| mead | (noun) made of fermented honey and water | - |
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| meadow | (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 | (noun) any of various grasses that thrive in the presence of abundant moisture | Synonyms: meadow grass |
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| meadowlark | (noun) North American songbirds having a yellow breast | Synonyms: lark |
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| meager | (adjective) deficient in amount or quality or extent | Synonyms: meagerly, meagre, scrimpy, stingy |
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| meagerly | (adjective) deficient in amount or quality or extent | Synonyms: meager, meagre, scrimpy, stingy |
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| (adverb) to a meager degree or in a meager manner | Synonyms: meagrely, slenderly, sparingly |
| meagerness | (noun) the quality of being meager | Synonyms: exiguity, leanness, meagreness, poorness, scantiness, scantness |
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| meagre | (adjective) deficient in amount or quality or extent | Synonyms: meager, meagerly, scrimpy, stingy |
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| meagrely | (adverb) to a meager degree or in a meager manner | Synonyms: meagerly, slenderly, sparingly |
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| meagreness | (noun) the quality of being meager | Synonyms: exiguity, leanness, meagerness, poorness, scantiness, scantness |
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| meal | (noun) the food served and eaten at one time | Synonyms: repast |
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| (noun) coarsely ground foodstuff; especially seeds of various cereal grasses or pulse | - |
| (noun) any of the occasions for eating food that occur by custom or habit at more or less fixed times | - |
| mealberry | (noun) evergreen mat-forming shrub of North America and northern Eurasia having small white flowers and red berries; leaves turn red in autumn | Synonyms: Arctostaphylos uva-ursi, bear's grape, common bearberry, creashak, hog cranberry, mountain box, red bearberry, sand berry, sandberry, wild cranberry |
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| mealie | (noun) an ear of corn | - |
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| mealtime | (noun) the hour at which a meal is habitually or customarily eaten | - |
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| mealworm | (noun) the larva of beetles of the family Tenebrionidae | - |
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| mealy | (adjective) containing meal or made of meal | - |
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| (adjective) composed of or covered with particles resembling meal in texture or consistency | Synonyms: coarse-grained, farinaceous, grainy, granular, granulose, gritty |
| mealybug | (noun) scalelike plant-eating insect coated with a powdery waxy secretion; destructive especially of fruit trees | Synonyms: mealy bug |
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| mealymouthed | (adjective) hesitant to state facts or opinions simply and directly as from e.g. timidity or hypocrisy | Synonyms: mealy-mouthed |
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| mean | (adjective) of no value or worth | Synonyms: bastardly |
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| (adjective) having or showing an ignoble lack of honor or morality | Synonyms: base, meanspirited |
| (adjective) characterized by malice | Synonyms: hateful |
| (adjective) approximating the statistical norm or average or expected value | Synonyms: average |
| (adjective) marked by poverty befitting a beggar | Synonyms: beggarly |
| (adjective) (used of sums of money) so small in amount as to deserve contempt | Synonyms: beggarly |
| (adjective) (used of persons or behavior) characterized by or indicative of lack of generosity | Synonyms: mingy, miserly, tight |
| (adjective) very good; of the highest quality | Synonyms: excellent, fantabulous, first-class, ripping, splendid |
| (noun) an average of n numbers computed by adding some function of the numbers and dividing by some function of n | Synonyms: mean value |
| (verb) have in mind as a purpose | Synonyms: intend, think |
| (verb) intend to refer to | Synonyms: have in mind, think of |
| (verb) destine or designate for a certain purpose | - |
| (verb) mean or intend to express or convey | Synonyms: intend |
| (verb) denote or connote | Synonyms: intend, signify, stand for |
| (verb) have as a logical consequence | Synonyms: entail, imply |
| (verb) have a specified degree of importance | - |
| meander | (noun) an aimless amble on a winding course | Synonyms: ramble |
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| (noun) a bend or curve, as in a stream or river | - |
| (verb) to move or cause to move in a sinuous, spiral, or circular course | Synonyms: thread, wander, weave, wind |
| meandering | (adjective) of a path e.g. | Synonyms: rambling, wandering, winding |
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| meanderingly | (adverb) in a meandering manner | - |
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| meanie | (noun) a person of mean disposition | Synonyms: meany, unkind person |
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| meaning | (adjective) rich in significance or implication | Synonyms: pregnant, significant |
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| (noun) the idea that is intended | Synonyms: substance |
| (noun) the message that is intended or expressed or signified | Synonyms: import, significance, signification |
| meaningful | (adjective) having a meaning or purpose | - |
