Definition of miscellany in English:

miscellany

nounPlural miscellanies mɪˈsɛləni

1A group or collection of different items; a mixture.
混合物，大杂烩
a miscellany of houses
往东是各色各样的房子。
Example sentencesExamples
- The coming to light of a miscellany of my father's student-day notes was incentive to prepare this collection.
- Next comes a corridor where a miscellany of drawings, a small but exquisite textile and two engraved gems, one of Lorenzo the Magnificent and one of Savonarola, are displayed.
- Why would you not construe it that way knowing that there is a miscellany of arrangements in the States?
- Blogs now cover a miscellany of culinary topics, sometimes only tangentially related to food.
- English law already contains a miscellany of threats offences, but there has never been a general strategy on threats.
- So the word ‘dog’ covers such a miscellany of different things that we must be very careful there, and I sensed a confusion growing up amongst us.
- Toward evening, the sidewalks, especially those in the vicinity of high buildings, were packed with bamboo reclining chairs, stools and a miscellany of makeshift sitting devices such as biscuit tins and blocks of wood.
- What is the understanding in Western Australia as to the relationship between Chapter V of the Criminal Code and the creation of offences in all sorts of other statutes dealing with a wide miscellany of things?
- A notable omission from this miscellany of singers is of course, the castrato.
- But, though it should happen that an author is capable of excelling, yet his merit may pass without notice, huddled in the variety of things, and thrown into the general miscellany of life.
- Judgments of such a kind may serve as good examples to the community at large, but of what use are they to a thirty-year-old man with his own miscellany of desires, dreams and idiosyncrasies?
- Over the intervening years it again reverted to a market selling a miscellany of goods as it had done in its heyday.
- To gain access to the car park itself one has to traverse a miscellany of surfaces grass verge, lightweight kerbing and footpath and then, would you believe, one is confronted by two sets of sleeping policemen within yards of one another.
- He lifted his gaze from the communications device, glancing around the room at the miscellany of alien machines.
- The 1957 Act made a miscellany of changes of the law of homicide which can hardly be described as amounting to a coherent and interlocking scheme.
- Curry House serves about 14 kinds of curry using a miscellany of ingredients, among them chicken, pork, beef and peeled shrimp.
- It includes a great miscellany of individuals.
- The programmes were a miscellany of serious sociology and downright mindless entertainment with the usual film fare thrown in for good measure.
- Food was prepared by a miscellany of club members.
- By tradition, an incumbent prime minister - when time comes for re-election - faces a miscellany of Monster Raving Loonies and hapless candidates from the other major parties.
Synonyms
assortment, mixture, melange, blend, variety, mixed bag, mix, medley, diversity, collection, selection, assemblage, combination, motley collection, pot-pourri, conglomeration, jumble, mess, confusion, mishmash, hotchpotch, hodgepodge, ragbag, pastiche, patchwork, farrago, hash
informal scissors-and-paste job
rare gallimaufry, omnium gatherum, olio, salmagundi, macédoine
1. 1.1 A book containing a collection of pieces of writing by different authors.
  （作品）杂集，杂录
  Example sentencesExamples
  The Horizon was clearly intended to be a miscellany with a particular emphasis upon the foibles and strengths of the press.
  These tables of poets imply an alternative literary canon of writers popular in seventeenth-century miscellanies, and it is worth contrasting these names with those most widely read today.
  Printed miscellanies were not held in careful reverence - witness the torn pages, the splashes of ink, the thumbed texts.
  And this was the case with printed miscellanies, where bawdy verse was a favorite.
  Herrick's poetry was widely appreciated, appeared in miscellanies, and was set to music.
  Here, then, the numbering of stanzas enables easy textual manipulation: readers of printed miscellanies might well have marked their texts with the same motives in mind, restructuring the printed text; making it their own.
  Thus it is worth considering the number of different miscellanies in which a poet's work appears.
  Also apparent is an ancestral link with Elizabethan miscellanies like Tottel's Songs and Sonnettes and The Paradyse of Daynty Deuises.
  This project is producing a database guide to about 400 manuscript miscellanies and commonplace books by British women from the sixteenth and seventeenth centuries.
  At the other end were the poetical miscellanies compiled for pleasure, which were filled with an apparently random collection of poetry.
  To underscore this new emphasis, Botkin published a series of regional miscellanies under the name Folk-Say beginning in 1929.
  Thus we note that when miscellanies print poems popular in manuscript collections, they reflect the volatility that sometimes - but not always - characterized that medium.
  While it would certainly be wrong to propose a unity of purpose, or to simply conflate the interests of readers and compilers, printed miscellanies do consistently place themselves amid the tradition of self-education.
  What emerges is a picture of a culture that relied on the grammatical, rhetorical, and prosodic tools that can be found in surviving early medieval miscellanies.
  He edited Within Our Province, a miscellany of Ulster writing.
  Hicks was the compiler of at least three printed miscellanies, and this collection of prose anecdotes - a sort of prompt book for budding wits - hovers at the edges of texts like The Academy of Complements.
  Founded in Philadelphia in 1801 and issued weekly until 1809, Port Folio served up a miscellany of original and reprinted essays under the direction of Joseph Dennie.
  Plays for the public theatres (with Shakespeare's predominant) were widely quoted in poetic miscellanies and commonplace books starting in the 1590s, for instance, in company with the brightest literary lights of the day.
  A sports miscellany is supposedly in the works.
  But it is on these three fronts - readership, the politics of these books, and their textual significance - that printed miscellanies have most to offer.
  Synonyms
  collection, selection, compendium, treasury, compilation, pot-pourri

