Definitions
from The American Heritage® Dictionary of the English Language, 5th Edition.
- noun A collection of dissimilar things; an assortment.
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- noun any bag containing a mixture of something
- noun by extension, a
group ofentities with few characteristics in common; anassortment - noun idiomatic something tending to have both good and bad
results orcharacteristics ; something having a mixture ofadvantages anddisadvantages
from WordNet 3.0 Copyright 2006 by Princeton University. All rights reserved.
- noun a collection containing a variety of sorts of things
Etymologies
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From mixed + bag.
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