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From WordNet (r) 3.0 (2006) [wn]:
mix
n
  1. a commercially prepared mixture of dry ingredients [syn: mix, premix]
  2. an event that combines things in a mixture; "a gradual mixture of cultures"
    Synonym(s): mix, mixture
  3. the act of mixing together; "paste made by a mix of flour and water"; "the mixing of sound channels in the recording studio"
    Synonym(s): mix, commixture, admixture, mixture, intermixture, mixing
v
  1. mix together different elements; "The colors blend well"
    Synonym(s): blend, flux, mix, conflate, commingle, immix, fuse, coalesce, meld, combine, merge
  2. open (a place) to members of all races and ethnic groups; "This school is completely desegregated"
    Synonym(s): desegregate, integrate, mix
    Antonym(s): segregate
  3. combine (electronic signals); "mixing sounds"
  4. add as an additional element or part; "mix water into the drink"
    Synonym(s): mix, mix in
  5. to bring or combine together or with something else; "resourcefully he mingled music and dance"
    Synonym(s): mix, mingle, commix, unify, amalgamate
  6. mix so as to make a random order or arrangement; "shuffle the cards"
    Synonym(s): shuffle, ruffle, mix
From Webster's Revised Unabridged Dictionary (1913) [web1913]:
   Mix \Mix\, v. t. [imp. & p. p. {Mixed}(less properly {Mixt}); p.
      pr. & vb. n. {Mixing}.] [AS. miscan; akin to OHG. misken, G.
      mischen, Russ. mieshate, W. mysgu, Gael. measg, L. miscere,
      mixtum, Gr. [?], [?], Skr. mi[87]ra mixed. The English word
      has been influenced by L. miscere, mixtum (cf. {Mixture}),
      and even the AS. miscan may have been borrowed fr. L.
      miscere. Cf. {Admix}, {Mash} to bruise, {Meddle}.]
      1. To cause a promiscuous interpenetration of the parts of,
            as of two or more substances with each other, or of one
            substance with others; to unite or blend into one mass or
            compound, as by stirring together; to mingle; to blend;
            as, to mix flour and salt; to mix wines.
  
                     Fair persuasions mixed with sugared words. --Shak.
  
      2. To unite with in company; to join; to associate.
  
                     Ephraim, he hath mixed himself among the people.
                                                                              --Hos. vii. 8.
  
      3. To form by mingling; to produce by the stirring together
            of ingredients; to compound of different parts.
  
                     Hast thou no poison mixed?                  --Shak.
  
                     I have chosen an argument mixed of religious and
                     civil considerations.                        --Bacon.

From Webster's Revised Unabridged Dictionary (1913) [web1913]:
   Mix \Mix\, v. i.
      1. To become united into a compound; to be blended
            promiscuously together.
  
      2. To associate; to mingle.
  
                     He had mixed Again in fancied safety with his kind.
                                                                              --Byron.

From The Free On-line Dictionary of Computing (15Feb98) [foldoc]:
   MIX
  
      Knuth's hypothetical machine, used in The Art of Computer
      Programming v.1, Donald Knuth, A-W 1969.
  
  
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