Derivatives

miscellanist

noun

In addition to his work as a miscellanist he is a professional photographer with a wide range of editorial and commercial clients.
Example sentencesExamples
- One of the first written mentions of curry-style cookery is attributed to Athenaeus, a Greek miscellanist who lived about A.D.200.
- But while miscellanists were busy collecting libels that were up to thirty years old, their volumes provide considerably less evidence of contemporary libelling.
- A photographer, designer and miscellanist, he divides his time between Highgate and the British Library.
- Written by a photographer, designer and miscellanist, this book is addictive, enlightening, and endlessly entertaining.

Origin

Late 16th century: from French miscellanées (feminine plural), from Latin miscellanea (see miscellanea).

This goes back to the Latin miscellus mixed from miscere ‘mix’ (see mash). This also lies behind promiscuous (early 17th century). Its early sense was ‘consisting of elements mixed together’, giving rise to ‘indiscriminate’, and ‘undiscriminating’, from which the notion of ‘casual’ arose.

Rhymes

felony, Melanie

Definition of miscellany in US English:

miscellany

noun

1A group or collection of different items; a mixture.
混合物，大杂烩
Talkeetna was a random miscellany of log cabins
Example sentencesExamples
- The programmes were a miscellany of serious sociology and downright mindless entertainment with the usual film fare thrown in for good measure.
- But, though it should happen that an author is capable of excelling, yet his merit may pass without notice, huddled in the variety of things, and thrown into the general miscellany of life.
- To gain access to the car park itself one has to traverse a miscellany of surfaces grass verge, lightweight kerbing and footpath and then, would you believe, one is confronted by two sets of sleeping policemen within yards of one another.
- So the word ‘dog’ covers such a miscellany of different things that we must be very careful there, and I sensed a confusion growing up amongst us.
- Judgments of such a kind may serve as good examples to the community at large, but of what use are they to a thirty-year-old man with his own miscellany of desires, dreams and idiosyncrasies?
- Over the intervening years it again reverted to a market selling a miscellany of goods as it had done in its heyday.
- Why would you not construe it that way knowing that there is a miscellany of arrangements in the States?
- A notable omission from this miscellany of singers is of course, the castrato.
- Curry House serves about 14 kinds of curry using a miscellany of ingredients, among them chicken, pork, beef and peeled shrimp.
- Next comes a corridor where a miscellany of drawings, a small but exquisite textile and two engraved gems, one of Lorenzo the Magnificent and one of Savonarola, are displayed.
- Food was prepared by a miscellany of club members.
- Blogs now cover a miscellany of culinary topics, sometimes only tangentially related to food.
- What is the understanding in Western Australia as to the relationship between Chapter V of the Criminal Code and the creation of offences in all sorts of other statutes dealing with a wide miscellany of things?
- The 1957 Act made a miscellany of changes of the law of homicide which can hardly be described as amounting to a coherent and interlocking scheme.
- It includes a great miscellany of individuals.
- By tradition, an incumbent prime minister - when time comes for re-election - faces a miscellany of Monster Raving Loonies and hapless candidates from the other major parties.
- Toward evening, the sidewalks, especially those in the vicinity of high buildings, were packed with bamboo reclining chairs, stools and a miscellany of makeshift sitting devices such as biscuit tins and blocks of wood.
