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Mixture

noun

(chemistry) a substance consisting of two or more substances mixed together (not in fixed proportions and not with chemical bonding).

Any foodstuff made by combining different ingredients. Synonyms: concoction, intermixture. "He drank a mixture of beer and lemonade"

A collection containing a variety of sorts of things. Synonyms: assortment, miscellanea, miscellany, mixed bag, motley, potpourri, salmagundi, smorgasbord, variety. "He had a variety of disorders" , "A veritable smorgasbord of religions"

An event that combines things in a mixture. Synonym: mix.

The act of mixing together. Synonyms: admixture, commixture, intermixture, mix, mixing. "The mixing of sound channels in the recording studio"

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... mixture of plains and peaks as Bible pictures of the Holy Land have made familiar, and at night, as October's hunters' moon glorifies all the landscape, a faint light gleaming here and there from an opening in the rock huts, and with Arcturus and the Pleiades of Job in the sky, ...

— Where Half The World Is Waking Up • Clarence Poe

... closely the brave doings of their own boys' units whatever these might be. Next, they would try and use the Press to teach the public that there are three kinds of war, (a) military war, (b) economic war and (c) social war. Lastly, they would explain to the Cabinet that this war of ours is a mixture of (a) and (b) with more of ...

— Gallipoli Diary, Volume I • Ian Hamilton

... There was a quality about him which had never struck her before, and which eluded exact definition. It had never occurred to her, until now, when she saw him out of the element with which she had always associated him, that Peter Erwin had a personality. That personality was a mixture of simplicity and self-respect and—common sense. And as Honora listened to his cheerful voice, she perceived that he had the gift of expressing himself clearly and forcibly and withal modestly; nor did it escape ...

— The Crossing • Winston Churchill

... literary style or method, and little dreamed that he would one day be regarded as the founder of a school. It must be remembered that he was a soldier before he was a man of letters, and his love of adventure occasionally got the better of his love of logic, making his novels a curious mixture of convincing truth and wild romanticism. His heroes are singularly like himself, a mixture of morbid introspection and restless energy: he seems to have taken special pleasure in making them succeed where he had failed in life, and when the spirit of the ...

— Library Of The World's Best Literature, Ancient And Modern, Vol 4 • Charles Dudley Warner

... does cut a curious figure!" exclaimed Leo, who saw Donald approaching. "If I had seen him for the first time, I should have taken him to be a fledged centaur—a mixture ...

— In the Wilds of Africa • W.H.G. Kingston

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