amalgam
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- noun
- /əˈmælɡəm/
- The festival was an amalgam of different cultures, showcasing food, music, and traditions from around the world.
- an amalgam of art
- becomes an amalgam
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Watch on YouTubeAnd so we're all this amalgam of good and bad.
- And so we're all this amalgam of good and bad.
- That's a complicated amalgam of reasons why people died.
- He says for the people of Tolone, the world is not an amalgam of objects in space.
- Yeah, it's, I guess a high quality magnet and rubber amalgam that feels OK, I guess.
- So we have this amalgam of words that track those seven days of the week, OK.
- And so every time I experience his anointing and gift, it is an amalgam of millions of hours in study, hundreds of thousands of hours in delivery.
- And take a look at that amalgam and you can see why these people hate the government.
- These, it has been shown, are almost all actual formulas for how to engage in the production of complex amalgams and what to do.
- Cause the original Adam, before he was separated into male and female, was both an amalgam of both.
Examples
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Social innovation, like mechanical invention, is rarely new but is the amalgam of pre-existing parts in a new combination.
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In their feasting, dancing, and processions, their religion becomes an amalgam of prayer, worship, and social celebrations.
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So the world we live in, then, is an amalgam of ideas.
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And so we're all this amalgam of good and bad.
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Is that my hand or is that my voice, or is it a weird amalgam of both?
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So we have this amalgam of words that track those seven days of the week, OK.
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The skeleton at the National Museum of Natural History is the amalgam of bones from as many as 15 individuals.
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Ecological engineering is an amalgam of several fields dealing with ecosystem restoration and creation.
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Alma Guillermo Prieto brings a unique amalgam of qualities to her life and work.
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Cognitive versatility is an amalgam of many of the positive traits associated with persons with superior intellect.
Academic text (1992)
Synonyms
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1.0
A group of different things or people that are together
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2.3
A mix of different things, like colors or spices
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1.8
Different things put together form one thing
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A mix of different things like styles or flavors
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A messy mixture of different things thrown together
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A mixture of different things, often very varied and unexpected
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Something added to another thing to mix with it
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7.0
Different things joined together to make one thing
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An action that brings two or more things together
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6.8
A mixture of many bright, different parts like colors and sounds
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Putting different things together to make one thing
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A confused mix of different things like old toys and books
A mixed collection of tastes from many places
Compounds
- Specialized
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A mix of mercury and other metals used by dentists to fill cavities in teeth
How Mixed
Surface Forms
Etymology
Amalgam originally named a 'soft mass' of mixed metals and now also means a mixture of different ideas or styles. It is the same root as the verb amalgamate ('to mix together'), so an amalgam is a blended mix of parts.