cstr/en-wiktionary-extracted-all huggingface dataset:
maze
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Pronunciation: ipa: /ˈmeɪz/
rhymes: -eɪz
homophone: maise
homophone: maize
Forms: form: mazes
Etymology: From Middle English mase, from Middle English masen (“to perplex, bewilder”); or perhaps from Old English *mæs (“delusion, bewilderment”); akin to Old English āmasian (“to perplex, confound”), Icelandic masa (“to chatter”). More at amaze.
Senses: examples: text: There's plenty for toddlers too: experience the Wild West in Bear City, play with sand diggers, splash in the paddling pool and discover meerkats, reptiles and alpacas in the Zoo-Farm. Rain doesn't stop play, just head for the indoor fun factory with a rocking and rolling tugboat, mirror maze, ferris wheel and soft play.
ref: 2012 May 30, Hayley Spurway, “Top 10 family days out in south Devon”, in the Guardian:
glosses: A labyrinth; a puzzle consisting of a complicated network of paths or passages, the aim of which is to find one's way through.
examples: text: A beech wood with silver firs in it rolled down the face of the hill, and the maze of leafless twigs and dusky spires cut sharp against the soft blueness of the evening sky.
ref: 1907 January, Harold Bindloss, chapter 1, in The Dust of Conflict, 1st Canadian edition, Toronto, Ont.: McLeod & Allen, →OCLC:
text: The project developer, Poseidon Resources Corp., has been winding its way through a maze of state and local agencies for six years
ref: 2009 May 11, “Nation's largest desal project faces financing hurdles”, in New York Times:
glosses: Something made up of many confused or conflicting elements; a tangle.
examples: text: But first they came to Canterbury, an olde Citie, somewhat decayed, yet beautiful to behold, most famous for a Cathedrall Church, the very Maiestie whereoff, stroke them into a maze, where they saw many monuments, and heard tell of greater, then either they euer saw, or easely would beleeue.
ref: 1580, John Lyly, “Euphues and His England”, in The Complete Works of John Lyly, published 1906, page 36:
synonyms: perplexity
uncertainty
glosses: Confusion of thought; state of bewilderment.
Derived terms: amazement
amazing
bead maze
bemaze
Cincinnati water maze
extramaze
hedge maze
intermaze
intramaze
island maze
logic maze
mazal
mazed
mazeful
mazelike
mazement
mazework
mazey
mazy
mizmaze
Morris water maze
radiation maze
submaze
T-maze
turf maze
watermaze
water maze
Y-maze
maze
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Pronunciation: ipa: /ˈmeɪz/
rhymes: -eɪz
homophone: maise
homophone: maize
Forms: form: mazes
form: mazing
form: mazed
form: mazed
Etymology: From Middle English mase, from Middle English masen (“to perplex, bewilder”); or perhaps from Old English *mæs (“delusion, bewilderment”); akin to Old English āmasian (“to perplex, confound”), Icelandic masa (“to chatter”). More at amaze.
Senses: examples: text: they so mazed and even stupified his Conscience
ref: 1692–1717, Robert South, Twelve Sermons Preached upon Several Occasions, volume (please specify |volume=I to VI), London:
glosses: To amaze, astonish, bewilder.
examples: text: mazed […] by the eyes of the crowd
ref: 1857, Anthony Trollope, Barchester Towers:
text: She rowed back alone, the simple soul that was in her forwandered and mazed with excess of joy.
ref: 1895, S. R. Crockett, A Cry Across the Black Water:
glosses: To daze or stupefy.
meiosis
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Pronunciation: ipa: /maɪˈəʊ.sɪs/
ipa: /maɪˈoʊ.sɪs/
homophone: miosis
rhymes: -əʊsɪs
Forms: form: meioses
form: maiosis
form: miosis
Etymology: From Ancient Greek μείωσις (meíōsis, “a lessening”), from μειόω (meióō, “I lessen”), from μείων (meíōn, “less”). The biological sense was coined by British biologists John Bretland Farmer and by John Edmund Sharrock Moore in 1905 as maiosis in a paper in the Quarterly Journal of Microscopic Science, with the spelling corrected on etymological grounds later that year. Doublet of miosis.
Senses: examples: text: I knew, with one of those secret knowledges that can exist between two people, that her suicide was a direct result of my having told her of my own attempt – I had told it with a curt meiosis that was meant to conceal depths; and she had called my bluff one final time.
ref: 1965, John Fowles, The Magus:
synonyms: understatement
antonyms: hyperbole
overstatement
exaggeration
auxesis
glosses: A figure of speech whereby something is made to seem smaller or less important than it actually is.
topics: biology
cytology
medicine
natural-sciences
sciences
synonyms: reduction division
meronyms: prophase
metaphase
anaphase
telophase
reduction division
equation division
coordinate_terms: mitosis
glosses: Cell division of a diploid cell into four haploid cells, which develop to produce gametes.
Derived terms: apomeiosis
meiome
meiotic
meiotically
postmeiosis
premeiosis
mellow
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Pronunciation: ipa: /ˈmɛləʊ/
ipa: /ˈmɛloʊ/
rhymes: -ɛləʊ
Forms: form: mellows
Etymology: The adjective is derived from Late Middle English melowe, melwe (“ripe, mellow; juicy; sweet”) [and other forms]; further etymology uncertain, possibly:
* from an attributive use of melow, melowe, melewe, mele (“meal from ground grain or legumes; flour; kernel of barley or lentils”) [and other forms], from Old English melo, melu (“meal (edible part of a grain or pulse); flour”), from Proto-Germanic *melwą (“ground corn; meal; flour”), from Proto-Indo-European *melh₂- (“to crush; to grind”); or
* a variant of Middle English merow, merowe, meruw (“soft, tender; of a person: frail; of love: unstable, variable”) [and other forms], from Old English meru, mearu (“soft, tender; delicate, frail; callow”) [and other forms], from Proto-Germanic *marwaz (“soft, mellow; brittle, delicate”), from Proto-Indo-European *mer(w)- (“to rub; to pack”).
The noun and verb are both derived from the adjective. The etymology of noun sense 3 (“close friend; lover”) is unknown, but may also be derived from the adjective.
