nandhakumarms/qualc-wiktionary-en huggingface dataset:
Word: mete Part of Speech: noun Etymology: From Middle English mete, from Old French mete (“boundary, boundary marker”), from Latin mēta (“post, goal, marker”). Cognate with the second element in Old English wullmod (“distaff”). Pronunciation: /miːt/ 1. A boundary or other limit; a boundary-marker; mere.
Word: mete Part of Speech: adj Etymology: From Middle English mete, imete, from Old English mǣte, ġemǣte (“moderate, suitable”). More at meet. Pronunciation: /miːt/ 1. Obsolete spelling of meet (“suitable, fitting”). Labels: alt-of, obsolete Example: I could not finde any man for whose name this booke was more agreable for hope [of] protection, more mete for submission to iudgement, nor more due for respect of worthynesse of your part and thankefulnesse of my husbandes and myne.
Word: methyl Part of Speech: noun Etymology: Etymology tree Proto-Indo-European *médʰu Proto-Hellenic *métʰu Ancient Greek μέθυ (méthu) Proto-Indo-European *swel-der.? Ancient Greek ῡ̔́λη (hū́lē)der. German -yl German Methylbor. English methyl Borrowed from German Methyl; compare French méthyle. French chemists Jean-Baptiste Dumas and Eugene Peligot, after determining methanol's chemical structure, introduced "methylene" from the Ancient Greek μέθυ (méthu, “wine”) + ὕλη (húlē, “wood, material”) with the intention of highlighting its origins, "alcohol made from wood (substance)". The term "methyl" was derived in about 1840 by back-formation from "methylene", and was then applied to describe "methyl alcohol". Pronunciation: /ˈmɛθaɪl/, /ˈmɛθɪl/, /ˈmiːθaɪl/, /ˈmiːθɪl/, /ˈmɛθəl/ 1. The univalent hydrocarbon radical, CH₃-, formally derived from methane by the loss of a hydrogen atom; a compound or part of a compound formed by the attachment of such a radical. Example: You might point out in the theory of oxidation of oils, in development of rancidity in oils, that many methyls accelerate this oxidation of oils. I do not want to burden you with a lecture on chemistry but there are some methyls like iron which has both a valence of two and of three. Another example is cobalt which has a valence of both two and three. Example: The southern acetates must be decarboxylated to methyls.
Word: mew Part of Speech: noun Etymology: From Middle English mewe, mowe, meau, from Old English mǣw (“seagull”), from Proto-West Germanic *maiwī, from Proto-Germanic *mai(h)waz (“seagull”). See also West Frisian meau, miuw, Dutch meeuw, German Möwe (whence Polish mewa); akin to Latvian maût (“to roar”), Old Church Slavonic мꙑꙗти (myjati, “to mew”). Pronunciation: /ˈmjuː/, [ˈmjʊu̯] 1. A gull, seagull. Labels: archaic, dialectal, poetic Example: A daungerous and detestable place, To which nor fish nor fowle did once approch, But yelling Meawes, with Seagulles hoarse and bace […] Example: From helm to sea they saw him leap, As arrow from the string, And dive into the water deep, As mew upon the wing.
Word: mew Part of Speech: noun Etymology: From Middle English mewe, mue, mwe, from Anglo-Norman mue, muwe, and Middle French mue (“shedding feathers; cage for moulting birds; prison”), from muer (“to moult”). Pronunciation: /ˈmjuː/, [ˈmjʊu̯] 1. A prison, or other place of confinement. Labels: obsolete 2. A hiding place; a secret store or den. Labels: obsolete Example: Ne toung did tell, ne hand these handled not, / But safe I haue them kept in secret mew, / From heauens sight, and powre of all which them pursew. 3. A breeding-cage for birds. Labels: obsolete 4. A cage for hawks, especially while moulting. Example: A horse in a stable that never travels, a hawk in a mew that seldom flies, are both subject to diseases; which, left unto themselves, are most free from any such encumbrances. 5. A building or set of buildings where moulting birds are kept. Labels: in-plural
Word: mew Part of Speech: verb Etymology: From Middle English mewe, mue, mwe, from Anglo-Norman mue, muwe, and Middle French mue (“shedding feathers; cage for moulting birds; prison”), from muer (“to moult”). Pronunciation: /ˈmjuː/, [ˈmjʊu̯] 1. To shut away, confine, lock up. Labels: archaic Example: More pity that the eagle should be mew’d, While kites and buzzards prey at liberty. Example: To mew me in a Ship, is to inthrall Mee in a prison, that weare like to fall; 2. To moult. Example: The hawk mewed his feathers. Example: Their nakedneſſe with ſackcloth let them hide, / And mue the veſt'ments of their ſilken pride; […] 3. To cause to moult. Labels: obsolete 4. To shed antlers. Labels: obsolete
Word: mew Part of Speech: noun Etymology: From Middle English mewen; onomatopoeic. Pronunciation: /ˈmjuː/, [ˈmjʊu̯] 1. The crying sound of a cat; a meow, especially of a kitten. 2. The crying sound of a gull or buzzard. 3. An exclamation of disapproval; a boo. Labels: obsolete
Word: mew Part of Speech: verb Etymology: From Middle English mewen; onomatopoeic. Pronunciation: /ˈmjuː/, [ˈmjʊu̯] 1. To meow. Labels: especially 2. To make its cry.
Word: mew Part of Speech: intj Etymology: From Middle English mewen; onomatopoeic. Pronunciation: /ˈmjuː/, [ˈmjʊu̯] 1. A cat's (especially a kitten's) cry. 2. A gull's or buzzard's cry. 3. An exclamation of disapproval; boo. Labels: archaic
Word: mew Part of Speech: verb Etymology: Named after British orthodontists John Mew and his son Michael Mew. Pronunciation: /ˈmjuː/, [ˈmjʊu̯] 1. To flatten one's tongue against the roof of the mouth, with the aim of improving jaw and facial structure. Labels: intransitive, slang
Word: mews Part of Speech: noun Etymology: From Mewes, the name of the royal stables at Charing Cross, which is the plural of mew (“falcon cage”). Pronunciation: /mjuːz/ 1. An alley where there are stables; a narrow passage; a confined place. Labels: UK Example: What penned them there, with all the plain to choose? No foot-print leading to that horrid mews, None out of it. Example: It was healthy and magnificient because one room, above a mews, somewhere near the river, contained fifty excited, talkative, friendly people. 2. A place where birds of prey are housed.
