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Mix can be a noun or a verb.

mix used as a noun:

  1. The result of mixing two or more substances; a mixture.
    "Now add the raisins to the mix."
  2. The result of combining items normally kept separate.
    "My recipe file was now a mix of meat and dairy."
  3. The result of mixing several tracks.
    "The rhythm mix sounds muddy."
  4. The finished version of a recording.
    "I've almost finished the mix for this song."

Nouns are naming words. They are used to represent a person (soldier, Jamie), place (Germany, beach), thing (telephone, mirror), quality (hardness, courage), or an action (a run, a punch). Learn more →

mix used as a verb:

  1. To stir two or more substances together.
    "Mix the eggs and milk with the flour until the consistency is smooth."
  2. To combine items from two or more sources normally kept separate.
    "Don't mix the meat recipes with the dairy recipes."
  3. Use a mixer on.
    "Mix the egg whites until they are stiff."
  4. To combine several tracks.
    "I'll mix the rhythm tracks down to a single track."
  5. To produce a finished version of a recording.
    "I'm almost done mixing this song."

Verbs are action words and state of being words. Examples of action words are: ran, attacking, dreamed. Examples of "state of being" words are: is, was, be. Learn more →

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What type of word is mix?

As detailed above, 'mix' can be a noun or a verb. Here are some examples of its usage:
  1. Noun usage: Now add the raisins to the mix.
  2. Noun usage: My recipe file was now a mix of meat and dairy.
  3. Noun usage: The rhythm mix sounds muddy.
  4. Noun usage: I've almost finished the mix for this song.
  5. Verb usage: Mix the eggs and milk with the flour until the consistency is smooth.
  6. Verb usage: Don't mix the meat recipes with the dairy recipes.
  7. Verb usage: Mix the egg whites until they are stiff.
  8. Verb usage: I'll mix the rhythm tracks down to a single track.
  9. Verb usage: I'm almost done mixing this song.

Unfortunately, with the current database that runs this site, I don't have data about which senses of mix are used most commonly. I've got ideas about how to fix this but will need to find a source of "sense" frequencies. Hopefully there's enough info above to help you understand the part of speech of mix, and guess at its most common usage.

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The dictionary is based on the amazing Wiktionary project by wikimedia. I initially started with WordNet, but then realised that it was missing many types of words/lemma (determiners, pronouns, abbreviations, and many more). This caused me to investigate the 1913 edition of Websters Dictionary - which is now in the public domain. However, after a day's work wrangling it into a database I realised that there were far too many errors (especially with the part-of-speech tagging) for it to be viable for Word Type.

Finally, I went back to Wiktionary - which I already knew about, but had been avoiding because it's not properly structured for parsing. That's when I stumbled across the UBY project - an amazing project which needs more recognition. The researchers have parsed the whole of Wiktionary and other sources, and compiled everything into a single unified resource. I simply extracted the Wiktionary entries and threw them into this interface! So it took a little more work than expected, but I'm happy I kept at it after the first couple of blunders.

Special thanks to the contributors of the open-source code that was used in this project: the UBY project (mentioned above), @mongodb and express.js.

Currently, this is based on a version of wiktionary which is a few years old. I plan to update it to a newer version soon and that update should bring in a bunch of new word senses for many words (or more accurately, lemma).

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