- He lifted his gaze from the communications device, glancing around the room at the miscellany of alien machines.
- The coming to light of a miscellany of my father's student-day notes was incentive to prepare this collection.
- English law already contains a miscellany of threats offences, but there has never been a general strategy on threats.
Synonyms
assortment, mixture, melange, blend, variety, mixed bag, mix, medley, diversity, collection, selection, assemblage, combination, motley collection, pot-pourri, conglomeration, jumble, mess, confusion, mishmash, hotchpotch, hodgepodge, ragbag, pastiche, patchwork, farrago, hash
1. 1.1 A book containing a collection of pieces of writing by different authors.
  （作品）杂集，杂录
  Example sentencesExamples
  But it is on these three fronts - readership, the politics of these books, and their textual significance - that printed miscellanies have most to offer.
  This project is producing a database guide to about 400 manuscript miscellanies and commonplace books by British women from the sixteenth and seventeenth centuries.
  Printed miscellanies were not held in careful reverence - witness the torn pages, the splashes of ink, the thumbed texts.
  The Horizon was clearly intended to be a miscellany with a particular emphasis upon the foibles and strengths of the press.
  Thus it is worth considering the number of different miscellanies in which a poet's work appears.
  Also apparent is an ancestral link with Elizabethan miscellanies like Tottel's Songs and Sonnettes and The Paradyse of Daynty Deuises.
  While it would certainly be wrong to propose a unity of purpose, or to simply conflate the interests of readers and compilers, printed miscellanies do consistently place themselves amid the tradition of self-education.
  To underscore this new emphasis, Botkin published a series of regional miscellanies under the name Folk-Say beginning in 1929.
  Founded in Philadelphia in 1801 and issued weekly until 1809, Port Folio served up a miscellany of original and reprinted essays under the direction of Joseph Dennie.
  These tables of poets imply an alternative literary canon of writers popular in seventeenth-century miscellanies, and it is worth contrasting these names with those most widely read today.
  Plays for the public theatres (with Shakespeare's predominant) were widely quoted in poetic miscellanies and commonplace books starting in the 1590s, for instance, in company with the brightest literary lights of the day.
  A sports miscellany is supposedly in the works.
  What emerges is a picture of a culture that relied on the grammatical, rhetorical, and prosodic tools that can be found in surviving early medieval miscellanies.
  Here, then, the numbering of stanzas enables easy textual manipulation: readers of printed miscellanies might well have marked their texts with the same motives in mind, restructuring the printed text; making it their own.
  At the other end were the poetical miscellanies compiled for pleasure, which were filled with an apparently random collection of poetry.
  Thus we note that when miscellanies print poems popular in manuscript collections, they reflect the volatility that sometimes - but not always - characterized that medium.
  Hicks was the compiler of at least three printed miscellanies, and this collection of prose anecdotes - a sort of prompt book for budding wits - hovers at the edges of texts like The Academy of Complements.
  Herrick's poetry was widely appreciated, appeared in miscellanies, and was set to music.
  And this was the case with printed miscellanies, where bawdy verse was a favorite.
  He edited Within Our Province, a miscellany of Ulster writing.
  Synonyms
  collection, selection, compendium, treasury, compilation, pot-pourri

Origin

Late 16th century: from French miscellanées (feminine plural), from Latin miscellanea (see miscellanea).

