Medley
['medlɪ] or ['mɛdli]
Definition
(noun.) a musical composition consisting of a series of songs or other musical pieces from various sources.
Checker: Tina--From WordNet
Definition
(n.) A mixture; a mingled and confused mass of ingredients, usually inharmonious; a jumble; a hodgepodge; -- often used contemptuously.
(n.) The confusion of a hand to hand battle; a brisk, hand to hand engagement; a melee.
(n.) A composition of passages detached from several different compositions; a potpourri.
(n.) A cloth of mixed colors.
(a.) Mixed; of mixed material or color.
(a.) Mingled; confused.
Typed by Camilla
Synonyms and Synonymous
n. Mixture, miscellany, jumble, farrago, hotch-potch, hodge-podge, salmagundi, gallimaufry, mish-mash, pot-pourri, olio, MÉLANGE, confused mass.
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Synonyms and Antonyms
SYN:Jumble, tumult, confusion, mixture, hodge-podge, litter, diversity, miscellany
ANT:Assortment, arrangement, disposition, classification, interdistinction,grouping, collocation
Typist: Maura
Definition
n. a mingled and confused mass: a miscellany: a song or piece of music made up of bits from various sources continuously: a cloth woven from yarn of different colours: (obs.) a m阬閑 fight.
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Examples
- That rapid medley of sounds, and lo! Fergus Hume. The Island of Fantasy.
- The effect is a curious medley. Mark Twain. The Innocents Abroad.
- His army was just such another composite host as Darius had led into Thrace or Alexander defeated at Issus; it was a medley of levies. H. G. Wells. The Outline of History_Being a Plain History of Life and Mankind.
- A table and some shelves were covered with manuscript papers and with worn pens and a medley of such tokens. Charles Dickens. Bleak House.
- Out of a tumultuous medley appeared the common theme of public opinion--that the leaders should lead, that the governors should govern. Walter Lippmann. A Preface to Politics.
- It was another huge medley of contingents, and it relied for its chief force upon that now antiquated weapon, the war chariot. H. G. Wells. The Outline of History_Being a Plain History of Life and Mankind.
- Emma wondered on what, of all the medley, she would fix. Jane Austen. Emma.
Editor: Ramon