different between mixed vs divergent

English

Etymology

From mix, equivalent to mix +? -ed. Compare Middle English mixid (“mixed”, past participle), Old English miscode (“mixed”, preterite). More at mix.

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): /m?kst/
• Rhymes: -?kst

Verb

mixed

1. simple past tense and past participle of mix

Adjective

mixed (comparative more mixed, superlative most mixed)

1. Having two or more separate aspects.

   I get a very mixed feeling from this puzzling painting.

2. Not completely pure, tainted or adulterated.

   My joy was somewhat mixed when my partner said she was pregnant: it's a lot of responsibility.

3. Including both male(s) and female(s).

   The tennis match was mixed with a boy and a girl on each side.

   My son attends a mixed school, my daughter an all-girl grammar school.

4. Stemming from two or more races or breeds

   The benefit dog show has both mixed and single-breed competitions.

   Mixed blood can surprisingly produce inherited properties which neither parent showed

Synonyms

• (having two or more separate aspects): heterogeneous (See also Thesaurus:heterogeneous); (feelings) ambivalent, conflicted, equivocal
• (not pure): impure
• (including both males and females): co-ed, unsegregated
• (stemming from two or more races or breeds): hybrid, mongrel

Antonyms

• (having two or more separate aspects): homogeneous, unmixed; See also Thesaurus:homogeneous
• (not pure): pure
• (including both males and females): single-sex
• (stemming from two or more races or breeds): pedigree, pure, pureblooded, purebred

Derived terms

Related terms

• mixer
• mixture

Translations

Anagrams

• demix

English

Etymology

From Latin dis- (“apart”) + vergere (“to turn”) + the adjectival suffix -ent.

Pronunciation

• (Received Pronunciation) IPA^(key): /da??v??d??nt/, /d??v??d??nt/
• (General American) IPA^(key): /d??v?d??nt/

Adjective

divergent (comparative more divergent, superlative most divergent)

1. Growing further apart; diverging.
   • 1995, Paul Kussmaul, Training The Translator, John Benjamins Publishing Co, p. 47:

     Divergent thinking and transformations are, of course, no novel phenomena. They have always occurred in the translation process, but perhaps we have not been fully aware of them, or have not been able to categorise them with sufficient precision until now.

2. (mathematics) Of a series, not converging; not approaching a limit.
3. Disagreeing from something given; differing.

   a divergent statement

4. Causing divergence of rays.

   a divergent lens

Related terms

• diverge
• converge

Derived terms

Translations

Anagrams

• ridge vent

Catalan

Etymology

From Latin d?verg?ns.

Adjective

divergent (masculine and feminine plural divergents)

1. divergent

Related terms

• divergir

Further reading

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

French

Etymology 1

From Latin d?verg?ns.

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): /di.v??.???/

Adjective

divergent (feminine singular divergente, masculine plural divergents, feminine plural divergentes)

1. divergent

Related terms

• diverger

Etymology 2

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): /di.v???/

Verb

divergent

1. third-person plural present indicative of diverger
2. third-person plural present subjunctive of diverger

Further reading

• “divergent” in Trésor de la langue française informatisé (The Digitized Treasury of the French Language).

German

Etymology

From Latin divergens.

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): [?div?????nt]
• Hyphenation: di?ver?gent

Adjective

divergent (comparative divergenter, superlative am divergentesten)

1. divergent

Declension

Further reading

• “divergent” in Duden online

Latin

Verb

d?vergent

1. third-person plural present active indicative of d?verge?

Romanian

Etymology

From French divergent

Adjective

divergent m or n (feminine singular divergent?, masculine plural divergen?i, feminine and neuter plural divergente)

1. divergent

Declension

Swedish

Adjective

divergent

1. divergent

   Antonym: konvergent

Declension