different between mixture vs crasis

English

Etymology

From Middle English, borrowed from Old French misture, from Latin mixt?ra (“a mixing”), from mixtus, perfect passive participle of misce? (“mix”); compare mix.

Pronunciation

• (General American) enPR: m?ks?ch?r, IPA^(key): /?m?kst??/
• (Received Pronunciation) IPA^(key): /?m?kst??/
• Hyphenation: mix?ture

Noun

mixture (countable and uncountable, plural mixtures)

1. The act of mixing.

   The mixture of sulphuric acid and water produces heat.

2. Something produced by mixing.

   An alloy is a mixture of two metals.

3. Something that consists of diverse elements.

   The day was a mixture of sunshine and showers.

4. A medicinal compound, typically a suspension of a solid in a solution

   A teaspoonful of the mixture to be taken three times daily after meals

5. (music) A compound organ stop.
6. A cloth of variegated colouring.
7. (India) A mix of different dry foods as a snack, especially chevda or Bombay mix.

Derived terms

• cough mixture

Related terms

• mix
• mixer

Translations

Further reading

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

Latin

Participle

mixt?re

1. vocative masculine singular of mixt?rus

Portuguese

Verb

mixture

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

Spanish

Verb

mixture

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

English

Etymology

From Ancient Greek ?????? (krâsis, “mixture”).

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): /?k?e?s?s/

Noun

crasis (countable and uncountable, plural crases)

1. (obsolete) One's constitution; the balance of humours in a person's body.
   • , I.iii.1.2:

     Some men have peculiar symptoms, according to their temperament and crasis, which they had from the stars and those celestial influences […]

   • 1759, Laurence Sterne, The Life & Opinions of Tristram Shandy, Gentleman, Penguin 2003, p. 24:

     This is all that ever stagger'd my faith in regard to Yorick’s extraction, who, by what I can remember of him, and by all the accounts I could ever get of him, seem'd not to have had one single drop of Danish blood in his whole crasis

2. A mixture or combination.
3. (linguistics) External vowel sandhi; contraction of a vowel or diphthong at the end of a word with a vowel or diphthong at the start of the following word.

Translations

Anagrams

• ACRISS, Sarics, crissa