mixtures
USMIKS-churz/ˈmɪkst͡ʃɚz/UKMIKS-chuhz/ˈmɪkstʃəz/
- 1Plural of mixture.
The pharmacist prepared several mixtures for the patients waiting at the counter.
Different soil mixtures affect how quickly the seeds sprout.
Note
The count form of a noun that works both ways: mixture can name a quality in the mass, but the plural always means separate, countable things. Those things can be specialized. A pharmacist's mixtures are medicines, typically a solid suspended in a liquid. An organ builder's mixtures are compound stops that sound several pipes together. In textiles, mixtures are cloths of variegated coloring.
mixtures is a form of mixture
mixture, noun: Something produced by mixing two or more substances or ingredients together. Full entry
- Forms
- mixturemixtures plural
- Spelling
- mixture → mixtures: add -s
- Sound
- The ending sounds like /z/.
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