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| meaningfully | (adverb) in a meaningful manner; so as to be meaningful | - |
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| meaningfulness | (noun) the quality of having great value or significance | - |
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| meaningless | (adjective) having no meaning or direction or purpose | Synonyms: nonmeaningful |
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| (adjective) producing no result or effect | Synonyms: futile, ineffectual, otiose, unavailing |
| meaninglessness | (noun) the quality of having no value or significance | - |
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| (noun) a message that seems to convey no meaning | Synonyms: bunk, hokum, nonsense, nonsensicality |
| meanly | (adverb) in a miserly manner | Synonyms: humbly |
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| (adverb) poorly or in an inferior manner | - |
| (adverb) in a despicable, ignoble manner | Synonyms: basely, scurvily |
| (adverb) in a nasty ill-tempered manner | Synonyms: nastily |
| meanness | (noun) the quality of being deliberately mean | Synonyms: beastliness |
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| (noun) extreme stinginess | Synonyms: closeness, minginess, niggardliness, niggardness, parsimoniousness, parsimony, tightfistedness, tightness |
| means | (noun) to have the ability to produce a particular effect or achieve an end | Synonyms: agency, way |
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| (noun) an artifact (that is instrumental in accomplishing some end) for accomplishing some end | Synonyms: instrumentality, instrumentation |
| (noun) considerable capital (wealth or income) | Synonyms: substance |
| meanspirited | (adjective) lacking in magnanimity | Synonyms: ungenerous |
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| (adjective) having or showing an ignoble lack of honor or morality | Synonyms: base, mean |
| meanspiritedly | (adverb) in a meanspirited manner | - |
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| meantime | (noun) the time between one event, process, or period and another | Synonyms: interim, lag, meanwhile |
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| (adverb) during the intervening time | Synonyms: in the meantime, meanwhile |
| meanwhile | (noun) the time between one event, process, or period and another | Synonyms: interim, lag, meantime |
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| (adverb) during the intervening time | Synonyms: in the meantime, meantime |
| (adverb) at the same time but in another place | - |
| meany | (noun) a person of mean disposition | Synonyms: meanie, unkind person |
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| mearstone | (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 | (noun) an acute and highly contagious viral disease marked by distinct red spots followed by a rash; occurs primarily in children | Synonyms: morbilli, rubeola |
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| measly | (adjective) contemptibly small in amount | Synonyms: miserable, paltry |
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| measurability | (noun) the quality of being measurable | Synonyms: quantifiability |
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| measurable | (adjective) capable of being measured | Synonyms: mensurable |
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| (adjective) of distinguished importance | - |
| measurably | (adverb) to a measurable degree | - |
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| measure | (noun) how much there is or how many there are of something that you can quantify | Synonyms: amount, quantity |
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| (noun) the act or process of assigning numbers to phenomena according to a rule | Synonyms: measurement, measuring, mensuration |
| (noun) any maneuver made as part of progress toward a goal | Synonyms: step |
| (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 | - |
| (noun) musical notation for a repeating pattern of musical beats | Synonyms: bar |
| (noun) (prosody) the accent in a metrical foot of verse | Synonyms: beat, cadence, meter, metre |
| (noun) a statute in draft before it becomes law | Synonyms: bill |
| (noun) a basis for comparison; a reference point against which other things can be evaluated | Synonyms: criterion, standard, touchstone |
| (verb) express as a number or measure or quantity | Synonyms: quantify |
| (verb) determine the measurements of something or somebody, take measurements of | Synonyms: measure out, mensurate |
| (verb) evaluate or estimate the nature, quality, ability, extent, or significance of | Synonyms: appraise, assess, evaluate, valuate, value |
| (verb) have certain dimensions | - |
| measured | (adjective) having notes of fixed rhythmic value | Synonyms: mensurable, mensural |
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| (adjective) carefully thought out in advance | Synonyms: calculated, deliberate |
| (adjective) the rhythmic arrangement of syllables | Synonyms: metric, metrical |
| (adjective) unhurried and with care and dignity | Synonyms: careful, deliberate |
| measuredly | (adverb) in a deliberate unhurried manner | Synonyms: deliberately |
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| measureless | (adjective) without limits in extent or size or quantity | Synonyms: illimitable, limitless, unmeasured |
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| measurement | (noun) the act or process of assigning numbers to phenomena according to a rule | Synonyms: measure, measuring, mensuration |
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| measurer | (noun) a person who makes measurements | - |
