What's the difference between farrago and miscellaneous?

Farrago


Definition:

  • (n.) A mass composed of various materials confusedly mixed; a medley; a mixture.

Example Sentences:

  • (1) In a new book just published called So Far, So Bad , written well before the Closer farrago, French journalist Cécile Amar, quotes Trierweiler confessing that "François has no emotion".
  • (2) The truth is that Britain's defence strategy has become a farrago of dogmas, traditions, maxims and cliches, most of them born of the second world war, the cold war and Tony Blair's fixation with fighting Muslims.
  • (3) The answer does not lie in false techno-fixes or the faux-democratic farrago of the government-business funded Citizens of the Great Barrier Reef .
  • (4) #birdsonaplane #starlingsindistress May 8, 2017 The farrago reached its denouement, according to Dolganov, when airport staff played a recording entitled “starlings in distress” to try to scare the bird away, but it was never found and the flight was cancelled.
  • (5) These Super Sunday-ish collisions are so often presented in a farrago of swirling overstatement – seasons defined, destiny shaped, lives ruined, civilisations decimated – but Wenger will take encouragement from this performance.
  • (6) Actually, I lied – that is not the weirdest thing about this whole farrago.
  • (7) It is the dance up on the stage, which looks a farrago, that seems the distraction.
  • (8) From a farrago of post-feminist disdain, that last judgment was the most eccentric of all.
  • (9) The Death Star - the set of next #StarWars film at @PinewoodStudios to see benefits of film tax credits August 13, 2015 There’s good and bad news about the spin-offs Kennedy revealed to EW that Disney-owned Lucasfilm are still working on the ‘anthology’ film, rumoured to focus on bounty hunter Boba Fett, the film from which Josh Trank was unceremoniously dumped in April at the height of the whole Fantastic Four farrago.
  • (10) Frankly, when he was reappointed 18 months ago this World Cup was turning into a nightmare for the host nation, a farrago of structural problems, vertiginous anxiety and a team who had slipped to 22nd in the Fifa rankings.
  • (11) Further evidence that the Spaniard is unaffected by the Real Madrid transfer farrago came when Patrick van Anholt raced clear.
  • (12) But I just couldn't do it; I got stuck, wrote this farrago of a play.
  • (13) The biography of Mr Nuttall that has appeared at times on his website appears to be a complex farrago of exaggerations, half-truths and untruths that have unravelled as his run for the vacant Stoke-on-Trent Central seat has put him under more scrutiny than usual.
  • (14) Every last one of them was a farrago of wonkishness, insincerity, and cliche, polemical half-truths and bits of old stump speeches, mashed-up press releases and policy statements, reheated for popular consumption in some of the dullest American prose imaginable.
  • (15) I suspect the non-dom farrago is also a moral issue and the fact that 115 non-doms pay £9bn in income tax – and the government could lose serious money – doesn’t matter.
  • (16) Supporters of The Weinstein Company point out that the production company had dropped the earlier copyright claim prior to the farrago surrounding The Butler .
  • (17) What a farrago of self-regarding, self-congratulatory self-exculpation it was!
  • (18) Beyond the Farage farragos, one Demetri Marchessini, a Ukip donor, paid for an advert in the Telegraph to announce his abhorrence of homosexuality.
  • (19) The answer is Mail Online , an inspired farrago of rolling clickbait that has been a runaway commercial success for its corporate parent ever since it was launched.
  • (20) The farrago Trump has created on healthcare is consequential and shameful.

Miscellaneous


Definition:

  • (a.) Mixed; mingled; consisting of several things; of diverse sorts; promiscuous; heterogeneous; as, a miscellaneous collection.