Word: mews Part of Speech: noun Etymology: See the etymology of the corresponding lemma form. Pronunciation: /mjuːz/ 1. plural of mew Labels: form-of, plural
Word: mews Part of Speech: verb Etymology: See the etymology of the corresponding lemma form. Pronunciation: /mjuːz/ 1. third-person singular simple present indicative of mew Labels: form-of, indicative, present, singular, third-person
Word: mica Part of Speech: noun Etymology: Etymology tree Proto-Indo-European *(s)meyk- Proto-Italic *(s)mīkā? Proto-Indo-European *meyk- Proto-Italic *meikā? Latin mīcabor. English mica Borrowed from Latin mīca (“grain, crumb”). Pronunciation: /ˈmaɪ.kə/ 1. Any of a group of hydrous aluminosilicate minerals characterized by highly perfect cleavage, so that they readily separate into very thin leaves, more or less elastic. Labels: countable, uncountable Example: His little eyes glittered like mica discs with curiosity, though he tried to keep up a bit of superciliousness.
Word: micron Part of Speech: noun Etymology: From French micron, from Ancient Greek μικρόν (mikrón), neuter of μικρός (mikrós, “small”). Pronunciation: /ˈmaɪkɹɒn/ 1. Synonym of micrometre (“one-millionth of a metre”). Example: 2009, Jonathan Amos, (bbc.co.uk) Satellites weigh California water As one spacecraft lurches and drags through the Earth's uneven gravity field, the second follows 210 km behind, measuring changes in their separation to the nearest micron (a thousandth of a millimetre). Example: The microcannon was seen moving at about a micron per second, it was about 15 microns long, and the high speed photograph was done in water (density of 1 kg/L, viscosity of about 0.001 pascal seconds). 2. A very tiny amount. Labels: figuratively
Word: micron Part of Speech: noun Etymology: From Ancient Greek μικρόν (mikrón), neuter of μικρός (mikrós, “small”). Pronunciation: /ˈmaɪkɹɒn/ 1. Synonym of breve.
Word: mig Part of Speech: noun Etymology: Probably from a pronunciation of mg. Pronunciation: /mɪɡ/ 1. A milligram Example: I'm on 400 migs of T and 200 of trenbelone and in the middle of growing some hair I havent seen 10 years
Word: milt Part of Speech: noun Etymology: From Middle English milte, from Old English milte, milt (“milt, spleen”), from Proto-West Germanic *miltijā, *meltā, from Proto-Germanic *meltǭ (“spleen”), from Proto-Indo-European *(s)meld- (“to beat, grind, crush, weaken”). Cognate with German Milz, Dutch milt, Danish milt, Norwegian milt, Swedish mjälte. Outside Germanic, with Albanian mëlçi (“liver”) and Italian milza (“spleen”), which is a borrowing from Lombardic. Pronunciation: /mɪlt/ 1. The spleen, especially of an animal bred for food. Labels: countable Example: we see that certaine apprehensions engender a blushing-red colour, others a palenesse; that some imagination doth only worke in the milt, another in the braine[…]. Example: Cancer, or the Crab, commandeth the Stomach, Limbs, Arteries, Milt, Liver and Gall. 2. The semen of a male fish. Labels: countable, uncountable 3. The engorged testis containing a filled reservoir of mature spermatozoa in a male fish. Labels: countable, uncountable
Word: milt Part of Speech: verb Etymology: From Middle English milte, from Old English milte, milt (“milt, spleen”), from Proto-West Germanic *miltijā, *meltā, from Proto-Germanic *meltǭ (“spleen”), from Proto-Indo-European *(s)meld- (“to beat, grind, crush, weaken”). Cognate with German Milz, Dutch milt, Danish milt, Norwegian milt, Swedish mjälte. Outside Germanic, with Albanian mëlçi (“liver”) and Italian milza (“spleen”), which is a borrowing from Lombardic. Pronunciation: /mɪlt/ 1. To impregnate (the roe of a fish) with milt. Labels: transitive
Word: milter Part of Speech: noun Etymology: From milt + -er. 1. A male fish during breeding season.
Word: minter Part of Speech: noun Etymology: From Middle English mynter, from Old English mynetere, from Proto-West Germanic *munitārī, from Latin monētārius; equivalent to mint + -er. Doublet of monetary. Pronunciation: /ˈmɪntə(ɹ)/, /ˈmɪntɚ/, [ˈmɪɾ̃ɚ] 1. One who mints, particularly a moneyer producing coinage. 2. An item in mint condition (especially a motor car) Labels: UK, slang
Word: mir Part of Speech: noun Etymology: Borrowing from Russian мир (mir, “community, village commune; peace; world”). 1. A traditional village community in Imperial Russia, characterised by self-government and collectivist control of local lands. Labels: historical Example: [T]he constitution of the village […] was a subject which specially interested me, because I was aware that the Mir is the most peculiar of Russian institutions. Example: The mir was the only means to prevent this, and mir meant serfdom under another name. The landowners disposed of their land, or of so much as was required to support the peasants, not to individuals but to the mir.
Word: mire Part of Speech: noun Etymology: From Middle English mire, a borrowing from Old Norse mýrr, from Proto-Germanic *miuzijō, whence also Swedish myr, Norwegian myr, Icelandic mýri, Dutch *mier (in placenames, for example Mierlo). Related to Proto-Germanic *meusą, whence Old English mēos, and Proto-Germanic *musą, whence Old English mos (English moss). Pronunciation: /ˈmaɪə/, /ˈmaɪɚ/, /ˈmaɪɹ/ 1. Deep mud; moist, spongy earth. Labels: countable, uncountable Example: His laden feet sand and stuck in mire; he was bedaubed with the blue-gray clay from head to foot; but he had escaped the deadly river! 2. A bog or fen; (in wetland science, specifically) a peatland which is actively forming peat, such as an active bog or fen. Labels: countable, uncountable Example: Glagolev […] measured CH₄ emission from a mire in West Siberia using a static chamber method. Similar methods had been developed and tested by Nakano et al. (2006), Fig. 1. 3. An undesirable situation; a predicament. Labels: countable, uncountable Example: Swansea seemed to be pulling clear of trouble with five wins in their first eight games following head coach Paul Clement's appointment, but two successive defeats had dragged the Swans back into the mire.
