min | (noun) a unit of time equal to 60 seconds or 1/60th of an hour | Synonyms: minute |
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mina | (noun) tropical Asian starlings | Synonyms: minah, myna, myna bird, mynah, mynah bird |
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minah | (noun) tropical Asian starlings | Synonyms: mina, myna, myna bird, mynah, mynah bird |
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minaret | (noun) slender tower with balconies | - |
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mince | (noun) food chopped into small bits | - |
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mincemeat | (noun) spiced mixture of chopped raisins and apples and other ingredients with or without meat | - |
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mincer | (noun) a kitchen utensil that cuts or chops food (especially meat) into small pieces | Synonyms: mincing machine |
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mind | (noun) that which is responsible for one's thoughts, feelings, and conscious brain functions; the seat of the faculty of reason | Synonyms: head, nous, psyche, brain |
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(noun) recall or remembrance | - |
(noun) an opinion formed by judging something | Synonyms: judgement, judgment |
(noun) an important intellectual | Synonyms: creative thinker, thinker |
(noun) attention | - |
(noun) your intention; what you intend to do | Synonyms: idea |
(noun) knowledge and intellectual ability | Synonyms: intellect |
minder | (noun) someone (usually in totalitarian countries) who is assigned to watch over foreign visitors | - |
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(noun) a person who looks after babies (usually in the person's own home) while the babys' parents are working | Synonyms: baby minder, babyminder |
mindfuck | (noun) Something that intentionally destabilizes, confuses or manipulates the mind of another person | - |
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mindfulness | (noun) the trait of staying aware of (paying close attention to) your responsibilities | Synonyms: heedfulness |
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mindlessness | (noun) total lack of meaning or ideas | Synonyms: vacuity, inanity, pointlessness, senselessness |
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(noun) the trait of acting rashly and without prudence | Synonyms: heedlessness, rashness |
mindset | (noun) a habitual or characteristic mental attitude that determines how you will interpret and respond to situations | Synonyms: outlook, mentality, mind-set |
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mine | (noun) excavation in the earth from which ores and minerals are extracted | - |
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(noun) explosive device that explodes on contact; designed to destroy vehicles or ships or to kill or maim personnel | - |
minefield | (noun) a region in which explosives mines have been placed | - |
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minelayer | (noun) ship equipped for laying marine mines | - |
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minelaying | (noun) laying explosive mines in concealed places to destroy enemy personnel and equipment | Synonyms: mining |
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miner | (noun) laborer who works in a mine | Synonyms: mineworker |
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mineral | (noun) solid homogeneous inorganic substances occurring in nature having a definite chemical composition | - |
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mineralocorticoid | (noun) hormone that is one of the steroids of the adrenal cortex that influences the metabolism of sodium and potassium | - |
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mineralogist | (noun) a scientist trained in mineralogy | - |
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mineralogy | (noun) the branch of geology that studies minerals: their structure and properties and the ways of distinguishing them | - |
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mineshaft | (noun) excavation consisting of a vertical or sloping passageway for finding or mining ore or for ventilating a mine | - |
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minestrone | (noun) soup made with a variety of vegetables | Synonyms: petite marmite, vegetable soup |
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minesweeper | (noun) ship equipped to detect and then destroy or neutralize or remove marine mines | - |
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minesweeping | (noun) the activity of detecting and disposing of marine mines | - |
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mineworker | (noun) laborer who works in a mine | Synonyms: miner |
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minge | (noun) vulgar term for a woman's pubic hair or genitals | - |
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minginess | (noun) extreme stinginess | Synonyms: tightness, niggardliness, niggardness, meanness, parsimoniousness, parsimony, closeness, tightfistedness |
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mingling | (noun) the action of people mingling and coming into contact | - |
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mini | (noun) a very short skirt | Synonyms: miniskirt |
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miniature | (noun) painting or drawing included in a book (especially in illuminated medieval manuscripts) | Synonyms: illumination |
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(noun) a copy that reproduces a person or thing in greatly reduced size | Synonyms: toy |
