| luminaire | (noun) an electrical device used to create artificial light by use of an electric lamp; all light fixtures have a fixture body and a light socket to hold the lamp and allow for its replacement | Synonyms: light fitting, light fixture |
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| luminance | (noun) the quality of being luminous; emitting or reflecting light | Synonyms: brightness, brightness level, light, luminosity, luminousness |
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| luminary | (noun) a celebrity who is an inspiration to others | Synonyms: guiding light, leading light, notability, notable |
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| luminesce | (verb) be or become luminescent; exhibit luminescence | - |
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| luminescence | (noun) light from nonthermal sources | Synonyms: glow |
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| (noun) light not due to incandescence; occurs at low temperatures | - |
| luminescent | (adjective) emitting light not caused by heat | - |
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| luminism | (noun) an artistic movement in the United States that was derived from the Hudson River school; active from 1850 to 1870; painted realistic landscapes in a style that pictured atmospheric light and the use of aerial perspective | - |
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| luminosity | (noun) the quality of being luminous; emitting or reflecting light | Synonyms: brightness, brightness level, light, luminance, luminousness |
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| luminous | (adjective) softly bright or radiant | Synonyms: aglow, lambent, lucent |
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| luminousness | (noun) the quality of being luminous; emitting or reflecting light | Synonyms: brightness, brightness level, light, luminance, luminosity |
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| mastermind | (noun) someone who creates new things | Synonyms: conceiver, originator |
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| (noun) someone who has exceptional intellectual ability and originality | Synonyms: brain, brainiac, Einstein, genius |
| (verb) plan and direct (a complex undertaking) | Synonyms: direct, engineer, orchestrate, organise, organize |
| melamine | (noun) a white crystalline organic base; used mainly in making melamine resins | Synonyms: cyanuramide |
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| merbromine | (noun) a mercurial compound applied topically as an antiseptic; Mercurochrome is the trademark | Synonyms: Mercurochrome |
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| metformin | (noun) an antidiabetic drug (trade name Glucophage) prescribed to treat type II diabetes | Synonyms: Glucophage |
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| methamphetamine | (noun) an amphetamine derivative (trade name Methedrine) used in the form of a crystalline hydrochloride; used as a stimulant to the nervous system and as an appetite suppressant | Synonyms: chalk, chicken feed, crank, deoxyephedrine, glass, ice, meth, methamphetamine hydrochloride, Methedrine, shabu, trash |
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| methenamine | (noun) antibacterial agent (trade names Mandelamine and Urex) that is contained in many products that are used to treat urinary infections | Synonyms: Mandelamine, Urex |
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| methylenedioxymethamphetamine | (noun) a stimulant drug that is chemically related to mescaline and amphetamine and is used illicitly for its euphoric and hallucinogenic effects; it was formerly used in psychotherapy but in 1985 it was declared illegal in the United States | Synonyms: MDMA |
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| 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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| minacious | (adjective) threatening or foreshadowing evil or tragic developments | Synonyms: baleful, forbidding, menacing, minatory, ominous, sinister, threatening |
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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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| minatory | (adjective) threatening or foreshadowing evil or tragic developments | Synonyms: baleful, forbidding, menacing, minacious, ominous, sinister, threatening |
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| mince | (noun) food chopped into small bits | - |
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| (verb) make less severe or harsh | Synonyms: moderate, soften |
| (verb) cut into small pieces | - |
| (verb) walk daintily | - |
| 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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| mincing | (adjective) affectedly dainty or refined | Synonyms: niminy-piminy, prim, twee |
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| mincingly | (adverb) in a mincing manner | - |
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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: brain, head, nous, psyche |
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| (noun) recall or remembrance | - |
| (noun) attention | - |
| (noun) an opinion formed by judging something | Synonyms: judgement, judgment |
| (noun) knowledge and intellectual ability | Synonyms: intellect |
| (noun) your intention; what you intend to do | Synonyms: idea |
| (noun) an important intellectual | Synonyms: creative thinker, thinker |
| (verb) keep in mind | Synonyms: bear in mind |
| (verb) be concerned with or about something or somebody | - |
| (verb) be on one's guard; be cautious or wary about; be alert to | Synonyms: beware |
| (verb) be offended or bothered by; take offense with, be bothered by | - |
| (verb) pay close attention to; give heed to | Synonyms: heed, listen |
| (verb) be in charge of or deal with | Synonyms: take care |
| minded | (adjective) (used in combination) mentally oriented toward something specified | - |
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| (adjective) (usually followed by `to') naturally disposed toward | Synonyms: apt, disposed, given, tending |
| minder | (noun) a person who looks after babies (usually in the person's own home) while the babys' parents are working | Synonyms: baby minder, babyminder |
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| (noun) someone (usually in totalitarian countries) who is assigned to watch over foreign visitors | - |
| mindfuck | (noun) Something that intentionally destabilizes, confuses or manipulates the mind of another person | - |
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| mindful | (adjective) bearing in mind; attentive to | Synonyms: aware |
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| mindfully | (adverb) in a careful deliberate manner | Synonyms: advertently, heedfully |
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| mindfulness | (noun) the trait of staying aware of (paying close attention to) your responsibilities | Synonyms: heedfulness |
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| mindless | (adjective) not mindful or attentive | Synonyms: forgetful, unmindful |
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| (adjective) devoid of intelligence or thought | Synonyms: vacant, vacuous |
| (adjective) lacking the thinking capacity characteristic of a conscious being | - |
| (adjective) requiring little mental effort | - |
| (adjective) not marked by the use of reason | Synonyms: reasonless, senseless |
| mindlessly | (adverb) in an unreasonably senseless manner | Synonyms: senselessly |
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| (adverb) without intellectual involvement | - |
| mindlessness | (noun) the trait of acting rashly and without prudence | Synonyms: heedlessness, rashness |
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| (noun) total lack of meaning or ideas | Synonyms: inanity, pointlessness, senselessness, vacuity |
