MIX IN

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 Dictionary entry overview: What does mix in mean? 

• MIX IN (verb)
  The verb MIX IN has 2 senses:

1. cause (something) to be mixed with (something else)

2. add as an additional element or part

  Familiarity information: MIX IN used as a verb is rare.

 Dictionary entry details 

• MIX IN (verb)

Sense 1

Meaning:

Cause (something) to be mixed with (something else)

Classified under:

Verbs of size, temperature change, intensifying, etc.

Synonyms:

blend in; mix in

Context example:

At this stage of making the cake, blend in the nuts

Hypernyms (to "mix in" is one way to...):

blend; coalesce; combine; commingle; conflate; flux; fuse; immix; meld; merge; mix (mix together different elements)

Troponyms (each of the following is one way to "mix in"):

cut in (mix in with cutting motions)

Sentence frame:

Somebody ----s something

Sense 2

Meaning:

Add as an additional element or part

Classified under:

Verbs of size, temperature change, intensifying, etc.

Synonyms:

mix; mix in

Context example:

mix water into the drink

Hypernyms (to "mix in" is one way to...):

add (make an addition (to); join or combine or unite with others; increase the quality, quantity, size or scope of)

Troponyms (each of the following is one way to "mix in"):

dash (add an enlivening or altering element to)

Sentence frame:

Somebody ----s something

 Context examples 

This time the Sun will be in Pisces, conjunct Neptune, covering the world in a soft poetic mist. If you have to travel for business, see if you can mix in pleasure by bringing your partner along.

(AstrologyZone.com, by Susan Miller)

By St. Paul! said he, I know not why I should mix in the matter; for I have ever found that the Lady Maud was very well able to look to her own affairs.

(The White Company, by Sir Arthur Conan Doyle)

Your musical knowledge alone would entitle you to name your own terms, have as many rooms as you like, and mix in the family as much as you chose;—that is—I do not know—if you knew the harp, you might do all that, I am very sure; but you sing as well as play;—yes, I really believe you might, even without the harp, stipulate for what you chose;—and you must and shall be delightfully, honourably and comfortably settled before the Campbells or I have any rest.

(Emma, by Jane Austen)

Why they WERE different, Robert exclaimed to her himself in the course of a quarter of an hour's conversation; for, talking of his brother, and lamenting the extreme GAUCHERIE which he really believed kept him from mixing in proper society, he candidly and generously attributed it much less to any natural deficiency, than to the misfortune of a private education; while he himself, though probably without any particular, any material superiority by nature, merely from the advantage of a public school, was as well fitted to mix in the world as any other man.

(Sense and Sensibility, by Jane Austen)

I think, on the contrary, when people shut themselves up entirely from society, it is a very bad thing; and that it is much more advisable to mix in the world in a proper degree, without living in it either too much or too little.

(Emma, by Jane Austen)

From you, from my home, I shall never again have the smallest incitement to move; and if I do mix in other society, it will be only to shew that my spirit is humbled, my heart amended, and that I can practise the civilities, the lesser duties of life, with gentleness and forbearance.

(Sense and Sensibility, by Jane Austen)