harmony vs muddle

harmony

noun
  • A pleasing combination of elements, or arrangement of sounds. 

  • A literary work which brings together or arranges systematically parallel passages of historians respecting the same events, and shows their agreement or consistency. 

  • The relationship between two distinct musical pitches (musical pitches being frequencies of vibration which produce audible sound) played simultaneously. 

  • The academic study of chords. 

  • Agreement or accord. 

  • Two or more notes played simultaneously to produce a chord. 

muddle

noun
  • A mixture; a confusion; a garble. 

  • A mixture of crushed ingredients, as prepared with a muddler. 

verb
  • To dabble in mud. 

  • To mash slightly for use in a cocktail. 

  • To think and act in a confused, aimless way. 

  • To cloud or stupefy; to render stupid with liquor; to intoxicate partially. 

  • To mix together, to mix up; to confuse. 

  • To make turbid or muddy. 

  • To waste or misuse, as one does who is stupid or intoxicated. 

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