| 单词 | amalgam |
| 释义 | amalgam (once / 1920 pages) n In science, when you mix a metal with mercury to soften it, you create an amalgam. Otherwise, an amalgam is simply a combination of two or more unlike things into one. Use amalgam when the mixture of several things creates something different and larger. If your school puts together a drug prevention task force of police, doctors, teachers, social workers, and students, the task force is an amalgam of local resources. If your band plays a combination of country music and jazz, they play an amalgam of contemporary styles. We can only hope they play it well. WORD FAMILYamalgam: amalgamate, amalgams+/amalgamate: amalgamated, amalgamates, amalgamating, amalgamation, amalgamator/amalgamation: amalgamations/amalgamator: amalgamators USAGE EXAMPLESThe amalgam of ballerina finesse and daft diva antics is brilliant, unsettling, riveting: the epitome of Trocks style. New York Times(Dec 15, 2016) “The skills needed to do this are an interesting amalgam of being direct and showing patience.” Wall Street Journal(Nov 11, 2016) The resulting amalgam of person and persona floats just out of reach. Slate(Nov 11, 2016) 1n a combination or blend of diverse things his theory is an amalgam of earlier ideas Hyper combination a collection of things that have been combined; an assemblage of separate parts or qualities 2n an alloy of mercury with another metal (usually silver) used by dentists to fill cavities in teeth; except for iron and platinum all metals dissolve in mercury and chemists refer to the resulting mercury mixtures as amalgams Syn|Hyper dental amalgam alloy, metal a mixture containing two or more metallic elements or metallic and nonmetallic elements usually fused together or dissolving into each other when molten |
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