different between gather vs mix

English

Alternative forms

• gether (obsolete or regional)

Etymology

From Middle English gaderen, from Old English gaderian (“to gather, assemble”), from Proto-West Germanic *gadur?n (“to bring together, unite, gather”), from Proto-Indo-European *g?ed?- (“to unite, assemble, keep”).

Pronunciation

• (Received Pronunciation) IPA^(key): /??æð?/
• (General American) IPA^(key): /??æð?/
• Rhymes: -æð?(?)

Verb

gather (third-person singular simple present gathers, present participle gathering, simple past and past participle gathered)

1. To collect; normally separate things.
   1. Especially, to harvest food.

   2. To accumulate over time, to amass little by little.

   3. (intransitive) To congregate, or assemble.
      • ?, Alfred Tennyson, Tears

        Tears from the depth of some divine despair / Rise in the heart, and gather to the eyes.

   4. (intransitive) To grow gradually larger by accretion.

      • Their snow-ball did not gather as it went.

2. To bring parts of a whole closer.
   1. (sewing) To add pleats or folds to a piece of cloth, normally to reduce its width.

   2. (knitting) To bring stitches closer together.

   3. (architecture) To bring together, or nearer together, in masonry, as for example where the width of a fireplace is rapidly diminished to the width of the flue.
   4. (nautical) To haul in; to take up.

3. To infer or conclude; to know from a different source.

4. (intransitive, medicine, of a boil or sore) To be filled with pus

5. (glassblowing) To collect molten glass on the end of a tool.
6. To gain; to win.

Synonyms

• (to bring together): aggroup, togetherize; see also Thesaurus:round up

  (—to accumulate over time): accrue, add up; see also Thesaurus:accumulate

  (—to congregate): assemble, begather; see also Thesaurus:assemble

Derived terms

Translations

Noun

gather (plural gathers)

1. A plait or fold in cloth, made by drawing a thread through it; a pucker.
2. The inclination forward of the axle journals to keep the wheels from working outward.
3. The soffit or under surface of the masonry required in gathering. See gather (transitive verb).
4. (glassblowing) A blob of molten glass collected on the end of a blowpipe.
5. A gathering.
   • 2007, John Barnes, The Sky So Big and Black (Tor Books, ?ISBN):

     "I'll tell you all about it at the Gather, win or lose."

   • 2014, Paul Lederer, Dark Angel Riding (Open Road Media, ?ISBN):

     What bothered him more, he thought as he started Washoe southward, was Spikes's animosity, the bearded man's sudden violent reaction to his arrival at the gather.

Derived terms

• gathering iron

Translations

Anagrams

• Gareth, rageth

English

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): /?m?ks/
• Rhymes: -?ks
• Homophones: micks, Micks

Alternative forms

• mixe (archaic)

Etymology 1

From Middle English mixen, from Old English *mixian, miscian, from Proto-Germanic *miskijan?, from Proto-Indo-European *mey?-, *mey?- (“to mix”). Cognate with Saterland Frisian miskje (“to mix, blend”), Middle Dutch mischen (“to mix”), Low German misken, mischen (“to mix”), Old High German miskian, misk?n (“to mix”) (German mischen), Welsh mysgu (“to mix”), Latin misce? (“mix”), Ancient Greek ??????? (mígnumi, “to mix”), Old Church Slavonic ?????? (m?siti, “to mix”), Lithuanian mišti and maišyti (“to mix”), Sanskrit ????? (mi?ra, “mixed”), Persian ??????? (âmixtan, “to mix”), Old English m?sc (“mixture, mash”). More at mash.

Verb

mix (third-person singular simple present mixes, present participle mixing, simple past and past participle mixed)

1. (transitive) To stir together.

2. (transitive) To combine (items from two or more sources normally kept separate).
3. (transitive, intransitive) To form by mingling; to produce by the stirring together of ingredients; to concoct from different parts.
   • 1623, Francis Bacon, An Advertisement touching an Holy War

     I have chosen an argument mixed of religious and civil considerations.
4. (transitive) To blend by the use of a mixer (machine).

5. (transitive, music) To combine (several tracks).

6. (transitive, music) To produce a finished version of (a recording).

7. (transitive, intransitive) To unite with in company; to join; to associate.

Synonyms

• (stir two or more substances together): blend, combine, mingle, intermix, mix together, mix up; See also Thesaurus:mix
• (combine items from two or more sources normally kept separate): mix together, mix up, muddle, muddle up

Derived terms

• bemix
• downmix
• inmix
• mixed
• mixing
• overmix
• undermix

Related terms

Translations

Etymology 2

A merger of a nominal use of the verb and a borrowing from Anglo-Norman mixte, from Latin mixtus, past participle of misce? (“mix”). Nowadays regarded automatically as the nominal form of the verb.

Noun

mix (plural mixes)

1. The result of mixing two or more substances; a mixture.

2. The result of combining items normally kept separate.
3. (music) The result of mixing several tracks.

4. (music) The finished version of a recording.

Derived terms

Translations

References

Further reading

• mix in Webster’s Revised Unabridged Dictionary, G. & C. Merriam, 1913.
• mix in The Century Dictionary, New York, N.Y.: The Century Co., 1911.

Anagrams

• IMX, XMI

Catalan

Etymology

Probably from Andalusian Arabic ??? (mašš).

Pronunciation

• (Balearic, Central, Valencian) IPA^(key): /?mi?/

Noun

mix m (plural mixos, feminine mixa)

1. (usually repeated) A sound used to call a domestic cat.
2. (colloquial) The domestic cat.

Synonyms

• (domestic cat): gat, moix

Further reading

• “mix” in Diccionari de la llengua catalana, segona edició, Institut d’Estudis Catalans.
• “mix” in Gran Diccionari de la Llengua Catalana, Grup Enciclopèdia Catalana.
• “mix” in Diccionari normatiu valencià, Acadèmia Valenciana de la Llengua.
• “mix” in Diccionari català-valencià-balear, Antoni Maria Alcover and Francesc de Borja Moll, 1962.

Classical Nahuatl

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): [?mí??]

Noun

m?x (inanimate)

1. second-person singular possessive singular of ?xtli; (it is) your eye.
2. second-person singular possessive plural of ?xtli; (they are) your eyes.

Dutch

Etymology

Borrowed from English mix.

Pronunciation

Noun

mix m (plural mixen, diminutive mixje n)

1. mix, mixture
2. hybrid

Synonyms

• mengeling (1)
• kruising (2)

French

Etymology

Borrowed from English mix.

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): /miks/

Noun

mix m (plural mix or mixes)

1. (music) mix

Related terms

• mixer
• mixeur

German

Pronunciation

Verb

mix

1. singular imperative of mixen
2. (colloquial) first-person singular present of mixen

Spanish

Noun

mix m (plural mix)

1. mix