different between mixen vs mixin

English

Etymology

From Middle English myxen, from Old English mixen, myxen, from meohx, meox (“dung, filth”), from Proto-Germanic *m?gan? (“to urinate”); akin to German Mist (“manure”).

Noun

mixen (plural mixens)

1. A compost heap; a dunghill.

Anagrams

• enmix

Dutch

Etymology

Borrowed from English mix.

Pronunciation

Noun

mixen

1. Plural form of mix

Verb

mixen

1. mix

   (Brabant):

Inflection

German

Etymology

Borrowed from English mix, from Middle English mixen, partially inherited from Old English mixen, and partially from a backformation of Old French mixte, itself a borrowing from Latin mixtus, past participle of miscere.

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): /?m?ks?n/, [?m?ksn?], [?m?ks?n]
• Hyphenation: mi?xen

Verb

mixen (weak, third-person singular present mixt, past tense mixte, past participle gemixt, auxiliary haben)

1. (transitive, especially of drinks) to mix (cause two or more substances to become combined or united)

   Synonym: mischen

2. (transitive, music) to mix (combine several tracks; produce a finished version)

   Synonym: mischen

Conjugation

Related terms

• Mix

Derived terms

• Mixer
• vermixen

Further reading

• “mixen” in Duden online

English

Etymology

mix +? in

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): /?m?ks?n/

Noun

mixin (plural mixins)

1. (object-oriented programming) An uninstantiable class that provides functionality to be inherited by a subclass.

   Traits are somewhat between an interface and a mixin, as an interface contains only method signatures, while a trait includes also the full method definitions; on the other side mixins include method definitions, but they can also carry state through attributes, while traits usually don't.

Synonyms

• abstract base class

See also

• interface
• trait

References

Anagrams

• Minix, inmix