concoction

concoction
    n 1: any foodstuff made by combining different ingredients; "he
         volunteered to taste her latest concoction"; "he drank a
         mixture of beer and lemonade" [syn: {concoction},
         {mixture}, {intermixture}]
    2: an occurrence of an unusual mixture; "it suddenly spewed out
       a thick green concoction"
    3: the invention of a scheme or story to suit some purpose; "his
       testimony was a concoction"; "she has no peer in the
       concoction of mystery stories"
    4: the act of creating something (a medicine or drink or soup
       etc.) by compounding or mixing a variety of components [syn:
       {confection}, {concoction}]
    

Concoction \Con*coc"tion\, n. [L. concoctio.]
   1. A change in food produced by the organs of nutrition;
      digestion. [Obs.]
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   2. The act of concocting or preparing by combining different
      ingredients; also, the food or compound thus prepared.
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   3. The act of digesting in the mind; planning or devising;
      rumination. --Donne.
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   4. (Med.) Abatement of a morbid process, as a fever and
      return to a normal condition. [Obs.]
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   5. The act of perfecting or maturing. [Obs.] --Bacon.
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70 Moby Thesaurus words for "concoction":
      admixture, alloy, amalgam, artifact, authorship, beginning, blend,
      brainchild, brew, canard, child, coinage, combination, combo,
      commixture, composite, conception, confection, contrivance,
      contriving, creation, creative effort, creature,
      crowning achievement, decoction, decoctum, devising, distillation,
      effect, end product, ensemble, essence, extract, extravaganza,
      fable, fabrication, fiction, figment, forgery, fruit, generation,
      handiwork, hatching, immixture, improvisation, intermixture,
      invention, issue, magma, making do, manufacture, masterpiece,
      masterwork, mintage, mixture, myth, new mintage, offspring, opera,
      opus, opuscule, origination, outcome, outgrowth, paste, product,
      production, result, romance, work