Miscellaneous

4 definitions found

From The Collaborative International Dictionary of English v.0.48 [gcide]:

  Miscellaneous \Mis`cel*la"ne*ous\, a. [L. miscellaneus mixed,
     miscellaneous, fr. miscellus mixed, fr. miscere to mix. See
     {Mix}, and cf. {Miscellany}.]
     Mixed; mingled; consisting of several things; of diverse
     sorts; promiscuous; heterogeneous; as, a miscellaneous
     collection. "A miscellaneous rabble." --Milton. --


     {Mis`cel*la"ne*ous*ly}, adv. -- {Mis`cel*la"ne*ous*ness}, n.
     [1913 Webster]

From WordNet (r) 2.0 [wn]:

  miscellaneous
       adj 1: constituting a grab-bag category; "the usual collection of
              miscellaneous expenses"
       2: consisting of a haphazard assortment of different kinds
          (even to the point of incongruity); "an arrangement of
          assorted spring flowers"; "assorted sizes"; "miscellaneous
          accessories"; "a mixed program of baroque and contemporary
          music"; "a motley crew"; "sundry sciences commonly known
          as social"- I.A.Richards [syn: {assorted}, {mixed}, {motley},
           {sundry(a)}]

From Moby Thesaurus II by Grady Ward, 1.0 [moby-thes]:

  53 Moby Thesaurus words for "miscellaneous":
     amalgamated, ambiguous, ambivalent, amphibious, assorted, blended,
     combined, complex, composite, compound, compounded, conglomerate,
     dappled, different, disparate, divergent, divers, diverse,
     diversified, eclectic, equivocal, fifty-fifty, half-and-half,
     heterogeneous, indiscriminate, intricate, ironic, jumbled,
     manifold, many, many-sided, medley, mingled, mixed, motley,
     multifaceted, multifarious, multiform, multinational, multiplex,
     multiracial, odd, patchy, pluralistic, promiscuous, scrambled,
     sundry, syncretic, thrown together, unsorted, varied, various,
     varying
  
  

From Jargon File (4.3.1, 29 Jun 2001) [jargon]:

  Miscellaneous
  
  Hackers are more likely to have cats than dogs (in fact, it is widely
  grokked that cats have the hacker nature). Many drive incredibly decrepit
  heaps and forget to wash them; richer ones drive spiffy Porsches and RX-7s
  and then forget to have them washed. Almost all hackers have terribly bad
  handwriting, and often fall into the habit of block-printing everything
  like junior draftsmen.