MIXED

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 Dictionary entry overview: What does mixed mean? 

• MIXED (adjective)
  The adjective MIXED has 2 senses:

1. consisting of a haphazard assortment of different kinds

2. involving or composed of different races

  Familiarity information: MIXED used as an adjective is rare.

 Dictionary entry details 

• MIXED (adjective)

Sense 1

Meaning:

Consisting of a haphazard assortment of different kinds

Synonyms:

assorted; miscellaneous; mixed; motley; sundry

Context example:

sundry sciences commonly known as social

Similar:

heterogeneous; heterogenous (consisting of elements that are not of the same kind or nature)

Sense 2

Meaning:

Involving or composed of different races

Synonyms:

interracial; mixed

Context example:

a mixed neighborhood

Similar:

integrated (not segregated; designated as available to all races or groups)

 Context examples 

An aggressive malignant mixed epithelial and mesenchymal neoplasm that arises from the cervix and is characterized by the presence of malignant epithelial elements and malignant mesenchymal elements.

(Cervical Carcinosarcoma, NCI Thesaurus)

That new moon was mixed in its outlook because Uranus, the planet of sudden news, was in severe square (90-degree) angle to the Sun.

(AstrologyZone.com, by Susan Miller)

Mixed cellularity Hodgkin lymphoma occurring in childhood.

(Childhood Mixed Cellularity Classical Hodgkin Lymphoma, NCI Thesaurus)

A malignant mixed germ cell neoplasm that arises from the testis during childhood.

(Childhood Testicular Mixed Germ Cell Neoplasm, NCI Thesaurus)

Who ever heard of such a mixed affair?

(The Adventures of Sherlock Holmes, by Sir Arthur Conan Doyle)

GM-CSF is able to stimulate the production of neutrophilic granulocytes, macrophages, and mixed granulocyte-macrophage colonies from bone marrow cells and can stimulate the formation of eosinophil colonies from fetal liver progenitor cells.

(Colony Stimulating Factor 2, NCI Thesaurus)

A zeolite from Brazil, found in the state of Maranhão, was used in the process, mixed with other clays.

(New Brazilian fertilizer can boost productivity, Agência BRASIL)

Both come in numerous colors; solid, mixed or spotted all over.

(Chinese Crested, NCI Thesaurus)

A rare malignant mixed epithelial and mesenchymal neoplasm that arises from the cervix and is characterized by the presence of malignant mesenchymal elements and benign epithelial elements.

(Cervical Adenosarcoma, NCI Thesaurus)

The R-groups (side chains) of neighbouring residues in a b-strand point in opposite directions; beta sheets can be parallel, anti-parallel or mixed.

(Beta Sheet, NCI Thesaurus)