单词 | mixmaster |
释义 | mixmastern. Chiefly U.S. 1. a. Usually in form Mixmaster. A type of electric food mixer.A proprietary name in the United States. ΘΚΠ the world > food and drink > food > food manufacture and preparation > equipment for food preparation > [noun] > mixer chocolate mill1703 cake mixer1867 mixer1876 electric mixer1900 food mixer1917 mixmaster1930 Osterizer1948 Waring blender1948 liquidizer1950 1930 Official Gaz. (U.S.) 30 Dec. 939/1 Mixmaster..For electric food mixers. 1931 Good Housek. (N.Y.) Oct. 223/3 (advt.) See what you get now in Mixmaster. A food mixer that beats everything—a juice extractor—an automatic salad oil dripper. 1955 M. McCarthy Charmed Life (1956) ii. 52 The combination waffle iron and sandwich grill, the roto-broiler, the mixmaster. 1978 S. King Stand xlii. 478 He looks like he's been through a Mixmaster with a set of blunt blades. b. In extended use. ΚΠ 1949 Mississippi Valley Hist. Rev. 36 152 As one reader has recently commented, this book is..a ‘combination of love story novelism, swaddled in coal, dust, black smoke, and sand ballast, all put through a mix-master’. 1994 Time 7 Feb. 28/3 Clinton, they say, needs to ‘internalize’ important decisions, putting together..views of outside experts and comments from everyday people in a kind of cerebral Mixmaster. 2. slang. A propeller-driven or rotor-driven aircraft; spec. a helicopter. ΘΚΠ society > travel > air or space travel > a means of conveyance through the air > rotary wing aircraft > [noun] > helicopter or gyrocopter helicopter1861 automotive1865 gyroplane1907 gyropter1908 gyrocopter1915 egg-beater1937 mixmaster1946 'copter1947 chopper1951 whirlybird1951 1946 Britannica Bk. of Year (U.S.) 832/2 Mixmaster, army bomber propelled by two rear counter-revolving propellers. Made by Douglas Aircraft Co., Inc. 1951 R. Malkin Boxcars in Sky xiii. 156 In the business, they refer jocularly to the helicopter by a number of descriptive names: ‘eggbeater’, ‘windmill’, and ‘mixmaster’, to mention a few. 1972 W. C. Anderson Hurricane Hunters 192 Let's mush this Mixmaster over to Jones Beach. 3. A person (esp. a DJ) who is skilled in mixing music. ΚΠ 1985 Newsweek (Nexis) 28 Oct. 94 He..joined up with mixmaster Arthur Baker, who agreed to donate studio time and his services as coproducer. 1992 Time Out 22 Apr. 86/1 Dance music by ‘the hottest mix-masters in town’. 2000 Gloucestershire Echo (Electronic ed.) 18 Apr. A bid to become the world's top mixmaster on the island where DJs are treated like gods. Compounds C1. General attributive. ΚΠ 1963 Economist 11 May 537/2 A ‘mixmaster’ force of ships with American missiles and international crews. 1990 Entertainm. Weekly 23 Feb. 26/3 These films are really all the same film—a Mixmaster blend of Death Wish, Dirty Harry, Enter the Dragon, and Rambo. 1998 Courier-Jrnl. (Louisville, Kentucky) 16 May b5/1 The [aerator] blades, which look like giant mixmaster heads, mix air into the sewage treatment process. C2. attributive. Astronomy. Designating or relating to a cosmological model in which the matter of the early universe is regarded as continually mixed by rapid expansions and contractions along randomly distributed axes, thereby bringing about isotropy. Esp. in Mixmaster model, Mixmaster universe. ΚΠ 1969 C. W. Misner in Physical Rev. Lett. 22 1071 (heading) Mixmaster universe. 1973 C. W. Misner et al. Gravitation xxx. 814/2 The Mixmaster cosmological model does have an infinite past history in this sense, since each ‘bounce’ from the Kasner-like motion to another is a recognizable cosmological event, of which infinitely many must be realized between one finite epoch and the singularity. 1989 J. Silk Big Bang (rev. ed.) vi. 133 [The] postulate of primordial chaos can be framed quantitatively. One such model..is known as the mixmaster model. 1993 Sci. News 4 Dec. 377/1 One good place to search for nonlinear dynamics and chaos in general relativity is a special set of solutions to Einstein's equations that leads to what is known as the ‘mixmaster universe’. This entry has been updated (OED Third Edition, September 2002; most recently modified version published online March 2022). mixmasterv. North American (originally and chiefly U.S.). transitive. To act as a mixmaster upon, to introduce or combine (diverse elements) into. Also intransitive. ΚΠ 1974 L. Bangs in Creem Mar. 40/1 We're swatted into the new age of totally Technologized Rock. This is robot music mixmastered by human modules. 1990 Chicago Tribune (Nexis) 5 Jan. 17 The Army Mixmastered into the invasion force reinforcements from just about every kind of airborne, ranger, special forces and light infantry unit available. 1991 Boston Globe (Nexis) 24 Apr. 67 The outside experts created a Soviet-style 10-Year plan.., mixmastering the bank's organizational chart in accordance with the time-honored recipes from the consulting cookbook. 1997 Gazette (Montreal) (Nexis) 7 June g3 James DiSalvio brings a Beautiful People approach to sound collage, mixmastering dizzy hip hop, '70s snippets, lights and the Main rock crowd into a happening. 1999 N.Y. Mag. 20 Sept. 76/3 Chuck Workman brings together an astonishing array of clips from the past 50 years of counterculturedom and then Mixmasters them into a hailstorm of fragments. This is a new entry (OED Third Edition, September 2002; most recently modified version published online March 2022). < n.1930v.1974 |
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