Definitions
from The American Heritage® Dictionary of the English Language, 5th Edition.
- noun An often jumbled assortment; a mixture.
- noun Music An arrangement made from a series of melodies, often from various sources.
- noun Sports An event in competitive swimming in which backstroke, breaststroke, butterfly, and freestyle are swum in equal distances by an individual or as divisions of a relay race.
from The Century Dictionary.
- noun A mixture; a mingled and confused mass of elements, ingredients, or parts; a jumble; a hodgepodge.
- noun A musical composition, song, or entertainment consisting of incongruous or disjointed scraps or parts selected from different sources; a mélange or potpourri.
- noun A fabric woven from yarn spun from wool which has been dyed of various colors.
- noun A hand-to-hand fight; a melley or mêlée.
- noun Synonyms Miscellany, Jumble, etc. See
mixture . - Mingled; confused.
- Mixed; of a mixed stuff or color.
- To mix.
from the GNU version of the Collaborative International Dictionary of English.
- adjective obsolete Mixed; of mixed material or color.
- adjective Mingled; confused.
- noun A mixture; a mingled and confused mass of ingredients, usually inharmonious; a jumble; a hodgepodge; -- often used contemptuously.
- noun obsolete The confusion of a hand to hand battle; a brisk, hand to hand engagement; a mêlée.
- noun (Mus.) A composition of passages detached from several different compositions; a potpourri.
- noun A cloth of mixed colors.
from Wiktionary, Creative Commons Attribution/Share-Alike License.
- verb music To
combine , to form a medley.
from WordNet 3.0 Copyright 2006 by Princeton University. All rights reserved.
- noun a musical composition consisting of a series of songs or other musical pieces from various sources
Etymologies
from The American Heritage® Dictionary of the English Language, 4th Edition
from Wiktionary, Creative Commons Attribution/Share-Alike License
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Examples
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Beck did this so often that comedian Lewis Black strung them together on The Daily Show in what he called a medley of Beck's "Hitler Tourette's Syndrome."
Mark Green: FOX's Six Tricks: How to Spot the Next Sherrod 2010
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Beck did this so often that comedian Lewis Black strung them together on The Daily Show in what he called a medley of Beck's "Hitler Tourette's Syndrome."
Mark Green: Fox's Six Tricks: How to Spot the Next Sherrod 2010
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The Daily Show in what he called a medley of Beck's "Hitler Tourette's Syndrome."
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The Daily Show in what he called a medley of Beck's "Hitler Tourette's Syndrome."
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The Daily Show in what he called a medley of Beck's "Hitler Tourette's Syndrome."
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The Daily Show in what he called a medley of Beck's "Hitler Tourette's Syndrome."
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The Daily Show in what he called a medley of Beck's "Hitler Tourette's Syndrome."
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Beck did this so often that comedian Lewis Black strung them together on The Daily Show in what he called a medley of Beck's "Hitler Tourette's Syndrome."
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The Daily Show in what he called a medley of Beck's "Hitler Tourette's Syndrome."
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The Daily Show in what he called a medley of Beck's "Hitler Tourette's Syndrome."
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