Word: mire Part of Speech: verb Etymology: From Middle English mire, a borrowing from Old Norse mýrr, from Proto-Germanic *miuzijō, whence also Swedish myr, Norwegian myr, Icelandic mýri, Dutch *mier (in placenames, for example Mierlo). Related to Proto-Germanic *meusą, whence Old English mēos, and Proto-Germanic *musą, whence Old English mos (English moss). Pronunciation: /ˈmaɪə/, /ˈmaɪɚ/, /ˈmaɪɹ/ 1. To cause or permit to become stuck in mud; to plunge or fix in mud. Labels: transitive Example: to mire a horse or wagon 2. To sink into mud. Labels: intransitive 3. To weigh down. Labels: figuratively, transitive 4. To soil with mud or foul matter. Labels: intransitive Example: Why had I not with charitable hand Took up a beggar’s issue at my gates, Who smirch’d thus and mired with infamy, I might have said ‘No part of it is mine; This shame derives itself from unknown loins’?
Word: mire Part of Speech: noun Etymology: From Middle English mire, myre, from Old English *mīere, from Proto-West Germanic *miurijā, from Proto-Germanic *miurijǭ (“ant”), from Proto-Indo-European *morwís (“ant”). Cognates Cognate with North Frisian miir (“ant”), Dutch mier (“ant”), Low German Miere (“ant”), Danish myre (“ant”), Faroese meyra (“ant”), Icelandic and Norwegian Bokmål maur (“ant”), Norwegian Nynorsk maur, møvver (“ant”), Swedish myra (“ant”), Crimean Gothic miera (“ant”), Finnish muurahainen (“ant”), Ingrian muurahain (“ant”); also Breton merien (“ants”), Cornish moryon (“ants”), Old Irish moirb (“ant”), Welsh mŷr (“ant”), Latin formīca, furmīca (“ant”), Greek μερμήγκι (mermígki), μυρμήγκι (myrmígki, “ant”), Albanian morr (“louse; aphid”), Belarusian мура́шка (muráška, “ant”), Bulgarian мрав (mrav), мра́вка (mrávka, “ant”), Czech brabenec, mravenec (“ant”), Kashubian marwa, mrówka (“ant”), Lower Sorbian mroja (“ant”), Macedonian мра́ва (mráva), мра́вка (mrávka, “ant”), Pannonian Rusyn брамушка (bramuška), ґрамушка (gramuška, “ant”), Polish mrówka (“ant”), Russian мураве́й (muravéj, “ant”), Serbo-Croatian мрав, mrav (“ant”), Slovak mravec (“ant”), Slovene mravlja (“ant”), Ukrainian мура́ха (muráxa, “ant”), Upper Sorbian mrowja (“ant”), Armenian մրջյուն (mrǰyun, “ant”), Baluchi مور (mor, “ant”), Central Kurdish مێروو (mêrû), مێروولە (mêrûle, “ant”), Northern Kurdish mûrî (“ant”), Ossetian мӕлдзыг (mælʒyg, “ant”), Persian مور (mōr / mur, “ant”), مورچه (mōrča / murče, “ant; hole; trench”), Sanskrit वम्र (vamra, “ant”). Pronunciation: /ˈmaɪə/, /ˈmaɪɚ/, /ˈmaɪɹ/ 1. An ant. Labels: obsolete, rare Example: "Having been seriously interrupted by small brown ants or mires working in my cutting bench, digging holes down the side of my cuttings, thereby arresting the process of rooting. […]" Example: Wen I lay down behine dat log I plunk masef right een one dem aunty mire nest an bout 10 million of dem leetle devil begin to heat me.
Word: mirier Part of Speech: adj 1. comparative form of miry: more miry Labels: comparative, form-of, rare
Word: mitral Part of Speech: adj Etymology: From mitre + -al. Pronunciation: /ˈmaɪtɹəl/ 1. Pertaining to a mitre; resembling a mitre. Labels: not-comparable Example: The mitral valve was named for a fancied resemblance to a bishop's mitre. 2. Pertaining to the mitral valve. Labels: not-comparable Example: Treatments for mitral insufficiency include antihypertensives and valvular surgery; today the latter is often minimally invasive and even totally endoscopic.
Word: mitre Part of Speech: noun Etymology: From Middle English mytre, from Old French mitre, from Ancient Greek μίτρα (mítra, “headband, turban”). Its use in reference to a counterfeit coin derived from the bishop's mitre stamped upon it. Doublet of Mithras, Mithra, Mitra, and Mehr. Pronunciation: /ˈmaɪtəɹ/ 1. A covering for the head, worn on solemn occasions by church dignitaries, which has been made in many forms, mostly recently a tall cap with two points or peaks. 2. The surface forming the bevelled end or edge of a piece where a miter joint is made; also, a joint formed or a junction effected by two beveled ends or edges; a miter joint. 3. A 13th-century coin minted in Europe which circulated in Ireland as a debased counterfeit sterling penny, outlawed under Edward I. Labels: historical 4. A cap or cowl for a chimney or ventilation pipe. 5. A gusset in sewing, etc. 6. A square with one triangular quarter missing from the outside. Labels: rare 7. A mitre shell
Word: mitre Part of Speech: verb Etymology: From Middle English mytre, from Old French mitre, from Ancient Greek μίτρα (mítra, “headband, turban”). Its use in reference to a counterfeit coin derived from the bishop's mitre stamped upon it. Doublet of Mithras, Mithra, Mitra, and Mehr. Pronunciation: /ˈmaɪtəɹ/ 1. To adorn with a mitre. Labels: Commonwealth 2. To unite at an angle of 45°. Labels: Commonwealth
Word: mob cap Part of Speech: noun Etymology: From mob (“unruly group”) + cap (“hat”), in reference to the riots of French Revolution. Pronunciation: /ˈmɒb kap/ 1. A plain cap or headdress for women or girls, especially one tied under the chin by a very broad band, and having a puffy crown and frills. Labels: historical Example: You must get a brown gown, and a white apron, and a mob cap, and we must make you a few wrinkles, and a little of the crowsfoot at the corner of your eyes, and you will be a very proper, little old woman. Example: She was dressed entirely in flowing black cerements and wore a little lacy mob-cap on a mass of dead-looking yellowish white hair; her features were still beautiful, but her face was completely covered with mauve face-powder. 2. A disposable head covering with an elasticated band, worn for cleanliness in industrial settings.
