Noun: mix
Sample Sentences
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Now add the raisins to the mix.
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[…] fifteen flavors of powdered mixes in traditional scoop-out packages, seven flavors of single-serve bottled drinks, and three flavors of multiserve bottles. [2015, Don E. Schultz, Beth E. Barnes, Heidi F. Schultz, Building Customer-brand Relationships, page 102:]
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My recipe file was now a mix of meat and dairy.
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The combination of classical music and hip hop is a surprisingly good mix.
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A Chronicle of Higher Education tracker of nearly 3,000 colleges found that of those with firm plans, 19% are opening primarily in person; 27% are primarily online; and 16% are, like Penn State, a mix. [2020 September 10, Katie Reilly, “As Colleges Open During a Pandemic, Student Life Remains Closed”, in Time:]
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Cake mix. Pancake mix. Hot chocolate mix.
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The rhythm mix sounds muddy.
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I've almost finished the mix for this song.
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Eventually I could taste different drugs and tell how much mix in it or if there’s too much mix in it or what have you. [1977, John Allen, chapter 11, in Assault with a Deadly Weapon: The Autobiography of a Street Criminal,, New York: Pantheon Books, page 160:]
Nouns inflected like mix
penniless-bench,
wintergrass,
kitchen pass,
grey fox,
grey box,
trailer hitch,
paleness,
loaded march,
Tush Push,
horribleness,
slaughteress,
chapparvovirus,
greenwax,
royal flush,
crab cactus,
geostress,
syngas,
wintercress,
ichthys,
ichthus, etc. (List truncated at 20 nouns)
Etymology
A merger of a nominal use of the verb and a borrowing from Anglo-Norman mixte, from Latin mixtus, past participle of misceō (“mix”). Nowadays regarded automatically as the nominal form of the verb. See: Latin Nouns '
mixtus'.
Verbs referencing "mix"
Dutch Nouns
mix, French Nouns
mix, Italian Nouns
missaggio, Russian Nouns
микс.