What is the difference between mixture and eclectic?
mixture | eclectic |
The act of mixing.
Something produced by mixing.
Something that consists of diverse elements
A medicinal compound
Selecting a mixture of what appears to be best of various doctrines, methods or styles.
* 1893 , John Robson, Hinduism and its Relations to Christianity , page 211, 214
Unrelated and unspecialized; heterogeneous.
* 1983 , Peter J. Wilson, Man, the Promising Primate: The Conditions of Human Evolution , page 140
* 2006 , W. Frederick Zimmerman, Should Barack Obama Be President? , page 153
As nouns the difference between mixture and eclectic
is that mixture is the act of mixing while eclectic is someone who selects according to the eclectic method.As a adjective eclectic is
selecting a mixture of what appears to be best of various doctrines, methods or styles.mixture
English
(wikipedia mixture)Noun
(en noun)- The mixture of sulphuric acid and water produces heat.
- An alloy is a mixture of two metals.
- The day was a mixture of sunshine and showers.
- A teaspoonful of the mixture to be taken three times daily after meals
Derived terms
* cough mixtureExternal links
* * ----eclectic
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Alternative forms
* eclectick (obsolete)Adjective
(en adjective)- Chunder Sen and the Progressive Brahmists broke entirely with Hinduism...and he selected from the scriptures of all creeds what seemed best in them for instruction and for worship. It is an eclectic' religion: it seeks to select what is good from all religions, and it has become the latest evidence that no ' eclectic religion can ever influence large numbers of men.
- All members of the Hominoidea, apes and man, show an eclectic taste in food but select, from a wide range of possibilities, only a few to provide the bulk of their diet.
- Colvin said Obama has an eclectic taste in music, listening to everything from Indonesian flute music to OutKast to Motown.