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Mixed   /mɪkst/   Listen
verb
Mix  v. t.  (past & past part. mixed, less properly mixt; pres. part. mixing)  
1.
To cause a promiscuous interpenetration of the parts of, as of two or more substances with each other, or of one substance with others; to unite or blend into one mass or compound, as by stirring together; to mingle; to blend; as, to mix flour and salt; to mix wines. "Fair persuasions mixed with sugared words."
2.
To unite with in company; to join; to associate. "Ephraim, he hath mixed himself among the people."
3.
To form by mingling; to produce by the stirring together of ingredients; to compound of different parts. "Hast thou no poison mixed?" "I have chosen an argument mixed of religious and civil considerations."
4.
To combine (two or more activities) within a specified or implied time frame; as, to mix studying and partying while at college.



Mix  v. i.  
1.
To become united into a compound; to be blended promiscuously together.
2.
To associate; to mingle; as, Democrats and Republicans mixed freely at the party. "He had mixed Again in fancied safety with his kind."



adjective
Mixed  adj.  Formed by mixing; united; mingled; blended. See Mix, v. t. & i.
Mixed action (Law), a suit combining the properties of a real and a personal action.
Mixed angle, a mixtilineal angle.
Mixed fabric, a textile fabric composed of two or more kinds of fiber, as a poplin.
Mixed marriage, a marriage between persons of different races or religions; specifically, one between a Roman Catholic and a Protestant.
Mixed number, a whole number and a fraction taken together.
Mixed train, a railway train containing both passenger and freight cars.
Mixed voices (Mus.), voices of both males and females united in the same performance.






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... a stone at Servia. She was a nation trained in a horrible school, but she won her freedom with a tenacious valor, and she has maintained it by the same courage. [Applause.] If any Servians were mixed up in the assassination of the Grand Duke, they ought to be punished. ["Hear, hear!"] Servia admits that. The Servian Government had nothing to do with it. Not even Austria claims that. The Servian Prime Minister is one of the most capable and honored men ...
— New York Times Current History: The European War from the Beginning to March 1915, Vol 1, No. 2 - Who Began the War, and Why? • Various

... of Persia, that is the chief area of the tribes in question. Hence, however, they extend into Kutch Gundava, Scinde, and Multan, and the northern parts of Gujerat. Between Kelat, the Indus, and the sea, they are mixed with Brahui. ...
— The Ethnology of the British Colonies and Dependencies • Robert Gordon Latham

... sepoys became two hundred thousand. This change was gradually wrought, and was not immediately comprehended. It was natural that, while the political functions of the Company were merely auxiliary to its commerce, the political accounts should have been mixed up with the commercial accounts. It was equally natural that this mode of keeping accounts, having once been established, should have remained unaltered; and the more so, as the change in the situation of the Company, ...
— The Miscellaneous Writings and Speeches of Lord Macaulay, Vol. 4 (of 4) - Lord Macaulay's Speeches • Thomas Babington Macaulay

... while Chantebled grew, while labor and worry and victory alternated, Mathieu suddenly found himself mixed up in a terribly tragedy. He was obliged to come to Paris at times—more often indeed than he cared—now through his business relations with Seguin, now to sell, now to buy, now to order one thing or another. He ...
— Fruitfulness - Fecondite • Emile Zola

... which did not yield similar evidence of the existence of an ancient Lacustrine or Lake-dwelling population. Numbers of their tools and implements were brought to light—stone axes and saws, flint arrowheads, bone needles, and such like—mixed with the bones of wild animals slain in the chase; pieces of old boats, portions of twisted branches, bark, and rough planking, of which their dwellings had been formed, the latter still bearing the marks of the rude tools by which ...
— Industrial Biography - Iron Workers and Tool Makers • Samuel Smiles


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