mixer
a person or thing that mixes.
a person, with reference to sociability: She's a good mixer to have at a large party.
a kitchen utensil or an electrical appliance having one or more beaters and used in mixing, beating, or blending foods.
Also mix. a beverage, as ginger ale, fruit juice, or soda water that can be combined with liquor to produce a mixed drink, especially a highball.
Audio. an electronic device for blending, fading, substitution, etc., of sounds from various sources, as from microphones or separately recorded soundtracks, for broadcast or recording.
Radio and Television, Recording. a technician who operates a mixer in a studio.
the person responsible for the original recording of a movie soundtrack.: Compare recordist.
a social event, as a party or dance, where people can meet informally.
Metallurgy. a container for blending and storing molten pig iron from several blast furnaces.
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How to use mixer in a sentence
It boosted its brand awareness by sponsoring the PBS show Home Cooking, and by putting its mixers into the hands of celebrity chefs like Julia Child and Martha Stewart.
Best toaster: Get perfectly golden slices every time | PopSci Commerce Team | February 10, 2021 | Popular-ScienceOur top 10 baking recipes of 2020 featured cake, pie and a whole bunch of breadIf you can melt chocolate and use a hand mixer, you can make this impressive but shockingly easy dessert.
If loving a piping hot chocolate lava cake is wrong, I don’t want to be right | Becky Krystal | February 4, 2021 | Washington PostAbout three-quarters say that volunteer opportunities boost morale more than company mixers, and nearly 80% say they believe that volunteerism is essential to employee well-being.
Volunteerism can help solve the employee morale crisis | Michael J. Carter | January 27, 2021 | QuartzTurn the mixer to medium-low speed and slowly pour the sugar syrup in a steady stream into the gelatin, avoiding the whisk, aiming for the space between the bowl and the whisk.
Squishy, sweet homemade marshmallows will elevate your s’mores and hot chocolate | Daniela Galarza | January 12, 2021 | Washington PostThey gained traction by producing microphones, transformers, headphones, mixers, and other audio-related electronic equipment, expanding into wireless microphone markets in the early 1980′s.
Best headphones: Get good-quality audio equipment at your budget | PopSci Commerce Team | December 17, 2020 | Popular-Science
They can be ingested sporadically or used as a mixer throughout the night (though a can of Sprite seems to be the latest trick).
Fold the parchment paper with the dry ingredients in half and pour into the stand mixer.
Make ‘The Chew’s’ Carla Hall’s Sticky Toffee Pudding | Carla Hall | December 28, 2014 | THE DAILY BEASTThis will make it easy to pour the flour mixture into the stand mixer.
Make ‘The Chew’s’ Carla Hall’s Sticky Toffee Pudding | Carla Hall | December 28, 2014 | THE DAILY BEASTIn the bowl of an electric mixer, cream the butter and brown sugar until light and fluffy.
Make ‘The Chew’s’ Carla Hall’s Sticky Toffee Pudding | Carla Hall | December 28, 2014 | THE DAILY BEASTWith the mixer on low, slowly add the flour mixture to the butter-sugar mixture.
Make These Barefoot Contessa Salty Oatmeal Chocolate Chunk Cookies | Ina Garten | November 28, 2014 | THE DAILY BEASTThe Celt was, if anything, a better “mixer” and more adaptable than even the Achæan.
The New Stone Age in Northern Europe | John M. TylerThey have many household conveniences: running water in a barrel, a blue flame oil stove, a bread-mixer, and a carpet-sweeper.
The American Country Girl | Martha Foote CrowThere must have been ten thousand people in the street and not a soul but Hank and his wife and the mixer in the house.
Letters from a Self-Made Merchant to His Son | George Horace LorimerOrdered forty kegs from the brewery and hired a fancy mixer to sling together mild snorts, as he called them, for the ladies.
Letters from a Self-Made Merchant to His Son | George Horace LorimerWhy, that young father of ours is such a mixer he could even make ice cream and crabs agree.
Vacation with the Tucker Twins | Nell Speed
British Dictionary definitions for mixer
/ (ˈmɪksə) /
a person or thing that mixes
informal
a person considered in relation to his ability to mix socially
a person who creates trouble for others
a kitchen appliance, usually electrical, used for mixing foods, etc
a drink such as ginger ale, fruit juice, etc, used in preparing cocktails
electronics a device in which two or more input signals are combined to give a single output signal
short for sound mixer, vision mixer
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