Word: mod Part of Speech: noun Etymology: Abbreviations. Pronunciation: /mɑd/, /mɒd/ 1. An unconventionally modern style of fashionable dress originating in England in the 1960s, characterized by ankle-length black trenchcoats and sunglasses. Labels: uncountable 2. A 1960s British person who dressed in such a style and was interested in modernism and the modern music of the time; the opposite of a rocker. Labels: UK, countable, uncountable Example: It was “Mods” against “Rockers” and the police against both as this quiet seaside town of 28,000 exploded with teen‐age violence during the Easter weekend. […] The “Mods” or “Moderns” wear sharply cut Italian‐style suits and long, pointed “winklepicker” shoes. They ride motor scooters fitted with scores of gleaming accesories^([sic]). 3. Clipping of modification. Labels: abbreviation, alt-of, clipping, countable, informal, uncountable 4. An end user-created package containing modifications to the look or behaviour of a video game. Labels: countable, uncountable Example: Since Doom II, thousands of gamers had begun modifying id's products and making them available for free online. Doom fans would communicate entirely over the Internet to create mods of the game—often never even meeting in person or, for that matter, talking on the phone. 5. A moderator, for example on a discussion forum. Labels: Internet, countable, uncountable Example: The mods had a difficult time deciding whether to believe a story about a man who was attracted to his girlfriend only when she was grieving her dead sister, but it stayed up. 6. A moderator, for example on a discussion forum. Labels: Internet, countable, humorous, in-plural, uncountable Example: Mods, kill this guy with hammers. 7. A module (file containing a tracker music sequence). Labels: countable, informal, uncountable Example: I'd like to convert some of the arch^([sic]) mods back into Amiga mods since I don't have the original Amiga versions. Example: These mods, while usually having the distinctive bleep and beep quality of transistor-generated tones, are often astonishingly creative and rich in expressive nuances. 8. A moderately difficult route. Labels: countable, uncountable 9. Moderations: university examinations generally taken in the first year. Labels: countable, in-plural, informal, uncountable Example: It will thus be seen that, however well a boy may have been trained at school, his time may be amply occupied in preparing for Mods. during his first year and a half of residence at Oxford. 10. Abbreviation of modulus. Labels: abbreviation, alt-of, countable, uncountable 11. Abbreviation of mode. Labels: abbreviation, alt-of, countable, uncountable 12. Abbreviation of moderate. Labels: abbreviation, alt-of, countable, uncountable Example: Dems and GOPers Treat Their Mods Differently [title]
Word: mod Part of Speech: verb Etymology: Abbreviations. Pronunciation: /mɑd/, /mɒd/ 1. To modify (an object) from its original condition, typically to individualize and/or enhance the performance of the object. Labels: informal, transitive Example: His friends were particularly impressed with the way he modded his Ruckus. 2. To install or create a mod. Example: Learning Java is what got me into modding Minecraft. 3. To moderate; to silence or punish (a rule-breaking user) on a forum, especially when done by a moderator. Labels: Internet, informal, transitive Example: Don't break the rules or you'll be modded. Example: I used to mod that forum.
Word: mod Part of Speech: adj Etymology: Abbreviations. Pronunciation: /mɑd/, /mɒd/ 1. Abbreviation of moderate. Labels: abbreviation, alt-of, not-comparable
Word: mod Part of Speech: noun Etymology: Borrowed from Scottish Gaelic mòd. 1. A festival of Scottish Gaelic song, arts and culture, akin to the Welsh eisteddfod.
Word: mod Part of Speech: adj Etymology: Probably reflecting a Jamaican pronunciation of mad. 1. Crazy, insane. Labels: slang Example: Have you listened to Kendrick's new album? It's absolutely mod! Example: now mans have to beat uruguay to advance, dec 2nd gonna be the moddest day revenge for 2010
Word: moire Part of Speech: noun Etymology: Borrowed from French moire, itself from English mohair. Pronunciation: /mwɑː/ 1. Originally, a fine textile fabric made of the hair of an Asiatic goat. Labels: countable, uncountable 2. Any textile fabric to which a watered appearance is given. Labels: countable, uncountable
Word: molal Part of Speech: adj Etymology: From mole + -al in the chemistry usage. Pronunciation: /ˈməʊləl/ 1. Of or designating a solution that contains one mole of solute per 1000g of solvent Labels: not-comparable
Word: moline Part of Speech: noun Etymology: Borrowed from Anglo-Norman molin (“mill”), from Late Latin molinum (“mill”), from molere (“to grind”). Doublet of moulin and mill. 1. The crossed iron that supports the upper millstone by resting on the spindle; a millrind.
Word: moll Part of Speech: noun Etymology: From Moll, an archaic nickname for Mary (see also Molly). Pronunciation: /mɒl/ 1. A female companion of a gangster or other criminal, especially a former or current prostitute. Example: The Bat—they called him the Bat.[…]. He[…]played a lone hand,[…]. Most lone wolves had a moll at any rate—women were their ruin—but if the Bat had a moll, not even the grapevine telegraph could locate her. Example: "Makes me feel like a pirate," said Josella as she buckled hers on. "Better, I imagine, to be a pirate than a pirate's moll," I told her. 2. A prostitute or woman with loose sexual morals. 3. Bitch, slut; an insulting epithet applied to a female. Labels: Australia, New-Zealand, derogatory, slang 4. A girlfriend of a bikie. Labels: Australia, New-Zealand, slang Example: The bikies ‘molls’ included Susan Lloyd as Tart; Victoria Anoux as Flossie; and Rosalind Talamini as Sunshine. Example: ‘Oh God!’ groans Julie who once was a bikie moll back in the early seventies. ‘Hope it′s no one I know.’ But the Machismos turn out to be based on a New Zealand gang, which assembled in Australia after her time. 5. A girlfriend of a surfie; blends with pejorative sense. Labels: Australia, New-Zealand, slang 6. A female fan of extreme metal, grunge or hardcore punk, especially the girlfriend of a musician of those aforementioned genres. Labels: slang
Word: moll Part of Speech: adj Etymology: From German Moll, from Latin mollis (“soft, tender, elegiac”). Compare molle (“flat (in music)”). Cognate with Norwegian Bokmål moll. Pronunciation: /mɒl/ 1. minor; in the minor key. Labels: not-comparable, obsolete Example: Bach's Gavotte in B Moll
Word: molter Part of Speech: noun Etymology: From molt + -er. 1. One who, or that which, molts or sheds.
