monopolist | (noun) someone who monopolizes the means of producing or selling something | Synonyms: monopoliser, monopolizer |
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monopolization | (noun) domination (of a market or commodity) to the exclusion of others | Synonyms: monopolisation |
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monopolizer | (noun) someone who monopolizes the means of producing or selling something | Synonyms: monopoliser, monopolist |
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monopoly | (noun) (economics) a market in which there are many buyers but only one seller | - |
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(noun) exclusive control or possession of something | - |
monopsony | (noun) (economics) a market in which goods or services are offered by several sellers but there is only one buyer | - |
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monorail | (noun) a railway having a single track | - |
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monorchidism | (noun) failure of one testes to descend into the scrotum | Synonyms: monorchism |
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monorchism | (noun) failure of one testes to descend into the scrotum | Synonyms: monorchidism |
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monoreme | (noun) a galley that has one bank of oars. | - |
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monosaccharide | (noun) a sugar (like sucrose or fructose) that does not hydrolyse to give other sugars; the simplest group of carbohydrates | Synonyms: monosaccharose, simple sugar |
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monosaccharose | (noun) a sugar (like sucrose or fructose) that does not hydrolyse to give other sugars; the simplest group of carbohydrates | Synonyms: monosaccharide, simple sugar |
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monosemy | (noun) having a single meaning (absence of ambiguity) usually of individual words or phrases | - |
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monosomy | (noun) chromosomal abnormality consisting of the absence of one chromosome from the normal diploid number | - |
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monosyllable | (noun) a word or utterance of one syllable | Synonyms: monosyllabic word |
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monotheism | (noun) belief in a single God | - |
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monotheist | (noun) a believer in one god | - |
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monotone | (noun) an unchanging intonation | Synonyms: drone, droning |
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(noun) a single tone repeated with different words or different rhythms (especially in rendering liturgical texts) | - |
monotony | (noun) the quality of wearisome constancy, routine, and lack of variety | Synonyms: humdrum, sameness |
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(noun) constancy of tone or pitch or inflection | - |
monotopism | (noun) origin of a systematic group only once (as by mutation) or at a single location. | - |
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monotreme | (noun) the most primitive mammals comprising the only extant members of the subclass Prototheria | Synonyms: egg-laying mammal |
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monotype | (noun) a typesetting machine operated from a keyboard that sets separate characters | - |
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(noun) the sole print made by pressing paper against a painted or inked glass or metal plate | - |
(noun) (biology) a taxonomic group with a single member (a single species or genus) | - |
monoxide | (noun) an oxide containing just one atom of oxygen in the molecule | - |
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mons | (noun) a mound of fatty tissue covering the pubic area in women | Synonyms: mons pubis, mons veneris |
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monsoon | (noun) a seasonal wind in southern Asia; blows from the southwest (bringing rain) in summer and from the northeast in winter | - |
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(noun) any wind that changes direction with the seasons | - |
(noun) rainy season in southern Asia when the southwestern monsoon blows, bringing heavy rains | - |
monster | (noun) (medicine) a grossly malformed and usually nonviable fetus | Synonyms: teras |
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(noun) a cruel wicked and inhuman person | Synonyms: demon, devil, fiend, ogre |
(noun) a person or animal that is markedly unusual or deformed | Synonyms: freak, lusus naturae, monstrosity |
(noun) an imaginary creature usually having various human and animal parts | - |
(noun) someone that is abnormally large and powerful | Synonyms: behemoth, colossus, giant, goliath |
monstera | (noun) tropical cylindrical fruit resembling a pinecone with pineapple-banana flavor | Synonyms: ceriman |
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(noun) any plant of the genus Monstera; often grown as houseplants | - |
monstrance | (noun) (Roman Catholic Church) a vessel (usually of gold or silver) in which the consecrated Host is exposed for adoration | Synonyms: ostensorium |
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(noun) proof by a process of argument or a series of proposition proving an asserted conclusion | Synonyms: demonstration |
monstrosity | (noun) something hideous or frightful | - |
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(noun) a person or animal that is markedly unusual or deformed | Synonyms: freak, lusus naturae, monster |
montage | (noun) a paste-up made by sticking together pieces of paper or photographs to form an artistic image | Synonyms: collage |
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monte | (noun) a gambling card game of Spanish origin; 3 cards are dealt face up and players bet that one of them will be matched before the others as the cards are dealt from the pack one at a time | Synonyms: three-card monte |
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month | (noun) a time unit of approximately 30 days | - |
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(noun) one of the twelve divisions of the calendar year | Synonyms: calendar month |
monthly | (noun) a periodical that is published every month (or 12 issues per year) | - |
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monthsary | (noun) the one month anniversary of something | - |
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monument | (noun) a structure erected to commemorate persons or events | Synonyms: memorial |
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(noun) a burial vault (usually for some famous person) | Synonyms: repository |
(noun) an important site that is marked and preserved as public property | - |