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Mixture   /mˈɪkstʃər/   Listen
Mixture

noun
1.
(chemistry) a substance consisting of two or more substances mixed together (not in fixed proportions and not with chemical bonding).
2.
Any foodstuff made by combining different ingredients.  Synonyms: concoction, intermixture.  "He drank a mixture of beer and lemonade"
3.
A collection containing a variety of sorts of things.  Synonyms: assortment, miscellanea, miscellany, mixed bag, motley, potpourri, salmagundi, smorgasbord, variety.  "He had a variety of disorders" , "A veritable smorgasbord of religions"
4.
An event that combines things in a mixture.  Synonym: mix.
5.
The act of mixing together.  Synonyms: admixture, commixture, intermixture, mix, mixing.  "The mixing of sound channels in the recording studio"



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"Mixture" Quotes from Famous Books



... protruding from the holster on his right hip, came briskly back along the corridor. Between fifteen and twenty men, their guns also conspicuously in evidence, were scattered about the entrance hall, expressions and attitudes indicating a curious mixture of boredom and uneasy tension. The eyes of about half of them swiveled around to Quillan when he came into the hall; then, with one exception, they looked ...
— Lion Loose • James H. Schmitz
... government, and give the same education to all men. But are they so in the present constitution of society, under a bad government, where most have had no education at all, but have been debased, brutified, by a long train and mixture of superstition and oppression, and witnesses to the luxury and vices of their superiors, which they could only envy and not enjoy? It was turning tigers loose; and the degradation of the nobility pointed out the prey. Could it ...
— Letters of Horace Walpole, V4 • Horace Walpole
... him to the livery-barn, limping briskly at his side. On the way, he exclaimed aloud at the marvellous changes that had taken place since he was last in the township. There were half a dozen gas-lamps in Sturt Street by this time, the gas being distilled from a mixture ...
— Australia Felix • Henry Handel Richardson
... side street with a dog at his heel. It was a dog of many breeds, but not a mixture of careless parentage. Peter paused at a cross-street and looked uncertainly to left and right. ...
— History Repeats • George Oliver Smith
... open flames around them roll'd, Were tortur'd to another bridal bed. Was then the youthful queen descried With varied colours in the flask This was our medicine; the patients died, "Who were restored?" none cared to ask. With our infernal mixture thus, ere long, These hills and peaceful vales among, We rag'd more fiercely than the pest; Myself the deadly poison did to thousands give; They pined away, I yet must live, To hear ...
— Faust Part 1 • Johann Wolfgang Von Goethe


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