mixer
See also: Mixer and mixér
English
Etymology
mix + -er
Pronunciation
- IPA(key): /ˈmɪksə(ɹ)/
Audio (Berkshire) (file) - Rhymes: -ɪksə(ɹ)
Noun
mixer (plural mixers)
- One who, or a device that, mixes or merges things together.
- Hyponyms: cement mixer, concrete mixer
- One who mixes or socializes.
- 1936 February, F. Scott Fitzgerald, “The Crack-Up”, in Esquire, retrieved 2020-11-30:
- I had seen so many people all my life—I was an average mixer, but more than average in a tendency to identify myself, my ideas, my destiny with those of all classes that I came in contact with.
- 1950, Mervyn Peake, Gormenghast:
- Bad mixer as he was, he preferred to be "out of it" in a crowd than out of it altogether.
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- A machine outfitted with (typically blunt) blades with which it mixes or beats ingredients in a bowl below.
- Hyponyms: hand mixer, stand mixer, electric whisk
- Coordinate terms: blender, food processor
- A non-alcoholic drink (such as lemonade, Coca-Cola or fruit juice) that is added to spirits to make cocktails.
- Do we have any mixers? I don't want to drink this vodka neat.
- (sound engineering) A mixing console.
- (US) A dance or other social event meant to foster new acquaintances, as at the beginning of a school year.
- 2022 January 27, Becky Hughes, “The Hot New Thing in Dating? Actually Going on Dates.”, in The New York Times, ISSN 0362-4331:
- To encourage those IRL meetings, Thursday hosts events in London and New York, the two cities where it is up and running; the mixer at Hair of the Dog was its eighth in this city and drew a crowd of about 450.
- Any of various social dances involving frequent changes of partners.
- A device for combining hot and cold water before it emerges from a single spout or shower head.
- (electronics) A nonlinear electrical circuit that creates new frequencies from two signals applied to it.
- A chiropractor who uses other treatments in addition to spinal adjustment.
- Antonym: straight
- (cryptocurrencies) Synonym of tumbler
Derived terms
- vision mixer
Related terms
- mix
- mixture
Descendants
- → Dutch: mixer
- → French: mixer
- → Polish: mikser
- → Romanian: mixer
- → Turkish: mikser, mixer
Translations
a device that blends
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machine that mixes or beats ingredients
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non-alcoholic drink
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Further reading
- drink mixer on Wikipedia.Wikipedia
Anagrams
- mirex, remix
Dutch
Etymology
Borrowed from English mixer.
Pronunciation
- IPA(key): /ˈmɪk.sər/
Audio (file) - Hyphenation: mi‧xer
- Rhymes: -ɪksər
Noun
mixer m (plural mixers, diminutive mixertje n)
- A mixer (device, esp. kitchen appliance, for mixing).
- A music mixer.
Derived terms
- staafmixer
Related terms
- mixen
French
Etymology 1
Borrowed from English mix.
Pronunciation
- IPA(key): /mik.se/
Verb
mixer
- to mix
Conjugation
Conjugation of mixer (see also Appendix:French verbs)
infinitive | simple | mixer | |||||
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compound | avoir + past participle | ||||||
present participle or gerund1 | simple | mixant /mik.sɑ̃/ | |||||
compound | ayant + past participle | ||||||
past participle | mixé /mik.se/ | ||||||
singular | plural | ||||||
first | second | third | first | second | third | ||
indicative | je (j’) | tu | il, elle, on | nous | vous | ils, elles | |
(simple tenses) | present | mixe /miks/ | mixes /miks/ | mixe /miks/ | mixons /mik.sɔ̃/ | mixez /mik.se/ | mixent /miks/ |
imperfect | mixais /mik.sɛ/ | mixais /mik.sɛ/ | mixait /mik.sɛ/ | mixions /mik.sjɔ̃/ | mixiez /mik.sje/ | mixaient /mik.sɛ/ | |
past historic2 | mixai /mik.se/ | mixas /mik.sa/ | mixa /mik.sa/ | mixâmes /mik.sam/ | mixâtes /mik.sat/ | mixèrent /mik.sɛʁ/ | |
future | mixerai /mik.sə.ʁe/ | mixeras /mik.sə.ʁa/ | mixera /mik.sə.ʁa/ | mixerons /mik.sə.ʁɔ̃/ | mixerez /mik.sə.ʁe/ | mixeront /mik.sə.ʁɔ̃/ | |
conditional | mixerais /mik.sə.ʁɛ/ | mixerais /mik.sə.ʁɛ/ | mixerait /mik.sə.ʁɛ/ | mixerions /mik.sə.ʁjɔ̃/ | mixeriez /mik.sə.ʁje/ | mixeraient /mik.sə.ʁɛ/ | |
(compound tenses) | present perfect | present indicative of avoir + past participle | |||||
pluperfect | imperfect indicative of avoir + past participle | ||||||
past anterior2 | past historic of avoir + past participle | ||||||
future perfect | future of avoir + past participle | ||||||
conditional perfect | conditional of avoir + past participle | ||||||
subjunctive | que je (j’) | que tu | qu’il, qu’elle | que nous | que vous | qu’ils, qu’elles | |
(simple tenses) | present | mixe /miks/ | mixes /miks/ | mixe /miks/ | mixions /mik.sjɔ̃/ | mixiez /mik.sje/ | mixent /miks/ |
imperfect2 | mixasse /mik.sas/ | mixasses /mik.sas/ | mixât /mik.sa/ | mixassions /mik.sa.sjɔ̃/ | mixassiez /mik.sa.sje/ | mixassent /mik.sas/ | |
(compound tenses) | past | present subjunctive of avoir + past participle | |||||
pluperfect2 | imperfect subjunctive of avoir + past participle | ||||||
imperative | – | – | – | ||||
simple | — | mixe /miks/ | — | mixons /mik.sɔ̃/ | mixez /mik.se/ | — | |
compound | — | simple imperative of avoir + past participle | — | simple imperative of avoir + past participle | simple imperative of avoir + past participle | — | |
1 The French gerund is usable only with the preposition en. | |||||||
2 In less formal writing or speech, these tenses may be found to have been replaced in the following way:
(Christopher Kendris [1995], Master the Basics: French, pp. 77, 78, 79, 81). |
Etymology 2
Borrowed from English mixer.
Alternative forms
- mixeur
Pronunciation
- IPA(key): /mik.sœʁ/
Noun
mixer m (plural mixers)
- mixer (machine for mixing)
Further reading
- “mixer”, in Trésor de la langue française informatisé [Digitized Treasury of the French Language], 2012.
Anagrams
- remix
Romanian
Etymology
From French mixer.
Noun
mixer n (plural mixere)
- blender
Declension
Declension of mixer
singular | plural | |||
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indefinite articulation | definite articulation | indefinite articulation | definite articulation | |
nominative/accusative | (un) mixer | mixerul | (niște) mixere | mixerele |
genitive/dative | (unui) mixer | mixerului | (unor) mixere | mixerelor |
vocative | mixerule | mixerelor |