| mead
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(noun) made of fermented honey and water |
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| meadow
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(noun) a piece of land covered or mostly covered with grass; a field where grass or alfalfa are grown to be made into hay |
Synonyms:
hayfield |
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| meadowgrass
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(noun) any of various grasses that thrive in the presence of abundant moisture |
Synonyms:
meadow grass |
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| meadowlark
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(noun) North American songbirds having a yellow breast |
Synonyms:
lark |
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| meagerness
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(noun) the quality of being meager |
Synonyms:
meagreness,
poorness,
exiguity,
scantiness,
scantness,
leanness |
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| meagreness
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(noun) the quality of being meager |
Synonyms:
meagerness,
poorness,
exiguity,
scantiness,
scantness,
leanness |
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| meal
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(noun) the food served and eaten at one time |
Synonyms:
repast |
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| (noun) any of the occasions for eating food that occur by custom or habit at more or less fixed times |
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| (noun) coarsely ground foodstuff; especially seeds of various cereal grasses or pulse |
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| mealberry
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(noun) evergreen mat-forming shrub of North America and northern Eurasia having small white flowers and red berries; leaves turn red in autumn |
Synonyms:
red bearberry,
hog cranberry,
mountain box,
wild cranberry,
sand berry,
sandberry,
common bearberry,
creashak,
Arctostaphylos uva-ursi,
bear's grape |
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| mealie
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(noun) an ear of corn |
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| mealtime
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(noun) the hour at which a meal is habitually or customarily eaten |
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| mealworm
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(noun) the larva of beetles of the family Tenebrionidae |
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| mealybug
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(noun) scalelike plant-eating insect coated with a powdery waxy secretion; destructive especially of fruit trees |
Synonyms:
mealy bug |
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| mean
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(noun) an average of n numbers computed by adding some function of the numbers and dividing by some function of n |
Synonyms:
mean value |
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| meander
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(noun) a bend or curve, as in a stream or river |
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| (noun) an aimless amble on a winding course |
Synonyms:
ramble |
| meanie
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(noun) a person of mean disposition |
Synonyms:
unkind person,
meany |
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| meaning
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(noun) the message that is intended or expressed or signified |
Synonyms:
import,
significance,
signification |
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| (noun) the idea that is intended |
Synonyms:
substance |
| meaningfulness
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(noun) the quality of having great value or significance |
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| meaninglessness
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(noun) a message that seems to convey no meaning |
Synonyms:
nonsense,
bunk,
nonsensicality,
hokum |
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| (noun) the quality of having no value or significance |
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| meanness
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(noun) the quality of being deliberately mean |
Synonyms:
beastliness |
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| (noun) extreme stinginess |
Synonyms:
tightness,
niggardliness,
niggardness,
minginess,
parsimoniousness,
parsimony,
closeness,
tightfistedness |
| means
|
(noun) to have the ability to produce a particular effect or achieve an end |
Synonyms:
way,
agency |
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| (noun) considerable capital (wealth or income) |
Synonyms:
substance |
| (noun) an artifact (that is instrumental in accomplishing some end) for accomplishing some end |
Synonyms:
instrumentation,
instrumentality |
| meantime
|
(noun) the time between one event, process, or period and another |
Synonyms:
lag,
interim,
meanwhile |
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| meanwhile
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(noun) the time between one event, process, or period and another |
Synonyms:
lag,
interim,
meantime |
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| meany
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(noun) a person of mean disposition |
Synonyms:
unkind person,
meanie |
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| mearstone
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(noun) an old term for a landmark that consisted of a pile of stones surmounted by an upright slab |
Synonyms:
meerestone,
merestone |
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| measles
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(noun) an acute and highly contagious viral disease marked by distinct red spots followed by a rash; occurs primarily in children |
Synonyms:
rubeola,
morbilli |
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| measurability
|
(noun) the quality of being measurable |
Synonyms:
quantifiability |
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| measure
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(noun) any maneuver made as part of progress toward a goal |
Synonyms:
step |
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| (noun) how much there is or how many there are of something that you can quantify |
Synonyms:
quantity,
amount |
| (noun) a statute in draft before it becomes law |
Synonyms:
bill |
| (noun) the act or process of assigning numbers to phenomena according to a rule |
Synonyms:
measurement,
measuring,
mensuration |
| (noun) a basis for comparison; a reference point against which other things can be evaluated |
Synonyms:
standard,
criterion,
touchstone |
| (noun) (prosody) the accent in a metrical foot of verse |
Synonyms:
beat,
meter,
metre,
cadence |
| (noun) musical notation for a repeating pattern of musical beats |
Synonyms:
bar |
| (noun) measuring instrument having a sequence of marks at regular intervals; used as a reference in making measurements |
Synonyms:
measuring rod,
measuring stick |
| (noun) a container of some standard capacity that is used to obtain fixed amounts of a substance |
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| measurement
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(noun) the act or process of assigning numbers to phenomena according to a rule |
Synonyms:
measure,
measuring,
mensuration |
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| measurer
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(noun) a person who makes measurements |
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| measuring
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(noun) the act or process of assigning numbers to phenomena according to a rule |
Synonyms:
measure,
measurement,
mensuration |
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| meat
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(noun) the flesh of animals (including fishes and birds and snails) used as food |
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| (noun) the inner and usually edible part of a seed or grain or nut or fruit stone |
Synonyms:
kernel |
| (noun) the choicest or most essential or most vital part of some idea or experience |
Synonyms:
heart,
center,
centre,
core,
nitty-gritty,
nub,
inwardness,
heart and soul,
marrow,
pith,
kernel,
gist,
essence,
substance,
sum |
| meatball
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(noun) ground meat formed into a ball and fried or simmered in broth |
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| meatloaf
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(noun) a baked loaf of ground meat |
Synonyms:
meat loaf |
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| meatman
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(noun) a retailer of meat |
Synonyms:
butcher |
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| meatpacking
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(noun) wholesale packaging of meat for future sale (including slaughtering and processing and distribution to retailers) |
Synonyms:
meat packing,
meat-packing business |
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| meatus
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(noun) a natural body passageway |
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