different between alloy vs melange

English

Etymology 1

From Anglo-Norman alai, from Old French aloi, from aloiier, from Latin allig?.

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): /?æ.l??/, /??l??/
• Rhymes: -??

Noun

alloy (countable and uncountable, plural alloys)

1. A metal that is a combination of two or more elements, at least one of which is a metal.
2. (archaic) A metal of lesser value, mixed with a metal of greater value.
   • 1888, Arthur Talbot Vanderbilt, Gold Not Only in Wales, But Also in Great Britain and Ireland: Facts and Figures, page 17

     Many of these coins are preserved at the British Museum, in London, and at the Ashmolean Museum, in Oxford, and are all of pure gold, without alloy, and in a good state of preservation. Boadicea, Queen of the Iceni, is also said to have […]

3. An admixture; something added which stains, taints etc.
4. (figuratively) Fusion, marriage, combination.
   • 1986, 1987 Year Book

     SETH KITANGE TELEVISION AND RADIO Upheaval at CBS. […] Bill Moyers, a CBS News commentator and special correspondent, expressed his dismay in an interview with Newsweek in which he said, “Television news has never been pure. It has always been an alloy of journalism and show business.”

Derived terms

• superalloy

Translations

Etymology 2

From Old French aloiier (“assemble, join”), from Latin alligare (“bind to, tie to”), compound of ad (“to”) + ligare (“to bind”).

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): /??l??/, /?æ.l??/
• Rhymes: -??

Verb

alloy (third-person singular simple present alloys, present participle alloying, simple past and past participle alloyed)

1. To mix or combine; often used of metals.
2. To reduce the purity of by mixing with a less valuable substance.

   to alloy gold with silver or copper, or silver with copper

3. (figuratively) To impair or debase by mixture.

   to alloy pleasure with misfortunes

Translations

See also

• alloy on Wikipedia.Wikipedia
• Alloys in the Encyclopædia Britannica (11th edition, 1911)

Anagrams

• Loyal, Yolla, loyal, yallo

English

Etymology

From French mélange, from Middle French mélange, meslange, from Old French meslance, meslinges (“set of diverse elements”), derived from mescler (“to mingle, mix up”) (modern French mêler), from Vulgar Latin *miscul?re, from Latin misce? (“mix”) + -inges, a suffix from Frankish *-ingo (“-ing”). More at mix, -ing.

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): /m??l?n?/, /m??l???/, /me??l?n?/, /me??l???/

Noun

melange (plural melanges)

1. A mixture of different things; a disordered mixture.

   The room was a melange of comic books and posters.

2. A Viennese coffee speciality, half steamed milk and half coffee.
3. (geology) A large-scale breccia formed in the accretionary wedge over a subductional environment.

Alternative forms

• mélange

Synonyms

• (collection of a variety of things): assortment, farrago, hodgepodge, hotchpotch, mingle-mangle, mishmash, mixture, omnium-gatherum, ragbag
• See also Thesaurus:hodgepodge

Translations

Anagrams

• gleeman