| Main Entry: | |
| Part of Speech: | noun |
| Definition: | the act of becoming a corporate body |
| Synonyms: | affiliation, alliance, amalgamation, chartering, confederation, consolidation, establishment, federation, fraternization, merger, unification, unionization |
| Antonyms: | disbanding, dissolution, division |
| Main Entry: | mixture |
| Part of Speech: | noun |
| Definition: | combination |
| Synonyms: | admixture, adulteration, alloy, amalgam, amalgamation, assimilation, association, batter, blend, brew, combine, combo, commixture, composite, compound, concoction, confection, conglomeration, cross, crossing, dough, fusion, goulash, grab bag, hodgepodge, hybrid, hybridization, incorporation, infiltration, interfusion, jumble, mash, medley, merger, mingling, miscellany, mishmash, mix, mixed bag, mosaic, mélange, package, patchwork, potpourri, salmagundi, saturation, soup, stew, transfusion, union, variety |
| Notes: | in a mixture, the combined elements lose their individual identities and are fused, blended, or compounded in the result; in a mix, the elements, though combined, retain their individual identities |
| Main Entry: | commixture |
| Part of Speech: | noun |
| Definition: | mixture |
| Synonyms: | admixture, amalgam, amalgamation, blend, combination, composite, compound, fusion, intermixture, mix |
| Main Entry: | conjugation |
| Part of Speech: | noun |
| Definition: | combination |
| Synonyms: | amalgamation, fusion, unification, union, unity |
| Notes: | in the jargon of grammar, the forms of nouns, pronouns, and adjectives can be arrayed in declensions or inflections; the forms of verbs are said to be arrayed in conjugations |
| Main Entry: | marriage |
| Part of Speech: | noun |
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Adjectives: |
affianced, affinal, antenuptial, apopemptoclinic, betrothed, bridal, conjugal, connubial, cornuted, desponsate, digamous, disespoused, dotal, eligible, endogamous, engaged, extramarital, hitched, horn, levirate, marital, maritorious, marriageable, married, married all over, matrimonial, morganatic, nubile, nuptial, one, one bone and one flesh, pentapopemptic, polyandrous, preternuptual, spousal, unmarried, uxorial, wedded
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| Main Entry: | mixture |
| Part of Speech: | noun |
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composite, farraginous, half, hybrid, implex, indiscriminate, linsey, miscellaneous, miscible, mixed, mongrel, motley, promiscuous
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| Concept: | Combination. |
| Category: | 3. CONJUNCTIVE QUANTITY |
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-nouns
-verbs
combine, unite, incorporate, amalgamate, embody, absorb, reembody, blend, merge, fuse, melt into one, consolidate, coalesce, centralize, impregnate; put together, lump together; cement a union, marry.
-adjectives
combined; impregnated with, ingrained; imbued, inoculated.
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| Antonyms: | decomposition |
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| Concept: | Marriage. |
| Category: | 1. Social Affections |
| Synonyms: |
-nouns
marriage, matrimony, wedlock, union, intermarriage, miscegenation, the bonds of marriage, vinculum matrimonii, nuptial tie., married state, coverture, bed, cohabitation; the old ball and chain., match; betrothment (promise); wedding, nuptials, Hymen, bridal; espousals, spousals; leading to the altar; nuptial benediction, epithalamium; sealing., torch of Hymen, temple of Hymen; hymeneal altar; honeymoon., bridesmaid, bridesman; bride, bridegroom. married man, married woman, married couple; neogamist, Benedict, partner, spouse, mate, yokemate; husband, man, consort, baron; old man, good man; wife of one's bosom; helpmate, rib, better half, gray mare, old woman, old lady, good wife, goodwife., feme, feme coverte; squaw, lady; matron, matronage, matronhood; man and wife; wedded pair, Darby and Joan; spiritual wife., monogamy, bigamy, digamy, deuterogamy, trigamy, polygamy; mormonism; levirate; spiritual wifery, spiritual wifeism; polyandrism; Turk, bluebeard., unlawful marriage, left-handed marriage, morganatic marriage, ill-assorted marriage; mesalliance; marriage de convenance., marriage broker; matrimonial agency, matrimonial agent, matrimonial bureau; schatchen.
-verbs
marry, wive, take to oneself a wife; be married, be spliced; go off, pair off; wed, espouse, lead to the hymeneal altar, take "for better for worse," give one's hand to, bestow one's hand upon., marry, join, handfast; couple (unit); tie the nuptial knot; give away, give away in marriage; seal; ally, affiance; betroth (promise); publish the banns, bid the banns; be asked in church.
-adjectives
married; one, one bone and one flesh. marriageable, nubile., engaged, betrothed, affianced., matrimonial, marital, conjugal, connubial, wedded; nuptial, hymeneal, spousal, bridal.
-phrases
the gray mare the better horse; "a world-without-end bargain" [Love's Labor's Lost]; "marriages are made in Heaven" [Tennyson]; "render me worthy of
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| Antonyms: | celibacy (singleness); divorce |
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| Concept: | [Forming a whole without coherence] Mixture. |
| Category: | 3. CONJUNCTIVE QUANTITY |
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-nouns
mixture, admixture, commixture, commixtion; commixion, intermixture, alloyage, matrimony; junction; combination; miscegenation., impregnation; infusion, diffusion, suffusion, transfusion; infiltration; seasoning, sprinkling, interlarding; interpolation, adulteration, sophistication., [Thing mixed] tinge, tincture, touch, dash, smack, sprinkling, spice, seasoning, infusion, soupcon., [Compound resulting from mixture] alloy, amalgam; brass, chowchow, pewter; magma, half-and-half, melange, tertium quid, miscellany, ambigu, medley, mess, hotchpot, hodgepodge, pasticcio, patchwork, odds and ends, all sorts; jumble (disorder); salad, sauce, mash, omnium gatherum, gallimaufry, olla-podrida, olio, salmagundi, potpourri, Noah's ark, caldron texture, mingled yarn; mosaic (variegation)., half-blood, half-caste. mulatto; terceron, quarteron, quinteron; quadroon, octoroon; griffo, zambo; cafuzo; Eurasian; fustee, fustie; grimffe, ladino, marabou, mestee, mestizo, quintroon, sacatra [U. S.], zebrule; catalo; cross, hybrid, mongrel.
-verbs
mix; join; combine; commix, immix, intermix; mix up with, mingle; commingle, intermingle, bemingle; shuffle (derange); pound together; hash up, stir up; knead, brew; impregnate with; interlard (interpolate); intertwine, interweave; associate with; miscegenate., be mixed; get among, be entangled with., instil, imbue; infuse, suffuse, transfuse; infiltrate, dash, tinge, tincture, season, sprinkle, besprinkle, attemper, medicate, blend, cross; alloy, amalgamate, compound, adulterate, sophisticate, infect.
-adjectives
mixed; implex, composite, half-and-half, linsey-woolsey, chowchow, hybrid, mongrel, heterogeneous; motley (variegated); miscellaneous, promiscuous, indiscriminate; miscible.
-adverbs
among, amongst, amid, amidst; with; in the midst of, in the crowd.
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| Antonyms: | simpleness |
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