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Longman Dictionary of Contemporary English
mixer
noun
COLLOCATIONS FROM OTHER ENTRIES
a mixer tapBritish English (= one through which cold and hot water can run together)
▪ He fitted a mixer tap to the bath.
cement mixer
concrete mixer
mixer tap
COLLOCATIONS FROM CORPUS
■ ADJECTIVE
concrete
▪ The concrete mixers with lethal faults.
▪ He was working on a building site at Middle Barton in North Oxfordshire when a concrete mixer rolled back toward a workman.
electric
▪ The effect was very much like putting an egg in an open electric food mixer.
▪ With an electric mixer, gradually increase to high speed to beat butter until creamy.
▪ Place all the ingredients in the large bowl of an electric mixer and mix on low speed until combined.
▪ In another large bowl, beat butter and sugar with an electric mixer until fluffy.
▪ Unless dealing with a large quantity of cream, an electric mixer can be perilous.
▪ With an electric mixer, beat at low speed until moistened and then at medium speed for 3 minutes.
▪ Fill bowl of electric mixer with warm water and let stand 2 to 3 minutes.
▪ Mix together with fingers, a large spoon, or with an electric mixer.
good
▪ Moore Councill says each piece is designed to be a stand-alone winner, as well as a good mixer.
■ NOUN
cement
▪ This has an effect rather like that of a cement mixer.
▪ Tests carried out on the Baromix Minor Electric Cement mixers found serious faults, with loose and unsafe wiring.
▪ Mr Blackhurst is the retired chairman of Belle Engineering of Sheen, cement mixer and earth mover manufacturers.
▪ A confusion of lorries and cement mixers defaced the area just past the green.
food
▪ Mixing was done in open vats like large domestic food mixers.
▪ The effect was very much like putting an egg in an open electric food mixer.
tap
▪ Single drainer stainless steel sink unit with mixer taps and window to side aspect.
▪ Replace the taps To fit the new mixer tap follow step 2 in reverse.
■ VERB
use
▪ Add whipped cream; using mixer, beat well.
EXAMPLES FROM OTHER ENTRIES
▪ Beat eggs and sugar with an electric mixer.
EXAMPLES FROM CORPUS
▪ Sink mixers have divided flow so that the hot and cold water do not mix until they have left the tap.
▪ The bar sells ¼ gill with mixer for £1 and a half pint soft drink will remain at 50p.
▪ The output mixer is based on IC5, which is another summing mode circuit.
▪ Using an electric mixer or potato masher, mash potatoes until almost smooth.
▪ With a mixer, beat the egg yolks with the bread mixture and garlic.
▪ With an electric mixer, beat at low speed until moistened and then at medium speed for 3 minutes.
The Collaborative International Dictionary
Mixer

Mixer \Mix"er\, n.

  1. One who, or that which, mixes.

  2. A person who has social intercourse with others of many sorts; a person viewed as to his casual sociability; -- commonly used with some characterizing adjective; as, a good mixer; a bad mixer. [Colloq. or Slang, U. S.]

  3. a social gathering, game, or dance organized to provide an opportunity for people to meet each other; as, on the first night of the conference they had a wine-and-cheese mixer.

  4. a nonalcoholic beverage (such as fruit juice, club soda or ginger ale) added to an alcoholic beverage to produce a mixed drink.

  5. any device used for mixing.

  6. an electronic device for blending or manipulating sounds from different sources to produce a composite soundtrack, for an audio recording, video recording, or a movie.

  7. The technician who operates a mixer[6].

Douglas Harper's Etymology Dictionary
mixer

1610s, "worker who mixes," agent noun from mix (v.). As a type of machine, from 1876. Meaning "troublemaker" attested by 1938; sense of "social gathering to mingle and get acquainted" dates from 1916.

Wiktionary
mixer

n. 1 One who, or that which, 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 non-alcoholic drink (such as lemonade, Coca-Cola or fruit juice) that is added to spirits to make cocktails. 5 mixing console 6 (senseid en socialevent)(context US English) A dance or other social event meant to foster new acquaintances, as at the beginning of a school year. 7 A device for combining hot and cold water before it emerges from a single spout or shower head.