单词	miscellany
释义	Definition of miscellany in English: miscellany nounPlural miscellanies mɪˈsɛləni 1A group or collection of different items; a mixture. 混合物，大杂烩 a miscellany of houses 往东是各色各样的房子。 Example sentencesExamples The coming to light of a miscellany of my father's student-day notes was incentive to prepare this collection. Next comes a corridor where a miscellany of drawings, a small but exquisite textile and two engraved gems, one of Lorenzo the Magnificent and one of Savonarola, are displayed. Why would you not construe it that way knowing that there is a miscellany of arrangements in the States? Blogs now cover a miscellany of culinary topics, sometimes only tangentially related to food. English law already contains a miscellany of threats offences, but there has never been a general strategy on threats. So the word ‘dog’ covers such a miscellany of different things that we must be very careful there, and I sensed a confusion growing up amongst us. Toward evening, the sidewalks, especially those in the vicinity of high buildings, were packed with bamboo reclining chairs, stools and a miscellany of makeshift sitting devices such as biscuit tins and blocks of wood. What is the understanding in Western Australia as to the relationship between Chapter V of the Criminal Code and the creation of offences in all sorts of other statutes dealing with a wide miscellany of things? A notable omission from this miscellany of singers is of course, the castrato. But, though it should happen that an author is capable of excelling, yet his merit may pass without notice, huddled in the variety of things, and thrown into the general miscellany of life. Judgments of such a kind may serve as good examples to the community at large, but of what use are they to a thirty-year-old man with his own miscellany of desires, dreams and idiosyncrasies? Over the intervening years it again reverted to a market selling a miscellany of goods as it had done in its heyday. To gain access to the car park itself one has to traverse a miscellany of surfaces grass verge, lightweight kerbing and footpath and then, would you believe, one is confronted by two sets of sleeping policemen within yards of one another. He lifted his gaze from the communications device, glancing around the room at the miscellany of alien machines. The 1957 Act made a miscellany of changes of the law of homicide which can hardly be described as amounting to a coherent and interlocking scheme. Curry House serves about 14 kinds of curry using a miscellany of ingredients, among them chicken, pork, beef and peeled shrimp. It includes a great miscellany of individuals. The programmes were a miscellany of serious sociology and downright mindless entertainment with the usual film fare thrown in for good measure. Food was prepared by a miscellany of club members. By tradition, an incumbent prime minister - when time comes for re-election - faces a miscellany of Monster Raving Loonies and hapless candidates from the other major parties. Synonyms assortment, mixture, melange, blend, variety, mixed bag, mix, medley, diversity, collection, selection, assemblage, combination, motley collection, pot-pourri, conglomeration, jumble, mess, confusion, mishmash, hotchpotch, hodgepodge, ragbag, pastiche, patchwork, farrago, hash informal scissors-and-paste job rare gallimaufry, omnium gatherum, olio, salmagundi, macédoine 1.1 A book containing a collection of pieces of writing by different authors. （作品）杂集，杂录 Example sentencesExamples The Horizon was clearly intended to be a miscellany with a particular emphasis upon the foibles and strengths of the press. These tables of poets imply an alternative literary canon of writers popular in seventeenth-century miscellanies, and it is worth contrasting these names with those most widely read today. Printed miscellanies were not held in careful reverence - witness the torn pages, the splashes of ink, the thumbed texts. And this was the case with printed miscellanies, where bawdy verse was a favorite. Herrick's poetry was widely appreciated, appeared in miscellanies, and was set to music. Here, then, the numbering of stanzas enables easy textual manipulation: readers of printed miscellanies might well have marked their texts with the same motives in mind, restructuring the printed text; making it their own. Thus it is worth considering the number of different miscellanies in which a poet's work appears. Also apparent is an ancestral link with Elizabethan miscellanies like Tottel's Songs and Sonnettes and The Paradyse of Daynty Deuises. This project is producing a database guide to about 400 manuscript miscellanies and commonplace books by British women from the sixteenth and