Meld vs Medley - What's the difference?
meld | medley |
(US) to combine two similar objects into one
In card games, especially of the rummy family, to announce or display a combination of cards.
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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)
As verbs the difference between meld and medley
is that meld is (us) to combine two similar objects into one or meld can be in card games, especially of the rummy family, to announce or display a combination of cards while medley is (music) to combine, to form a medley.As nouns the difference between meld and medley
is that meld is a combination of cards which is melded while medley is .meld
English
Etymology 1
Possibly a portmanteau of “melt” and “weld”; alternatively, from English “melled” (“blended”), from (etyl) meller (“to mix”).Verb
(en verb)- One can meld copper and zinc together to form brass.
- Much as America's motto celebrates melding many into one, South Africa's says that it doesn't matter what you look like — we can all be proud of our young country. - The New York Times, 26/02/2007 [http://www.nytimes.com/2007/02/27/world/africa/27safrica.html?_r=1&oref=login]