Cognates
* Dutch murw (“tender”)
* German mürbe (“soft, tender”)
* German Low German möör (“tender”)
* Old Norse mör (“tender; aching”) (Icelandic meyr (“tender”))
* Saterland Frisian muur (“tender”)
* West Frisian murf (“tender”)
Senses: glosses: The property of being mellow; mellowness.
examples: text: Yet, conversely, some people searched for the mellow […] Hope for flower power had faded, though the journey into the mellow did not represent idealism; rather, it spelled escape— […]
ref: 1997, Neil A. Hamilton, The ABC-CLIO Companion to the 1960s Counterculture in America, Santa Barbara, Calif.: ABC-CLIO, →ISBN, page 258, column 1:
text: Nothing like a suicide to harsh a mellow. On their third date, Lizzie had actually said to him, "You're sort of harshing my mellow." It made him wonder if she might be stupid, and not just young.
ref: 1999, Kurt Andersen, chapter 37, in Turn of the Century, New York, N.Y.: Random House, →ISBN, part 3 (June, July, August, September, October), page 508:
glosses: A comfortable or relaxed mood.
examples: text: I've got attractions like I'm Elvis Costello / Adam Yauch grab the mic 'cause you know you're my mellow
ref: 1994 May 31, Michael Diamond, Adam Horovitz, Adam Yauch, “Do It”, in Ill Communication, performed by the Beastie Boys:
qualifier: African-American Vernacular
glosses: Also main mellow: a close friend or lover.
Derived terms: harsh one's mellow
melodrama
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Pronunciation: ipa: /ˈmɛləˌdɹɑːmə/
Forms: form: melodramas
form: melodramata
Etymology: From French mélodrame, the second element refashioned by analogy with drama; ultimately from Ancient Greek μέλος (mélos, “limb”, “member”, “song”, “tune”, “melody”) + δρᾶμα (drâma, “deed”, “theatrical act”). Compare melodrame. Cognate to German Melodram and Spanish melodrama.
Senses: glosses: A kind of drama having a musical accompaniment to intensify the effect of certain scenes.
glosses: A drama abounding in romantic sentiment and agonizing situations, with a musical accompaniment only in parts which are especially thrilling or pathetic.
examples: text: The grave-digging scene in Beethoven's “Fidelio” has much melodrama.
text: Rudolf was the bold, bad Baron of traditional melodrama. Irene was young, as pretty as a picture, fresh from a music academy in England. He was the scion of an ancient noble family; she an orphan without money or friends.
ref: 1956, Delano Ames, chapter 9, in Crime out of Mind:
qualifier: opera
glosses: A passage in which the orchestra plays a somewhat descriptive accompaniment, while the actor speaks.
glosses: Any situation or action which is blown out of proportion.
Derived terms: melodramatic
melodramatics
melodramatist
melodramatize
melofarce
melodramatic
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Pronunciation: ipa: /ˌmɛl.ə.dɹəˈmæt.ɪk/
ipa: /ˌmɛl.əʊ.dɹəˈmæt.ɪk/
Forms: form: more melodramatic
form: most melodramatic
form: melo-dramatic
Etymology: From melodrama + -tic.
Senses: glosses: Of or pertaining to melodrama; like or suitable to a melodrama; unnatural in situation or action.
examples: text: She wrote him a melodramatic letter, threatening to kill herself.
text: Dearest Eloise,— There is one little and perhaps insignificant French cake, which I feel certain would soon become a favourite in the cottage, more particularly amongst its juvenile inhabitants. It is the famed galette, the melodramatic food of the gamins, galopins, mechanics, and semi-artists of France.
ref: 1854, Alexis [Benoît] Soyer, A Shilling Cookery for the People: Embracing an Entirely New System of Plain Cookery and Domestic Economy, London, New York, N.Y.: George Routledge & Co., →OCLC, page 125:
text: In it, the officer insisted he did not depart from NCND and gave a melodramatic account of my "long pauses" as I said I needed the story, before I eventually became cooperative and said I had "seen the light".
ref: 2025 July 6, Daniel De Simone, “How MI5 piled falsehood on falsehood in court in the case of a spy who abused women”, in BBC News, retrieved 06 Jul 2025:
glosses: Exaggeratedly emotional or sentimental.
Derived terms: melodramatically
melodramaticism
melodramaticness
nonmelodramatic
unmelodramatic
Related terms: melodramatics
mend
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Pronunciation: ipa: /mɛnd/
ipa: /mɪnd/
rhymes: -ɛnd
Forms: form: mends
Etymology: Partly:
* (chiefly sense 2 (“recompense; restoration or reparation”)) from Middle English mend, mende (“cure, remedy; damages, recompense; atonement; penance; relief”), the aphetic form of amende, amendes (“retribution, amends; a fine; atonement; penance”) (though attested slightly earlier); or directly from its etymon Anglo-Norman amende, Middle French amende, and Old French amende (“a fine”) (modern French amende), from amender (verb) (see etymology 1); and
* from mend (verb).
Senses: examples: text: My trousers have a big rip in them and need a mend.
glosses: Senses relating to improvement or repairing.
An act of repairing.
glosses: Senses relating to improvement or repairing.
A place in a thing (such as a tear in clothing) which has been repaired.
examples: text: Though he was fearfully weak, he found himself actually feeling better. The disease had spent itself, and the mend had begun.
ref: 1911 March, Jack London, “The Jessie”, in Adventure, New York, N.Y.: The Macmillan Company, →OCLC, page 39:
glosses: Senses relating to improvement or repairing.
Chiefly in on the mend: improvement in health; recovery from illness.
synonyms: mends
glosses: Recompense; restoration or reparation, especially (Christianity) from sin.
Derived terms: word: mends
word: on the mend
mention
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Pronunciation: ipa: /ˈmɛnʃən/
rhymes: -ɛnʃən
Forms: form: mentions
Etymology: Inherited from Middle English mencioun, mention, from Old French mention, from Latin mentiōnem, accusative of mentiō (“a mention, calling to mind”).
