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mixturen.adj.

Brit. /ˈmɪkstʃə/, U.S. /ˈmɪk(st)ʃər/
Forms: late Middle English myxtur, late Middle English– mixture, 1500s mixtur, 1500s myxture, 1600s mizture, 1800s mixter; Scottish pre-1700 mixtiour, pre-1700 mixtour, pre-1700 1700s– mixture, 1800s mixtur, 1800s– mixter, 1900s– mixtur'.
Origin: Of multiple origins. Partly a borrowing from French. Partly a borrowing from Latin. Etymons: French mixture; Latin mixtūra.
Etymology: < Anglo-Norman and Middle French, French mixture a mixture, a particular mixture or blend (late 12th cent. in Old French as misture , 13th cent. as mixture ; 13th cent. in Anglo-Norman denoting sexual intercourse; 16th cent. in Middle French denoting a medicinal preparation; compare also Old French mesture a mixture, a mixture of grain, maslin (13th cent.)) and their etymon classical Latin mixtūra (also mistūra ; compare later misture n.2) the action of mixing, introduction of other elements, a mixture, compound, interbreeding of animals, in post-classical Latin also sexual intercourse (late 12th cent. in a British source), cloth of mixed fabric or colour (1347 in a British source) < mixtus mixed adj.2 + -ūra -ure suffix1. Compare Old Occitan mestura, Portuguese mistura (13th cent.), Italian mistura (14th cent.), Spanish mistura, mixtura (15th cent.). Compare also Middle High German mixtūre (13th cent.; German Mixtur). N.E.D. (1907) gives the pronunciation as (mi·kstiŭɹ, -tʃəɹ) /ˈmɪkstjʊə(r)/, /ˈmɪkstʃə(r)/.
A. n.
I. The action or result of mixing.
1.
a. A (material or immaterial) product of mixing; a blend or combination; an aggregate of heterogeneous ingredients. Usually with of.
ΘΚΠ
the world > relative properties > wholeness > mutual relation of parts to whole > condition or state of being mixed or blended > [noun] > a mixture
mingingOE
mungc1175
meddlingc1384
mellaya1400
mixture?a1425
commixtion?a1439
medley1440
brothc1515
mingly1545
mingle1548
maslin1574
miscellane1582
commixture1590
flaumpaump1593
salad1603
miscellany1609
common1619
cento1625
misturea1626
mixtil1654
concrete1656
contemperation1664
ragout1672
crasis1677
alloy1707
mixtible1750
galimatias1762
misc.1851
syllabub1859
mixtry1862
cocktail1868
blend1883
admix1908
mix-up1918
mix1959
meld1973
katogo1994
?a1425 tr. Guy de Chauliac Grande Chirurgie (N.Y. Acad. Med.) f. 72v (MED) Medecenez..oweþ to be mitigatiue as is þe mixture of 3 partes of oile rosis & 1 of hony.
a1475 Bk. Quinte Essence (1889) 9 Putte al þat mixture into a strong watir..and þe siluyr wole be dissolued.
a1560 W. Kennedy Passioun of Christ in J. A. W. Bennett Devotional Pieces (1955) 47 Of diuers spicis a sindry mixtour.
1582 Bible (Rheims) John xix. 39 Bringing a mixture of myrrhe and aloes.
1612 M. Drayton Poly-olbion ii. 30 That braue youth; the splendor of whose eye A wondrous mixture shew'd of grace and maiestie.
1676 J. Glanvill Ess. Pref. sig. a3v The [seventh] Essay is a mixture of an Idæa, and a disguised History.
1686 A. Behn Montre, or Lover's Watch 212 Neither too white, nor too black; but such a Mixture of the two Colours, as makes it the most agreeable in the World.
1713 J. Swift Jrnl. to Stella 23 Jan. (1948) II. 606 There was a mixture of Company.
a1719 J. Addison Dialogues Medals in Wks. (1721) I. i. 435 The agreeable mixture of shades and fountains, in which the whole country naturally abounds.
1732 T. Lediard tr. J. Terrasson Life Sethos II. viii. 227 His conduct..was..a fatal mixture of weakness and temerity.
1815 J. Smith Panorama Sci. & Art II. 314 A simple mixture of sand and clay.
1828 W. Scott Fair Maid of Perth vii, in Chron. Canongate 2nd Ser. II. 199 His mixture of surprise, joy, and anxiety, did not deprive him of the presence of mind which the occasion demanded.
