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med·ley

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–noun

1.	a mixture, esp. of heterogeneous elements; hodgepodge; jumble.

2.	a piece of music combining tunes or passages from various sources: a medley of hit songs from Broadway shows.

–adjective

3.	Archaic. mixed; mingled.

[Origin: 1300–50; ME medlee (n. and adj.) < AF, n. and adj. use of fem. of ptp. of medler to mix, fight; see meddle

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med·ley Audio Help (měd'lē) Pronunciation Key
n. pl. med·leys

An often jumbled assortment; a mixture: "That night he dreamed he was traveling in a foreign country, only it seemed to be a medley of all the countries he'd ever been to and even some he hadn't" (Anne Tyler).
Music An arrangement made from a series of melodies, often from various sources.
Sports An event in competitive swimming in which backstroke, breaststroke, butterfly, and freestyle are swum in equal distances by an individual or as divisions of a relay race.

[Middle English medlee, from Anglo-Norman medlee, meddling, from past participle of medler, to meddle; see meddle.]

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Online Etymology Dictionary - Cite This Source - Share This
medley

c.1300, "hand-to-hand combat," from O.Fr. medlee, var. of meslee (see meddle). Meaning "combination, mixture" is from c.1440; that of "musical combination consisting of diverse parts" is from 1626.

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medley
noun
a musical composition consisting of a series of songs or other musical pieces from various sources

Kernerman English Multilingual Dictionary - Cite This Source - Share This
medley [ˈmedli] noun

a piece of music put together from a number of other pieces
Example: She sang a medley of old songs.

Arabic:	أغنيَه مَزيج من أغنِيات مُخْتَلِفَه
Chinese (Simplified):	集成曲
Chinese (Traditional):	集成曲
Czech:	směs
Danish:	potpourri; medley
Dutch:	potpourri
Estonian:	popurrii
Finnish:	potpuri
French:	pot-pourri
German:	das Potpourri
Greek:	ποτ πουρί
Hungarian:	egyveleg
Icelandic:	lagasyrpa
Indonesian:	bunga rampai nyanyian
Italian:	pot-pourri

Japanese:	メドレー
Korean:	메들리
Latvian:	popūrijs
Lithuanian:	popuri
Norwegian:	potpurri
Polish:	składanka, potpourri
Portuguese (Brazil):	pot-pourri
Portuguese (Portugal):	miscelânea
Romanian:	potpuriu
Russian:	попурри
Slovak:	zmes
Slovenian:	venček
Spanish:	popurrí
Swedish:	potpurri, medley
Turkish:	potpuri

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Medley, WV Zip code(s): 26734

Medley, FL (town, FIPS 43900) Location: 25.86304 N, 80.34813 W
Population (1990): 663 (335 housing units)
Area: 9.2 sq km (land), 1.3 sq km (water)

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Webster's Revised Unabridged Dictionary - Cite This Source - Share This

Medley

Med"dle`\, v. i. [imp. & p. p. Meddled; p. pr. & vb. n. Meddling.] [OE. medlen to mix, OF. medler, mesler, F. m[^e]ler, LL. misculare, a dim. fr. L. miscere to mix. ? See Mix, and cf. Medley, Mellay.]

1. To mix; to mingle. [Obs.]

More to know Did never meddle with my thoughts. --Shak.

2. To interest or engage one's self; to have to do; -- ? a good sense. [Obs.] --Barrow.

Study to be quiet, and to meddle with your own business. --Tyndale.

3. To interest or engage one's self unnecessarily or impertinently, to interfere or busy one's self improperly with another's affairs; specifically, to handle or distrub another's property without permission; -- often followed by with or in.

Why shouldst thou meddle to thy hurt? --2 Kings xiv. 10.

The civil lawyers . . . have meddled in a matter that belongs not to them. --Locke.

To meddle and make, to intrude one's self into another person's concerns. [Archaic] --Shak.

Syn: To interpose; interfere; intermeddle.

Webster's Revised Unabridged Dictionary - Cite This Source - Share This

Medley

Med"ley\, n.; pl. Medleys. [OE. medlee, OF. mesl['e]e, medl['e]e, mell['e]e, F. m[^e]l['e]e. See Meddle, and cf. Mel['E]e, Mellay.]

1. A mixture; a mingled and confused mass of ingredients, usually inharmonious; a jumble; a hodgepodge; -- often used contemptuously.

This medley of philosophy and war. --Addison.

Love is a medley of endearments, jars, Suspicions, reconcilements, wars. --W. Walsh.

2. The confusion of a hand to hand battle; a brisk, hand to hand engagement; a m[^e]l['e]e. [Obs.] --Holland.

3. (Mus.) A composition of passages detached from several different compositions; a potpourri.

Note: Medley is usually applied to vocal, potpourri to instrumental, compositions.

4. A cloth of mixed colors. --Fuller.

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