Senses: examples: text: I will make mention of thy righteousness.
ref: 1611, The Holy Bible, […] (King James Version), London: […] Robert Barker, […], →OCLC, Psalms 71:16:
text: And sleep in dull, cold marble, where no mention / Of me more must be heard of.
ref: 1613 (date written), William Shakespeare, [John Fletcher], “The Famous History of the Life of King Henry the Eight”, in Mr. William Shakespeares Comedies, Histories, & Tragedies […] (First Folio), London: […] Isaac Iaggard, and Ed[ward] Blount, published 1623, →OCLC, [Act III, scene ii]:
glosses: A speaking or noticing of anything, usually in a brief or cursory manner.
examples: text: "I would like Twitter to put some kind of filters in place," suggests Prakash. "At present I can't see troll tweets if I block the user, but others who go into my 'mentions' can do so, and read the graphic abuse, which is disturbing."
ref: 2012 November 20, Kavitha Rao, “The Problems With Policing Sexism on Twitter”, in The Atlantic:
text: In response to the flood of replies, Chance returned to Twitter several hours later — presumably, after his mentions calmed down — to request that users format their resumes as "creative decks, pitches or proposals" […].
ref: 2017 March 28, Jaleesa M. Jones, “Time to update your resumes: Chance the Rapper is hiring an intern”, in USA Today:
text: I didn’t delete my account — yet! I know! I am full of shame! — but I did change the way I use it (no looking at my mentions; far less tweeting; aiming to highlight the work of people I like rather than criticize the work of those I don’t).
ref: 2018 December 3, Bari Weiss, Eve Peyser, “Can You Like the Person You Love to Hate?”, in The New York Times:
glosses: A social media feed, a list of replies or posts mentioning a person.
Derived terms: honorable mention
honorary mention
make mention
make mention of
mentionable
mentionless
nonmention
remention
use-mention distinction
mention
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Pronunciation: ipa: /ˈmɛnʃən/
rhymes: -ɛnʃən
Forms: form: mentions
form: mentioning
form: mentioned
form: mentioned
Etymology: Inherited from Middle English mencioun, mention, from Old French mention, from Latin mentiōnem, accusative of mentiō (“a mention, calling to mind”).
Senses: examples: text: Finance is seldom romantic. But the idea of peer-to-peer lending comes close. This is an industry that brings together individual savers and lenders on online platforms.[…]Banks and credit-card firms are kept out of the picture. Talk to enough people in the field and someone is bound to mention the “democratisation of finance”.
ref: 2013 June 1, “End of the peer show”, in The Economist, volume 407, number 8838, page 71:
glosses: To make a short reference to something.
examples: text: I can illustrate this by mentioning the word lead. Now you have no way of knowing for sure which meaning I have in mind until I give it some context by using it in a sentence.
ref: 2006, Tony Evans, The Transforming Word: Discovering the Power and Provision of the Bible, Moody Publishers, →ISBN, page 140:
text: If the verbatimness view derives from the popular notion that DST repeats 'the actual words spoken', a second line of thought takes its cue from Quine's (1940: 23–26, 1960: 146–156) philosophical distinction between words which are “used” vs. words which are merely “mentioned”.
ref: 2009, Lieven Vandelanotte, Speech and Thought Representation in English: A Cognitive-functional Approach, Walter de Gruyter, →ISBN, page 124:
text: If I said rightly, “'Niggers' is a seven letter word,” I would be mentioning the word, and when we write it, we use mention-quotes for this purpose (speech typically lacks quotes, except for the occasional air-quotes). If I said, rightly or wrongly, “Niggers are good athletes,” then I would be using “niggers,” not merely mentioning it.
ref: 2013, Richard Hanley, South Park and Philosophy: Bigger, Longer, and More Penetrating, Open Court, →ISBN:
topics: human-sciences
linguistics
philosophy
sciences
glosses: To utter a word or expression in order to refer to the expression itself, as opposed to its usual referent.
Synonyms: word: bring up
word: mention
word: move
word: reference
word: toss up
word: touch
word: touch on
Hypernyms: word: speak
Derived terms: come to mention it
don't mention it
intermention
mentionee
mentioner
more than one cares to mention
not to mention
now that you mention it
now you mention it
remention
unmention
Related terms: word: allude
merganser
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Pronunciation: ipa: /məˈɡænsə/
ipa: /mɚˈɡænsɚ/
rhymes: -ænsə(ɹ)
Forms: form: mergansers
Etymology: From Late Latin merganser, from Latin mergus (“waterfowl, diver”), from mergō (“to dip, immerse”) + ānser (“goose”).
Senses: glosses: Any of various diving ducks of the genera Mergus or Lophodytes, which feed on fish and have a sharply serrated bill.
Synonyms: sense: Eurasian
word: goosander
word: Mergus merganser
Derived terms: word: Brazilian merganser
word: Mergus octosetaceus
word: common merganser
word: Mergus merganser
word: hooded merganser
word: Lophodytes cucullatus
word: red-breasted merganser
word: Mergus serrator
word: scaly-sided merganser
word: Mergus squamatus
roman: also Auckland Islands merganser
word: †Auckland merganser
word: Mergus australis
Related terms: word: smew
english: also sometimes Mergus albellus
translation: also sometimes Mergus albellus
word: Mergellus albellus
mesh
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Pronunciation: ipa: /mɛʃ/
rhymes: -ɛʃ
Forms: form: meshes
Etymology: From Middle English mesche, from Old English masc (“net”) (perhaps influenced in form by related Old English mæscre (“mesh, spot”)) both from Proto-Germanic *maskrǭ, *maskwǭ, from Proto-Indo-European *mezg- (“to knit, twist, plait”).
Akin to Old High German māsca (“mesh”), Old Saxon maska (“net”), Old Norse mǫskvi, mǫskun (“mesh”).
