different between mix vs disperse

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

English

Etymology

From French disperser, from Latin dispersus, past participle of dispergere (“to scatter abroad, disperse”), from dis- (“apart”) + spargere (“to scatter”); see sparse.

Pronunciation

• (Received Pronunciation) IPA^(key): /d??sp??s/
• (General American) IPA^(key): /d??sp??s/
• Rhymes: -??(?)s
• Hyphenation: dis?perse

Verb

disperse (third-person singular simple present disperses, present participle dispersing, simple past and past participle dispersed)

1. (transitive, intransitive) To scatter in different directions.

   Synonyms: see Thesaurus:disperse
2. (transitive, intransitive) To break up and disappear; to dissipate.
3. (transitive, intransitive) To disseminate.
4. (physics, transitive, intransitive) To separate rays of light, etc., according to wavelength; to refract.
5. (transitive, intransitive) To distribute throughout.

Usage notes

• Do not confuse with the monetary word disburse, despite the two being near homophones and having a degree of semantic similarity (in which disbursed money may be dispersed among expenses). A mnemonic to help make the difference obvious (which uses a cognate of each word) is that d?s-burs-ing is taking money out of the purse, whereas d?-spers-ing causes something to be sparsely scattered.

Derived terms

Related terms

• dispersal
• dispersible
• dispersion

Translations

Adjective

disperse (comparative more disperse, superlative most disperse)

1. Scattered or spread out.

Derived terms

Anagrams

• Perseids, despiser, perseids, presides

French

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): /dis.p??s/

Verb

disperse

1. inflection of disperser:
   1. first/third-person singular present indicative
   2. first/third-person singular present subjunctive
   3. second-person singular imperative

Anagrams

• perdisse, prédises, prédisse, présides

German

Adjective

disperse

1. inflection of dispers:
   1. strong/mixed nominative/accusative feminine singular
   2. strong nominative/accusative plural
   3. weak nominative all-gender singular
   4. weak accusative feminine/neuter singular

Italian

Adjective

disperse

1. feminine plural of disperso

Noun

disperse f pl

1. plural of dispersa

Verb 1

disperse

1. inflection of disperdere:
   1. third-person singular past historic
   2. third-person singular past historic

Verb 2

disperse f

1. feminine plural of disperso

Anagrams

• depressi, perdessi, predisse

Latin

Pronunciation

• (Classical) IPA^(key): /dis?per.se/, [d??s??p?rs??]
• (Ecclesiastical) IPA^(key): /dis?per.se/, [d?is?p?rs?]

Participle

disperse

1. vocative masculine singular of dispersus

References

• disperse in Charlton T. Lewis and Charles Short (1879) A Latin Dictionary, Oxford: Clarendon Press
• disperse in Charlton T. Lewis (1891) An Elementary Latin Dictionary, New York: Harper & Brothers
• disperse in Gaffiot, Félix (1934) Dictionnaire illustré Latin-Français, Hachette

Portuguese

Verb

disperse

1. first-person singular (eu) present subjunctive of dispersar
2. third-person singular (ele and ela, also used with você and others) present subjunctive of dispersar
3. third-person singular (você) affirmative imperative of dispersar
4. third-person singular (você) negative imperative of dispersar

Spanish

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): /dis?pe?se/, [d?is?pe?.se]

Verb

disperse

1. Formal second-person singular (usted) imperative form of dispersar.
2. First-person singular (yo) present subjunctive form of dispersar.
3. Formal second-person singular (usted) present subjunctive form of dispersar.
4. Third-person singular (él, ella, also used with usted^?) present subjunctive form of dispersar.