1875 Jrnl. Chem. Soc. 28 67 When phenol is gently warmed with phthalic anhydride and sulphuric acid the mixture assumes a brownish yellow colour.
1899 T. C. Allbutt et al. Syst. Med. VIII. 826 The vessels may be all veins,..capillaries,..or very commonly a mixture of both.
1902 T. M. Lindsay Church & Ministry in Early Centuries vi. 258 The sorry mixture of Paganism and Christianity which [etc.].
1926 Travel Nov. 44/1 Honduras has a well-attuned mixture of white and Indian, with the Indian beginning to emerge as a separate group.
1952 P. Bowles Let it come Down i. i. 13 The odour in the room suggested a mixture of wet plaster and unwashed feet.
1958 I. Orga Turkish Cooking 114 Take the onion mixture and fill the aubergines with this.
1988 A. Desai Baumgartner's Bombay ii. 27 He went up with a mixture of relief and reluctance.
b. = mixt n. 2. Obsolete.
ΘΚΠ
the world > relative properties > wholeness > mutual relation of parts to whole > condition or state of being mixed or blended > [noun] > a mixture > substance consisting of mixed elements
mixtion1481
mixed bodya1500
mixture1604
compounda1616
mixt1644
mixtum1656
1604 E. Grimeston tr. J. de Acosta Nat. & Morall Hist. Indies To Rdr. In the two following books, is treated of that which concernes the Elements and naturall mixtures, as Mettalls, Plants, Beasts, and what else is remarkable at the Indies.
1604 E. Grimeston tr. J. de Acosta Nat. & Morall Hist. Indies iv. xiii. 248 We..will passe to the two other mixtures, the which are plants and beasts.
1637 J. Milton Comus 9 Can any mortall mixture of Earths mould Breath such Divine inchanting ravishment?
2. Sexual intercourse, esp. unlawful or promiscuous union. Cf. mix v. 3b. Obsolete.
ΘΚΠ
the world > physical sensation > sexual relations > sexual activity > [noun] > sexual intercourse
ymonec950
moneOE
meanc1175
manredc1275
swivinga1300
couplec1320
companyc1330
fellowred1340
the service of Venusc1350
miskissinga1387
fellowshipc1390
meddlinga1398
carnal knowinga1400
flesha1400
knowledgea1400
knowledginga1400
japec1400
commoning?c1425
commixtionc1429
itc1440
communicationc1450
couplingc1475
mellingc1480
carnality1483
copulation1483
mixturea1500
Venus act?1507
Venus exercise?1507
Venus play?1507
Venus work?1507
conversation?c1510
flesh-company1522
act?1532
carnal knowledge1532
occupying?1544
congression1546
soil1555
conjunction1567
fucking1568
rem in re1568
commixture1573
coiture1574
shaking of the sheets?1577
cohabitation1579
bedding1589
congress1589
union1598
embrace1599
making-outa1601
rutting1600
noddy1602
poop-noddy1606
conversinga1610
carnal confederacy1610
wapping1610
businessa1612
coition1615
doinga1616
amation1623
commerce1624
hot cocklesa1627
other thing1628
buck1632
act of love1638
commistion1658
subagitation1658
cuntc1664
coit1671
intimacy1676
the last favour1676
quiffing1686
old hat1697
correspondence1698
frigging1708
Moll Peatley1711
coitus1713
sexual intercourse1753
shagging1772
connection1791
intercourse1803
interunion1822
greens1846
tail1846
copula1864
poking1864
fuckeea1866
sex relation1871
wantonizing1884
belly-flopping1893
twatting1893
jelly roll1895
mattress-jig1896
sex1900
screwing1904
jazz1918
zig-zig1918
other1922
booty1926
pigmeat1926
jazzing1927
poontang1927
relations1927
whoopee1928
nookie1930
hump1931
jig-a-jig1932
homework1933
quickie1933
nasty1934
jig-jig1935
crumpet1936
pussy1937
Sir Berkeley1937
pom-pom1945
poon1947
charvering1954
mollocking1959
leg1967
rumpy-pumpy1968
shafting1971
home plate1972
pata-pata1977
bonking1985
legover1985
knobbing1986
rumpo1986
fanny1993
a1500 Hymnal in R. S. Loomis Medieval Stud. in Memory G. S. Loomis (1927) 450 Partles of mannes knolege or mixture, Thys holy byrth, thys blessyd natiuite..The holy gost by grace did hyt so be.