Senses: examples: text: a golden mesh to entrap the hearts of men
ref: c. 1596–1598 (date written), William Shakespeare, “The Merchant of Venice”, in Mr. William Shakespeares Comedies, Histories, & Tragedies […] (First Folio), London: […] Isaac Iaggard, and Ed[ward] Blount, published 1623, →OCLC, [Act III, scene ii]:
glosses: A structure made of connected strands of metal, fiber, or other flexible/ductile material, with evenly spaced openings between them.
glosses: The opening or space enclosed by the threads of a net between knot and knot, or the threads enclosing such a space.
glosses: The engagement of the teeth of wheels, or of a wheel and rack.
glosses: A measure of fineness (particle size) of ground material. A powder that passes through a sieve having 300 openings per linear inch but does not pass 400 openings per linear inch is said to be -300 +400 mesh.
topics: computer-graphics
computing
engineering
mathematics
natural-sciences
physical-sciences
sciences
glosses: A polygon mesh.
topics: business
electrical-engineering
electricity
electromagnetism
electronics
energy
engineering
natural-sciences
physical-sciences
physics
glosses: In mesh analysis: a loop in an electric circuit (to which Kirchhoff's voltage law can be applied).
topics: computing
engineering
mathematics
natural-sciences
networking
physical-sciences
sciences
glosses: A network topology with each device connected to multiple other devices in lieu of a central switch. Redundancy on a mesh network prevents single points of failure.
Synonyms: sense: space and threads
word: lattice
sense: space and threads
word: network
sense: space and threads
word: net
Derived terms: biomesh
enmesh
inmesh
intermesh
mesh current
meshfree
mesh hood
meshless
meshlet
meshlike
meshness
mesh network
mesh number
mesh stick
meshwork
meshy
micromesh
nanomesh
navigation mesh
navmesh
polygonal mesh
polymesh
submesh
synchromesh
unmesh
weldmesh
mesh
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Pronunciation: ipa: /mɛʃ/
rhymes: -ɛʃ
Forms: form: meshes
form: meshing
form: meshed
form: meshed
Etymology: From Middle English mesche, from Old English masc (“net”) (perhaps influenced in form by related Old English mæscre (“mesh, spot”)) both from Proto-Germanic *maskrǭ, *maskwǭ, from Proto-Indo-European *mezg- (“to knit, twist, plait”).
Akin to Old High German māsca (“mesh”), Old Saxon maska (“net”), Old Norse mǫskvi, mǫskun (“mesh”).
Senses: glosses: To connect together by interlocking, as gears do.
examples: text: The music meshed well with the visuals in that film.
text: The headliners — Weezer and Dinosaur Jr. — were alt rock acts that had turned the sound of disconnection into an audience almost two decades ago. Exactly how that was going to mesh with blue skies and umbrella drinks wasn’t clear to me.
ref: 2012 March 30, Joe Levy, “Rockers at Sea”, in The New York Times:
glosses: To fit in; to come together harmoniously.
examples: text: I know how loue doth rage vpon a yelding minde:
How smal a net may take and meash a hart of gentle kinde
ref: a. 1547, Henry Howard, Earl of Surrey, Description of the fickle affections, pangs, and slights of love:
glosses: To catch in a mesh.
Derived terms: meshable
remesh
mess
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Pronunciation: ipa: /mɛs/
rhymes: -ɛs
Forms: form: messes
Etymology: Perhaps a corruption of Middle English mesh (“mash”), compare muss, or derived from Etymology 2 "mixed foods, as for animals". Compare also Old English mes (“dung, excrement”).
Senses: examples: text: No, look, I know that the place looks like a bit of a mess but it's actually a very delicate ecosystem. Everything is connected. It's like the rainforest. You change one thing, even the tiniest bit, and the whooole rainforest dies. You don't want the rainforest to die, do ya?
ref: 2006 Feb. 3, Graham Linehan, The IT Crowd, Season 1, Episode 4
text: He made a mess of it.
text: My bedroom is such a mess; I need to tidy up.
synonyms: word: disorder
word: bedlam
word: car crash
word: chaos
word: confusion
word: disarray
word: disorder
word: disorganization
word: dog's breakfast
word: dog's dinner
word: free-for-all
word: fuddle
word: hash
word: hot mess
word: imbroglio
word: mash
word: maze
word: mess
word: misorder
word: mommick
word: muddle
word: mullock
word: muss
word: shambles
word: shemozzle
word: snarl
word: tangle
word: topsy-turviness
word: upfuckery
glosses: a thing or group of things in a disagreeable, disorganised, or dirty state; hence a bad situation
examples: text: Messerschmidts! A whole mess of Messerschmidts!
ref: 1943 November 20, Daffy the Commando, spoken by Daffy Duck:
text: My boss dumped a whole mess of projects on my desk today.
text: She brought back a mess of fish to fix for supper.
glosses: a large quantity or number
examples: text: There was dog mess all along the street.
text: Did you hear that? It scared the mess out of me.
glosses: excrement.
examples: text: Between the pain and the depression, I'm a mess.
text: He's been a mess and a half ever since you excommunicated him.
glosses: a person in a state of (especially emotional) turmoil or disarray; an emotional wreck
mess
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Pronunciation: ipa: /mɛs/
rhymes: -ɛs
Forms: form: messes
form: messing
form: messed
form: messed
Etymology: Perhaps a corruption of Middle English mesh (“mash”), compare muss, or derived from Etymology 2 "mixed foods, as for animals". Compare also Old English mes (“dung, excrement”).
Senses: examples: text: It seems like all you do is cry, eat, and mess your diapers!
ref: 2000 March 12, Tom Armstrong, Marvin (comic):
glosses: To make untidy or dirty.
To make soiled by defecating.
raw_tags: used with "up"
glosses: To make untidy or dirty.
To make soiled by ejaculating.
raw_tags: used with "up"
examples: text: But it wasn't right to be messing another man's sleep with tidal waves that didn't belong to the other man.
ref: 1905, Arthur Colton, The Belted Seas, page 76:
glosses: To throw into disorder or to ruin.
raw_tags: used with "up"
examples: text: This doesn't concern you. Don't mess.
glosses: To interfere.
