different between alloy vs mishmash
alloy
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)
- A metal that is a combination of two or more elements, at least one of which is a metal.
- (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 […]
- 1888, Arthur Talbot Vanderbilt, Gold Not Only in Wales, But Also in Great Britain and Ireland: Facts and Figures, page 17
- An admixture; something added which stains, taints etc.
- (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.”
- 1986, 1987 Year Book
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)
- To mix or combine; often used of metals.
- To reduce the purity of by mixing with a less valuable substance.
- to alloy gold with silver or copper, or silver with copper
- (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
alloy From the web:
- what alloy is made from copper and zinc
- what alloy is brass
- what alloy is made of iron and carbon
- what alloy is steel
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- what alloy are aluminum cans
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mishmash
English
Alternative forms
- mish-mash
- mishmosh
Etymology
From Old English as reduplication of mash. Cognates include Saterland Frisian Miskmask and German Mischmasch.
Pronunciation
- IPA(key): /?m???mæ?/
- Rhymes: -æ?
Noun
mishmash (plural mishmashes)
- A collection containing a variety of miscellaneous things.
Synonyms
- farrago, hodgepodge, hotchpotch, melange, melting pot, mingle-mangle, oddments, odds and ends, omnium-gatherum, ragbag
- See also Thesaurus:hodgepodge
Translations
Verb
mishmash (third-person singular simple present mishmashes, present participle mishmashing, simple past and past participle mishmashed)
- (transitive) To mix together, especially in a confused way.
- (intransitive) To become mixed together.
Anagrams
- Shim Sham, shammish
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