seventeenth centuries. At the other end were the poetical miscellanies compiled for pleasure, which were filled with an apparently random collection of poetry. To underscore this new emphasis, Botkin published a series of regional miscellanies under the name Folk-Say beginning in 1929. Thus we note that when miscellanies print poems popular in manuscript collections, they reflect the volatility that sometimes - but not always - characterized that medium. While it would certainly be wrong to propose a unity of purpose, or to simply conflate the interests of readers and compilers, printed miscellanies do consistently place themselves amid the tradition of self-education. What emerges is a picture of a culture that relied on the grammatical, rhetorical, and prosodic tools that can be found in surviving early medieval miscellanies. He edited Within Our Province, a miscellany of Ulster writing. Hicks was the compiler of at least three printed miscellanies, and this collection of prose anecdotes - a sort of prompt book for budding wits - hovers at the edges of texts like The Academy of Complements. Founded in Philadelphia in 1801 and issued weekly until 1809, Port Folio served up a miscellany of original and reprinted essays under the direction of Joseph Dennie. Plays for the public theatres (with Shakespeare's predominant) were widely quoted in poetic miscellanies and commonplace books starting in the 1590s, for instance, in company with the brightest literary lights of the day. A sports miscellany is supposedly in the works. But it is on these three fronts - readership, the politics of these books, and their textual significance - that printed miscellanies have most to offer. Synonyms collection, selection, compendium, treasury, compilation, pot-pourri Derivatives miscellanist noun In addition to his work as a miscellanist he is a professional photographer with a wide range of editorial and commercial clients. Example sentencesExamples One of the first written mentions of curry-style cookery is attributed to Athenaeus, a Greek miscellanist who lived about A.D.200. But while miscellanists were busy collecting libels that were up to thirty years old, their volumes provide considerably less evidence of contemporary libelling. A photographer, designer and miscellanist, he divides his time between Highgate and the British Library. Written by a photographer, designer and miscellanist, this book is addictive, enlightening, and endlessly entertaining. Origin Late 16th century: from French miscellanées (feminine plural), from Latin miscellanea (see miscellanea). This goes back to the Latin miscellus mixed from miscere ‘mix’ (see mash). This also lies behind promiscuous (early 17th century). Its early sense was ‘consisting of elements mixed together’, giving rise to ‘indiscriminate’, and ‘undiscriminating’, from which the notion of ‘casual’ arose. Rhymes felony, Melanie Definition of miscellany in US English: miscellany noun 1A group or collection of different items; a mixture. 混合物，大杂烩 Talkeetna was a random miscellany of log cabins Example sentencesExamples The programmes were a miscellany of serious sociology and downright mindless entertainment with the usual film fare thrown in for good measure. But, though it should happen that an author is capable of excelling, yet his merit may pass without notice, huddled in the variety of things, and thrown into the general miscellany of life. To gain access to the car park itself one has to traverse a miscellany of surfaces grass verge, lightweight kerbing and footpath and then, would you believe, one is confronted by two sets of sleeping policemen within yards of one another. So the word ‘dog’ covers such a miscellany of different things that we must be very careful there, and I sensed a confusion growing up amongst us. Judgments of such a kind may serve as good examples to the community at large, but of what use are they to a thirty-year-old man with his own miscellany of desires, dreams and idiosyncrasies? Over the intervening years it again reverted to a market selling a miscellany of goods as it had done in its heyday. Why would you not construe it that way knowing that there is a miscellany of arrangements in the States? A notable omission from this miscellany of singers is of course, the castrato. Curry House serves about 14 kinds of curry using a miscellany of ingredients, among them chicken, pork, beef and peeled shrimp. Next comes a corridor where a miscellany of drawings, a small but exquisite textile and two engraved gems, one of Lorenzo the Magnificent and one of Savonarola, are displayed. Food was prepared by a miscellany of club members. Blogs now cover a miscellany of culinary topics, sometimes