Medley vs Jumble - What's the difference?
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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)
to mix or confuse
* Burton
* Tennyson
to meet or unite in a confused way
A mixture of unrelated things.
(British) Items for a rummage sale.
(archaic) A small, thin, sugared cake, usually ring-shaped.
Medley is a related term of jumble.
As nouns the difference between medley and jumble
is that medley is while jumble is a mixture of unrelated things.As verbs the difference between medley and jumble
is that medley is (music) to combine, to form a medley while jumble is to mix or confuse.medley
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Verb
(jumbl)- Why dost thou blend and jumble such inconsistencies together?
- Every clime and age jumbled together.