Meaning

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

Definitions by Sense

1. One who, or a device that, mixes or merges things together.
2. One who mixes or socializes.
3. A machine outfitted with (typically blunt) blades with which it mixes or beats ingredients in a bowl below.
4. A nonalcoholic drink (such as lemonade, Coca-Cola or fruit juice) that is added to spirits to make cocktails.
5. (sound engineering) A mixing console.
6. (US) A dance or other social event meant to foster new acquaintances, as at the beginning of a school year.
7. Any of various social dances involving frequent changes of partners.
8. A device for combining hot and cold water before it emerges from a single spout or shower head.

Example Sentences

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.

Bad mixer as he was, he preferred to be "out of it" in a crowd than out of it altogether.

Do we have any mixers? I don't want to drink this vodka neat.

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.

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Use mixer when its meaning, tone and grammar fit the full sentence. A synonym is not always a direct replacement.

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