Noun
The act of mixing, or the state of being mixed; as, made by a mixture of ingredients.
That which results from mixing different ingredients together; a compound; as, to drink a mixture of molasses and water; -- also, a medley.
An ingredient entering into a mixed mass; an additional ingredient.
A kind of liquid medicine made up of many ingredients; esp., as opposed to solution, a liquid preparation in which the solid ingredients are not completely dissolved.
A mass of two or more ingredients, the particles of which are separable, independent, and uncompounded with each other, no matter how thoroughly and finely commingled; -- contrasted with a compound; thus, gunpowder is a mechanical mixture of carbon, sulphur, and niter.
An organ stop, comprising from two to five ranges of pipes, used only in combination with the foundation and compound stops; -- called also furniture stop. It consists of high harmonics, or overtones, of the ground tone.
Source: Webster's dictionaryWhat most people in our culture mean by being lovable is essentially a mixture between being popular and having sex appeal. Erich Fromm
He who knows no hardships will know no hardihood. He who faces no calamity will need no courage. Mysterious though it is, the characteristics in human nature which we love best grow in a soil with a strong mixture of troubles. Harry Emerson Fosdick
The law is an adroit mixture of customs that are beneficial to society, and could be followed even if no law existed, and others that are of advantage to a ruling minority, but harmful to the masses of men, and can be enforced on them only by terror. Peter Kropotkin
Envy among other ingredients has a mixture of the love of justice in it. We are more angry at undeserved than at deserved good-fortune. William Hazlitt
Men get to be a mixture of the charming mannerisms of the women they have known. F. Scott Fitzgerald
Life has always been a mixture of joy and pain, wealth and poverty. Dominican Proverb