mixture

Roget category 41

1. Words expressing abstract relations
› 1.3. Quantity
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#41. [Forming a whole without coherence.] Mixture

noun

mixture, admixture, commixture, commixtion^† — commixion^†, intermixture, alloyage^†, matrimony — junction etc. 43 — combination etc. 48 — miscegenation.
impregnation — infusion, diffusion suffusion, transfusion — infiltration — seasoning, sprinkling, interlarding — interpolation — etc. 228 adulteration, sophistication.
[Thing mixed] tinge, tincture, touch, dash, smack, sprinkling, spice, seasoning, infusion, soupcon.
[Compound resulting from mixture] alloy, amalgam — brass, chowchow^†, pewter — magma, half-and-half, melange, tertium quid [Lat.], miscellany, ambigu^†, medley, mess, hotchpot^†, pasticcio^†, patchwork, odds and ends, all sorts — jumble etc. (disorder) 59 — salad, sauce, mash, omnium gatherum [Lat.], gallimaufry, olla-podrida^†, olio, salmagundi, potpourri, Noah's ark, caldron texture, mingled yarn — mosaic etc. (variegation) 440.
half-blood, half-caste.
mulatto — terceron^†, quarteron^†, quinteron^† &c. — quadroon, octoroon — griffo^†, zambo^† — cafuzo^† — Eurasian — fustee^†, fustie^† — griffe, ladino^†, marabou, mestee^†, mestizo, quintroon, sacatra zebrule [Lat.] — catalo^† — cross, hybrid, mongrel.

verb

mix — join etc. 43 — combine etc. 48 — commix, immix^†, intermix — mix up with, mingle — commingle, intermingle, bemingle^† — shuffle etc. (derange) 61 — pound together — hash up, stir up — knead, brew — impregnate with — interlard etc. (interpolate) 228 — intertwine, interweave etc. 219 — associate with — miscegenate^†.
be mixed &c. — get among, be entangled with.
instill, imbue — infuse, suffuse, transfuse — infiltrate, dash, tinge, tincture, season, sprinkle, besprinkle, attemper^†, medicate, blend, cross — alloy, amalgamate, compound, adulterate, sophisticate, infect.

adjective

mixed etc. v. — implex^†, composite, half-and-half, linsey-woolsey, chowchow, hybrid, mongrel, heterogeneous — motley etc. (variegated) 440 — miscellaneous, promiscuous, indiscriminate — miscible.

adverb

among, amongst, amid, amidst — with — in the midst of, in the crowd.

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