mix
part of speech
verb (mix, mixes, mixed, mixing); noun (a mix, mixes)
meaning for a pupil
1) To mix is to put different things together so they become one. tree →
2) A mix is what you get when you do it, or a bought packet ready to use: cake mix. tree →
3) To mix with people is to meet and talk with them. tree →
4) «Mix up» means to confuse two things. tree →
sense in the lessons
combining amounts into one group or one liquid: mixing paints, flour, juices or nuts; also a mix as a set of things; in science a mixture can often be separated again (sand and salt); in art mixing colours makes new ones; phrases «mix up», «mixed up», «trail mix», «mix and match»
examples
- She mixes 2 cups of flour with 1 cup of sugar. tree →
- He mixed red paint and blue paint and got purple. tree →
- The trail mix has 50 grams of nuts. tree →
- Mix 3 liters of juice with 2 liters of water. tree →
- Oil and water do not mix. tree →
- Stir the cake mix with two eggs. tree →
- I always mix up the twins' names. tree →
- The class is a mix of boys and girls. tree →
- He went home and made an ointment by mixing some sauce and red pepper together. tree →
note
Usually means put together, so add the parts for the total amount. Sometimes a ratio (2 cups of flour for every 1 of sugar). Trap: adding only works when the units are the same. «Mixes» is the plural noun and the he/she verb form.
In the corpora
- Mixing two families takes time, and it is normal to find it hard at first.
- A person with dementia may mix up names or think it is years ago; correcting them sharply can upset them.
- Bots learned from British and American English and may mix spellings like "colour" and "color".
- Bots can mix up two people with similar names.
- Feelings after a performance can be big and mixed, and feeling bad does not prove you sang badly.
Trees and pragmatics
Every meaning and example of «mix» parsed by Mova, each sentence with its dependency tree and frames.