1604 T. Dekker & T. Middleton Honest Whore ii. i. 432 Bellafronte [a Courtesan]. For whose true love I would becom pure-honest, Hate the worlds mixtures, and the smiles of gold.
?1614 G. Chapman tr. Homer Odysses viii. 117 The Sunne their mixture saw; and came, and told.
1645 J. Milton Il Penseroso in Poems 38 Thee [sc. Melancholy] bright-hair'd Vesta long of yore, To solitary Saturn bore; His daughter she (in Saturns raign, Such mixture was not held a stain).
1659 H. Hammond Paraphr. & Annot. Psalms (xix. 9 Paraphr.) 106 The dread of offending God keeps the man from all impure mixtures.
1697 J. Potter Archæologiæ Græcæ I. i. ii. 8 Promiscuous Mixtures had been allow'd of amongst them.
1712 A. Pope tr. Statius First Bk. Thebais in Misc. Poems 11 I..With monstrous Mixture stain'd my Mother's Bed.
3. The action or an act of adding something as an ingredient; the presence of a heterogeneous element in the composition of something; admixture. Also: an amount or proportion of something added. without mixture: unmixed, pure.
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the world > relative properties > wholeness > mutual relation of parts to whole > condition or state of being mixed or blended > [noun] > admixture or addition as ingredient
admixtiona1398
mixture1526
admixture1531
mixtion1557
admistion1565
infusion1626
impregnation1651
1526 W. Bonde Pylgrimage of Perfection i. sig. Miv Whether..these bothe sayd thynges be togyther in your soule without ony mixture of the contrary.
1529 T. More Dialogue Heresyes i, in Wks. 161/1 For when the gospell speketh of wyne onely tourned into his precious blode, what man woulde aduenture to make any mixture of water.
1560 J. Daus tr. J. Sleidane Commentaries f. lixv Suche ministers as should preache Gods worde sincerely, without any mixture of mens traditions.
1611 Bible (King James) Rev. xiv. 10 The same shall drinke of the wine of the wrath of God, which is powred out without mixture into the cup of his indignation. View more context for this quotation
1643 R. Baker Chron. Kings of Eng. i. 15 His [sc. King Edgar's] Pious Acts were, that he built and prepared seven and forty Monasteries... But now his mixture of Vice marred all.
1670 W. Temple Let. to Dk. Tuscany in Wks. (1731) II. 221 Such is the Composition of human Things, that nothing is pure or without Mixture.
1720 T. Hearne Remarks & Coll. (1906) VII. 186 His Conversation, which was generally facetious, not without a Mixture of Satyr.
1725 I. Watts Logick i. vi. §1 In order therefore to a clear and distinct Knowledge of things, we must uncloath them of all these Relations and Mixtures, that we may contemplate them naked, and in their own Natures.
1750 G. G. Beekman Let. 29 Aug. in Beekman Mercantile Papers (1956) I. 116 Send me..Barbadose Rum if to be had at 26/ a gallon no mixture.
1762 A. Dickson Treat. Agric. i. xix. 129 The soil in which there is a great mixture of moss.
1833 C. Lamb Pop. Fallacies xiii, in Last Ess. Elia 264 The good things of life are not to be had singly, but come to us with a mixture; like a schoolboy's holiday, with a task affixed to the tail of it.
1845 W. Youatt Dog (1858) vii. 211 His bark..had a slight mixture of the howl, and there was a husky choking noise in the throat.
1866 J. Lindley & T. Moore Treasury Bot. II. 1110/2 Sulphureus, sulphur-colour; a pale bright-yellow, with a mixture of white.
1883 Chambers's Jrnl. 5 May Green forage should be ensilated without mixture of any dry substances.
1935 Discovery July 208/1 A minute sample of the bath water is..‘doped’ by the mixture of few drops of ‘O.T.’ (Ortho-Tolidine).
1960 C. W. Cunnington et al. Dict. Eng. Costume 268/2 A very rich white silk painted with flowers or bouquets with foliage, with a light mixture of gold in the pattern.
4.
a. The action or process of mixing or of becoming mixed; the fact of being mixed or combined; an instance of this. Now rare.