WordNet
mixer
  1. n. a party of people assembled to promote sociability and communal activity [syn: sociable, social]

  2. club soda or fruit juice used to mix with alcohol

  3. electronic equipment that mixes two or more input signals to give a single output signal

  4. a kitchen utensil that is used for mixing foods

Wikipedia
Mixer

Mixer may refer to:

Mixer (album)

Mixer is the second album by the indie rock band Desario. Released in February 2012 on Test Pattern Records.

Mixer (cooking)

A mixer is a kitchen utensil which uses a gear-driven mechanism to rotate a set of beaters in a bowl containing the food to be prepared. It automates the repetitive tasks of stirring, whisking or beating. When the beaters are replaced by a dough hook, a mixer may also be used to knead.

A mixer may be a handheld mechanism known as an eggbeater, a handheld motorized beater, or a stand mixer. Stand mixers vary in size from small countertop models for home use to large capacity commercial machines. Stand mixers create the mixing action by rotating the mixing device vertically: planetary mixers, or by rotating the mixing container: spiral mixers.

Mixers for the kitchen first came into use midway through the nineteenth century; the earliest were mechanical devices. The demand from commercial bakers for large-scale uniform mixing resulted in the development of the electric stand mixer. Smaller counter-top stand mixers for home kitchen use soon followed.

When selecting a mixer, the purchaser should consider how the mixer will be used. Electric mixers with more speed options give the user more control over the development of the mixture.

Usage examples of "mixer".

Channa, the ablutions system was not completely set up and the perfume mixer not installed.

The mixers and movers in the miniature factories used a phenomenon called dielectrophoresis to harness the small electrical charges generated by every living thing.

Behind the offices, a vast asphalt yard was filled with red trucks: pickups, concrete mixers, skip loaders, and pavers, all bearing the white-and-red company logo.

He held an end of the steel tape for his father for a while, was sternly forbidden to carry hundred-pound bags of cement to the stock pile near the mixers, and finally settled down at the top of a light ladder checking with a spirit level the trueness of each section of form before its braces were finally set.

And so I turned and I moved into this space of unlaid stone and churning cement mixers and he was sitting beneath a web of steel beams and a half-risen wall and I went to him and his eyes widened and he flinched, expecting a blow, but I took his face in my hands and kissed him on the mouth, a kiss full of wrath.

An electric mixer, be god You remember the schemozzle about the electric mixer?

Happy or Syd or Carlos, one or all of them might get hostile or fed up or something, and leave him for the Royal Flush Swingsters or Bones Flannagan and His Merry Mixers or the Percy Personalities.

I think on the idea that Charles Melville is sending Varmin Way to come for me, and that it will creep up on me with a growl of mixers and drills.

So far the draglines had found a battered trunk, several trees, fishing nets, a sack of garbage weighted with bricks, part of an old cement mixer, three tires, and a sunken boat that was on the verge of complete disintegration.

Not as the Hindus and Muslims and Buddhists and all the mixers and appeasers and ecumenicists conceive it.

She was exhausted, but if she had to crawl to the mixers, then the cold stores, to get the homa made and put way, then by the Spirit, she would.

Round the posters mill the conferees, sometimes reading them with interest, more frequently being volubly harangued by the poster-givers who stand like stall-keepers by their boards, and most often using the session as an extension of the conference mixer - a giant cocktail party at which to catch up with old acquaintances.

Giant cement mixers were rattling away and loads of rock were being slung across by cable to the centre of the dam.

The hoist moved regularly in and out of the housing, the loads of cement were stacked under their tarpaulins, the mixers chattered noisily and every now and then there was the heavy roar of blasting and more stone was run down in the tip wagons or slung on the cable across to the centre of the dam.

I walked slowly back to the ranch-house to the music of the drill, the noise of it drowning the irritating chatter of the mixers at the dam.