Example Sentences:

  • (1) Other causes were 20 (13%) with cerebrovascular diseases, 30 (20%) hepatic failure and 11 (8%) were of miscellaneous and obscure causes.
  • (2) Twenty-three fruits, 33 vegetables, 41 grain products, 7 legumes, 4 nuts, and 9 miscellaneous foods were analyzed by an accurate chemical method to determine their dietary fiber content and composition.
  • (3) The social network remains a niche product, beloved by journalists, celebrities, and a hard core of miscellaneous obsessive users — but few others.
  • (4) This complete database integrated data from hospital functions such as demographic data obtained at patient registration, outpatient visits and tests, inpatient admission historical data, tests and procedures, newborn data and miscellaneous data required for birth registration.
  • (5) Mean packed cell quantities gained intraoperatively were: 1275 (1006-2067) ml (descending aortic aneurysm), 1800 (1186-2500) ml (ascending aortic aneurysm), 1524 (1030-1801) ml (single valve rereplacement), 1896 (1398-2368) ml (double valve rereplacement), 946 (800-1050) ml (coronary artery reoperation), 1362 (922-1455) ml (cyanotic heart disease) and 1519 (1194-2066) ml (miscellaneous cardiac operations).
  • (6) Anti-Sm antibodies were demonstrated in 40% of patients with systemic lupus erythematosus (SLE), in 12% of patients with SJögren's syndrome, in 6% of patients with rheumatoid arthritis (RA) and in 12% of patients with miscellaneous rheumatic disorders.
  • (7) The cats were grouped by category of disease (ie, renal disease, congestive heart failure, diabetes mellitus, focal neoplasia, systemic neoplasia, hepatopathy, inflammatory bowel disease, inflammatory pulmonary disease, miscellaneous diseases, or undiagnosed disease), degree of illness (ie, mild, moderate, or severe), survival (ie, lived, died, or euthanatized), and presence or absence of a palpable thyroid gland.
  • (8) The indications for surgery were: dysthyroid ophthalmopathy, fourth nerve palsy, monocular aphakia with strabismus and miscellaneous conditions.
  • (9) Among various miscellaneous inhibitors, quercetin, disulfiram, and the Ca-complexing agents arsenazo I and III showed marked activity, the latter exclusively on the arsenical-resistant T. brucei.
  • (10) Iron was also shown in the duodenal biopsies of 34 of 48 uraemic patients on oral iron supplements, but was present in only 22 of 120 patients endoscoped for miscellaneous conditions (p less than 0.001).
  • (11) Nine metabolic, behavioral, and miscellaneous conditions are reviewed with reference to six generally accepted screening criteria.
  • (12) The indications for mammography were a palpable mass in 454 (44.7%), findings at routine screening in 237 (23.3%), lumpiness in 29 (14.9%), unilateral nipple discharge in seven (3.5%), localized breast tenderness in six (5.1%), adenopathy in three (1.9%), diffuse tenderness in two (2.9%), bilateral nipple discharge in two (1.5%), and miscellaneous in four (2.2%).
  • (13) The requests are classified as following: 74 pharmacological consults (39 about pregnancy, 9 for breast-feeding, 3 neonates or children, 2 about G6PD deficiency, 3 guide-lines after a therapeutic error, 3 requests for treatment of ADR, and 15 miscellaneous).
  • (14) Of 155 patients with a subsequently confirmed alternative condition, ultrasonography made the correct diagnosis in 140: bacterial ileocaecitis (69), mesenteric lymphadenitis (eight), gynaecological conditions (34), urological conditions (eight), caecal diverticulitis (six), perforated peptic ulcer (six), Crohn's disease (two) and miscellaneous conditions (seven).
  • (15) The remainder were miscellaneous complications, 6.9%.
  • (16) These masses were classified into three broad categories: centrally necrotic masses with a large predominantly liquefactive center and higher density periphery (29); multilocular, septated masses with distinct linear bands or striations (21); and miscellaneous masses (9).
  • (17) Finally, several miscellaneous conditions, including cystic fibrosis, Menetrier's disease, and pancreatic exocrine insufficiency, may benefit from long-term H2-antagonist therapy.
  • (18) A propranolol-glucagon test was evaluated in 24 control normal children, 21 pituitary dwarfs, 15 patients with constitutional short stature, 2 with chromosome aberration and 4 with miscellaneous diseases.
  • (19) The natural colorant area can be subdivided into anthocyanins, betalains, chlorophylls, carotenoids, flavonoids, polyphenols, Monascus, hemes, quinones, biliproteins, safflower, turmeric, and miscellaneous.
  • (20) Arrhythmias were analyzed in 50 patients undergoing cardiac surgery: 27 with valve surgery, 15 with coronary artery bypass (CAB), 5 with CAB and valve surgery, and 3 with miscellaneous procedures.