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| measuring | (noun) the act or process of assigning numbers to phenomena according to a rule | Synonyms: measure, measurement, mensuration |
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| meat | (noun) the choicest or most essential or most vital part of some idea or experience | Synonyms: center, centre, core, essence, gist, heart, heart and soul, inwardness, kernel, marrow, nitty-gritty, nub, pith, substance, sum |
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| (noun) the flesh of animals (including fishes and birds and snails) used as food | - |
| (noun) the inner and usually edible part of a seed or grain or nut or fruit stone | Synonyms: kernel |
| meatball | (noun) ground meat formed into a ball and fried or simmered in broth | - |
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| meatless | (adjective) lacking meat | - |
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| meatloaf | (noun) a baked loaf of ground meat | Synonyms: meat loaf |
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| meatman | (noun) a retailer of meat | Synonyms: butcher |
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| meatpacking | (noun) wholesale packaging of meat for future sale (including slaughtering and processing and distribution to retailers) | Synonyms: meat-packing business, meat packing |
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| meatus | (noun) a natural body passageway | - |
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| meaty | (adjective) like or containing meat | - |
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| (adjective) being on topic and prompting thought | Synonyms: substantive |
| mebendazole | (noun) an anthelmintic used to treat hookworm and pinworm and roundworm infestations | - |
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| mebibit | (noun) a unit of information equal to 1024 kibibits or 2^20 (1,048,576) bits | Synonyms: Mibit |
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| mebibyte | (noun) a unit of information equal to 1024 kibibytes or 2^20 (1,048,576) bytes | Synonyms: M, MB, megabyte, MiB |
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| mecca | (noun) a place that attracts many visitors | - |
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| mechanic | (adjective) resembling the action of a machine | - |
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| (noun) a craftsman skilled in operating machine tools | Synonyms: machinist, shop mechanic |
| (noun) someone whose occupation is repairing and maintaining automobiles | Synonyms: auto-mechanic, automobile mechanic, car-mechanic, grease monkey |
| mechanical | (adjective) using (or as if using) mechanisms or tools or devices | - |
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| (adjective) relating to or governed by or in accordance with mechanics | - |
| (adjective) relating to or concerned with machinery or tools | Synonyms: mechanically skillful, technical |
| mechanically | (adverb) in a machinelike manner; without feeling | - |
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| (adverb) in a mechanical manner; by a mechanism | Synonyms: automatically |
| mechanics | (noun) the technical aspects of doing something | Synonyms: mechanism |
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| (noun) the branch of physics concerned with the motion of bodies in a frame of reference | - |
| mechanisation | (noun) the act of implementing the control of equipment with advanced technology; usually involving electronic hardware | Synonyms: automation, mechanization |
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| (noun) the condition of having a highly technical implementation | Synonyms: mechanization |
| mechanise | (verb) make mechanical | Synonyms: mechanize |
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| (verb) make monotonous; make automatic or routine | Synonyms: mechanize |
| (verb) equip with armed and armored motor vehicles | Synonyms: mechanize, motorise, motorize |
| mechanised | (adjective) equipped with machinery | Synonyms: mechanized |
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| (adjective) using vehicles | Synonyms: mechanized, motorized |
| mechanism | (noun) the technical aspects of doing something | Synonyms: mechanics |
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| (noun) device consisting of a piece of machinery; has moving parts that perform some function | - |
| (noun) (philosophy) the philosophical theory that all phenomena can be explained in terms of physical or biological causes | - |
| (noun) a natural object resembling a machine in structure or function | - |
| (noun) the atomic process that occurs during a chemical reaction | Synonyms: chemical mechanism |
| mechanist | (noun) a philosopher who subscribes to the doctrine of mechanism | - |
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| mechanistic | (adjective) of or relating to the philosophical theory of mechanism | - |
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| (adjective) explained in terms of physical forces | - |
| mechanistically | (adverb) in a mechanistic manner | - |
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| mechanization | (noun) the act of implementing the control of equipment with advanced technology; usually involving electronic hardware | Synonyms: automation, mechanisation |
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| (noun) the condition of having a highly technical implementation | Synonyms: mechanisation |
| mechanize | (verb) make mechanical | Synonyms: mechanise |
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| (verb) make monotonous; make automatic or routine | Synonyms: mechanise |