Derived terms: sense: terms derived from "mess" (etymology 1)
word: don't mess with success
sense: terms derived from "mess" (etymology 1)
word: hot mess
sense: terms derived from "mess" (etymology 1)
word: in a mess
sense: terms derived from "mess" (etymology 1)
word: mess about
sense: terms derived from "mess" (etymology 1)
word: mess around
sense: terms derived from "mess" (etymology 1)
word: messer
sense: terms derived from "mess" (etymology 1)
word: mess of greens
sense: terms derived from "mess" (etymology 1)
word: mess over
sense: terms derived from "mess" (etymology 1)
word: mess-up
sense: terms derived from "mess" (etymology 1)
word: mess up
sense: terms derived from "mess" (etymology 1)
word: mess with
sense: terms derived from "mess" (etymology 1)
word: mess with the bull and you get the horns
sense: terms derived from "mess" (etymology 1)
word: messy
sense: terms derived from "mess" (etymology 1)
word: unmess
mess
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Pronunciation: ipa: /mɛs/
rhymes: -ɛs
Forms: form: messes
form: messing
form: messed
form: messed
Etymology: From Middle English mes, partly from Old English mēse, mēose (“table”), a vernacular loan from Latin/Late Latin mē(n)sa (“table; meal”); and partly from Old French mes, Late Latin missum, from mittō (“to put, place (e.g. on the table)”). See mission, and compare Mass (“religious service”).
Senses: glosses: To take meals with a mess.
glosses: To belong to a mess.
examples: text: Resolved 18. That no Guide or Interpreter whether at the Factory Depot or Inland be permitted to mess with Commissioned Gentlemen or Clerks in charge of Posts; but while at the Depot they will be allowed per Week 4 days ordinary rations...
ref: 1836, George Simpson & al., HBC Standing Rules and Regulations, §18
text: I mess with the wardroom officers.
glosses: To eat (with others).
glosses: To supply with a mess.
metabolic
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Pronunciation: ipa: /mɛtəˈbɒlɪk/
rhymes: -ɒlɪk
Etymology: See metabolism.
Senses: glosses: Of or pertaining to metamorphosis; pertaining to, or involving, change.
examples: metabolic activity
metabolic force
glosses: Of or pertaining to metabolism
Derived terms: ametabolic
antimetabolic
basal metabolic rate
bradymetabolic
cardiometabolic
cerebrometabolic
chronometabolic
cometabolic
dismetabolic
dysmetabolic
endocrinometabolic
endometabolic
exometabolic
genometabolic
glucometabolic
glycometabolic
hemimetabolic
heterometabolic
high anion gap metabolic acidosis
holometabolic
hypermetabolic
hypometabolic
immunometabolic
isometabolic
lipometabolic
macrometabolic
mechanometabolic
metabolical
metabolically
metabolic pathway
metabolic rate
metabolics
metabolic syndrome
metaboreceptor
metametabolic
neurometabolic
nonmetabolic
normometabolic
oncometabolic
osteometabolic
photometabolic
phylometabolic
physiometabolic
plurimetabolic
proteometabolic
protometabolic
psychometabolic
radiometabolic
reprometabolic
saccharometabolic
submetabolic
tachymetabolic
thermometabolic
vasculometabolic
Related terms: metabolize
metabolism
metabolic
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Pronunciation: ipa: /mɛtəˈbɒlɪk/
rhymes: -ɒlɪk
Forms: form: metabolics
Etymology: See metabolism.
Senses: glosses: A nutritional supplement
metabolism
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Pronunciation: ipa: /mɪˈtab.ə.lɪz.əm/
ipa: [mɪˈtab.ə.lɪz.m̩]
ipa: /məˈtæb.əˌlɪz.əm/
ipa: [məˈtæb.əˌlɪz.m̩]
ipa: /mɪˈtæb.ə.lɪz.əm/
ipa: [mɪˈtæb.ə.lɪz.m̩]
note: Indic
ipa: /mɛʈəˈbɔlɪzm̩/
Forms: form: metabolisms
Etymology: From Ancient Greek μεταβολή (metabolḗ, “change”) + -ism, from μεταβάλλω (metabállō, “to change, to alter”) + -η (-ē, action noun suffix).
Senses: examples: text: The metabolisms of aerobic bacteria require oxygen
topics: medicine
physiology
sciences
hyponyms: anabolism
catabolism
glosses: The chemical processes that occur within a living organism in order to maintain life.
examples: text: Small animals have a much higher metabolism than large animals because they lose more body heat
topics: medicine
physiology
sciences
glosses: The rate at which these processes occur for a given organism
examples: text: The results of this generalized speedup of the corporate metabolism are multiple: shorter product life cycles, more leasing and renting, more frequent buying and selling, more ephemeral consumption patterns, […]
ref: 1980, Alvin Toffler, The Third Wave, page 230:
glosses: The processes that maintain any dynamic system.
Derived terms: ametabolism
bradymetabolism
cardiometabolism
chronometabolism
cometabolism
dysmetabolism
endometabolism
exometabolism
glycometabolism
hemimetabolism
heterometabolism
holometabolism
hypermetabolism
hypometabolism
immunometabolism
lipometabolism
macrometabolism
metabolite
metabolome
metametabolism
neurometabolism
normometabolism
paurometabolism
photometabolism
proteometabolism
protometabolism
psychometabolism
radiometabolism
saccharometabolism
selenometabolism
sialometabolism
tachymetabolism
thermometabolism
Related terms: anabolism
antimetabole
catabolism
metabola
metabolic
metabolisation
metabolise
metabotropic
mid-
Language: English
Part of speech: prefix
Etymology: See mid.
Senses: examples: text: He's in his mid-thirties — meaning he is roughly around the age of 33-37, as opposed to one's early thirties (aged roughly 30–33) and one's late thirties (aged roughly around 37-39).
text: He was born in the mid-1930s.
text: a mid-sixteenth-century cathedral.
text: Back in the mid-’90s, when Cacioppo was at Ohio State University (he is now at the University of Chicago), he and his colleagues sorted undergraduates into three groups—the non-lonely, the sort-of-sometimes lonely, and the lonely.
ref: 2013 May 13, Judith Shulevitz, “The Lethality of Loneliness”, in The New Republic, archived from the original on 31 Mar 2015:
text: Since the mid-1980s, when Indonesia first began to clear its bountiful forests on an industrial scale in favour of lucrative palm-oil plantations, “haze” has become an almost annual occurrence in South-East Asia.
ref: 2013 June 29, “Unspontaneous combustion”, in The Economist, volume 407, number 8842, page 29:
glosses: Denoting the middle part.
examples: text: a mid-shoulder stretch
glosses: Occupying a middle position.
examples: mid-key, midclass, midgut, midbrow
glosses: Intermediate
glosses: Amid.
examples: text: He was hit by a ball mid-jump.
glosses: During, in the middle of doing something.
