer’, told a story well [etc.]. 1917 P. G. Wodehouse Man with Two Left Feet 91 Some men are shy and some men are mixers. 1930 R. Macaulay Staying with Relations xix. 281 Good plumbers, but poor mixers; that's what we are. 1955 Times 18 Aug. 4/6 A man who is a ready mixer and with a natural flair for salesmanship may make £1,000 a year. 1975 Listener 24 July 126/3 He is neither so astute a tactician nor so gifted a mixer with his own men. 1988 ‘R. Deacon’ Spyclopaedia 163 He was a good mixer in all classes of society. b. U.S. A woman employed in a bar or nightclub to socialize with the male patrons and encourage them to buy drinks. Cf. hostess n. 2b. ΘΚΠ society > leisure > entertainment > pastimes > nightlife > [noun] > employee entertaining customers in nightclub hostess1931 mixer1948 1948 H. L. Mencken Amer. Lang. Suppl. II. 682 Women who frequent taverns or night-clubs, getting a percentage on the drinks they induce male patrons to buy, are taxi-drinkers, mixers, percentage-girls or sitters. 1950 J. Lait & L. Mortimer Chicago: Confidential iv. 305 Personality girl, chief ‘B’ girl. A mixer with a following. 1981 W. Safire in N.Y. Times Mag. 2 May 18/2 Mixers are women hired strictly to make money for the house..by drinking with the men. They're sometimes called hostesses. 3. Film, Broadcasting, etc. A person who operates a sound mixer (sense 5c) during a concert or in making a sound recording. ΘΚΠ society > communication > record > recording or reproducing sound or visual material > sound recording and reproduction > [noun] > mixer operator mixer1928 sound mixer1938 1928 Paramount Studio News 20 Sept. in F. J. Wilstack Motion Picture Slang Mixer, the engineer and his equipment, designed to maintain a proper volume of sound during the recording process. 1929 F. Green Film finds its Tongue xiii. 186 A ‘mixing booth’ or monitor room had been built about 15 feet up... It had glass sides through which the ‘mixer’ could view everything that was going on. 1982 T. Barr Acting for Camera iv. xxvi. 190 The mixer is the [sound] crew chief. He is responsible for the overall quality of the sound. 1995 GQ Jan. 23/2 She is..one of the best jungle mixers, and the only one who looks any good in hot pants. 4. British slang. A troublemaker. ΘΚΠ the mind > goodness and badness > harmfulness > harmful mischievousness > harmfully mischievous person > [noun] disturberc1290 troublera1382 distroublerc1440 disturblerc1440 boutefeu?1584 mischief1586 breed-bate1593 trouble-feast1603 flight-head1605 trouble-rest1605 trouble-house1608 trouble-cupa1610 trouble-state1609 seek-trouble1611 fling-brand1616 trouble-town1619 blow-coal1622 trouble-world1663 mischief-maker1675 fire-sprit1847 firebug1869 ratbag1890 disturbant1894 mixer1938 society > society and the community > dissent > [noun] > causing dissension > one who sower1380 firebranda1382 barratorc1430 makebate1529 bate-makera1564 mischief-master1567 boutefeu?1584 make-debate1588 breed-bate1593 kindle-fire1595 brew-bate1602 brand1608 fling-brand1616 make-strife1617 mischief-monger1620 blow-coal1622 kindle-coal1630 fire spirit1647 mischief-maker1675 mischief-doer1822 mixer1938 1938 E. Partridge Dict. Slang (ed. 2) 1014/1 He's a reg'lar mixer! 1964 J. Burke Hard Day's Night i. 21 He's a king mixer. 1964 J. Burke Hard Day's Night iv. 84 ‘The old mixer,’ growled Paul. ‘Come on—we'll have to put him right.’ 1966 A. E. Lindop I start Counting xviii. 226 I knew what a mixer she was, and I knew she was not capable of keeping a secret. II. Impersonal uses. 5. a. A machine or device for mixing; esp. an electrical appliance for mixing foods, or a machine for mixing concrete or cement, usually in a rotating drum fitted with blade-like arms.Frequently with modifying word, as cake-, concrete, electric, paint-mixer, etc.: see the first element. ΘΚΠ society > occupation and work > equipment > equipment for altering consistency > [noun] > mixing apparatus pug mill1824 concrete mixer1834 concrete paver1834 paste-maker1875 mixer1876 planet stirrer1902 agitant1918 agitator1937 truck mixer1954 the world > food and drink > food > food manufacture and preparation > equipment for food preparation > [noun] > mixer chocolate mill1703 cake mixer1867 mixer1876 electric mixer1900 food mixer1917 mixmaster1930 Osterizer1948 Waring blender1948 liquidizer1950 1876 Catal. Special Coll. Sci. Apparatus S. Kensington Mus. (1877) 248 Mixoscope (colour-mixer). a1877 E. H. Knight Pract. Dict. Mech. I. 732/1 Dough-mixer. 1883 Great Internat. Fisheries Exhib. Catal. p. lxxxiii Patent mixer for mixing hard water supply and lime water. 