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the world > relative properties > wholeness > mutual relation of parts to whole > condition or state of being mixed or blended > [noun] > action or fact of mixing
mingingOE
mongling?c1225
mellinga1375
commixtiona1398
mixtiona1398
compounding1398
meddlinga1400
intermelling1413
mashing1440
medlure?a1475
commistion1495
contemperation1502
intermixtion?1520
mixing1525
mixture1530
mixting1532
minglinga1535
mingle1548
temperature1550
contemperament1565
commixture1567
intermingling1576
commixing1583
intermixture1592
mixc1595
minglement1602
interblending1605
contempering1609
intermeddling1611
contemperating1617
mistion1617
immixtion1653
immistion1658
alloy1672
intermixing1690
blendure1701
intermingledom1753
blending1795
comminglement1833
commingling1854
co-mingling1856
immixture1859
interminglement1873
interfuse1887
melding1939
the world > relative properties > wholeness > mutual relation of parts to whole > condition or state of being mixed or blended > [noun] > causing to become mixed
mixture1663
1530 J. Palsgrave Lesclarcissement 420/1 I allaye, as mettals be alayde or as sylver or golde is with their myxture, je attrempe.
1587 Sir P. Sidney & A. Golding tr. P. de Mornay Trewnesse Christian Relig. x. 165 Or of the mixture [1592 mixtur] of the elements.
1593 R. Hooker Of Lawes Eccl. Politie i. iii. 53 If the Moone should wander from her beaten way, the times and seasons of the yeare blend themselues by disordered and confused mixture.
1613 S. Purchas Pilgrimage 62 That mixtures in garments, seedes, and the like, were forbidden by the Law of Moses.
1613 S. Purchas Pilgrimage 76 This river..passeth through the Lake Thonitis without mixture of waters by reason of this swiftnesse.
1663 B. Gerbier Counsel to Builders 11 A good Surveyour sheweth his Art..in the fit mixture of Materials, Morter [etc.].
1728 E. Chambers Cycl. (at cited word) Mixture, in Matters of Drapery, the Union, or rather Confusion of several Wools of different Colours, not yet spun.
1731 J. Arbuthnot Ess. Nature Aliments i. 10 When those Liquors are expell'd out of the Body, which by their Mixture convert the Aliment into an Animal Liquid.
1836 A. Combe Physiol. Digestion ii. ii. 215 Mixtures of different kinds of food are strongly condemned by almost all writers on dietetics, as injurious to digestion.
1860 J. Tyndall Glaciers of Alps ii. v. 250 From the intimate mixture of air and water we obtain foam.
1876 G. E. Voyle & G. de Saint-Clair-Stevenson Mil. Dict. (ed. 3) at Mixing the Ingredients Five minutes is sufficient for a thorough mixture.
1929 E. C. Thomas Lay Folks' Hist. Liturgy xxii. 130 The mixture of water with the wine was omitted at the offertory.
b. A mixed or intermingled state or condition; the coexistence in such a state of different ingredients or different groups or classes of things. Obsolete.
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the world > relative properties > wholeness > mutual relation of parts to whole > condition or state of being mixed or blended > [noun]
commixtion?a1475
temperature1538
mixture1585
commixation1605
commistion1666
mixedness1668
1585 R. Bostocke Difference Aunc. & Latter Phisicke sig. Ciiii The badd is seperated from the obedience and mixture of the good.
1597 R. Hooker Of Lawes Eccl. Politie v. xlvii. 95 O happie mixture wherein things contrary do so qualifie and correct the one the daunger of the others excesse.
1615 H. Crooke Μικροκοσμογραϕια Pref. 1 A Discourse of the constitution of mans body, as he enioyeth a perfect or apportionated health by a due Mixture of the principles whereof he consisteth; of the Temperament of each part arising from that mixture.
c. Mixed nature, complexity. Obsolete. rare.
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the world > relative properties > order > disorder > confusion or disorder > entanglement or entangled state > complication or complexity > [noun]
intricatenessa1586
perplexednessa1586
involution1611
mixture1614
complicateness1656
puzzledness1662
complexedness1690
complexation1707
complexness1727
complexity1790
complication1793
complicacy18..
complicatedness1818
complicity1847
involvedness1867
multiplexity1938
1614 W. Raleigh Hist. World Pref. sig. A How vnfit, and..vnworthy a choice I..made of my self, to vndertake a worke of this mixture; mine own reason..hath sufficiently resolued me.
d. spec. The mixing of or reproduction between different racial groups, lines, breeds, etc., of people or animals; an instance of this.
