medley

med·ley  (mdl)

n. pl. med·leys

1. An often jumbled assortment; a mixture: "That night he dreamed he was traveling in a foreign country, only it seemed to be a medley of all the countries he'd ever been to and even some he hadn't" Anne Tyler.

2. Music An arrangement made from a series of melodies, often from various sources.

3. 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.

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[Middle English medlee, from Anglo-Norman medlee, meddling, from past participle of medler, to meddle; see meddle.]

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medley

Noun

1. a mixture of various elements

2. a musical composition consisting of various tunes arranged as a continuous whole

3. Swimming a race in which a different stroke is used for each length [Old French, from medler to mix, quarrel]

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Medley a mixture, jumble, hotchpotch; a mixed literary or musical composition.

Examples: medley of astrology and homely reciepts, 1897; of houses, 1885; of mirth with sadness, 1529; of music; of many nations, 1652; of philosophy and rhetoric, 1865; of sounds; of tunes; of voices; of sense and madness, 1755.

Thesaurus

Noun

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medley - a musical composition consisting of a series of songs or other musical pieces from various sources pastiche, potpourri musical composition, opus, piece of music, composition, piece - a musical work that has been created; "the composition is written in four movements"

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medley

noun mixture, confusion, jumble, assortment, patchwork, pastiche, mixed bag (informal) potpourri, mélange (French) miscellany, mishmash, farrago, hotchpotch, hodgepodge, salmagundi, olio, gallimaufry, omnium-gatherum

Translations

medley [ˈmɛdlɪ] n → mezcla;

(MUS) → popurrí m

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medley [ˈmɛdlɪ] n → mélange m

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medley [ˈmɛdlɪ] n → Gemisch nt;

(Mus) → Medley nt

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medley [ˈmɛdlɪ] n → selezione f