Synonyms: sense: central
word: centro-
sense: central
word: centri-
sense: central
word: midpoint
sense: central
word: especially of mass nouns
sense: middle part
word: medio-
sense: middle part
word: especially between countable nouns
sense: intermediate
word: meso-
sense: intermediate
word: medio-
sense: intermediate
word: especially when comparing sizes
sense: amid
word: inter-
sense: amid
word: dia-
sense: amid
word: especially of space
sense: during
word: intra-
sense: during
word: peri-
sense: during
word: especially of time
Derived terms: mid-air
mid-season
mid-winter
midweek
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Pronunciation: rhymes: -iːk
Forms: form: midweeks
Etymology: From mid- + week. Compare Saterland Frisian Midwiek (“Wednesday”, literally “midweek”), German Low German Middeweek (“Wednesday”, literally “midweek”), German Mittwoch (“Wednesday”, literally “midweek”).
Senses: examples: text: In midweek, however, the stretch is reasonably quiet and I can conceal myself behind a clump of rushes and cast a big piece of luncheon meat on a link-leger rig right in the deep hole and let the current roll it under the roof.
ref: 1987, Graham Marsden, Advanced coarse fishing:
text: Carol, who is responsible for two coaches, says the sleeping accommodation is virtually full - surprising for midweek in mid-April. The Train Manager confirms that the train is well-loaded overall, noting that people view the train as a tourist attraction in its own right.
ref: 2024 September 4, David Clough, “All aboard the 'Night Riviera' to Penzance”, in RAIL, number 1017, page 62:
glosses: The middle of the week.
examples: text: This Wednesday is churchwide midweek; men's is the next one.
topics: Christianity
qualifier: Latter-Day Saints
glosses: Midweek worship service, held by many congregations and in addition to a Sunday morning service.
midweek
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Pronunciation: rhymes: -iːk
Etymology: From mid- + week. Compare Saterland Frisian Midwiek (“Wednesday”, literally “midweek”), German Low German Middeweek (“Wednesday”, literally “midweek”), German Mittwoch (“Wednesday”, literally “midweek”).
Senses: examples: text: Cheap mid-week return tickets were reintroduced by British Railways on May 7, to encourage holiday travel during the week rather than at weekends.
ref: 1957 June 24, “Notes and News: Cheap Mid-Week Tickets Reintroduced”, in Railway Magazine, page 433:
text: I did not really wonder, after sampling the "Settebello's" standards of comfort and service, that even on a midweek day in autumn there was not a seat to spare, despite the cost.
ref: 1960 March, G. Freeman Allen, “Europe's most luxurious express - the "Settebello"”, in Trains Illustrated, page 140:
text: Peter Dods was captain in the midweek games but, like Sole, the Gala fullback has also hung up his boots.
ref: 1991, Rugby World and Post:
glosses: That happens in the middle of the week.
midweek
Language: English
Part of speech: adv
Pronunciation: rhymes: -iːk
Etymology: From mid- + week. Compare Saterland Frisian Midwiek (“Wednesday”, literally “midweek”), German Low German Middeweek (“Wednesday”, literally “midweek”), German Mittwoch (“Wednesday”, literally “midweek”).
Senses: examples: text: Leicester could only manage a goalless draw midweek with Sutton Coldfield and will be keen to return to winning form.
ref: 1989, The Independent:
glosses: In the middle of the week.
Derived terms: midweeker
mignonette
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Pronunciation: ipa: /ˌmɪnjəˈnɛt/
rhymes: -ɛt
Forms: form: mignonettes
form: mignonnette
Etymology: From French mignonnette, from mignon (“dainty”) + -ette (diminutive suffix).
Senses: examples: text: After amusing herself for a brief time with picking to pieces some mignonette which filled a box on the window-sill, Marie threw the flowers from her, and exclaimed,—"And here we are seated together, as we used to talk away half the night in Italy. Good Heavens! how we are altered!"
ref: 1834, L[etitia] E[lizabeth] L[andon], chapter I, in Francesca Carrara. […], volume II, London: Richard Bentley, […], (successor to Henry Colburn), →OCLC, page 2:
text: These rooms were on a level with the apartments of our friends Bows and Costigan next door at No. 4; and by reaching over the communicating leads, Grady could command the mignonette-box which bloomed in Bows’s window.
ref: 1848 November – 1850 December, William Makepeace Thackeray, chapter 43, in The History of Pendennis. […], volume (please specify |volume=I or II), London: Bradbury and Evans, […], published 1849–1850, →OCLC:
glosses: A plant, Reseda odorata, having greyish-green flowers with orange-coloured stamens, and exhaling a delicious fragrance. In Africa it is a low shrub, but further north it is usually an annual herb.
glosses: A mignonette tree (Lawsonia inermis), source of the dye henna.
glosses: A mignonette vine.
glosses: A greyish-green colour, like that of the flowers of the plant.
glosses: Short for mignonette sauce
Synonyms: sense: plant
english: one sense
translation: one sense
word: reseda
topics: colour
color
word: reseda
mignonette
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Pronunciation: ipa: /ˌmɪnjəˈnɛt/
rhymes: -ɛt
Forms: form: more mignonette
form: most mignonette
form: mignonnette
Etymology: From French mignonnette, from mignon (“dainty”) + -ette (diminutive suffix).
Senses: examples: text: She wore a dishabille of mignonette-green silk and bead-diapered head-dress that added several inches to her height […].
ref: 1919, Ronald Firbank, Valmouth, Duckworth, hardback edition, page 44
glosses: Of a greyish-green colour, like that of the flowers of the plant.
