# mixer
## English
### Etymology

From mix +‎ -er.

### Pronunciation

* IPA: /ˈmɪksə(ɹ)/
* Audio (Southern England):(file)
* Rhymes: -ɪksə(ɹ)

### Noun

mixer (plural mixers)
* One who, or a device that, mixes or merges things together.
    Hyponyms: cement mixer, concrete mixer
* One who mixes or socializes.
** 1936 February, F. Scott Fitzgerald, “The Crack-Up”, in Esquire‎, 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.
* 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
* A nonalcoholic 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.
* (sound engineering) A mixing console.
* (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, →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.
* Any of various social dances involving frequent changes of partners.
* A device for combining hot and cold water before it emerges from a single spout or shower head.
* (electronics) A nonlinear electrical circuit that creates new frequencies from two signals applied to it.
* A chiropractor who uses other treatments in addition to spinal adjustment.
    Antonym: straight
* (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
* → Russian: ми́ксер (míkser), ми́кшер (míkšer)
* → Turkish: mikser, mixer

#### Translations
### Further reading

* drink mixer on Wikipedia.Wikipedia

### Anagrams

* mirex, remix

## Dutch
### Etymology

Borrowed from English mixer.

### Pronunciation

* IPA: /ˈmɪk.sər/
* Audio:(file)
* Hyphenation: mi‧xer
* Rhymes: -ɪksər

### Noun

mixer m (plural mixers, diminutive mixertje n)
* a mixer (device, esp. kitchen appliance, for mixing)
* a music mixer

#### Derived terms

* staafmixer

#### Related terms

* mixen

## French
### Etymology 1

Borrowed from English mix.

#### Pronunciation

* IPA: /mik.se/

#### Verb

mixer
* to mix

##### Conjugation
### Etymology 2

Borrowed from English mixer.

#### Alternative forms

* mixeur

#### Pronunciation

* IPA: /mik.sœʁ/

#### Noun

mixer m (plural mixers)
* 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)
* blender

#### Declension
## Spanish
### Noun

mixer m (plural mixeres)
* mixer (drink)

## Swedish
### Etymology

Borrowed from English mixer.

### Noun

mixer c
* (cooking) a blender
* a mixer (device or person that mixes or merges things, especially for TV or radio)
** a vision mixer, (US) a video switcher
** a technical director
** a mixing console
    Synonym: mixerbord

#### 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)