mixer

See also: Mixer and mixér

English

mixer (3)

Etymology

mix +‎ -er

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): /ˈmɪksə(ɹ)/

• Audio (Southern England)

  (file)

• Rhymes: -ɪksə(ɹ)

Noun

mixer (plural mixers)

1. One who, or a device that, mixes or merges things together.

   Hyponyms: cement mixer, concrete mixer

2. One who mixes or socializes.
   • 1936 February, F. Scott Fitzgerald, “The Crack-Up”, in Esquire‎^[1], retrieved 2020-11-30:

     I had seen so many people all my life—I was an average mixer, but more than average in a tendency to identify myself, my ideas, my destiny with those of all classes that I came in contact with.

   • 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.

   Hyponyms: hand mixer, stand mixer, electric whisk

   Coordinate terms: blender, food processor

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. (sound engineering) A mixing console.
7. (US) A dance or other social event meant to foster new acquaintances, as at the beginning of a school year.
   • 2022 January 27, Becky Hughes, “The Hot New Thing in Dating? Actually Going on Dates.”, in The New York Times‎^[2], →ISSN:

     To encourage those IRL meetings, Thursday hosts events in London and New York, the two cities where it is up and running; the mixer at Hair of the Dog was its eighth in this city and drew a crowd of about 450.

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.
10. (electronics) A nonlinear electrical circuit that creates new frequencies from two signals applied to it.
11. A chiropractor who uses other treatments in addition to spinal adjustment.

    Antonym: straight

12. (cryptocurrencies) Synonym of tumbler

Derived terms

• Banbury mixer
• cement mixer
• concrete mixer
• food mixer
• matrix mixer
• mixer-settler
• mixer tap
• race-mixer
• race mixer
• vision mixer
• vortex mixer

 

Related terms

• mix
• mixture

Descendants

• → Dutch: mixer
• → French: mixer
• → Polish: mikser
• → Romanian: mixer
• → Turkish: mikser, mixer

Translations

a device that blends

• Bulgarian: смеси́тел m (smesítel), бърка́лка f (bǎrkálka)
• Finnish: sekoitin
• Maori: pūwhakaranu
• Russian: смеси́тель (ru) m (smesítelʹ)

machine that mixes or beats ingredients

• Albanian: mikser m
• Arabic: خَلَّاط m (ḵallāṭ), خَفَّاقَة f (ḵaffāqa), مِخْفَقَة f (miḵfaqa)

  Hijazi Arabic: خَلَّاط (ḵallāṭ)

• Armenian: հարիչ (hy) (haričʿ)
• Azerbaijani: qarışdırıcı
• Belarusian: мі́ксер m (míksjer), мі́ксэр m (míkser), зме́швальнік m (zmjéšvalʹnik), змяша́льнік m (zmjašálʹnik), мяша́лка f (mjašálka), ме́шалка (be) f (mjéšalka), блэ́ндар m (bléndar)
• Bulgarian: ми́ксер m (míkser)
• Catalan: batedora (ca) f
• Chinese:

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

• Czech: mixér (cs) m
• Danish: mikser, håndmikser, blender (da)
• Dutch: mengar n
• Estonian: mikser
• Finnish: vatkain (fi), sekoitin
• French: batte-beurre f, mixeur (fr) m
• German: Mixer (de) m
• Hindi: मथानी (hi) f (mathānī)
• Hungarian: turmixgép (hu)
• Italian: sbattitore m
• Japanese: ミキサー (mikisā)
• Kazakh: миксер (mikser)
• Korean: 믹서 (ko) (mikseo)
• Kyrgyz: миксер (ky) (mikser)
• Latin: promiscuus n
• Macedonian: миксер m (mikser), блендер m (blender)
• 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 (pl) m
• Portuguese: batedeira f, varinha mágica (pt) f
• Romanian: mixer (ro) n
• Russian: ми́ксер (ru) m (míkser), смеси́тель (ru) m (smesítelʹ), меша́лка (ru) m (mešálka), бле́ндер (ru) m (blɛ́ndɛr)
• Serbo-Croatian:

  Cyrillic: мешалица f, мешало n

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

• Slovak: mixér m
• Slovene: mešalec m, mešalnik m
• Spanish: batidora (es) f (amasadora)
• Swedish: mixer (sv), matberednings n
• Turkish: mikser (tr)
• Ukrainian: мі́ксер m (míkser), змі́шувач m (zmíšuvač), міша́лка f (mišálka), бле́ндер m (blénder)
• Uzbek: mikser (uz)

non-alcoholic drink

• Finnish: mikseri (fi), blandis (fi), lantrinki (fi)
• German: Mischgetränk (de) n
• Swedish: groggvirke (sv) n

Further reading

• drink mixer on Wikipedia.Wikipedia

Anagrams

• mirex, remix

Dutch

Etymology

Borrowed from English mixer.

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): /ˈmɪk.sər/

• Audio

  (file)

• Hyphenation: mi‧xer
• Rhymes: -ɪksər

Noun

mixer m (plural mixers, diminutive mixertje n)

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

Derived terms

• staafmixer

Related terms

• mixen

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.

Alternative forms

• mixeur

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): /mik.sœʁ/

Noun

mixer m (plural mixers)

1. mixer (machine for mixing)

Further reading

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

Anagrams

• remix

Romanian

Etymology

Borrowed from French mixer.

Noun

mixer n (plural mixere)

1. blender

Declension

Declension of mixer

	singular		plural
	indefinite articulation	definite articulation	indefinite articulation	definite articulation
nominative/accusative	(un) mixer	mixerul	(niște) mixere	mixerele
genitive/dative	(unui) mixer	mixerului	(unor) mixere	mixerelor
vocative	mixerule		mixerelor

Spanish

Noun

mixer m (plural mixeres)

1. mixer (drink)

Swedish

en mixer

Etymology

Borrowed from English mixer.

Noun

mixer c

1. (cooking) a blender
2. a mixer (device or person that mixes or merges things, especially for TV or radio)
   1. a vision mixer, (US) a video switcher
   2. a technical director
   3. a mixing console

      Synonym: mixerbord

Declension

Declension of mixer
	Singular		Plural
	Indefinite	Definite	Indefinite	Definite
Nominative	mixer	mixern	mixrar	mixrarna
Genitive	mixers	mixerns	mixrars	mixrarnas

Derived terms

• stavmixer (“immersion blender”)

Related terms

• mixa

See also

• elvisp (“hand mixer”)
• hushållsapparat
• hushållsassistent (“stand mixer”)
• ljudtekniker (“sound engineer”)
• matberedare (“food processor”)

References

• mixer in Svensk ordbok (SO)
• mixer in Svenska Akademiens ordlista (SAOL)