mixer
noun
- kitchen appliance intended for mixing, folding, beating, and whipping food ingredients
Wiktionary
Pronunciation: /ˈmɪksə(ɹ)/
name
Etymology: Unexplained.
- A surname.
noun
Etymology: Etymology tree English mix Proto-Indo-European *-yósder. Proto-Italic *-āzijos Latin -āriusnom. Latin -āriusbor. Proto-Germanic *-ārijaz Proto-West Germanic *-ārī Old English -ere Middle English -ere English -er English mixer From mix + -er.
- One who, or a device that, mixes or merges things together.
- One who mixes or socializes.
“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.”
“Bad mixer as he was, he preferred to be "out of it" in a crowd than out of it altogether.”
- A machine outfitted with (typically blunt) blades with which it mixes or beats ingredients in a bowl below.
- A nonalcoholic 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.”
- A mixing console.
- A dance or other social event meant to foster new acquaintances, as at the beginning of a school year.
“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.
- 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.
- Synonym of tumbler.