| mindset | (noun) a habitual or characteristic mental attitude that determines how you will interpret and respond to situations | Synonyms: mentality, mind-set, outlook |
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| mine | (noun) explosive device that explodes on contact; designed to destroy vehicles or ships or to kill or maim personnel | - |
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| (noun) excavation in the earth from which ores and minerals are extracted | - |
| (verb) lay mines | - |
| (verb) get from the earth by excavation | - |
| mined | (adjective) extracted from a source of supply as of minerals from the earth | - |
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| 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 | (adjective) relating to minerals | - |
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| (adjective) composed of matter other than plant or animal | - |
| (noun) solid homogeneous inorganic substances occurring in nature having a definite chemical composition | - |
| mineralize | (verb) transform (a metal) into an ore | - |
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| (verb) convert into a mineral substance | - |
| 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: closeness, meanness, niggardliness, niggardness, parsimoniousness, parsimony, tightfistedness, tightness |
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| mingle | (verb) to bring or combine together or with something else | Synonyms: amalgamate, commix, mix, unify |
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| (verb) get involved or mixed-up with | - |
| (verb) be all mixed up or jumbled together | Synonyms: jumble |
| mingling | (noun) the action of people mingling and coming into contact | - |
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| mingy | (adjective) (used of persons or behavior) characterized by or indicative of lack of generosity | Synonyms: mean, miserly, tight |
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| mini | (adjective) used of women's clothing; very short with hemline above the knee | - |
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| (noun) a very short skirt | Synonyms: miniskirt |
| miniate | (verb) paint with red lead or vermilion | - |
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| (verb) decorate (manuscripts) with letters painted red | Synonyms: rubricate |
| miniature | (adjective) being on a very small scale | - |
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| (noun) a copy that reproduces a person or thing in greatly reduced size | Synonyms: toy |
| (noun) painting or drawing included in a book (especially in illuminated medieval manuscripts) | Synonyms: illumination |
| miniaturisation | (noun) act of making on a greatly reduced scale | Synonyms: miniaturization |
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| miniaturise | (verb) design or construct on a smaller scale | Synonyms: miniaturize |
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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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| miniaturize | (verb) design or construct on a smaller scale | Synonyms: miniaturise |
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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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| minify | (verb) make become smaller | Synonyms: decrease, lessen |
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| minim | (noun) a musical note having the time value of half a whole note | Synonyms: half note |
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| (noun) a United States liquid unit equal to 1/60 fluidram | - |
| (noun) a British imperial capacity measure (liquid or dry) equal to 1/60th fluid dram or 0.059194 cubic centimeters | - |
| minimal | (adjective) the least possible | Synonyms: minimum |
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| minimalism | (noun) an art movement in sculpture and painting that began in the 1950s and emphasized extreme simplification of form and color | Synonyms: minimal art, reductivism |
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| minimalist | (adjective) of or relating to artistic minimalism | - |
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| (adjective) advocating minimal reforms (as in government or politics) | - |
| (noun) a practitioner or advocate of artistic minimalism | - |
| (noun) a conservative who advocates only minor reforms in government or politics | - |
| minimality | (noun) The state of being the smallest possible amount, quantity, or degree. | - |
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| minimally | (adverb) to a minimal 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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| minimise | (verb) make small or insignificant | Synonyms: minimize |
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| (verb) represent as less significant or important | Synonyms: downplay, minimize, understate |
| minimization | (noun) the act of reducing something to the least possible amount or degree or position | Synonyms: minimisation |
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| minimize | (verb) make small or insignificant | Synonyms: minimise |
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| (verb) cause to seem less serious; play down | Synonyms: belittle, denigrate, derogate |
| (verb) represent as less significant or important | Synonyms: downplay, minimise, understate |
| minimized | (adjective) reduced to the smallest possible size or amount or degree | - |
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| minimum | (adjective) the least possible | Synonyms: minimal |
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| (noun) the point on a curve where the tangent changes from negative on the left to positive on the right | - |
| (noun) the smallest possible quantity | Synonyms: lower limit |
| 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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| miniscule | (adjective) extremely small | Synonyms: minuscule |
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| miniskirt | (noun) a very short skirt | Synonyms: mini |
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| minister | (noun) the job of a head of a government department | - |
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| (noun) a person authorized to conduct religious worship | Synonyms: curate, minister of religion, parson, pastor, rector |
| (noun) a diplomat representing one government to another; ranks below ambassador | Synonyms: diplomatic minister |
| (noun) a person appointed to a high office in the government | Synonyms: government minister |
| (verb) work as a minister | - |
| (verb) attend to the wants and needs of others | - |
| ministerial | (adjective) of or relating to a government minister or ministry | - |
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| (adjective) of or relating to a minister of religion or the minister's office | - |
| ministerially | (adverb) in the manner of a minister or clergyman | - |
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| ministrant | (adjective) giving practical help to | Synonyms: attending |
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| (noun) someone who serves as a minister | - |
| ministration | (noun) assistance in time of difficulty | Synonyms: relief, succor, succour |
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| ministry | (noun) the work of a minister of religion | - |
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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) religious ministers collectively (especially Presbyterian) | - |
| minisub | (noun) submersible vessel for one or two persons; for naval operations or underwater exploration | Synonyms: minisubmarine |
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