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mixer

See also: Mixer and mixér

English

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mixer (3)

Etymology

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mix +‎ -er

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Noun

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mixer (plural mixers)

  1. One who, or a device that, mixes or merges things together.
    Hyponyms: cement mixer, concrete mixer
  2. One who mixes or socializes.
    • 1936 February, F. Scott Fitzgerald, “The Crack-Up”, in Esquire‎[1], 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, London: Eyre & Spottiswoode, →OCLC:
      Bad mixer as he was, he preferred to be "out of it" in a crowd than out of it altogether.
  3. 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
  4. 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.
  5. (sound engineering) A mixing console.
  7. (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[2], →ISSN:
      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.
  8. Any of various social dances involving frequent changes of partners.
  9. A device for combining hot and cold water before it emerges from a single spout or shower head.
  10. (electronics) A nonlinear electrical circuit that creates new frequencies from two signals applied to it.
  11. A chiropractor who uses other treatments in addition to spinal adjustment.
    Antonym: straight
  12. (cryptocurrencies) Synonym of tumbler

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Etymology

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Borrowed from English mixer.

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mixer m (plural mixers, diminutive mixertje n)

  1. A mixer (device, esp. kitchen appliance, for mixing).
  2. A music mixer.

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French

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Etymology 1

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Borrowed from English mix.

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Verb

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mixer

  1. to mix
Conjugation
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Conjugation of mixer (see also Appendix:French verbs)
infinitive simple mixer
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 – tu – nous vous –
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:
  • past historic → present perfect
  • past anterior → pluperfect
  • imperfect subjunctive → present subjunctive
  • pluperfect subjunctive → past subjunctive

(Christopher Kendris [1995], Master the Basics: French, pp. 77, 78, 79, 81).

Etymology 2

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Borrowed from English mixer.

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Noun

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mixer m (plural mixers)

  1. mixer (machine for mixing)

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Romanian

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Etymology

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Borrowed from French mixer.

Noun

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mixer n (plural mixere)

  1. blender

Declension

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Declension of mixer
singular plural
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

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mixer m (plural mixeres)

  1. mixer (drink)

Swedish

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en mixer

Etymology

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Borrowed from English mixer.

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mixer c

  1. (cooking) a blender
  2. a mixer (device or person that mixes or merges things, especially for TV or radio)
    1. a vision mixer, (US) a video switcher
    2. a technical director
    3. a mixing console
      Synonym: mixerbord

Declension

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Declension of mixer 
Singular Plural
Indefinite Definite Indefinite Definite
Nominative mixer mixern mixrar mixrarna
Genitive mixers mixerns mixrars mixrarnas

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