mixer

See also: Mixer and mixér

English

Etymology

(deprecated template usage)

mix +‎ -er

Pronunciation

• Rhymes: -ɪksə(r)

Noun

mixer (plural mixers)

1. One who, or a device that, mixes or merges things together.
2. One who mixes or socializes.
   • 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.
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. mixing console
7. (US) A dance or other social event meant to foster new acquaintances, as at the beginning of a school year.
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.

Hyponyms

• cement mixer
• concrete mixer
• electric whisk
• hand mixer

Coordinate terms

• blender
• food processor

Related terms

• mix
• mixture

Translations

a device that blends

• Maori: pūwhakaranu
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blender

• Albanian: mikser m
• Azerbaijani: qarışdırıcı
• Catalan: batedora (ca) f
• Chinese:

  Mandarin: 混合器 (zh) (hùnhéqì), 混頻器／混频器 (zh) (hùnpínqì), 混频器 (zh) (hùnpínqì)

• Czech: mixér (cs) m
• Danish: mikser, håndmikser, blender (da)
• Dutch: mengar n
• Finnish: sekoitin
• French: batte-beurre f, mixeur (fr) m
• German: Mixer (de) m
• Hungarian: turmixgép (hu)
• Italian: frullatore (it) m
• Japanese: ミキサー (mikisā)
• Korean: 믹서 (ko) (mikseo)
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• Latin: promiscuus n
• Norman: mixeu m
• Norwegian:

  Bokmål: blander m, blandemaskin m, mikser m

  Nynorsk: blandar m, blandemaskin m or f, miksar m

• Persian: میکسر (fa) (mikser)
• Polish: mikser (pl) m, robot kuchenny
• Portuguese: batedeira f, varinha mágica (pt) f
• Russian: ми́ксер (ru) m (míkser), смеси́тель (ru) m (smesítelʹ), меша́лка (ru) m (mešálka)
• Serbo-Croatian:

  Cyrillic: мешалица f, мешало n

  Roman: mešalica (sh) m, mešalo (sh) n

• Spanish: batidora (es) f (amasadora)
• Swedish: mixer (sv), matberednings n

non-alcoholic drink

• Finnish: mikseri (fi), blandis (fi)
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Further reading

• drink mixer on Wikipedia.Wikipedia

Anagrams

• mirex, remix

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Dutch

Etymology

Borrowed from English mixer.

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): /ˈmɪk.sər/
• Hyphenation: mi‧xer
• Rhymes: -ɪksər

Noun

mixer m (plural mixers, diminutive mixertje n)

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

Derived terms

• staafmixer

Related terms

• mixen

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French

Etymology 1

Borrowed from English mix.

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): /mik.se/

Verb

mixer

1. to mix

Conjugation

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

Borrowed from English mixer.

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): /mik.sœʁ/

Noun

mixer m (plural mixers)

1. mixer (machine for mixing)

Anagrams

• remix

Further reading

• “mixer”, in Trésor de la langue française informatisé [Digitized Treasury of the French Language], 2012.