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mixture

A mixture is two or more things that have been mixed together; it is a mix. A mixture is something that is made up of many different elements.

mixture

(chemistry) a substance consisting of two or more substances mixed together (not in fixed proportions and not with chemical bonding) (= concoction) any foodstuff made by combining different ingredients he volunteered to taste her latest concoction he drank a mixture of beer and lemonade (= assortment, variety, smorgasbord) a collection containing a variety of sorts of things a great assortment of cars was on display he had a variety of disorders a veritable smorgasbord of religions an event that combines things in a mixture a gradual mixture of cultures (= mix, mixing) the act of mixing together paste made by a mix of flour and water the mixing of sound channels in the recording studio

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Simple sentences

Every opinion is a mixture of truth and mistakes.
Air is a mixture of gases that we cannot see.
Air is a mixture of several gases.
Air is a mixture of gases.
Mixture of the three primary colors creates black.
There was an explosive mixture in his head containing feelings of inferiority as well as visions of omnipotence.
Add the water to the mixture and, using a cold knife, stir until the dough binds together.
Add more cold water a teaspoon at a time if the mixture is too dry.
My mother tongue is Klingoranto, a mixture of Klingon and Esperanto.
Internal combustion engines burn a mixture of fuel and air.
Air is a mixture of various gases.
Stir the mixture until it foams, then set it aside.
I would like a bottle of cough mixture.
Step 1. Heat the vegetable oil (0.5L) (any grease or a mixture of oil and grease) in the pot on high heat, add sliced onions (400g), fry until the onions take a yellow color, then add meat (any kind) (1kg).
It's a mixture of culture, language, and religion.
She was feeling a mixture of anxiety and happiness.

Movie subtitles

I was given it in cough mixture.
You sure are a funny mixture.
The last little mixture of drugs.
Rum and Indian fighting makes a poor mixture for the father of a young lassie.
Yeah, that's a very interesting mixture of poetry and meanness.
I cut the mixture too thin, trying to save gas.
It's such a mixture of nice things - herbs and scent and soap.
Where did that mixture ofjoy and fear come from when I'd blessed her?
It was an awful mixture of ridicule and suffering.
Poor little dear, what a horrible mixture he is.
Yes, that delightful crimson mixture I take before meals and those strange little powders after meals and that chalky-looking substance before I go to bed - a nightcap I can hardly wait for.
An inferno of mud-soaked bodies, where the treaders' feet churn clay and straw into the mixture for the Pharaoh 's bricks.
It is not a good mixture.
A mixture of bombast and sheer nerve.
It's a mixture of flowers called Jolies Fleurs.
That's composed of several elements that have been combined and changed by nature over thousands of years into a mixture of very complex compounds.
He consorts with gangsters and loose women. In a mixture of Maupassant and Zola, he writes.
A mixture of things very old With more that is new.
It is almost pure Egyptian with a mixture of Latakia for added body and a pinch of Perique, merely a whisper as one might say - for elusive fragrance.
Under the pseudonym of Azrael, a name which is a curious mixture of death and beauty, you've published a scandalous poem. I know it by heart.
I don't think our mixture is explosive enough.
Nothing in the mixture accelerates the heart.
Nor did it help that the congress party's local leader Was the darnedest mixture of a really noble patriot and donald duck. Mr. Surabhai.
I think I cut the mixture a little too thin, trying to save gas.
A nauseating mixture of Park Avenue and Broadway.
And if my magic mixture works, I shall be Caliph.
Now then, every four minutes, a pressure-operated relief valve discharges the mixture out of here into this duct on its way to the next stage.
You see, airjets cool the mixture to the required consistency, simultaneously blowing it up.
Here the mixture has solidified.
I'm a strange mixture of anarchist and conservative.
This mixture in my Lolita of tender, dreamy childishness and a kind of eerie vulgarity.
Time and place do not exist; on an insignificant basis of reality the imagination spins, weaving new patterns; a mixture of memories, experiences, free fancies, incongruities and improvisations.
Gambling attracts me. by its stupid mixture of luxury and poverty.
I shall prepare the mixture, then you, I and Autloc will test Yetaxa.
I therefore vouch again that with some mixture powerful o'er the blood or with some dram conjured to that effect he wrought upon her.

News and current affairs

The Cold War was won by a mixture of hard and soft power.
You are watching with legitimate concern (and a mixture of astonishment and anger) as Europe's crippling debt crisis spreads and America's dysfunctional politics leave it unable to revive its moribund economy.
Throughout our lives, we are exposed to a complex mixture of food compounds.
The Kim family's tyranny is based on a mixture of ideological fanaticism, vicious realpolitik, and paranoia.
The government should establish a National Infrastructure Bank to provide the finance by borrowing directly, attracting private-sector funds, or a mixture of the two.
It is a great shame that so many Europeans have steered clear of Iraq with a mixture of self-righteousness and anti-American Schadenfreude.
Time is needed, she says, to build a state and construct a democracy - time and a mixture of pragmatism and faith, of patience and audacity, of respect for others and regard for oneself.
Indeed China-mania, a mixture of hopes, but mostly fears, is sweeping the world due to China's rapid economic rise.
Maoism was a curious and unique mixture of class warfare and socialist leveling, all enunciated by a man who believed that individuals - or at least Mao himself - could shape history rather than be formed by its tides and currents.
This mixture of optimism and fear applies to everyone, Mexican businesses and Mexican families alike.
The funding can be corporate sponsorship (as in the United States), state money (as in China), or a mixture of National Lottery and state money (as in the United Kingdom).
It is to be a democracy steered from above, with only a limited division of power and a streak of authoritarianism, guided by a mixture conservatism, populism, and nationalism.
Instead, the reform proposals have opted for a mixture of higher capital requirements for leading banks and pre-funding of deposit insurance by a special levy on banks.
This mixture of stimulating events and policies enabled Western economies to maintain high investment ratios in the post-WWII years.
Beyond his message's wishful thinking, the public's reaction to the messenger was a mixture of disbelief and indifference.
China's mixture of inaction with a mercantilist approach to its Third World trading partners attests to the hypocrisy of its foreign policy.
The small number of countries that recognize Taiwan diplomatically is dwindling constantly, owing to a mixture of Chinese pressure and blandishments.
There is more rigor and openness under the Northern Lights, and this is precisely the combination we need, with its mixture of modesty towards others and ambition towards ourselves.
Both parties share the same attitudes toward immigrants, especially Muslims, and the European Union: a mixture of fear and loathing.
The Olympics were awarded to Beijing for a mixture of economic and political reasons, and China wanted the Games for the same reasons.
Each caste contained a varying mixture of landless laborers, cultivators, and landlords.
By that point, Ukraine's springtime of freedom had already deteriorated into a very visible development standstill, owing to a mixture of incompetence and corruption that cried out for change.
In both football (soccer) and politics, the country had come to embody an unseemly mixture of arrogance and denial.
In the late 1970's, when the world was facing a mixture of stagnant growth and inflation, Chancellor Helmut Schmidt insistently told British, French, and American leaders that their deficits were wrong and dangerous.
Its stabilization, while of global interest, will be difficult to achieve - and only by a complicated mixture of military and diplomatic means.

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