Synonyms: reseda
Related terms: mignonette pepper
mignonette sauce
dyer's rocket
migrant
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Pronunciation: ipa: /ˈmaɪɡɹənt/
Forms: form: migrants
Etymology: Borrowed from French migrant.
Senses: examples: text: Gilbert White writes, "I have consulted a sportsman who tells me that […] often there are amongst them little parties of small blue doves which he calls rockiers. The food of these numberless migrants was beechmast and some acorns."
ref: 1887, Edwin Lester Linden Arnold, Bird Life in England, page 182:
glosses: A migratory animal, in particular a migratory bird.
glosses: Traveller or worker who moves from one region or country to another.
examples: text: These first English migrants to Jamestown endured terrible disease and arrived during a period of drought and colder-than-normal winters. The migrants to Roanoke on the outer banks of Carolina, where the English had gone in the 1580s, disappeared. And a brief effort to settle the coast of Maine in 1607 and 1608 failed because of an unusually bitter winter.
ref: 2019 November 25, Peter C. Mancall, “Pilgrims survived until the first Thanksgiving thanks to an epidemic that devastated Native Americans”, in CNN:
text: “But once you lose everything— your home, your school, your clinic, your road, your church—then it’s an impossible situation. You become an environmental migrant because you have to find those facilities in some other place.”
ref: 2021 April 22, Aryn Baker, “Environmental Crises Are Forcing Millions Into Cities. Can Countries Turn Climate Migrants Into an Asset?”, in Time:
glosses: A person who leaves one place in order to permanently settle in another.
glosses: Any of various pierid butterflies of the genus Catopsilia. Also called an emigrant.
Hyponyms: emigrant
immigrant
Related terms: migrate
migration
migrant
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Pronunciation: ipa: /ˈmaɪɡɹənt/
Forms: form: more migrant
form: most migrant
Etymology: Borrowed from French migrant.
Senses: glosses: Migratory.
Derived terms: sense: terms derived from adjective or noun
word: antimigrant
sense: terms derived from adjective or noun
word: climate migrant
sense: terms derived from adjective or noun
word: climigrant
sense: terms derived from adjective or noun
word: ecomigrant
sense: terms derived from adjective or noun
word: economic migrant
sense: terms derived from adjective or noun
word: environmental migrant
sense: terms derived from adjective or noun
word: inmigrant
sense: terms derived from adjective or noun
word: migradollar
sense: terms derived from adjective or noun
word: migranthood
sense: terms derived from adjective or noun
word: migrant smuggling
sense: terms derived from adjective or noun
word: migrant worker
sense: terms derived from adjective or noun
word: nonmigrant
sense: terms derived from adjective or noun
word: outmigrant
sense: terms derived from adjective or noun
word: passage migrant
sense: terms derived from adjective or noun
word: remigrant
sense: terms derived from adjective or noun
word: Wartenberg's migrant sensory neuritis
mime
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Pronunciation: ipa: /maɪm/
ipa: /miːm/
rhymes: -aɪm
Forms: form: mimes
Etymology: Possibly from Middle English *mime, from Old English mīma (“a buffoon, jester, mime”), from Latin mimus, from Ancient Greek μῖμος (mîmos, “imitator, actor”), but more likely re-borrowed in modern times from French mime (“mimic actor”), from the same source.
Senses: examples: text: [Silence] demands returning to the self, to innocence and a a portrayal of situations as if all the particulars were completely unknown to the viewer. There are no props but the muscular versatility of the human form. Mime is the one thing that truly proves we can be all things.
ref: 1977 April 23, Arlene Silva, “Suzanne Fox's Silent Stories”, in Gay Community News, page 10:
glosses: A form of acting without words; pantomime.
glosses: A pantomime actor.
examples: text: The mimes were packed with lascivious gestures and movements, and usually presented erotic scenes, on occasion farcically treated.
ref: 1961, Harry E. Wedeck, Dictionary of Aphrodisiacs, New York: The Citadel Press, page 209:
glosses: A classical theatrical entertainment in the form of farce.
glosses: A performer of such a farce.
glosses: A person who mimics others in a comical manner.
glosses: Any of various papilionid butterflies of the genus Chilasa or Papilio, that mimic other species in appearance.
glosses: A unit of imitation in the theory of symbiosism.
Related terms: pantomime
mime
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Pronunciation: ipa: /maɪm/
ipa: /miːm/
rhymes: -aɪm
Forms: form: mimes
form: miming
form: mimed
form: mimed
Etymology: Possibly from Middle English *mime, from Old English mīma (“a buffoon, jester, mime”), from Latin mimus, from Ancient Greek μῖμος (mîmos, “imitator, actor”), but more likely re-borrowed in modern times from French mime (“mimic actor”), from the same source.
Senses: glosses: To mimic.
glosses: To act without words.
examples: text: In this game, you're given a word, which you have to mime to the others in the group.
glosses: To represent an action or object through gesture, without the use of sound.
Derived terms: meme
mimable
mimelike
mimester
mimographer
phenomime
phonomime
psychomime
Related terms: lip-synch
mindful
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Pronunciation: ipa: /ˈmaɪnd.fl̩/
Forms: form: more mindful
form: most mindful
form: mindefull
form: mindfull
Etymology: From Middle English myndeful, myndefull, from Old English ġemyndful (“of good memory”), equivalent to mind + -ful.
Senses: examples: text: Alex McLeish, perhaps mindful of the flak he has been taking from sections of the Villa support for a perceived negative style of play, handed starts to wingers Charles N'Zogbia and Albrighton.
ref: 2011 December 10, Marc Higginson, “Bolton 1 - 2 Aston Villa”, in BBC Sport:
antonyms: absent-minded
mindless
seat-of-the-pants
unmindful
glosses: aware (of something); attentive, heedful.
examples: text: I think being mindful may help you to appreciate life more.
glosses: Of or pertaining to mindfulness; sustaining meta-attention of the contents of one's own mind in the present moment.
examples: text: These noble warriors, mindefull to pursew / The last daies purpose of their vowed fight, / Them selves thereto preparde in order dew […].
ref: 1596, Edmund Spenser, “Book V, Canto V”, in The Faerie Queene. […], London: […] [John Wolfe] for William Ponsonbie, →OCLC:
glosses: Inclined (to do something).
