mixer

UK/ˈmɪksə(ɹ)/US/ˈmɪksə(ɹ)/

nounB1+Common in everyday speech and writing · #8,083 of 15,258neutral

Other forms: mixers

A mixer is a machine with spinning arms that beats batter for you. A stand mixer, a hand mixer, use the mixer.

The stand kind holds the bowl and leaves your hands free, which matters for anything that must be beaten for ten minutes. A mixer is also the soft drink added to a spirit, and in sound work it is the desk that balances the channels.

Definitions of mixer

1nounmixerA machine with spinning arms that beats batter.B1+
“Beat the butter and sugar in the mixer until pale and fluffy.”
- Said"Get the mixer out; I'm not beating that by hand."
- WrittenThe mixers had outlived two kitchens and still made the lights flicker.
- UsedRun the mixer on low first, or the flour ends up on the ceiling.
- ContrastA mixer, not a whisk. A whisk is your arm and a wire; a mixer plugs in and does the work. whisk →
- Not thisA blender is not a mixer. A blender makes liquid; a mixer beats batter and dough.
- SimplyThe mixer is loud. The cake comes next.
Patterna stand / hand / food mixer · put sth in the mixer · mixer attachment · mix

mixer is a machine.

Remember it

MIXer → it MIXes for you

It is mix + er: the machine whose spinning arms mix the cake for you.

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Where it comes from

Proto-Indo-European
*meyḱ-
Proto-West Germanic
*miskijan
Old English
*mixian
Middle English
mixen
English
mix
English, today
mixer

Built from

*meyḱ- · Proto-Indo-European — to mix

From mix + -er. mix comes from Middle English mixen (attested in past tense as mixed, myxyd), from Old English *mixian, miscian, from Proto-West Germanic miskijan, from Proto-West Germanic miskijan (“to mix”), from Proto-Indo-European miḱ-sḱé-ti, from meyǵ-, meyḱ- (“to mix”). Cognate with stq miskje (“to mix, blend”), Middle Dutch mischen (“to mix”), Low German misken, mischen (“to mix”), Old High German miskian, miskēn (“to mix”) (German mischen), Welsh mysgu (“to mix”), Latin misceō (“mix”), Ancient Greek μῑ́γνῡμῐ (“to mix”), cu мѣсити (“to mix”), Lithuanian mišti and maišyti (“to mix”), Sanskrit मिश्र (“mixed”), Persian آمیختن (“to mix”), Old English māsc (“mixture, mash”). More at mash.

Etymology from Wiktionary, CC BY-SA

Practised in In the Kitchen

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mixer in the wild

Production sound mixers are tasked with recording audio in many different types of environments.
Production sound mixer
A DJ mixer may have only two channels, for mixing two record players.
Mixing console
A nightclub stage's mixer for rock music shows may have 24 channels for mixing the signals from a rhythm section, lead guitar and several vocalists.
Mixing console
Brendan O'Brien is an American record producer, mixer, and engineer.
Brendan O'Brien (music producer)
In electronics, a mixer or frequency mixer is a circuit that outputs signals with new frequencies from two signals input to it.
Frequency mixer

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Definitions of mixer

1nounmixerA machine with spinning arms that beats batter.B1+

“Beat the butter and sugar in the mixer until pale and fluffy.”

Said"Get the mixer out; I'm not beating that by hand."
WrittenThe mixers had outlived two kitchens and still made the lights flicker.
UsedRun the mixer on low first, or the flour ends up on the ceiling.
ContrastA mixer, not a whisk. A whisk is your arm and a wire; a mixer plugs in and does the work. whisk →
Not thisA blender is not a mixer. A blender makes liquid; a mixer beats batter and dough.
SimplyThe mixer is loud. The cake comes next.

Patterna stand / hand / food mixer · put sth in the mixer · mixer attachment · mix

mixer is a machine.