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the world > people > ethnicities > division of mankind by physical characteristics > mixed race > [noun]
mongrelism1598
mixture1634
half-breed1775
half-caste1798
mixed blood1817
Eurasianism1833
mongrelity1859
mulism1861
miscegenation1863
miscegenesis1880
miscegeny1887
métissage1891
half-castism1896
1634 J. Ford Chron. Hist. Perkin Warbeck iv. sig. Hv His mixture with our bloud..shall no way interrupt A generall peace.
1676 A. Sammes Britannia Antiqua Illustrata ii. 13 From their mixture with the Celtæ..they were called Celtæ.
1690 J. Locke Ess. Humane Understanding iii. vi. 216 We have Reason to think this not impossible, since Mules, and Gimars, the one from the mixture of an Horse, and an Ass, the other from the mixture of a Bull, and a Mare, are so frequent in the World.
1785 T. Jefferson Notes Virginia xi. 171 The Pamunkies are reduced to about 10 or 12 men, tolerably pure from mixture with other colours.
1842 J. C. Prichard Nat. Hist. Man 20 The tribe of people, termed..Cafusos..are known to have sprung originally from a mixture of native Americans with the Negroes imported from Africa.
1845 W. Youatt Dog (1858) iv. 155 The shock-dog is traced by Buffon..to a mixture of the small Danish dog and the pug.
1872 W. Bagehot Physics & Politics ii. 69 The continual mixtures by conquest were just so many experiments in mixing races as are going on in South America now.
1974 J. R. Baker Race iv. 57 He favoured the forcible sterilization of criminals..and the enactment of laws against race-mixture.
e. Association, social integration. Obsolete. rare.
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society > society and the community > social relations > association, fellowship, or companionship > [noun]
ymonec888
i-mennessec1050
meanc1175
ferredc1200
fellowshipa1225
fellowredc1230
sameningc1230
companyc1275
monec1300
conversationc1340
meanness1340
affinity?c1400
companyingc1443
compernagea1500
frequentation?1520
society1529
convoying1543
companionship1548
companyship1548
combining1552
haunt1552
community1570
unition1584
consociation1593
companionry1595
sodality1602
conversinga1610
converse1610
consorting1611
consociety1624
consociating1625
togetherness1656
association1659
consortiona1682
sociality1758
mixture1764
junction1783
consortation1796
conversancy1798
mingling1819
companionage1838
boon companionship1844
mateship1849
1764 J. Smith in F. Chase Hist. Dartmouth Coll. (1891) I. 26 He intended..to send his son to obtain his education in mixture with these Indians.
II. Specific concrete uses.
5. A preparation for medicinal or similar purposes, consisting of two or more ingredients mixed together; spec. a liquid medicine, as opposed to pills, powder, or other solid forms. the mixture as before: (as a set phrase often found on medicine bottles) medicine to be taken in a similar dose as on a previous occasion; (in extended use) something repeated or already encountered.Bordeaux, Burgundy, cough, freezing mixture, etc.: see the first element.
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the world > health and disease > healing > medicines or physic > [noun] > a medicine or medicament > medicine of mixed ingredients
confectiona1398
mixtiona1398
diatessaronc1400
ingredience1526
mixture1562
diapente1610
ingrediency1639
tetrapharmacon1728
polypharmaceutical1961
1562 W. Bullein Bulwarke of Defence sig. I.iiv By mixture understande, what sondrie Confections and Electuariis, bee mingled together..to purge choller, etc.
1599 W. Shakespeare Romeo & Juliet iv. iii. 20 What if this mixture do not worke at all? View more context for this quotation
a1616 W. Shakespeare Othello (1622) i. iii. 104 With some mixtures powerfull ore the blood,..He wrought vpon her. View more context for this quotation
1695 J. Woodward Ess. Nat. Hist. Earth 214 A strong freezing Mixture.
1706 Phillips's New World of Words (new ed.) Mixture, in a Physical Sense, several Ingredients or Drugs mixt in a Medicine.
1757 B. Franklin Let. 14 Apr. in Papers (1963) VII. 189 I have never seen the chymical Mixtures made, but Salt and Snow I have often mixed myself.
1786 J. Woodforde Diary 18 Aug. (1926) II. 264 She is to take a Wine Glass of the Mixture..every six Hours.
1806 Med. & Physical Jrnl. 15 513 A pint of this mixture was presented to him.
1829 J. Togno & E. Durand tr. H. Milne-Edwards & P. Vavasseur Man. Materia Medica vii. 316 A syrup, which is frequently added to antispasmodic mixtures.