Word: monad Part of Speech: noun Etymology: From Latin monas (“unit”) (from Ancient Greek μονάς (monás), from μόνος (mónos), from Proto-Indo-European *men-). By surface analysis, mono- + -ad. Pronunciation: /ˈmɒnæd/, /ˈmoʊnæd/ 1. One thing, one being, one item. 2. A group of entities or items treated as one entity. 3. An ultimate atom, or simple, unextended point; something ultimate and indivisible. Example: Hence Leibnitz, who looked upon things as noumena, after denying them everything like external relation, and therefore also composition or combination, declared that all substances, even the component parts of matter, were simple substances with powers of representation, in one word, monads. Example: “If we are to embark upon speculation”, said Goethe, continuing his discourse, “then I really do not see why the monad to which we owe Wieland's appearance on our planet should be unable in its new condition to enter into the highest combinations that are possible in this universe. 4. A single individual (such as a pollen grain) that is free from others, not united in a group. 5. A single-celled organism. (See Monas.) Labels: dated 6. A monoid object in the category of endofunctors of a fixed category. 7. A data type which represents a specific form of computation, along with the operations "return" and "bind". Example: The properties that make the Maybe type a monad are its type constructor Maybe a, our chaining function (>>?), and the injector function Just.
Word: mooter Part of Speech: noun Etymology: From moot + -er. 1. A disputer of a mooted case.
Word: mooter Part of Speech: noun Etymology: From Spanish mota. 1. Alternative form of mootah. Labels: alt-of, alternative, uncountable
Word: morel Part of Speech: noun Etymology: Borrowed from French morille (compare Picard merouille, meroule (“morel, mushroom”)), from Middle High German morhel, morchel (“edible fungus, morel”), from Old High German morhila (“edible root”), diminutive of Proto-West Germanic *morhā (“tree root, plant root”), from Proto-Germanic *murhǭ, *murhijǭ (“edible root”), from Proto-Indo-European *mork- (“tuber, edible herb”). Akin to German Morchel (“morel”), Middle Low German morke (“mushroom, morel”), German Möhre (“carrot”). Equivalent to dialectal more (“carrot, root”) + -el (diminutive suffix). Pronunciation: /məˈɹɛl/ 1. A true morel; any of several fungi in the genus Morchella, the upper part of which is covered with a reticulated and pitted hymenium.
Word: morel Part of Speech: noun Etymology: From Middle English morel, morell, from Anglo-Norman and Old French morel, morele, morelle and their etymon Medieval Latin maurella, morella, from Late Latin maurus, morus (“black”) + Latin -ella (diminutive suffix). 1. Synonym of morello (“type of cherry”). Labels: archaic Example: The insects which injure the morel cherry-trees so much in Pennsylvania, I perceive, here occasionally act in the same way upon the branches of the wild cherry […] 2. Certain plants or genera Solanum, Atropa, and Aralia, with dark, cherry-like berries. Example: It exists in both these plants, but whilst the leaves of the last one contain it in some quantity, none is found in those of the morel.
Word: mort Part of Speech: noun Etymology: From Middle English mort, from Old French mort (“death”). Pronunciation: /mɔːt/, /mɔɹt/ 1. Death; especially, the death of game in hunting. Labels: countable, uncountable Example: If you did the wrong thing at the mort or the undoing, for instance, you were bent over the body of the dead beast and smacked with the flat side of a sword. 2. A note sounded on a horn at the death of a deer. Labels: countable, uncountable Example: The sportsman then sounded a treble mort. 3. The skin of a sheep or lamb that has died of disease. Labels: Scotland, UK, countable, dialectal, uncountable 4. A variety of dummy whist for three players. Labels: countable, uncountable 5. The exposed or dummy hand of cards in the game of mort. Labels: countable, uncountable
Word: mort Part of Speech: noun Etymology: Compare Icelandic margt, neuter of margr (“many”). Pronunciation: /mɔːt/, /mɔɹt/ 1. A great quantity or number. Example: a mort of water Example: Full o’ sut this chimney is. Ain’t been swep’ for a mort o’ years I reckon.
Word: mort Part of Speech: noun Etymology: Clipping of mortal. Pronunciation: /mɔːt/, /mɔɹt/ 1. A player in a multi-user dungeon who does not have special administrator privileges and whose character can be killed. Labels: Internet, informal
Word: mort Part of Speech: noun Etymology: Uncertain. Pronunciation: /mɔːt/, /mɔɹt/ 1. A three-year-old salmon.
Word: mort Part of Speech: noun Etymology: UK circa 1560–1890. Unknown. Documented possibilities include: * From mort (“A three-year-old salmon”), by equation of women with fish. * From Welsh modryb (“aunt”) * From Welsh morwyn (“maid, virgin”) * From French amourette (“a crush”) * From, or cognate with, Dutch mot (“pig, lewd woman”), from Middle Low German mutte. * From French motte (“mound, esp. mons veneris”) * From Romani mintš (“female genitals”). Cognate with English minge. Pronunciation: /mɔːt/, /mɔɹt/ 1. A woman; a female. Labels: UK, obsolete Example: Male gypsies all, not a mort among them. Example: "Yes, master! I and my mort worships something besides good ale; don't we, Sue?" and then he leered at the mort, who leered at him, and both made odd motions backwards and forwards, causing the baskets which hung round them to creak and rustle, and uttering loud shouts of laughter, which roused the echoes of the neighbouring hills.
