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单词 concoctions
释义

concoction

noun

con·​coc·​tion kən-ˈkäk-shən How to pronounce concoction (audio)
kän-
plural concoctions
1
: something (such as a food or drink) that is concocted from various elements : something prepared or devised by combining different ingredients
an elaborate concoction
This concoction is a cross between hot chocolate and a grasshopper, a mixed drink that gets its minty kick from crème de menthe. Kim Steckler
… the disc offers quite an unusual concoction of old and new songs that are surprisingly cohesive. Jon Hetman
2
: the act of process of concocting something
One of these young men had a rare faculty in the concoction of gin-cocktails. Nathaniel Hawthorne

Synonyms

  • brainchild
  • coinage
  • contrivance
  • creation
  • innovation
  • invention
  • wrinkle
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Word History

First Known Use

1830, in the meaning defined at sense 2

concoctions

noun

plural of concoction
as in inventions
something (as a device) created for the first time through the use of the imagination the first submarine must have seemed like a wild concoction at the time

Synonyms & Similar Words

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  • inventions
  • innovations
  • creations
  • products
  • devices
  • contrivances
  • works
  • coinages
  • contraptions
  • gadgets
  • brainchildren
  • gizmos
  • novelties
  • wrinkles
  • conceptions
  • designs
  • pictures
  • visions
  • gismos
  • fantasies
  • dreams
  • phantasies
  • originations

Antonyms & Near Antonyms

  • imitations
  • copies
  • reproductions
  • facsimiles
  • clones
  • dupes
  • replications
  • carbon copies
  • duplicates
  • replicas
  • duplications
  • reduplications
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