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From: DICT.TW English-Chinese Dictionary 英漢字典

 concoction
 混合,調合,調合物

From: Webster's Revised Unabridged Dictionary (1913)

 Con·coc·tion n.
 1. A change in food produced by the organs of nutrition; digestion. [Obs.]
 2. The act of concocting or preparing by combining different ingredients; also, the food or compound thus prepared.
 3. The act of digesting in the mind; planning or devising; rumination.
 4. Med. Abatement of a morbid process, as a fever and return to a normal condition. [Obs.]
 5. The act of perfecting or maturing. [Obs.]
 

From: WordNet (r) 2.0

 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: 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]