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Longman Dictionary of Contemporary English
miscellaneous
adjective
COLLOCATIONS FROM OTHER ENTRIES
miscellaneous items (=of lots of different types)
▪ The cardboard box contained a number of miscellaneous items.
EXAMPLES FROM OTHER ENTRIES
▪ List your miscellaneous expenses in the right-hand column.
▪ The seminar was attended by a miscellaneous collection of students, businessmen, and housewives.
▪ Their junk shop was full of chairs, trunks, ornaments, and other miscellaneous objects.
▪ You'll need enough money for food, transport, and other miscellaneous costs.
EXAMPLES FROM CORPUS
▪ A miscellaneous series of incidents attach to various lengths of term.
▪ Added to the main Bill were six miscellaneous sections.
▪ At first sight, indeed, every civilization looks rather like a railway goods yard, constantly receiving and dispatching miscellaneous deliveries.
▪ For collectors there was a splendid array of miscellaneous artefacts grouped together in sections.
▪ Other miscellaneous rare causes of central vertigo are listed in Table 3-4.
▪ Scientific Correspondence is for discussion of topical scientific matters, including those published in Nature, and for miscellaneous contributions.
▪ The balancing slower growth was supplied by the portmanteau of miscellaneous services.
The Collaborative International Dictionary
Miscellaneous

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.

Douglas Harper's Etymology Dictionary
miscellaneous

1630s, from Latin miscellaneus "mixed, miscellaneous," from miscellus "mixed," from miscere "to mix" (see mix (v.)). Related: Miscellaneously.

Wiktionary
miscellaneous

a. 1 consisting of a variety of ingredients or parts. 2 Having diverse characteristics, abilities or appearances.

WordNet
miscellaneous
  1. adj. 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)]

Wikipedia
Miscellaneous

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Usage examples of "miscellaneous".

Paul Di Filippo Miscellaneous Titles The English-language SF and fantasy and horror genres offer so many riches that Anglophone readers are often disinclined to search out the stories of other tongues.

After considering him attentively, I recognized in him a diligent getter-up of miscellaneous works, which bustled off well with the trade.

Among the heap of things, Silence could pick out another monochord, a case of tubes that probably held incense, a mirror, and a dozen other miscellaneous pieces of equipment that she could not imagine wanting for a simple transformation.

It is interesting to note that this same Marshall engraved the head of Milton for the first collection of his miscellaneous poems--the precious 1645 volume containing Il Penseroso, Lycidas, Comus, etc.

Captain Maw had a large collection of miscellaneous drawing supplies and encouraged us to make use of them, for Spink had nothing, no compass, rule, nor even any variety of leads.

I was dressed so that Spinnel had no way of telling whether I was a miscellaneous Nobel laureate that Hawk happened to have been dining with, or a varlet whose manners and morals were even lower than mine happen to be.

Dyes and Stains for Leather --Miscellaneous Information -- Chrome Tannage -- Index.

In the barroom he found assembled quite a miscellaneous company, whom stress of weather had driven to harbor, and the place presented the usual scenery of such reunions.

Options are: armor characteristics, biometrics, canid interface, cognitive extension, external communications, maintenance, memory and storage, miscellaneous settings, product specifications, shielding, smart matter, stealth, tactical support, weapons interfacing, user preferences.

One or two pleasant pieces of china and a vast amount of worthless material, an ancient boneshaker and a miscellaneous collection of swords and early sporting guns were heaped upon one another with the profusion of a second-hand shop.

After dozens of phone calls, she and Penelope Briggs had managed to put together a consortium of parents, alums, local businesspeople, and miscellaneous Travelers who wanted to buy St.

Not only that, there was an awful lot of it, and the dozens of chairs, sofas, pictures, prints, busts, and miscellaneous knick-knacks seemed to have been chosen more or less at random.

He chatted idly about Lonnie, the weather, and miscellaneous matters while I made what I hoped were the appropriate responses.

The fifth was used for miscellaneous storage, and Ryba and Nylan rattled around in a sixth level that had little in it except for the two lander couches lashed together and a few weapons and personal effects.

All the miscellaneous props with which it had been piled, hatstands, baskets, boxes and wooden pedestals, went crashing to the floor, and at the same instant Grace, who had been edging toward the door unobserved by either Connie or the floorwalker, clicked the switch that controlled the single overhead night light.