Difference between thing and amalgam
Definitions
noun
- a statement regarded as an object
- a special objective
- an action
- a persistent illogical feeling of desire or aversion
- any attribute or quality considered as having its own existence
Examples
Elisabeth found herself with a straggle of colonists in a mosquito-ridden, uncleared jungle where sandflies bored into the skin of the feet and the clay soil was so intractable that nothing would grow.
Before we did anything we wrote and rewrote the script until we felt what we had got written down was a really good story.
This is not good for anybody, except for a few curmudgeons and people who are embittered by nothing more than their own embitteredness.
Definitions
noun
- a combination or blend of diverse things
- 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
Examples
Is particularly early snow mushroom, in the formulating and float to fall of easily adsorb a lot of contaminants in the course, the quare amalgamation out of character drinks.
Tickets for other Amalgamation matches should soon be available and it is hoped that more extensive advertising and a reduced number of contests at favoured venues will see a reverse in the dwindling attendances.
That complete dependence on each other, which insures habits of confidence and forbearance, is more easily acquired while the first dream of love lasts; and tastes and tempers amalgamate better in the end when there are no witnesses to observe that they do not quite fit at first.