1834 C. Dickens Let. 3 Sept. (1965) I. 40 I have taken a wine-glass full of ‘the mixture as before’ twice a day, varying the amusement with an occasional pill.
1869 A. J. Evans Vashti xxiv. 327 Be sure she takes that tonic mixture three times a day.
1875 H. C. Wood Treat. Therapeutics (1879) 18 Mixtures are preparations in which one or more medicinal substances are held in suspension in water. Of such nature are emulsions, in which some oily material is suspended by a gummy or an albuminous body.
1904 Longman's Mag. Feb. 304 I took a sip of the horrid mixture.
1920 P. G. Wodehouse Little Warrior viii. 148 There he sat, surrounded by happy, laughing young men, each grasping a glass of the good old mixture-as-before.
1959 Listener 26 Feb. 363/1 What special or new responsibilities do these developments place upon industry? Some will say that it is the mixture as before, but in larger and more frequent doses.
1994 Time 4 July 61/2 He handed Bosscher 20 sleeping pills and a toxic liquid mixture.
6. A variegated or mottled fabric, usually of subdued colouring.See also heather-mixture n. at heather n. Compounds 2, Oxford mixture n. at Oxford n. and adj. Compounds 2.
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the world > textiles and clothing > textiles > textile fabric or an article of textile fabric > textile fabric > textile fabric of specific colour > [noun] > multicoloured
mellay1341
motley1371
marvel1543
marble1555
verry1603
mixture1682
mixed cloth1696
1682 in W. R. Scott Rec. Sc. Cloth Manufactory New Mills (1905) 25 The coursest of these clothes either black or mixture.
1723 D. Defoe Hist. Col. Jack (ed. 2) 367 5 yds Crimson [cloth].., and the rest of fine Mixtures.
1728 E. Chambers Cycl. (at cited word) A mixture, or mix'd Stuff, is that whose Woof and Warp are of Wools of different Colours dy'd and mix'd before they were spun.
1799 Hull Advertiser 12 Jan. 2/3 Woollen drapery, jeans, quiltings,..plains, mixtures.
1882 S. F. A. Caulfeild & B. C. Saward Dict. Needlework 347/2 Mixtures. A term applied to any cloths of variegated colouring, such as Knickerbockers and Tweeds.
1910 Dry Goods Reporter 22 Oct. 21 (advt.) The polo coat, 55 inches long, made in a complete line of mixtures..as well as the regular polo cloth.
7. Music. More fully mixture stop. An organ stop with several ranks of pipes; a compound stop or furniture stop. Cf. compound adj. 2f, furniture n. 8.
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society > leisure > the arts > music > musical instrument > keyboard instrument > organ > [noun] > stop > mixture-stops
furniture1690
mixture stop1694
1694 B. Smith Specif. for Cathedral Organ in Documents illustr. Hist. St. Paul's Cathedral (1880) 162 Stops in the Great Organ... Cornet. Mixtures. Sesquialtera.
1776 J. Hawkins Gen. Hist. Music IV. i. x. 147 The compound stops are the..Mixture,..and sundry others.
1786 T. Busby Compl. Dict. Music at Stop Mixture, or Furniture Stop. The mixture is nearly the same as the sesquialtera, and greatly enriches the instrument.
1841 Penny Cycl. XXI. 293/2 Sometimes the Mixture stop is considered as part of the Sesquialter.
1876 J. Stainer & W. A. Barrett Dict. Musical Terms 192/1 Furniture, the name of one of the mixture stops in an organ.
1976 Gramophone Mar. 1488/1 Imagine a pedal department containing no fewer than 22 stops..with only a five-rank mixture to leaven the lump.
1995 Church Times 16 June 24/5 Ernest Bullock delivers an urgent and authoritative account of the double fugue in the opening movement of Mendelssohn's Third Sonata: here the mixtures are remarkably bright.
8. Chemistry. The product of the mechanical mixing of two or more substances without chemical change (as opposed to a compound). Also mechanical mixture, simple mixture (originally opposed to chemical mixture).In quot. 1766, applied to a suspension in a liquid as opposed to a solution, though the latter would now also be regarded as a type of mixture. Cf. quot. 1875 at sense A. 5.
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the world > matter > chemistry > chemical admixture or isolation > [noun] > mechanical mixing
mixture1766
the world > matter > chemistry > chemical admixture or isolation > [noun] > product of mechanical mixture
simple mixture1766
mechanical mixture1887
the world > matter > chemistry > physical chemistry > fluids > [noun] > containing some foreign substance in suspension
mixture1766
1766 W. Hamilton in Philos. Trans. 1765 (Royal Soc.) 55 150 I think..we may consider the transparency of a heterogeneous fluid..as the criterion of a true solution, and where that is wanting, it is only a mixture.
