Medley \Med"ley\, n.; pl. Medleys. [OE. medlee, OF. mesl['e]e,
medl['e]e, mell['e]e, F. m[^e]l['e]e. See Meddle, and cf.
Mel['e]e, Mellay.]
1. A mixture; a mingled and confused mass of ingredients,
usually inharmonious; a jumble; a hodgepodge; -- often
used contemptuously.
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This medley of philosophy and war. --Addison.
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Love is a medley of endearments, jars,
Suspicions, reconcilements, wars. --W. Walsh.
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2. The confusion of a hand to hand battle; a brisk, hand to
hand engagement; a m[^e]l['e]e. [Obs.] --Holland.
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3. (Mus.) A composition of passages detached from several
different compositions; a potpourri.
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Note: Medley is usually applied to vocal, potpourri to
instrumental, compositions.
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4. A cloth of mixed colors. --Fuller.
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The Collaborative International Dictionary of English v.0.48
Medley \Med"ley\, a.
1. Mixed; of mixed material or color. [Obs.] "A medl['e]
coat." --Chaucer.
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2. Mingled; confused. --Dryden.
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The Collaborative International Dictionary of English v.0.48
medley
n : a musical composition consisting of a series of songs or
other musical pieces from various sources [syn: potpourri,
pastiche]
WordNet (r) 2.0
142 Moby Thesaurus words for "medley":
agglomeration, all sorts, amalgamated, ambiguous, ambivalent,
amphibious, assemblage, assortment, bicolor, bicolored, blend,
blended, brew, broad spectrum, capriccio, caprice, chromatic, cold,
collectanea, collection, colorful, colorific, coloring, colory,
combination, combined, complex, composite, compound, compounded,
conglomerate, conglomeration, cool, crazy, daedal, dappled,
dichromatic, divers-colored, divertissement, eclectic, equivocal,
fantasia, farrago, fifty-fifty, gallimaufry, glowing, goulash,
half-and-half, harlequin, harmonious, hash, heterogeneous,
hodgepodge, hotchpot, hotchpotch, humoresque, indiscriminate,
intricate, ironic, jumble, jumbled, kaleidoscopic, magpie,
many-colored, many-sided, mash, matching, melange, mess,
mingle-mangle, mingled, miscellanea, miscellaneous, miscellany,
mishmash, mix, mixed, mixed bag, mixture, monochromatic,
monochrome, monochromic, motley, multicolor, multicolored,
multicolorous, multifaceted, multinational, multiracial, oddments,
odds and ends, olio, olla podrida, omnium gatherum,
omnium-gatherum, parti-color, parti-colored, pasticcio, pastiche,
patchwork, patchy, pigmentary, pluralistic, polychromatic,
polychrome, polychromic, potpourri, prismal, prismatic,
promiscuous, rainbow, romance, romanza, salad, salmagundi, sauce,
scramble, scrambled, shot, shot through, spectral, stew, sundries,
syncretic, thrown together, thunder and lightning, tinctorial,
tingent, toning, trichromatic, trichromic, tricolor, tricolored,
two-tone, varicolored, varied, variegated, variety, versicolor,
versicolored, warm, what you will
Moby Thesaurus II by Grady Ward, 1.0
Medley, FL (town, FIPS 43900)
Location: 25.86304 N, 80.34813 W
Population (1990): 663 (335 housing units)
Area: 9.2 sq km (land), 1.3 sq km (water)
Medley, WV
Zip code(s): 26734
U.S. Gazetteer (1990)
Medley, FL -- U.S. town in Florida
Population (2000): 1098
Housing Units (2000): 387
Land area (2000): 3.777563 sq. miles (9.783842 sq. km)
Water area (2000): 0.520218 sq. miles (1.347358 sq. km)
Total area (2000): 4.297781 sq. miles (11.131200 sq. km)
FIPS code: 43900
Located within: Florida (FL), FIPS 12
Location: 25.858307 N, 80.339141 W
ZIP Codes (1990):
Note: some ZIP codes may be omitted esp. for suburbs.
Headwords:
Medley, FL
Medley
U.S. Gazetteer Places (2000)
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