What's the difference between melange and mishmash?

Melange


Definition:

  • (n.) A mixture; a medley.

Example Sentences:

  • (1) Ultimately, the judgments combine to make a particularly peculiar melange: among the plaintiffs there is a mix of economic pessimism and insecure nationalism with a shot of nostalgia for the Deutschmark.
  • (2) Party conferences are always weird melanges of loyal door-knockers, lobbyists, journalists and parliamentarians enjoying a few days of stolen glamour.
  • (3) I choose the halibut fillet with scallops, dauphinoise potatoes, veg melange and pesto tapenade.
  • (4) The regime of thermal treatment applied to the ice-cream melange produced bactericidal effect on the Enterococcus microflora.
  • (5) Each chapter is a melange of storylines building to an end of chapter cliffhanger that hooks the reader as firmly as Brookie’s go-to-ad-break jeopardy.
  • (6) He finds meaning in the melange of largely bad food he was served as a child and revels in his love affair with trains that is now deprived him by his immobile condition.
  • (7) The truth is that the center of gravity for many international manufacturing companies has long ago scattered from a single base in the US to a global melange of places with cheap labor and lower taxes.
  • (8) Previous studies have demonstrated that chronic exposure of rats to a melange of ultra-mild stressors causes an antidepressant-reversible decrease in the intake of palatable weak sucrose solutions, as well as other evidence of insensitivity to rewards.
  • (9) Roman Polanski then made it into a film that, despite being a melange of confused accents (every single actor is speaking in an accent other than their own – and, boy, you don’t forget it), was his most enjoyable movie for years.
  • (10) They were fine with her Poem For Dzhokhar, too: "Anything that emotionally affects me becomes part of the melange of thoughts, and then art, that I create."
  • (11) Azonutril 25 was given as nutritive melange, maintaining a calorie-nitrogen ratio of 150 to 200 calories for every added gram of nitrogen.
  • (12) It may be that the major direct effect of MTX on epidermal cell proliferation is complemented or even mediated by subtle immunoregulatory effects on the melange of cells in the affected skin and the systemic immune response.
  • (13) A deliriously tragic-comic autobiopic, with startling unmatched editing and a melange of elevating music sources, it became Kuchar's signature movie.
  • (14) They may be related also to the activity of mycobacterial adjuvant as a vehicle for the induction of delayed hypersensitivity on the basis that this melange activates macrophages to phagocytose and enzymatically degrade macromolecular antigens rapidly.
  • (15) The landscape stays stunningly harsh all the way across to the Apache Indian homelands of southern Arizona, where the mining camp-cum-artists' community of Bisbee adds another take on this classic American melange.
  • (16) In just 17 days, the pair recorded the album Let’s Dance, an irresistible melange of funk and pop that became Bowie’s most popular album ever, but saw him abdicate from his decade-long position on rock music’s cutting edge.
  • (17) Summarized results of five-year microbiologic studies on the production of dried egg products (white of egg, yolk, and melange), are presented.
  • (18) His quip that no one will find out what he got up to in City Hall because everything incriminating had been shredded; his cheap oil deal with Venezuela; and his failure to deal adequately with the toxic, largely unsubstantiated melange of allegations levelled by the Evening Standard against his then equalities adviser Lee Jasper .
  • (19) In freezing the ice-cream melange the amount of Enterococcus microflora dropped from 3.2 to 3.3 times.
  • (20) To accomplish the release of the gas, huge quantities of water are injected at high pressure together with a melange of toxic chemicals that can contaminate water supplies and rivers.

Mishmash


Definition:

  • (n.) A hotchpotch.

Example Sentences:

  • (1) Its annual conferences were a mishmash of Highlands conservative women in tartan skirts, angry socialists from the central belt and, unique to the party, an embarrassing array of men in kilts armed with broadswords and invoking the ghosts of William Wallace and Robert the Bruce.
  • (2) Chelsea may believe they are capable of more than the mishmash they have offered up previously in the aftermath of this win.
  • (3) In the approach to war, both the US and the UK governments mobilised a mishmash of arguments in a campaign of persuasion that was based not on rigorous analysis of intelligence but on the selective use of data and informants.
  • (4) The government’s decision to back a third runway at Heathrow has been informed by a mishmash of misinformation and missing information.
  • (5) This audience included 1.1 million watching the BBC HD simulcast – a frisky figure for a channel that has otherwise struggled to establish itself, featuring as it does a mishmash of programming from all the corporation's TV channels other than BBC1 (which has its own dedicated HD channel).
  • (6) On one level, Reddit is a mishmash of literally thousands of different communities, all overlapping slightly.
  • (7) It is otherwise a mishmash of free-market wizardry and global cop role-playing.
  • (8) I think it is just about one of the most shocking things that I have seen in my lifetime in this country.” At Ukip’s biggest ever conference, held in Ed Miliband’s constituency town of Doncaster, the party unveiled a mishmash of policies designed to appeal to former Labour and former Conservative voters.
  • (9) ‘This guy is making progress’ O’Malley is a mishmash of a stray Kennedy and the type of policy obsessive who even thinktanks keep locked away in a back office cubicle.
  • (10) The result isn't the mishmash you'd expect (despite the eccentric dish names).
  • (11) Momentum is a mishmash of sensibilities but any comparison with Militant is overblown.
  • (12) In all three acts, Kawase sings in an enticingly awkward mishmash of English and Japanese, sometimes starting a sentence in one language and finishing it in the other.
  • (13) Like many of the systems set up in the rush to independence, education throughout South Sudan is a mishmash of ideals and the possible.
  • (14) Underlying the unloved mosaic of contemporary British benefits lurks a mishmash of half-forgotten principles.
  • (15) It's also an odd mishmash of sensibilities: Depp; Thompson (but not good Thompson); and revivified actor-writer-director Bruce Robinson, who was slowly coaxed out of retirement by Depp himself for the first time since the debacle that was Jennifer 8.
  • (16) The urban heat island effect (and all its attendant causes, effects, and cause-effect mishmashes ) will expand its reach, for example raising temperatures in the Piedmont region by between 2-6C.
  • (17) Stagg was fortunate in that the judge in the original case, Mr Justice Ognall, was robust and self-confident enough to see the case against him for what it was – a mishmash of suppositions and mild coincidences, sprinkled with some fanciful psychological speculation.
  • (18) As part of the debate surrounding the 1988 Education Reform Act, Hull wrote Mishmash (1991), a devastating analysis of the use of food metaphors by rightwing opponents of an inclusive and pluralistic religious education and his work continued to oppose “religionism”, Hull’s term for those protecting themselves from “contamination” from other faiths and worldviews by withdrawing into their own tribalistic enclaves.
  • (19) The ideas in the original consultation document, which emerged from work in the Centre for Social Justice , were roundly condemned by most authoritative commentators; they had muddled measures, indicators, associations, consequences and risks in a multi-dimensional mishmash, which was almost certainly impossible to deliver, technically or data-wise.
  • (20) Perhaps only an estate agent could say that about a mishmash of camouflage and country house green.