Definitions
from The Century Dictionary.
- noun Same as
amalgam .
from the GNU version of the Collaborative International Dictionary of English.
- noun Same as
amalgam .
from Wiktionary, Creative Commons Attribution/Share-Alike License.
- noun Archaic form of
amalgam .
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Examples
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La antigua Hispalia coadyuvó a forjar el dinamismo y el vigor de una Castilla emergente, que rompía su tradicional aislamiento, y que supo fraguar, al amparo de patronazgo real, un humanismo musical de sello netamente hispánico, en el que, bajo el tamiz del realismo de su intensidad expresiva y de su simplicidad formal, se dieron cita, en inextricable amalgama, lo culto y lo popular.
Archive 2009-04-01 Lu 2009
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NIA has nothing to hide and is proud of its achievements since amalgama - tion.
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El telegrama (the telegram) etc., etc. But La amalgama (the amalgamation)
Pitman's Commercial Spanish Grammar (2nd ed.) C. A. Toledano
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They have attempted to confound all sorts of citizens, as well as they could, into one homogeneous mass; and then they divided this their amalgama into a number of incoherent republics.
Paras. 300-324 1909
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The Science of being repudiates self - evident impossibilities, such as the amalgama -
Science and Health, with Key to the Scriptures Mary Baker Eddy 1865
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Secondly, which destroy worms, as calomel, iron filings or rust of iron, in the round worms; or amalgama of quicksilver and tin, or tin in very large doses, in the tape-worms.
Zoonomia, Vol. II Or, the Laws of Organic Life Erasmus Darwin 1766
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The tape-worm is cured by an amalgama of tin and quicksilver, such as is used on the back of looking-glasses; an ounce should be taken every two hours, till a pound is taken; and then a brisk cathartic of Glauber's salt two ounces, and common salts one ounce, dissolved in two wine pints of water, half a pint to be taken every hour till it purges.
Zoonomia, Vol. II Or, the Laws of Organic Life Erasmus Darwin 1766
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The worm extends from the stomach to the anus, and the amalgama tears it from the intestine by mechanical pressure, acting upon it the whole way.
Zoonomia, Vol. II Or, the Laws of Organic Life Erasmus Darwin 1766
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They have attempted to confound all sorts of citizens, as well as they could, into one homogeneous mass; and then they divided this their amalgama into a number of incoherent republics.
The Works of the Right Honourable Edmund Burke, Vol. 03 (of 12) Edmund Burke 1763
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Como dice el WSJ, este paquete "estimulante" es una amalgama de todas las propuestas intervencionistas defendidas por los Demócratas en los últimos 40 años.
Red Liberal 2009
frangarnes commented on the word amalgama
Unión o mezcla de cosas de naturaleza contraria o distinta
October 20, 2007
seanahan commented on the word amalgama
Essentially the English verb amalgamate.
October 20, 2007
frangarnes commented on the word amalgama
amalgamate is a verb and amalgama is a noun. I think amalgam is the correct translation
October 20, 2007
mollusque commented on the word amalgama
He glued a bit of leather on a large piece of cork, and placed his amalgama on the leather . . .
--The Monthly Review, April 1784, p. 284
June 20, 2009