1797 Encycl. Brit. XII. 184/1 Chemical mixture is attended with many phenomena which are never observed in simple mixtures.
1812 H. Davy Elements Chem. Philos. 297 These mixtures are more fusible than either of their constituents.
1866 H. E. Roscoe Lessons Elem. Chem. v. 46 The air is a mixture, and not a chemical compound of constituent gases.
1887 I. Remsen Elem. Chem. (1897) i. 9 Mechanical Mixtures and Chemical Compounds.—In a mixture the substances are unchanged... In a chemical compound the substances which are in combination are completely changed.
1912 J. W. Mellor Mod. Inorg. Chem. xix. 359 Metallic rubidium is prepared by heating an intimate mixture of the carbonate with finely divided carbon.
1961 J. N. Anderson Appl. Dental Materials (ed. 2) vi. 56 One such reaction..involves the breakdown as a solid solution at a definite temperature to produce an intimate mechanical mixture of two solids.
1987 K. A. Robinson Chem. Anal. xvii. 654 If enough information is available, all of the components of spectrally unresolved mixtures can be quantified.
1994 W. R. Newman Gehennical Fire iv. 141 Van Helmont asserts that what we would today call a ‘mechanical mixture’, such as the juxtaposition of sand and grains of salt, is not a compound at all, but a ‘bare commingling.’
9. A product made up of a blend of ingredients of differing qualities, flavours, etc.; esp. of tea, tobacco, or snuff.Usually with modifying word indicating the variety.
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the world > food and drink > drink > tea manufacture > [noun] > types of dry tea > mixture of tea leaves
mixture1840
the world > physical sensation > use of drugs and poison > tobacco > snuff > [noun] > mixture of snuff
mixture1840
the world > physical sensation > use of drugs and poison > tobacco > [noun] > mixture of tobacco
mixture1872
1840 B. E. Hill Pinch—of Snuff 32 Prince's Mixture..is nothing more than plain brown Rappee scented with otto of roses.
1872 ‘M. Legrand’ Cambr. Freshman 286 I'm going in to get a canister of smoking mixture to take down with me.
1894 A. Conan Doyle Mem. Sherlock Holmes 34 ‘This is Grosvenor mixture at eightpence an ounce’, Holmes answered, knocking a little out on his palm.
1933 M. Lowry Ultramarine iii. 145 He..started filling it from a tin of Brinkmann's Standard Mixture.
1966 P. K. Dick in Mag. Fantasy & Sci. Fiction Apr. 4/2 He..brought out a yellow, small tin of fine Dean Swift snuff. He inhaled briskly, and the Beau Nash mixture stung his nose.
10. In an internal combustion engine: the vaporized or gaseous fuel mixed with air that enters the combustion chamber to form the explosive charge.
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society > occupation and work > materials > fuel > chemical fuel > [noun] > gaseous, vaporous, or vaporized
oxyhydrogen1823
acetylene1860
isobutane1876
albo-carbon1878
mixture1878
producer gas1883
astatki1885
hydrazine1887
oxy-gas1900
oxyacetylene1907
suction gas1907
propane gas1930
oxy-propane1963
oxy-fuel1967
syngas1975
autogas1982
1848 Chambers's Edinb. Jrnl. 6 May 303/1 What is the moving power? The answer will be heard with surprise: the successive explosions of a mixture of gas and air in the boxes at the root of the wings, by which means they will be made to flap about twelve times a minute!]
1878 Sci. Amer. Mar. 195/1 A flame brought in contact with this mixture produces its rapid combustion.
1894 B. Donkin Text-bk. Gas, Oil, & Air Engines i. 6 Sometimes an auxiliary pump is used for compressing the mixture.
1914 W. D. Newton War iii. 19 Brun shut off mixture, and, slowing down, he swung from the motor-cycle.
1943 A. P. Fraas Aircraft Power Plants vi. 107 The power loss resulting from mixtures 10 or 20 per cent leaner than that for best power is not large as compared with the reduction in fuel consumption.
1988 Prix Editions Internat. June 23/1 The McLaren team gave Prost instructions on what mixture settings to run.
11. Printing. A supplement charged by a printer for a piece of work requiring more than the usual range of typefaces (see quot. 1888). Obsolete. rare.
