mixer

• POS: Noun
• HYPHEN: mix=er

CIDE DICTIONARY

mixer, n. 

•  One who, or that which, mixes.  [1913 Webster]
•  A person who has social intercourse with others of many sorts; a person viewed as to his casual sociability; -- commonly used with some characterizing adjective; as, a good mixer; a bad mixer.  [Webster 1913 Suppl.]
•  a social gathering, game, or dance organized to provide an opportunity for people to meet each other; as, on the first night of the conference they had a wine-and-cheese mixer.  [PJC]
•  a nonalcoholic beverage (such as fruit juice, club soda or ginger ale) added to an alcoholic beverage to produce a mixed drink.  [PJC]
•  any device used for mixing.  [PJC]
•  an electronic device for blending or manipulating sounds from different sources to produce a composite soundtrack, for an audio recording, video recording, or a movie.  [PJC]
•  The technician who operates a mixer{6}.  [PJC]

OXFORD DICTIONARY

mixer, n.
1 a device for mixing foods etc. or for processing other materials.
2 a person who manages socially in a specified way (a good mixer).
3 a (usu. soft) drink to be mixed with another.
4 Broadcasting & Cinematog. a a device for merging input signals to produce a combined output in the form of sound or pictures. b a person who operates this.

Idiom

mixer tap a tap through which mixed hot and cold water is drawn by means of separate controls.

THESAURUS

mixer

ARRL, agitator, amateur radio operator, bal, bal costume, bal masque, ball, barn dance, beater, blender, bon vivant, cement mixer, churn, clubman, clubwoman, console, control desk, control engineer, control panel, country dance, crucible, dance, eggbeater, emulsifier, excellent companion, fancy-dress ball, good company, good mixer, ham, hop, jack field, joiner, man-about-town, mask, masked ball, masque, masquerade, masquerade ball, master control desk, melting pot, monitor, nightclub habitue, playboy, pleasant company, prom, promenade, radio electrician, radio engineer, radio operator, radio technician, radioman, radiotelegrapher, radiotrician, record hop, shindig, shindy, social lion, square dance, stag dance, tea dance, the dansant