Word: motet Part of Speech: noun Etymology: From French motet. Pronunciation: /moʊˈtɛt/ 1. A composition adapted to sacred words in the elaborate polyphonic church style; an anthem. Example: Singing their holiday concert from memory, the group sounded confident and expressive in pieces ranging from a medley of Barry Manilow songs to renaissance motets.
Word: motif Part of Speech: noun Etymology: From French motif (1848), with the meaning of "main idea or theme". Doublet of motive. Pronunciation: /moʊˈtiːf/ 1. A recurring or dominant element; an artistic theme. Example: See how the artist repeats the scroll motif throughout the work? 2. A short melodic or lyrical passage that is repeated in several parts of a work. 3. A decorative figure that is repeated in a design or pattern. 4. A decorative appliqué design or figure, as of lace or velvet, used in trimming. 5. The physical object or objects repeated at each point of a lattice. Usually atoms or molecules. 6. A basic element of a move in terms of why the piece moves and how it supports the fulfilment of a stipulation. 7. In a nucleotide or aminoacid sequence, pattern that is widespread and has, or is conjectured to have, a biological significance.
Word: mottle Part of Speech: verb Etymology: 1670-80. Probably back-formation from motley. Pronunciation: /ˈmɒt.əl/, /ˈmɑ.təl/, [ˈmɑ.ɾɫ̩] 1. To mark with blotches of different color, or shades of color, as if stained; to spot; to maculate. Example: Between the grey mist of rainclouds the sun suddenly appeared to mottle the wet asphalt of Marble Arch in patches of silver and ebony.
Word: mottle Part of Speech: noun Etymology: 1670-80. Probably back-formation from motley. Pronunciation: /ˈmɒt.əl/, /ˈmɑ.təl/, [ˈmɑ.ɾɫ̩] 1. A distinguishing blotch of colour. Labels: countable 2. A mottled or spotted pattern. Labels: countable, uncountable Example: The most common symptom is a mild mottle on the youngest leaves of infected plants. Example: SLRSV, being mostly latent in strawberries and other fruit crops, is of very minor importance. It can cause some mottle and decline in certain strawberry cultivars. 3. Any of several species of genus Logania of butterflies, found from Burma to the Philippines and New Guinea. Labels: countable, uncountable
Word: mouser Part of Speech: noun Etymology: From Middle English mousere (“a hunter of mice”), equivalent to mouse + -er (agent noun suffix) or + -er (occupational suffix). The “moustache” sense is apparently an extended usage (i.e., a cat’s whiskers, jocularly transferred to human beings), possibly with influence from moustache. Pronunciation: /ˈmaʊzə(ɹ)/, /ˈmaʊsə(ɹ)/ 1. A cat that catches mice, kept specifically for the purpose. 2. A moustache. Labels: Scotland, US Example: He was a pretty man, well upstanding, with great shoulders on him and his hair was fair and fine and he had a broad brow and a gey bit coulter of a nose and he twisted his mouser ends up with wax like that creature the German Kaiser […].
Word: mucosa Part of Speech: noun Pronunciation: /mjuːˈkəʊzə/, /mjuːˈkəʊsə/, /mjuˈkoʊzə/, /mjuˈkoʊsə/ 1. Synonym of mucous membrane. Labels: countable, uncountable Example: The substantial genital swelling of [female chimpanzees] during oestrus may facilitate transmission of viruses by making the mucosa more fragile.
Word: mudded Part of Speech: adj Etymology: From mud + -ed. 1. Covered with mud.
Word: mudded Part of Speech: verb Etymology: From mud + -ed. 1. simple past and past participle of mud Labels: form-of, participle, past
Word: muff Part of Speech: noun Etymology: Probably from Dutch mof (“muff, mitten”). Pronunciation: /mʌf/, /mɐf/, /mʊf/ 1. A piece of fur or cloth, usually open at both ends, used to keep the hands warm. Example: Selwyn, sitting up rumpled and cross-legged on the floor, after having boloed Drina to everybody's exquisite satisfaction, looked around at the sudden rustle of skirts to catch a glimpse of a vanishing figure—a glimmer of ruddy hair and the white curve of a youthful face, half-buried in a muff. 2. The vulva or vagina; pubic hair around it. Labels: slang, vulgar Example: . 3. A woman or girl. Labels: slang, vulgar 4. A blown cylinder of glass which is afterward flattened out to make a sheet. 5. The feathers sticking out from both sides of the face under the beak of some birds. 6. A short hollow cylinder surrounding an object such as a pipe.
Word: muff Part of Speech: noun Etymology: Unknown; perhaps a specialised use of Etymology 1, above; or perhaps related to Dutch muffen (“to dote”) and German muffen (“to sulk”). Pronunciation: /mʌf/, /mɐf/, /mʊf/ 1. A fool, a stupid or poor-spirited person. Labels: colloquial Example: Can you fancy that such an old creature (an old muff, as you call him, you wicked, satirical man!) could ever make en impression on my heart? Example: […]being good is so much like being a muff, generally. 2. An error, a mistake; a failure to hold a ball when once in the hands. Labels: slang 3. A bird, the whitethroat.
Word: muff Part of Speech: verb Etymology: Unknown; perhaps a specialised use of Etymology 1, above; or perhaps related to Dutch muffen (“to dote”) and German muffen (“to sulk”). Pronunciation: /mʌf/, /mɐf/, /mʊf/ 1. To drop or mishandle (the ball, a catch etc.); to play badly. 2. To mishandle; to bungle. Example: But then, supposing this was the real sign? … They had muffed three already; they daren’t muff the fourth. Example: Here was the superlative opportunity to make a generous and lasting settlement from a position of strength; but the pieds noirs, like the Israelis, and from not altogether dissimilar motives, were to muff it.
