mixture
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- noun
- /ˈmɪksʧər/
:
mezcla
- Another nurse dabbed red lotion, and a third made a mixture of castor oil and zinc.
Examples
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Now we've got our dry ingredients, we've got our butter mixture and our buttermilk.
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Unfortunately, the mixture isn't right yet.
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Okay, we should get the mixture ready.
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It's just kind of like a mixture between a gel and a cream.
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So we're just going to half the mixture into two separate bowls and then get creative.
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The medicine we gave her when she arrived turned out to be the exact mixture.
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So I'm going to add this mixture into a bowl.
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The girl shied away, her face a mixture of disgust and curiosity.
Fiction book (1997) -
Einstein had the right mixture of humor and humility to carry this burden successfully.
Academic text (1991) -
To make the cake, combine the flour, sugar, and milk to create the mixture for the batter.
Synonyms
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2.3
A mixture of things or parts that form one thing
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1.8
The joining of two or more things
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1.0
A group of different things or people that are together
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2.3
A mix of different things, like colors or spices
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1.8
Different things put together form one thing
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1.8
Putting different things together so they become one
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2.8
A mix of different things like styles or flavors
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4.1
A joining of two different styles into one, for example music and food
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6.0
A food or drink made by mixing different things, often in a new way
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Putting two or more things together to make one new thing
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A mixture of different things, often very varied and unexpected
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8.1
Something added to another thing to mix with it
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3.0
The act of joining two or more things into one
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Mixing different things together until they form an even mixture
Joining two or more things to make one
Mixing different things together to make one whole
Different things joined together to make one thing
Putting different things together to make one thing
Compounds
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A mix of chemicals that can burst apart with great force when heated or hit
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A mix of ice and salt that makes temperatures below the point where water turns to ice
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Two or more materials form separate visible layers rather than mixing together
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A mix of different parts, like a salad, that can be separated by hand or a filter
How Thorough
Surface Forms
Morphology
Etymology
Mixture comes from an old Latin root mix meaning 'mix'. So a mixture can mean the action of putting things together, in other words the process of mixing.