1898 T. C. Allbutt et al. Syst. Med. V. 443 The smaller end of the stirrer may be used to remove the drop of diluted blood from the mixer to the cell. 1930 Engineering 12 Sept. 337/3 The correct proportions of sand and cement in the dry state are put into an ordinary mixer, of the pan type. 1957 M. Gair Sapphires on Wednesday xi. 134 It was a kitchen,..American style, complete with refrigerator, dishwasher, mixer, and garbage disposal unit. 1979 F. Iyayi Violence xviii. 244 They stood by the mixer. The cement and the sand were there by the heaps of stones all ready to be fed in. 1991 Processing June (inside back cover) (advt.) A range of Silverson workheads are available for each mixer providing customers with the ability to mix,..disperse and disintegrate solids. b. A flask or similar container in which drinks are mixed; a cocktail shaker. ΘΚΠ the world > food and drink > drink > preparation of drinks > [noun] > stirring or shaking utensil toddy stick1823 cocktail shaker1868 shaker1868 cocktail mixer1875 swizzle-stick1879 mixer1895 1895 Montgomery Ward Catal. Spring & Summer 435/1 Liquor Mixers or Lemonade Shakers of tin. 1924 M. Kennedy Constant Nymph xx. 275 Decanters and a mixer stood..on the chimney piece. c. Film, Broadcasting, etc. A device designed to receive two or more separate signals from microphones or other sources, and combine them (usually in variable proportions) in a single output. ΘΚΠ society > communication > record > recording or reproducing sound or visual material > sound recording and reproduction > sound recording or reproducing equipment > [noun] > device for combining signals mixer1929 1929 F. Green Film finds its Tongue xi. 171 When more than one microphone was used, each of them had an amplifying dial for monitoring. A panel containing more than one such dial was called a ‘Mixer’. 1935 A. R. Nilson & J. L. Hornung Pract. Radio Communication viii. 356 The program fed into the mixer does not always come directly from a microphone but may be fed in from a phonograph pick-up. 1962 A. Nisbett Technique Sound Studio ix. 152 Where no mixer is available, it may be that linking music, etc., can be cut in by editing the tape; but I would regard a simple mixer—with two faders—as the very minimum for creative programme work. 1995 Melody Maker 25 Mar. 52/6 The DM-800 is an eight-track system housed with a 12-channel digital mixer in a compact package. d. Electronics. A valve or circuit which produces an output signal containing frequencies equal to the sum and the difference of the frequencies of two input signals; the frequency changer in a superheterodyne receiver. Frequently attributive. ΘΚΠ the world > matter > physics > electromagnetic radiation > electronics > electronic devices or components > [noun] > output device limiter1919 tripler1924 mixer1936 quadrupler1938 quantizer1948 summer1958 1936 Proc. IRE 24 208 (caption) Typical mixer circuit using 6L7 tube. 1936 Proc. IRE 24 210 The conversion conductance of a mixer tube. 1938 F. E. Terman Fund. Radio ix. 249 The heterodyne detector.., commonly referred to as first detector, converter, or mixer, is required to develop a difference frequency..by combining the incoming radio wave with a local oscillation. 1952 E. Armitage Wireless Fund. xviii. 324 The frequency-changing stage of a superhet consists of two parts—(1) a beat oscillator generating a signal of constant amplitude, and (2) a mixer valve into which are fed..both the aerial signal and the beat oscillator signal. 1988 V. Capel Audio & Hi-Fi Engineer's Pocket Bk. 113 An acceptor circuit (series coil and capacitor) is shunted across the input of the frequency changer (also termed the mixer). 6. North American colloquial. A social gathering designed to enable people to get to know one another. ΘΚΠ society > leisure > social event > social gathering > [noun] > others aleOE carola1300 dinnerc1425 love-feast1622 family party1735 aleingc1736 street meeting1820 sausage party1848 church social1862 funfest1904 mixer1916 love-in1967 potlatch1974 raft-up1977 crafternoon1978 geekfest1987 1916 Dial. Notes 4 277 A very successful mixer was given on Charter day. 1948 Downers Grove (Illinois) Reporter 21 Oct. 1/8 The Trojan Fathers Fall Mixer will take place Tuesday, Oct. 26 at the high school auditorium. 1988 Muscular Devel. Nov. 33/1 After his shows, Mits always throws a mixer where workers, guest posers, contestants and Mits himself can kick back and relax. 1995 Maclean's 7 Aug. 48/1 ‘It's like a college mixer,’ Brandon Tartikoff says, ‘except here no one wants to go home with an unfunny person.’ 7. a. Originally U.S. A soft drink such as soda water, used in a mixed drink; (also occasionally) an alcoholic beverage used in cocktails and other mixed drinks. More fully mixer drink. ΘΚΠ the world > food and drink > drink > mixers or flavourings > [noun] mixer1925 pink1942 twist1958 mix1962 1925 Story of Pantry Shelf (Butterick, N.Y.) 63 ‘Canada Dry’ was the order of the day. The Royal Canadian Yacht Club accorded it a real favorite. Its patrons liked it as a Ginger Ale as well as a mixer with other beverages. 