miniaturisation | (noun) act of making on a greatly reduced scale | Synonyms: miniaturization |
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miniaturist | (noun) someone who paints tiny pictures in great detail | - |
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miniaturization | (noun) act of making on a greatly reduced scale | Synonyms: miniaturisation |
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minibar | (noun) sideboard with compartments for holding bottles | Synonyms: cellaret |
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minibike | (noun) small motorcycle with a low frame and small wheels and elevated handlebars | Synonyms: motorbike |
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minibus | (noun) a light bus (4 to 10 passengers) | - |
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minicab | (noun) a minicar used as a taxicab | - |
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minicalculator | (noun) (old-fashioned) a very small handheld calculator. | - |
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minicar | (noun) a car that is even smaller than a subcompact car | - |
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minicomputer | (noun) a digital computer of medium size | - |
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minim | (noun) a British imperial capacity measure (liquid or dry) equal to 1/60th fluid dram or 0.059194 cubic centimeters | - |
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(noun) a United States liquid unit equal to 1/60 fluidram | - |
(noun) a musical note having the time value of half a whole note | Synonyms: half note |
minimalism | (noun) an art movement in sculpture and painting that began in the 1950s and emphasized extreme simplification of form and color | Synonyms: reductivism, minimal art |
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minimalist | (noun) a conservative who advocates only minor reforms in government or politics | - |
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(noun) a practitioner or advocate of artistic minimalism | - |
minimality | (noun) The state of being the smallest possible amount, quantity, or degree. | - |
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minimisation | (noun) the act of reducing something to the least possible amount or degree or position | Synonyms: minimization |
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minimization | (noun) the act of reducing something to the least possible amount or degree or position | Synonyms: minimisation |
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minimum | (noun) the smallest possible quantity | Synonyms: lower limit |
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(noun) the point on a curve where the tangent changes from negative on the left to positive on the right | - |
minimus | (noun) the fifth digit; the little finger or little toe | - |
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mining | (noun) the act of extracting ores or coal etc from the earth | Synonyms: excavation |
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(noun) laying explosive mines in concealed places to destroy enemy personnel and equipment | Synonyms: minelaying |
minion | (noun) a servile or fawning dependant | - |
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miniskirt | (noun) a very short skirt | Synonyms: mini |
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minister | (noun) a person authorized to conduct religious worship | Synonyms: rector, minister of religion, parson, pastor, curate |
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(noun) a person appointed to a high office in the government | Synonyms: government minister |
(noun) a diplomat representing one government to another; ranks below ambassador | Synonyms: diplomatic minister |
(noun) the job of a head of a government department | - |
ministrant | (noun) someone who serves as a minister | - |
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ministration | (noun) assistance in time of difficulty | Synonyms: relief, succor, succour |
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ministry | (noun) religious ministers collectively (especially Presbyterian) | - |
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(noun) building where the business of a government ministry is transacted | - |
(noun) a government department under the direction of a minister of state | - |
(noun) the work of a minister of religion | - |
minisub | (noun) submersible vessel for one or two persons; for naval operations or underwater exploration | Synonyms: minisubmarine |
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minisubmarine | (noun) submersible vessel for one or two persons; for naval operations or underwater exploration | Synonyms: minisub |
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minium | (noun) a reddish oxide of lead (Pb3O4) used as a pigment in paints and in glass and ceramics | Synonyms: red lead |
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minivan | (noun) a small box-shaped passenger van; usually has removable seats; used as a family car | - |
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miniver | (noun) trimming on ceremonial robes consisting of white or light grey fur | - |
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mink | (noun) the expensive fur of a mink | - |
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(noun) fur coat made from the soft lustrous fur of minks | Synonyms: mink coat |
(noun) slender-bodied semiaquatic mammal having partially webbed feet; valued for its fur | - |