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1888 C. T. Jacobi Printers' Vocab. 83 Mixture, an extra charge involved on composition if three or more types are used in a work.
12. Petrol to which has been added a small proportion of oil, used as a combined fuel and lubricant in some two-stroke engines. Also called petroil.
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society > occupation and work > materials > fuel > chemical fuel > [noun] > liquid
naphthec1384
naphtha1543
paraffin1851
kerosene1854
octylene1857
shale-oil1857
coal oil1859
gasoline1863
octane1867
octene1868
octyne1877
gas1878
liquid fuel1889
petrol1895
mazut1897
white fuel1901
diesel oil1905
autogas1908
juice1909
sauce1918
power kerosene1919
petroil1921
ethyl1923
lox1923
kero1930
isooctane1932
high-octane1933
hi-octane1933
Calor1936
pool petrol1939
super1939
pool1940
derv1948
platformate1949
mixture1952
diesel1953
Mapp gas1962
gasohol1971
super unleaded1975
synoil1976
synjet1979
biodiesel1986
Orimulsion1987
1927 A. W. Judge Mod. Motor Engineer III. vi. 164 Two-stroke engines using the ‘petroil’ (i.e. petrol and oil mixture) system of lubrication.]
1952 Cyclemotor Man. (‘Motor Cycling’) iii. 20 Use of oil of too thick a grade may result in the mixture being too heavy to pass through the carburetter jet in sufficient quantity.
1960 J. Queenborough Garage & Service Station Handbk. xv. 263 Avery-Hardoll Ltd., market the Petroiler which can deliver a choice of two mixtures; there are tanks for petrol (133/ 4 gallons) and two grades of oil (13/ 4 gallons each).
1972 J. Stevens Scooter iv. 99 The first scooters had engines calling for a 6% oil content in the mixture.
B. adj. (attributive).
Of a fabric: having a mottled or variegated colouring. Of a garment, etc.: made of such material. Cf. sense A. 6.
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the world > textiles and clothing > textiles > textile fabric or an article of textile fabric > textile fabric > textile fabric of specific colour > [adjective]
motleyc1380
varianta1400
shadowed1639
mixture1784
corbeau1810
Lovat1895
tone-on-tone1939
1784 European Mag. & London Rev. Nov. 339/2 But amongst the other class of gentlemen are worn dark green, drab, or mixture cloths.
1836 C. Dickens Pickwick Papers (1837) xx. 201 An elderly..man, in a black coat, dark mixture trousers, and small black gaiters.
1897 Daily News 8 Apr. 8/5 The shot mixture canvases.
1930 Daily Tel. 7 Apr. 7/7 A brown mixture tweed suit..created by Schiaparelli.

Compounds

(In sense A. 10.)
mixture control n.
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1940 Chambers's Techn. Dict. 551/2 Mixture control, an auxiliary control fitted to a carburettor to allow of a variation of mixture strength with altitude of flight. May be manually operated or automatic.
1946 A. Phelps I couldn't care less 126 I was pushing the mixture controls. Another inch and they would have reached the ‘cut-off’ position, the motors would have cut.
1992 Pilot (BNC) June 49/3 Dave's improvements also extend to a vernier throttle and mixture control.
mixture screw n.
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1968 J. Passini Weber Carburettors: Pt. 1 (1973) ii. 17 Turning the mixture screw towards richer will effect a cure for this.
1972 Drive New Year 99/2 The mixture screw is at the base of the carburettor.
This entry has been updated (OED Third Edition, September 2002; most recently modified version published online March 2022).

mixturev.

Origin: Formed within English, by conversion. Etymon: mixture n.
Etymology: < mixture n.
Obsolete. rare.
transitive. To mix or mingle (with).
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society > society and the community > social relations > association, fellowship, or companionship > associate with [verb (reflexive)]
join13..
fellowshipa1382
adjoin1533
to put together1556
piece1579
sort1579
mixture1582
troopa1592
consort1597
identify1718
associate1881
1582 N. Lichefield tr. F. L. de Castanheda 1st Bk. Hist. Discouerie E. Indias i. xvi. 40 They will mixture themselues with you and yours [Port. estar coeles de mestura].
1604 S. Grahame Passionate Sparke sig. B2 The sharpest wit whose quicke deceiuing still Makes restlesse musing of their minde to try Vaine trifling snares, mixtur'd with Magicks skill.
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