Combining vs Medley - What's the difference?
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The act by which things are combined or brought together.
* (Charles Dickens), The Old Curiosity Shop
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*:Thenne came the kyng of Irland and the kynge of the stryete marches to rescowe syre Tristram and sire Palomydes / There beganne a grete medle / & many knyghtes were smyten doune on bothe partyes / and alweyes sir launcelot spared sir Tristram / and he spared hym
:(Holland)
A collection or mixture of miscellaneous things.
:a fruit medley
*Addison
*:this medley of philosophy and war
*W. Walsh
*:Love is a medley of endearments, jars, / Suspicions, reconcilements, wars.
(music) A collection of related songs played or mixed together as a single piece.
:They played a medley of favorite folk songs as an encore.
(swimming) A competitive swimming event that combines the four strokes of butterfly, backstroke, breaststroke, and freestyle.
A cloth of mixed colours.
:(Fuller)
Combining is a related term of medley.
As verbs the difference between combining and medley
is that combining is while medley is (music) to combine, to form a medley.As nouns the difference between combining and medley
is that combining is the act by which things are combined or brought together while medley is .combining
English
Verb
(head)Noun
(en noun)- these little combinings together, of friends, for objects in themselves extremely laudable, but which the law terms conspiracies