► mixture several different things, ideas, or feelings that are mixed together:
Pour the mixture into the cake pan and bake for 50 minutes.She felt a strange mixture of fear and excitement.► combination two or more different things that are used together or that happen together:
Doctors use a combination of three drugs to fight the disease.The combination of hot weather and lack of rain was very bad for the crops.► blend a mixture that contains different types of the same thing, especially types that go together well:
Their music is a blend of different styles of jazz.The coffee is a blend of Arabian and South American coffee beans.► cross a mixture of very different things. You use cross especially when you are describing what something looks or sounds like:
The building looked like a cross between a museum and a spaceship.► hybrid something that is produced from a mixture of things, especially a plant or animal:
The plant is a hybrid of wheat and rye.➔ You also use hybrid about something that uses a mixture of different styles or methods: The car is a hybrid - it gets its power from gas and batteries.► solution a liquid mixed with a solid substance or a gas:
You can use a salt solution to clean the wound.➔ In science, a solution is a substance mixed with another substance so that both substances are evenly spread through the whole of the mixture. Usually people talk about solutions made from liquids and solids, such as sugar in water, but a solution can be gases mixed with gases, or liquids mixed with liquids.► compound AWL a chemical substance that contains atoms of two or more elements:
Water is a compound that consists of hydrogen and oxygen.