Word: muff Part of Speech: noun Etymology: Clipping of muffin. Pronunciation: /mʌf/, /mɐf/, /mʊf/ 1. A muffin. Labels: slang Example: Skinny lattes and a couple of blueberry muffs. 2. A term of endearment. Labels: rare, slang Example: “They’re^([sic]) ARE thinking how sexy you look, Muff”. She heard it as plain as day. She turned, half expecting to see her Jim grinning at her. […] “Oh James!” Marsha smiled, […] Example: Darien started lovin' her. "Oh yes, please more Muffin." Serena licked her lips. […] "OH YOUR^([sic]) MY MINX." "AND YOUR MY MUFF."
Word: mulct Part of Speech: noun Etymology: From Middle French mulcter (“to fine, punish”), from Latin mulcta (“penalty, fine”). Possibly a doublet of milk. Pronunciation: /mʌlkt/ 1. A fine or penalty, especially a pecuniary one. Example: juries cast up what a wife is worth, / By laying whate'er sum in mulct they please on / The lover, who must pay a handsome price, / Because it is a marketable vice. Example: […]by the Salic law, no higher mulct was imposed for killing, than for kidnapping a slave.
Word: mulct Part of Speech: verb Etymology: From Middle French mulcter (“to fine, punish”), from Latin mulcta (“penalty, fine”). Possibly a doublet of milk. Pronunciation: /mʌlkt/ 1. To impose such a fine or penalty. Example: None of their numerous quarrels with Rome from 437 (?) B.C. onwards (Liv. 4. 17) led to any decisive result until their rebellion in the year 341 B.C., when the city, despite its strong position on a hill with steep sides, was taken (e.g. Polyb. 1. 65) and mulcted of half its territory. Example: I say that I have seen the current issue of the Thursday Review, and I can quite understand him wanting to mulct the journal in substantial damages […] 2. To swindle (someone) out of money. Labels: transitive Example: Mr. Train's most celebrated real life case was said to have been the prosecution in 1914 of Henry Siegel, operator of a chain of dry-goods stores, who was accused of mulcting thousands in a savings account scheme. Example: However, the pressure on the legislature to license an occupation rarely comes from the members of the public who have been mulcted or in other ways abused by members of the occupation.
Word: mull Part of Speech: verb Etymology: Inherited from Middle English molle, mulle (“dust, rubbish”), possibly from Old English myl (“dust, mould”), from Proto-West Germanic *muli, a deverbal formation from *mulljan and thus cognate with Dutch mul (“dust, mould”), German Müll (“rubbish”), Swedish moln (“cloud”) and related to English mill (“to grind”). Alternatively, from Middle French mol or its etymon Latin mollis (“soft”). Some verbal senses are supplied by Middle English mollen (“to soften, dissolve”), from Old French moillier, from Latin *molliāre (“to steep”), itself from mollis; compare moil. Pronunciation: /mʌl/, /mʊl/ 1. To work (over) mentally; to cogitate; to ruminate. Labels: usually Example: to mull a thought or a problem Example: he paused to mull over his various options before making a decision 2. To powder; to pulverize. 3. To chop marijuana so that it becomes a smokable form. 4. To heat and spice something, such as wine. 5. To join two or more individual windows at mullions. 6. To dull or stupefy. 7. To bungle or botch. Labels: archaic, slang Example: 'That's rather like another plant where a string of pearls was changed some years ago,' volunteered Greatorex, laying aside the paper in favour of his own reminiscences. […] 'Yes; they mulled that by not copying the sale label closely enough, and the attendant noticed it when the necklace was laid down again. […]'
Word: mull Part of Speech: noun Etymology: Inherited from Middle English molle, mulle (“dust, rubbish”), possibly from Old English myl (“dust, mould”), from Proto-West Germanic *muli, a deverbal formation from *mulljan and thus cognate with Dutch mul (“dust, mould”), German Müll (“rubbish”), Swedish moln (“cloud”) and related to English mill (“to grind”). Alternatively, from Middle French mol or its etymon Latin mollis (“soft”). Some verbal senses are supplied by Middle English mollen (“to soften, dissolve”), from Old French moillier, from Latin *molliāre (“to steep”), itself from mollis; compare moil. Pronunciation: /mʌl/, /mʊl/ 1. Marijuana that has been chopped to prepare it for smoking. Labels: uncountable 2. A stew of meat, broth, milk, butter, vegetables, and seasonings, thickened with soda crackers. Labels: countable, uncountable 3. The gauze used in bookbinding to adhere a text block to a book's cover. Labels: countable, uncountable 4. An inferior kind of madder prepared from the smaller roots or the peelings and refuse of the larger. Labels: countable, uncountable 5. A mess of something; a mistake. Labels: archaic, countable, slang, uncountable Example: Mr. HERDMAN. — The honourable member for Nelson says they made a mull of it. If the honourable gentleman had been a financial authority he would never have given expression to such a thought. Example: 2014, Andrea Pickens, A Stroke of Luck After studying the page a bit longer, she made a face. "Good Lord, you've really made a mull of it. Here, let me have a closer look." 6. Dirt, dust, or other waste matter. Labels: Northern-England, countable, dialectal, uncountable
Word: mull Part of Speech: noun Etymology: Shortened from mulmul. Pronunciation: /mʌl/, /mʊl/ 1. A thin, soft muslin. Labels: countable, uncountable Example: The merchandise in this case consists of Madras mulls — thin cotton cloth. Example: Smocking done in colors on fine white batiste, silk mull, or nainsook makes pretty guimpes and dresses for children and very smart blouses for women.
Word: mull Part of Speech: noun Etymology: From Scottish Gaelic maol. Pronunciation: /mʌl/, /mʊl/ 1. A promontory. Labels: Scotland Example: the Mull of Kintyre 2. A snuffbox made of the small end of a horn. Example: Charles Dickens quoted in 1872, John Forster, The Life of Charles Dickens Much in this manner they exhibit at the door of a snuff-shop the effigy of a Highlander with an empty mull in his hand, who, apparently having taken all the snuff he can carry, and discharged all the sneezes of which he is capable, politely invites his friends and patrons to step in and try what they can do in the same line.
