mix

To stir two or more substances together so they become one substance.

• Mix the eggs and milk.
• She mixed the sauce with a wooden spoon.
• Have you mixed all the ingredients together?

How to use it: mix A with B (Mix the flour with the milk.); mix A and B together (Mix the sugar and butter together.)

Similar words: blend, stir together

Common phrases: mix the ingredients, mix well, mix thoroughly

To put different types of things together that are often kept apart.

• Don’t mix the clean and dirty clothes.
• She mixed modern furniture with old family pieces.
• They often mix business and pleasure.

How to use it: mix A with B (Do not mix white clothes with red ones.); mix A and B (The design mixes old and new styles.)

Similar words: combine, blend

Opposites: separate

Common phrases: mix business and pleasure, mix different styles, mix something together

To make something by combining several ingredients or parts.

• He mixed a fruit drink.
• We mixed concrete for the garden wall.
• She mixed red and white paint to make pink.

How to use it: mix something for someone (She mixed a drink for her guest.)

Similar words: make, blend

Common phrases: mix a cocktail, mix concrete, mix a drink

To prepare a recording’s final sound by adjusting its different recorded parts.

• She will mix the song tomorrow.
• The producer mixed their new album in London.
• Who mixed this recording?

Common phrases: mix a song, mix an album, mix a recording

To blend ingredients using an electric machine.

• Mix the batter on low speed.
• She mixed the dough using an electric mixer.
• Mix for two minutes, then switch off the machine.

Similar words: blend

Common phrases: mix the batter, mix on low, mix until smooth

To combine separate recorded sounds into one track, adjusting how they sound together.

• Mix the drum tracks together.
• She mixed the vocals with the guitar track.
• The engineer mixed six tracks down to one.

How to use it: mix something down to something (They mixed the drum tracks down to one track.)

Similar words: blend, combine

Common phrases: mix audio tracks, mix the vocals, mix tracks together

A combination of different kinds of people or things.

• The shop sells a mix of old and new books.
• An interesting mix of people came to dinner.
• The building’s mix of styles gives it character.

How to use it: mix of someone/something (The class has a mix of students from different countries.)

Similar words: mixture, combination, blend

Common phrases: mix of styles, interesting mix, diverse mix

A substance made by combining two or more ingredients or materials.

• Add water to the mix.
• The concrete mix was too thick.
• She poured the mix into a baking tin.

How to use it: mix of A and B (The coating is a mix of sand and cement.)

Similar words: mixture, blend

Common phrases: concrete mix, add to the mix, thick mix