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mix up

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Princeton's WordNet

  1. confusion, mix-upverb

    a mistake that results from taking one thing to be another

    "he changed his name in order to avoid confusion with the notorious outlaw"

  2. jumble, confuse, mix upverb

    assemble without order or sense

    "She jumbles the words when she is supposed to write a sentence"

  3. stump, mix upverb

    cause to be perplexed or confounded

    "This problem stumped her"

GCIDE

  1. mix upnoun

    To confuse the identities of (two or more objects); to mistake (one object for another); as, at the family gathering he mixed up his two nieces, to their great amusement.

  2. mix upnoun

    To mix together; -- usually implying a mistake, whether done intentionally or unintentionally; as, the mixed up this year's receipts with last year's, and it took hours to find the right ones.

Wiktionary

  1. mix upnoun

    A mix, blend, or variety.

  2. mix upnoun

    A confusion or reversal.

  3. mix upverb

    To mix or blend.

  4. mix upverb

    To confuse or reverse.

ChatGPT

  1. mix up

    Mix up refers to a situation which involves misunderstanding, confusion, or mistake in identification or arrangement. It can also refer to the action of combining various elements or ingredients together to form a single entity.

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Numerology

  1. Chaldean Numerology

    The numerical value of mix up in Chaldean Numerology is: 6

  2. Pythagorean Numerology

    The numerical value of mix up in Pythagorean Numerology is: 2

Examples of mix up in a Sentence

  1. Vladimir Putin:

    It’s ridiculous to put us on the same [ sanctions ] list as North Korea and then ask for our help in imposing sanctions on North Korea, this is being done by people who mix up Australia with Austria.

  2. AiR:

    Success is not Happiness, Happiness is Success. Those who mix up the two, end their life in a Mess!

  3. Ashwani Lohani:

    It also eliminates the possibility of mix-up: a non-veg meal getting served to a vegetarian passenger, as it had happened a few times in the past.

  4. M. C. Escher:

    I can't keep from fooling around with our irrefutable certainties. It is, for example, a pleasure knowingly to mix up two and three dimensionalities, flat and spatial, and to make fun of gravity.

  5. Mandela Barnes:

    I obviously know that every White voter in the state of Wisconsin is not the same, if I were to mix up a dairy cow and a beef cattle, they would get me out of here so fast. They will look at me like I'm unfit for office. Well, we're talking about actual Black people, the Latinx community, Asian communities, and( other candidates) go out and have these conversations, like,' Oh, I'm learning so much.' The campaign is not the time to learn. You should learn this stuff before you think it is appropriate for you to represent these people.


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