Word: mull Part of Speech: noun Etymology: Borrowed from Danish muld, from Old Norse mold. Pronunciation: /mʌl/, /mʊl/ 1. Friable forest humus that forms a layer of mixed organic matter and mineral soil and merges gradually into the mineral soil beneath. Labels: countable, uncountable
Word: mullah Part of Speech: noun Etymology: Derived from Classical Persian مُلَّا (mullā), from Arabic مَوْلًى (mawlan, “vicar, guardian”). Pronunciation: /ˈmʊ.lə/, /ˈmʌ.lə/ 1. An honorific title for a scholar of theology and sharia law. Example: Leading Republicans do not sympathize with the mullahs, do not repeat their talking points, and do not seek to appease them when they make outrageous claims about other countries. 2. An honorific title for a mosque leader. 3. A scholar and teacher of theology and sharia law, and an issuer of fatwas. Example: In the first week of March 2018, the Shia mullah issues a fatwa prohibiting vengeance killing and requiring reconciliation. 4. A conservative Muslim leader or cleric, especially one who is hostile against other religions. Labels: India, slang, slur 5. A Muslim. Labels: India, broadly, slang, slur 6. A low-level cleric who specializes in telling stories of Ashura, rather than teaching or issuing fatwas. Labels: Iran, dated 7. A low-level cleric who specializes in telling stories of Ashura, rather than teaching or issuing fatwas. See also: ruhani Labels: Iran, dated
Word: mullah Part of Speech: verb Pronunciation: /ˈmʊ.lə/, /ˈmʌ.lə/ 1. Alternative form of muller (“to beat, thrash”). Labels: UK, alt-of, alternative, slang, transitive Example: But I mullahed him. He may have been four inches taller but I punched him through the ropes and knocked the granny and the grandad out of him. Example: The Sevens practice session was touch rugby, but every time Harvey got the ball, I absolutely mullahed him. I pushed him, dumped him on his arse, ran through him. Every time.
Word: mullen Part of Speech: noun 1. Alternative form of mullein. Labels: alt-of, alternative Example: We have had a hard battle with the weeds and their roots in our lawn, the docks and the mullens and the pusley.
Word: muon Part of Speech: noun Etymology: Contraction of the earlier term mu-meson; the particle has now been recategorised as a lepton. Coined by Italian physicist Enrico Fermi in 1951 in his book Elementary Particles. Pronunciation: /ˈmjuːɒn/ 1. An unstable elementary particle in the lepton family, having similar properties to the electron but with a mass 207 times greater. Example: The μ-meson of Powell (called here muon) is instead a disintegration product of the pion, only weakly linked to the nucleons and therefore of little importance in the explanation of nuclear forces. Example: The spectrum of electrons arising from the decay of the negative mu meson has been determined. The muons are arrested in the gas of a high pressure hydrogen filled diffusion cloud chamber.
Word: musher Part of Speech: noun Etymology: From mush (“to drive dogs, usually pulling a sled, across snow”) + -er (suffix forming agent nouns). Mush is probably derived from French marche or marchons, respectively the second-person singular and first-person plural imperative forms of marcher (“to move; to travel; to walk”), from Proto-Germanic *markōną (“to mark; to notice”), from *marką (“mark; sign; stamp”), possibly related to *markō (“border, boundary; area, region”), ultimately from Proto-Indo-European *merǵ- (“(noun) border, boundary, edge; (verb) to divide”). Pronunciation: /ˈmʌʃə/, /ˈmʌʃəɹ/ 1. One who drives a dogsled over ice and snow; specifically, one who participates in a dogsled race. Example: It was a record run. Each day for fourteen days they had averaged forty miles. For three days Perrault and François threw chests up and down the main street of Skaguay and were deluged with invitations to drink, while the team was the constant centre of a worshipful crowd of dog-busters and mushers. Example: The youngest musher to enter was Dallas Seavey, who ran in the 2005 Junior Iditarod at age 17, then turned 18 one day before the Iditarod and ran that race in the same year. […] Dallas Seavey was also the youngest musher to win, taking the 2012 championship at age 25. 2. One who travels over snow, chiefly by dogsled but also by foot.
Word: musher Part of Speech: noun Etymology: Origin uncertain, possibly from mush (“cab driver who is the owner of their cab, and sometimes a small number of other cabs as well”) + -er (suffix forming agent nouns), although the word is attested slightly earlier than mush. Mush is possibly derived from mush (“to drive dogs, usually pulling a sled, across snow”, verb) (see etymology 1), or mush (“(slang, rare) umbrella”, noun) (a clipping of mushroom, from the similar appearance; referring to drivers shielding passengers with umbrellas in rainy weather). Pronunciation: /ˈmʌʃə/, /ˈmʌʃəɹ/ 1. Synonym of mush (“a cab driver who is the owner of their cab, and sometimes a small number of other cabs as well”). Labels: London, slang Example: Nobody knew Old Joe. He was a "musher"—that is to say, he owned his own cab and mostly did night work. He gave no trouble to anybody, and came and went as a rule in the dark hours of the night.
Word: musher Part of Speech: noun Etymology: Clipping of musher(oom) or musher(oon), variants of mushroom. Pronunciation: /ˈmʌʃə/, /ˈmʌʃəɹ/ 1. A mushroom. Labels: England, dialectal
Word: myopia Part of Speech: noun Etymology: Borrowed from Ancient Greek μυωπία (muōpía, “shortsightedness”), from μύω (múō, “to shut, close”) + ὤψ (ṓps, “eye”) + -ία (-ía). Pronunciation: /maɪˈəʊ.pɪ.ə/, /maɪˈoʊ.pi.ə/ 1. A disorder of the vision where distant objects appear blurred because the eye focuses their images in front of the retina instead of on it. Labels: countable, uncountable Example: The modern rise in myopia mirrored a trend for children in many countries to spend more time engaged in reading, studying or — more recently — glued to computer and smartphone screens. 2. A lack of imagination, discernment or long-range perspective in thinking or planning. Labels: countable, figuratively, uncountable
Word: myosin Part of Speech: noun Etymology: From myo- (“relating to muscle”), and Ancient Greek μυός (muós), genitive of μῦς (mûs, “muscle”) + -in. Pronunciation: /ˈmaɪ.oʊsɪn/ 1. Any of a large family of motor proteins found in eukaryotic tissues, allowing mobility in muscles. Labels: countable, uncountable 2. An albuminous body present in dead muscle formed in the process of coagulation which takes place in rigor mortis. Labels: countable, uncountable