only tangentially related to food. What is the understanding in Western Australia as to the relationship between Chapter V of the Criminal Code and the creation of offences in all sorts of other statutes dealing with a wide miscellany of things? The 1957 Act made a miscellany of changes of the law of homicide which can hardly be described as amounting to a coherent and interlocking scheme. It includes a great miscellany of individuals. By tradition, an incumbent prime minister - when time comes for re-election - faces a miscellany of Monster Raving Loonies and hapless candidates from the other major parties. Toward evening, the sidewalks, especially those in the vicinity of high buildings, were packed with bamboo reclining chairs, stools and a miscellany of makeshift sitting devices such as biscuit tins and blocks of wood. He lifted his gaze from the communications device, glancing around the room at the miscellany of alien machines. The coming to light of a miscellany of my father's student-day notes was incentive to prepare this collection. English law already contains a miscellany of threats offences, but there has never been a general strategy on threats. Synonyms assortment, mixture, melange, blend, variety, mixed bag, mix, medley, diversity, collection, selection, assemblage, combination, motley collection, pot-pourri, conglomeration, jumble, mess, confusion, mishmash, hotchpotch, hodgepodge, ragbag, pastiche, patchwork, farrago, hash 1.1 A book containing a collection of pieces of writing by different authors. （作品）杂集，杂录 Example sentencesExamples But it is on these three fronts - readership, the politics of these books, and their textual significance - that printed miscellanies have most to offer. This project is producing a database guide to about 400 manuscript miscellanies and commonplace books by British women from the sixteenth and seventeenth centuries. Printed miscellanies were not held in careful reverence - witness the torn pages, the splashes of ink, the thumbed texts. The Horizon was clearly intended to be a miscellany with a particular emphasis upon the foibles and strengths of the press. Thus it is worth considering the number of different miscellanies in which a poet's work appears. Also apparent is an ancestral link with Elizabethan miscellanies like Tottel's Songs and Sonnettes and The Paradyse of Daynty Deuises. While it would certainly be wrong to propose a unity of purpose, or to simply conflate the interests of readers and compilers, printed miscellanies do consistently place themselves amid the tradition of self-education. To underscore this new emphasis, Botkin published a series of regional miscellanies under the name Folk-Say beginning in 1929. Founded in Philadelphia in 1801 and issued weekly until 1809, Port Folio served up a miscellany of original and reprinted essays under the direction of Joseph Dennie. These tables of poets imply an alternative literary canon of writers popular in seventeenth-century miscellanies, and it is worth contrasting these names with those most widely read today. Plays for the public theatres (with Shakespeare's predominant) were widely quoted in poetic miscellanies and commonplace books starting in the 1590s, for instance, in company with the brightest literary lights of the day. A sports miscellany is supposedly in the works. What emerges is a picture of a culture that relied on the grammatical, rhetorical, and prosodic tools that can be found in surviving early medieval miscellanies. Here, then, the numbering of stanzas enables easy textual manipulation: readers of printed miscellanies might well have marked their texts with the same motives in mind, restructuring the printed text; making it their own. At the other end were the poetical miscellanies compiled for pleasure, which were filled with an apparently random collection of poetry. Thus we note that when miscellanies print poems popular in manuscript collections, they reflect the volatility that sometimes - but not always - characterized that medium. Hicks was the compiler of at least three printed miscellanies, and this collection of prose anecdotes - a sort of prompt book for budding wits - hovers at the edges of texts like The Academy of Complements. Herrick's poetry was widely appreciated, appeared in miscellanies, and was set to music. And this was the case with printed miscellanies, where bawdy verse was a favorite. He edited Within Our Province, a miscellany of Ulster writing. Synonyms collection, selection, compendium, treasury, compilation, pot-pourri Origin Late 16th century: from French miscellanées (feminine plural), from Latin miscellanea (see miscellanea).
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