(n.) A mixture; a mingled and confused mass of ingredients, usually inharmonious; a jumble; a hodgepodge; -- often used contemptuously.
(n.) The confusion of a hand to hand battle; a brisk, hand to hand engagement; a melee.
(n.) A composition of passages detached from several different compositions; a potpourri.
(n.) A cloth of mixed colors.
(a.) Mixed; of mixed material or color.
(a.) Mingled; confused.
Example Sentences:
(1) These findings serve to further understanding about the psychological dimensions of hostility as measured by the Cook-Medley Ho scale.
(2) Hannah Miley and Aimee Willmott also qualified for the final of the women’s individual medley, with James Guy edging into the 400m freestyle final after finishing a modest fifth in his heat and sixth-fastest overall.
(3) The heritability of hostility as measured by the Cook and Medley Ho scale was assessed in an adult male sample of 60 monozygotic and 61 dizygotic twin pairs.
(4) Click here to watch Thicke clings onto some sense of class by performing a big band version of Blurred Lines, after a medley of Chicago's Does Anybody Really Know What Time it Is?
(5) The Cook and Medley (1954) Hostility (Ho) scale has been used in several important studies evaluating potential health consequences of hostility.
(6) Thus, it is now possible, as one scans the microscopic field, to look past the static images of red- and blue-stained cells and appreciate a dynamic and detailed medley of molecularly defined events emanating from the eyepiece.
(7) As to whom he identifies with most out of the medley of aspiring comics, Birbiglia thinks, then offers a toss up between Jack (Keegan-Michael Key) and Samantha (Gillian Jacobs), the sole couple in the group.
(8) After effortlessly overhauling the German Verena Schott in the final length of the women's 200m individual medley in a new world record time, Simmonds will be aiming to make it a hat-trick of gold medals on Tuesday in the 50m freestyle.
(9) 's anger self-report scale, and the Cook and Medley hostility scale.
(10) The Cook and Medley Hostility (Ho) Scale is an increasingly important measure in studies examining health consequences of hostility.
(11) Hannah Miley 200m individual medley, 400m individual medley Another talented young swimmer who made a breakthrough in 2010, when she won the European and Commonwealth 400m individual medley titles.
(12) The relationship of Cook Medley hostility scores (Ho) to blood pressure and heart rate reactivity was examined in 56 women and 56 men.
(13) In one of Back to the Future 's climactic scenes, Marty McFly takes to the stage at a high-school dance, there to impress a room of 1950s teenagers with a medley of music from the future.
(14) We are an amazingly diverse country with more than 22 different languages and five major religions, a loose and sometimes unravelling medley of completely different ethnic groups.
(15) Prof Graham Medley, at the University of Warwick, told the Guardian the only way to eradicate TB in cattle would be a return to the strict and effective controls in place 40 years ago.
(16) Cook-Medley-defined hostility in particular has been seen as a significant precursor of coronary disease.
(17) The rapper had just performed a medley of his singles, while Baron Cohen was airborne to present the award for best male performance to High School Musical star Zac Efron.
(18) This study was designed to evaluate relationships among the Jenkins Activity Survey, the Cook-Medley Hostility Scale, and cardiovascular reactivity measured during a semistructured interview in a hospital setting.
(19) On the basis of our previous research, a subscale of the Cook-Medley scale was formed.
(20) It is about THIS much worse than last year's Pet Shop Boys medley.
Melody
Definition:
(n.) A sweet or agreeable succession of sounds.
(n.) A rhythmical succession of single tones, ranging for the most part within a given key, and so related together as to form a musical whole, having the unity of what is technically called a musical thought, at once pleasing to the ear and characteristic in expression.
(n.) The air or tune of a musical piece.
Example Sentences:
(1) Moments later, Strauss introduces the bold human character with an energetic, upwards melody which he titles "the climb" in the score.
(2) There’s an interesting thing with music like this, how the beat falls with the melody; they often say music is mathematical in construction and this is a very good example.
(3) A psychophysical scaling procedure confirmed that the constraints generated tone sequences bearing degrees of perceptual similarity to "real" melodies.
(4) A model of how people use this information to infer the metre of unaccompanied melodies is described here.
(5) Young children also are sensitive to melodic contour over transformations that preserve it (Study 5), yet they distinguish spontaneously between melodies with the same contour and different intervals (Study 4).
(6) We also know little about the relative aptitude for different musical components, especially melody and harmony.
(7) He presented a right-ear extinction in dichotic tasks, as well as difficulties in understanding and repeating verbal material and impaired identification of melodies.
(8) But the album for which she is being rightly acclaimed, 50 Words for Snow, as well as cleverly weaving together some hauntingly beautiful melodies with a characteristically surrealist narrative, also perpetuates a widely held myth about the semantic capaciousness of the Inuit language.
(9) The fact that "different" responses were both faster than "same" ones and quicker than melody offset indicates the use of a self-terminating search process.
(10) Particular tones were shifted in sequence such that a melody was heard which was undetectable by either ear alone.
(11) Children 4 to 6 years of age were exposed to repetitions of a six-tone melody, then tested for their detection of transformations that either preserved or changed the contour of the standard melody.
(12) The key distance effect reported in the literature did not occur in the tasks of this investigation (Studies 1 and 3), and it may be apparent only for melodies shorter or more impoverished than those used here.
(13) All subjects had high DAF indices on the complex melody, middle on the medium and low on the simple.
(14) Other melody variables are either fixed, randomized, or controlled.
(15) Another one is Melodies From Mars, which I redid about three years ago.
(16) Melody processing in unilaterally brain-damaged patients was investigated by manipulating the availability of contour and metre for discrimination in melodies varying, respectively, on the pitch dimension and the temporal dimension.
(17) In the first experiment, two opposite hypotheses were tested: The slow shifts might express subjects' acquaintance with the melodies or, on the contrary, the effort invested to identify them.
(18) Melodic themes of target melodies were defined by correlating contour-related pitch accents with temporal accents (accent coupling) during an initial familiarization phase.
(19) The present findings indicate that interpretation of a melody depends, in large part, on the characteristics of the "tonal" rules.
(20) In Experiment 1, all to-be-recognized melodies occurred both in an original rhythm, which preserved accent coupling, and in a new rhythm, which did not.