medley

5 definitions found

medley - Collaborative International Dictionary of English v.0.48 :

  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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  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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medley - WordNet (r) 2.1 (2005) :

  medley
      n 1: a musical composition consisting of a series of songs or
           other musical pieces from various sources [syn: medley,
           potpourri, pastiche]

medley - U.S. Gazetteer (1990) :

  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

medley - Moby Thesaurus II by Grady Ward, 1.0 :

  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