minniebush | (noun) low shrub of the eastern United States with downy twigs | Synonyms: Menziesia pilosa, minnie bush |
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minnow | (noun) very small European freshwater fish common in gravelly streams | Synonyms: Phoxinus phoxinus |
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minocycline | (noun) tetracycline antibiotic (trade name Minocin) used to treat a variety of bacterial and rickettsial infections | Synonyms: Minocin |
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minor | (noun) a young person of either sex | Synonyms: kid, shaver, nestling, nipper, small fry, child, fry, tiddler, tike, tyke, youngster |
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minority | (noun) a group of people who differ racially or politically from a larger group of which it is a part | - |
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(noun) being or relating to the smaller in number of two parts | - |
(noun) any age prior to the legal age | Synonyms: nonage |
minors | (noun) a league of teams that do not belong to a major league (especially baseball) | Synonyms: minor league, bush league |
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minoxidil | (noun) a vasodilator (trade name Loniten) used to treat severe hypertension; one side effect is hirsutism so it is also sold (trade name Rogaine) as a treatment for male-patterned baldness | Synonyms: Rogaine, Loniten |
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minster | (noun) any of certain cathedrals and large churches; originally connected to a monastery | - |
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minstrel | (noun) a singer of folk songs | Synonyms: jongleur, poet-singer, folk singer, troubadour |
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(noun) a performer in a minstrel show | - |
minstrelsy | (noun) a troupe of minstrels | - |
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(noun) ballads sung by minstrels | - |
(noun) the art of a minstrel | - |
mint | (noun) (often followed by `of') a large number or amount or extent | Synonyms: lot, deal, peck, sight, wad, heap, mass, pile, stack, batch, flock, raft, mess, pot, mountain, spate, plenty, hatful, mickle, muckle, passel, quite a little, good deal, great deal, slew, tidy sum |
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(noun) any north temperate plant of the genus Mentha with aromatic leaves and small mauve flowers | - |
(noun) any member of the mint family of plants | - |
(noun) the leaves of a mint plant used fresh or candied | - |
(noun) a candy that is flavored with a mint oil | Synonyms: mint candy |
(noun) a plant where money is coined by authority of the government | - |
mintage | (noun) coins collectively | Synonyms: coinage, metal money, specie |
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(noun) fee paid to a mint by the government for minting a coin | - |
(noun) act or process of minting coins | - |
minter | (noun) a skilled worker who coins or stamps money | Synonyms: moneyer, coiner |
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mintiness | (noun) The state or condition of having a flavour or essence of mint. | - |
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mintmark | (noun) a mark on a coin that identifies the mint where it was produced | - |
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minuend | (noun) the number from which the subtrahend is subtracted | - |
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minuet | (noun) a stately court dance in the 17th century | - |
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(noun) a stately piece of music composed for dancing the minuet; often incorporated into a sonata or suite | - |
minus | (noun) an arithmetic operation in which the difference between two numbers is calculated | Synonyms: subtraction |
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minuscule | (noun) the characters that were once kept in bottom half of a compositor's type case | Synonyms: small letter, lower-case letter, lowercase |
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(noun) a small cursive script developed from uncial between the 7th and 9th centuries and used in medieval manuscripts | - |
minute | (noun) a unit of time equal to 60 seconds or 1/60th of an hour | Synonyms: min |
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(noun) an indefinitely short time | Synonyms: moment, second, bit, mo |
(noun) a particular point in time | Synonyms: moment, second, instant |
(noun) a unit of angular distance equal to a 60th of a degree | Synonyms: minute of arc, arcminute |
(noun) a short note | - |
(noun) distance measured by the time taken to cover it | Synonyms: hour |
minuteness | (noun) the property of being very small in size | Synonyms: diminutiveness, petiteness, weeness, tininess |
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(noun) great precision; painstaking attention to details | - |
minutes | (noun) a written account of what transpired at a meeting | Synonyms: proceedings, transactions |
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minutia | (noun) a small or minor detail | - |
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(noun) (biometrics, forensics) Any of the major features of a fingerprint that allow prints to be compared. | - |
minx | (noun) a seductive woman who uses her sex appeal to exploit men | Synonyms: flirt, tease, vamp, prickteaser, vamper, coquette |
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minyan | (noun) the quorum required by Jewish law to be present for public worship (at least ten males over thirteen years of age) | - |
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