Derived terms: mindfully
mindfulness
unmindful
mindful
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Pronunciation: ipa: /ˈmaɪnd.fl̩/
Forms: form: mindfuls
form: mindefull
form: mindfull
Etymology: From mind + -ful.
Senses: examples: text: A work of art may exceed a 'mindful' – whatever it is that can be accommodated within a mind at a given time – and may have to be regarded as a series of mindfuls.
ref: 1995, R. Tallis, Newton's Sleep: The Two Cultures and the Two Kingdoms:
text: So, whereas mouthfuls and servings are the units of fullness, mindfuls and savorings are the units of mind-fullness.
ref: 2008, Pavel G Somov, Eating the Moment:
text: A sketch can hold several mindfuls, allowing designers to see far more than they can imagine, allowing designers to integrate mindfuls.
ref: 2014, Toshiharu Taura, Principia Designae - Pre-Design, Design, and Post-Design:
glosses: As much as can be held in one's mind at a time.
minuet
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Pronunciation: rhymes: -ɛt
Forms: form: minuets
Etymology: From French menuet, from menu (“small”) + -et (“diminutive”), from Latin minutus (“very small”).
Senses: glosses: A slow graceful dance consisting of a coupé, a high step, and a balance.
topics: entertainment
lifestyle
music
glosses: A tune or air to regulate the movements of the minuet dance: it has the dance form, and is commonly in 3/4, sometimes 3/8, measure.
topics: entertainment
lifestyle
music
glosses: A complete short musical composition inspired by and conforming to many formal characteristics of the traditional musical accompaniment to the dance of same name.
topics: entertainment
lifestyle
music
glosses: A movement which is part of a longer musical composition such as a suite, sonata, or symphony which is inspired by and conforming to formal characteristics of the dance of same name.
Derived terms: minuetic
minuetish
minuetlike
minuet
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Pronunciation: rhymes: -ɛt
Forms: form: minuets
form: minueting
form: minueted
form: minueted
Etymology: From French menuet, from menu (“small”) + -et (“diminutive”), from Latin minutus (“very small”).
Senses: examples: text: After he had raved his time upon the stage, the ladies and knights again minueted for an hour, and again gave place.
ref: 1838, William Samuel Waithman Ruschenberger, A Voyage Round the World, page 318:
text: Within the same circle with the pigeons, were beautiful albatrosses, poising and minueting with them in the most pleasing fellowship.
ref: 1840, “An Officer of the U. S. Navy,”, in Around the World: A Narrative of a Voyage in the East India Squadron, Under Commodore George C. Read, page 163:
text: This set the pattern for four years, as the two monarchs minueted around the vast Commonwealth, never again to face each other personally in battle.
ref: 2001, Tony Sharp, Pleasure and Ambition: The Life, Loves and Wars of Augustus the Strong, page 185:
glosses: To dance a minuet.
mirth
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Pronunciation: ipa: /mɜɹθ/
ipa: [mɝθ]
enpr: mûrth
ipa: /mɜːθ/
rhymes: -ɜː(ɹ)θ
Forms: form: mirths
Etymology: From Middle English merth, myrthe, murhthe, from Old English myrġþ (“mirth, joy”), from Proto-West Germanic *murgiþu (“briefness, brevity”); equivalent to merry + -th (abstract nominal suffix). Cognate with Middle Dutch merchte (“pleasure, joy, delight”).
Senses: examples: text: But sorrow that is couch'd in seeming gladness
Is like that mirth fate turns to sudden sadness.
ref: c. 1602, William Shakespeare, “The Tragedie of Troylus and Cressida”, in Mr. William Shakespeares Comedies, Histories, & Tragedies […] (First Folio), London: […] Isaac Iaggard, and Ed[ward] Blount, published 1623, →OCLC, [Act I, scene i]:
text: And he began to laugh again, and that so heartily, that, though I did not see the joke as he did, I was again obliged to join him in his mirth.
ref: 1881–1882, Robert Louis Stevenson, Treasure Island, London; Paris: Cassell & Company, published 14 November 1883, →OCLC:
text: She was a fat, round little woman, richly apparelled in velvet and lace, […]; and the way she laughed, cackling like a hen, the way she talked to the waiters and the maid,[…]—all these unexpected phenomena impelled one to hysterical mirth, and made one class her with such immortally ludicrous types as Ally Sloper, the Widow Twankey, or Miss Moucher.
ref: 1918, W[illiam] B[abington] Maxwell, chapter II, in The Mirror and the Lamp, Indianapolis, Ind.: The Bobbs-Merrill Company, →OCLC:
text: Their eyes met and they began to laugh. They laughed as children do when they cannot contain themselves, and can not explain the cause of their mirth to grown people, but share it perfectly together.
ref: 1912, Willa Cather, The Bohemian Girl::
synonyms: word: merriment
word: delight
word: glee
word: hilarity
word: jollity
word: gaiety
word: blitheness
word: blithesomeness
word: cheerfulness
word: cheeriness
word: contentness
word: contentedness
word: delight
word: delightedness
word: elatedness
word: elation
word: exuberance
word: exuberantness
word: felicity
word: gaiety
word: gayness
word: gayfulness
word: gladness
word: gladsomeness
word: glee
word: gleefulness
word: gleesomeness
word: happiness
word: high spirits
word: hilarity
word: jolliness
word: jollity
word: joviality
word: jovialness
word: joy
word: joyfulness
word: joyousness
word: liss
word: merriment
word: merriness
word: mirth
word: mirthfulness
word: pleasedness
antonyms: word: sadness
word: gloom
word: mirthless
word: happiness
glosses: The emotion usually following humor and accompanied by laughter.
examples: text: Phantasmal mirth, folded away: muskperfumed.
ref: 1922 February, James Joyce, Ulysses, Paris: Shakespeare and Company, […], →OCLC:
glosses: That which causes merriment.
Derived terms: mirthful
mirthfully
mirthfulness
mirthless
mirthlessly
mirthlessness
mirthquake
mirthsome
mirthy