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Medley vs Concave - What's the difference?

medley | concave |

As nouns the difference between medley and concave

is that medley is while concave is a surface or curve.

As verbs the difference between medley and concave

is that medley is (music) to combine, to form a medley while concave is to render , or increase the degree of concavity.

As an adjective concave is

curved like the inner surface of a sphere or bowl.

medley

English

Noun

(en noun)
  • *:
  • *: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)

    • Related terms

    * meddle * melee

    Synonyms

    * mashup

    Verb

    (en verb)
  • (music) To combine, to form a medley.

    • Anagrams

    * ----

    concave

    English

    Adjective

    (en adjective)
  • curved like the inner surface of a sphere or bowl
  • (geometry, not comparable, of a polygon) not convex; having at least one internal angle greater than 180 degrees..
  • (functional analysis, not comparable, of a real-valued function on the reals) satisfying the property that all segments connecting two points on the function's graph lie below the function.
  • hollow; empty
  • * Shakespeare
    • as concave as a worm-eaten nut

    Antonyms

    * convex

    Derived terms

    * concavely * concaveness * concavity

    Noun

    (en noun)
  • A surface or curve.
  • The vault of the sky.
  • One of the celestial spheres of the Ptolemaic or geocentric model of the world.
    • Aristotle makes [Fire] to move to the concave of the Moon. - Thomas Salusbury (1661).
  • (industry) An element of a curved grid used to separate desirable material from tailings or chaff in mining and harvesting.
  • (surfing) An indentation running along the base of a surfboard, intended to increase lift.
  • (skateboarding) An indented area on the top of a skateboard, providing a position for foot placement and increasing board strength.

    • Verb

    (concav)
  • To render , or increase the degree of concavity.

    • Derived terms

    * concaver ----