1937 Life 26 July 60/1 (advt.) In our school of thought, only a mixer can fortify the lemon, sugar and soda, yet turn out a finished Tom Collins in which you neither smell nor taste the gin. 1948 Sun (Baltimore) 1 Jan. 15/1 In the case of the Tom Collins, it's largely a matter of which mixer should be used, plain soda or ginger ale. 1961 Guardian 21 Nov. 13/1 Vodka has become, like gin, an international ‘mixer’,..used to make martinis or to drink with tonic water. 1968 Daily Tel. 13 Dec. (Colour Suppl.) 41/4 Port was traditionally enjoyed here as a mixer—mulled..with spices, orange, and cloves. 1990 Which? Dec. 714/3 The fizz in a fizzy mixer added to your drink means more alcohol in your blood more quickly. 1996 Northern Echo (Electronic ed.) 28 June The choice of non-alcoholic drinks is limited to..a range of small mixer drinks. b. A type of dog food intended to be mixed with a different type; (now) spec. a cereal-based food intended to be mixed with meat. ΚΠ 1973 Philadelphia Inquirer 7 Oct. (Today Suppl.) 54/1 Alpo..was marketed as a mixer; the label said to mix it half-and-half with cereal or kibble. 1990 Good Housek. (U.K. ed.) May 169 (advt.) Right from when he was just a few months old, his breeder fed him Pedigree Chum and Pedigree Chum Mixer. 2000 Mail on Sunday (Electronic ed.) 9 July How the bills add up for owners. Two tins of dog food a day. One bag of mixer a fortnight. 8. Short for mixer tap n. at Compounds. ΘΚΠ society > occupation and work > equipment > other specific types of equipment > [noun] > tap > types of washer1596 plug1707 ballcock1734 bib cock1797 draw-off1826 plug cock1826 screw tap1842 waste-cock1844 ball tap1849 self-tapping1878 mixing valve1902 mixer tap1936 combination tap1951 mixer1973 1973 Times 15 Dec. 3/1 Shower Units, Taps, Mixers, Splashbacks. 1990 Do it Yourself Apr. 10/4 Choose shower fittings with modern thermostatic mixers. Compounds mixer-settler n. Chemistry and Engineering an apparatus for solvent extraction of substances in liquid solution, in which the liquid and solvent are dispersed in each other (often repeatedly by means of a countercurrent system) and then allowed to separate gravitationally. ΚΠ 1958 Engineering 14 Feb. 205/2 In the solvent extraction processes..the solvent is dispersed and caused to contact the aqueous phase by flowing counter-current in the process units, which may take the form of packed columns, pulsed columns or mixer-settlers. 1987 G. Schmidt-Kastner & C. F. Gölker in J. Bu'Lock & B. Kristiansen Basic Biotechnol. vi. 182 The extraction of whole broth can also be achieved using extraction-decanters, extraction columns, or mixer-settlers. mixer tap n. a tap through which both hot and cold water can be drawn at the same time, in any proportions. ΘΚΠ society > occupation and work > equipment > other specific types of equipment > [noun] > tap > types of washer1596 plug1707 ballcock1734 bib cock1797 draw-off1826 plug cock1826 screw tap1842 waste-cock1844 ball tap1849 self-tapping1878 mixing valve1902 mixer tap1936 combination tap1951 mixer1973 1936 Archit. Rev. 80 325/2 Mixer taps or hand showers are worth the extra cost of £2 or £3 they entail. 1972 House & Garden Dec.–Jan. 85/3 Mixer taps by Trufords..gold-plated. 1991 Do it Yourself Feb. 44/3 A mixer tap cannot be fitted if the cold water comes from the rising main and the hot water comes from the storage cistern. mixer valve n. a valve for regulating the proportions of liquids, gases, etc., in a mixture (see also sense 5d). ΘΚΠ society > occupation and work > equipment > machine > parts of machines > control(s) > [noun] > valve > others washer1596 turncock1702 air cock1709 Jack-in-the-box1728 runner1754 stop-valve1829 three-way cock1838 ball valve1839 relief valve1846 poppet valve1851 plunger valve1854 pot-lid1856 reflux valve1857 screw-down1864 mica valve1880 tide flap1884 tube-valve1884 swing-tap1892 relay valve1894 Schrader1895 pilot valve1900 mixer valve1904 spool valve1908 spill valve1922 safety valving1930 three-way1939 1904 Electr. World & Engineer 2 Jan. 22/1 This magnet controls a compressed air valve, and this compressed air valve in turn controls a large mixer valve. 1991 Which? Aug. 453/3 To minimise temperature variations, it's best to supply cold water directly to it from the cold water cistern, or get a thermostatic mixer valve. This entry has been updated (OED Third Edition, September 2002; most recently modified version published online June 2022). < n.1598
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