| (verb) equip with armed and armored motor vehicles | Synonyms: mechanise, motorise, motorize |
| mechanized | (adjective) equipped with machinery | Synonyms: mechanised |
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| (adjective) using vehicles | Synonyms: mechanised, motorized |
| meclizine | (noun) an antihistamine (trade name Antivert) used to treat or prevent motion sickness | Synonyms: Antivert, meclizine hydrochloride |
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| meclofenamate | (noun) a nonsteroidal anti-inflammatory (trade name Meclomen) used to treat arthritis | Synonyms: meclofenamate sodium, Meclomen |
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| meconium | (noun) thick dark green mucoid material that is the first feces of a newborn child | - |
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| mecopteran | (noun) any of various carnivorous insects of the order Mecoptera | - |
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| mecopterous | (adjective) of or relating to mecopterans | - |
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| medal | (noun) an award for winning a championship or commemorating some other event | Synonyms: decoration, laurel wreath, medallion, palm, ribbon |
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| medalist | (noun) (golf) the winner at medal play of a tournament | Synonyms: medal winner, medallist |
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| (noun) someone who has won a medal | Synonyms: medallist |
| medallion | (noun) an award for winning a championship or commemorating some other event | Synonyms: decoration, laurel wreath, medal, palm, ribbon |
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| (noun) an emblem indicating that a taxicab is registered | - |
| (noun) a circular helping of food (especially a boneless cut of meat) | - |
| (noun) a circular helping of food (especially a boneless cut of meat) "medallions of veal" | - |
| (noun) any of various large ancient Greek coins | - |
| medallist | (noun) (golf) the winner at medal play of a tournament | Synonyms: medal winner, medalist |
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| (noun) someone who has won a medal | Synonyms: medalist |
| meddle | (verb) intrude in other people's affairs or business; interfere unwantedly | Synonyms: tamper |
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| meddler | (noun) an officious annoying person who interferes with others | - |
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| meddlesome | (adjective) intrusive in a meddling or offensive manner | Synonyms: busy, busybodied, interfering, meddling, officious |
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| meddlesomeness | (noun) aggressiveness as evidenced by intruding; by advancing yourself or your ideas without invitation | Synonyms: intrusiveness, officiousness |
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| meddling | (adjective) intrusive in a meddling or offensive manner | Synonyms: busy, busybodied, interfering, meddlesome, officious |
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| (noun) the act of altering something secretly or improperly | Synonyms: tampering |
| medevac | (noun) the evacuation of persons (usually by air transportation) to a place where they can receive medical care | Synonyms: medical evacuation, medivac |
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| medfly | (noun) small black-and-white fly that damages citrus and other fruits by implanting eggs that hatch inside the fruit | Synonyms: Ceratitis capitata, Mediterranean fruit fly |
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| mediacy | (noun) the quality of being mediate | Synonyms: mediateness |
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| mediaeval | (adjective) relating to or belonging to the Middle Ages | Synonyms: medieval |
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| (adjective) as if belonging to the Middle Ages; old-fashioned and unenlightened | Synonyms: gothic, medieval |
| (adjective) characteristic of the time of chivalry and knighthood in the Middle Ages | Synonyms: chivalric, knightly, medieval |
| medial | (adjective) relating to or situated in or extending toward the middle | Synonyms: median |
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| (adjective) dividing an animal into right and left halves | Synonyms: median |
| medially | (adverb) in a medial position | - |
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| median | (adjective) relating to or situated in or extending toward the middle | Synonyms: medial |
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| (adjective) dividing an animal into right and left halves | Synonyms: medial |
| (adjective) relating to or constituting the middle value of an ordered set of values (or the average of the middle two in a set with an even number of values) | Synonyms: average |
| (noun) the number midway between the two middle numbers in a series containing an even or odd number of items | Synonyms: median value |
| mediant | (noun) (music) the third note of a diatonic scale; midway between the tonic and the dominant | - |
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| mediastinum | (noun) the part of the thoracic cavity between the lungs that contains the heart and aorta and esophagus and trachea and thymus | - |
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| mediate | (adjective) acting through or dependent on an intervening agency | - |
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| (adjective) being neither at the beginning nor at the end in a series | Synonyms: in-between, middle |
| (verb) act between parties with a view to reconciling differences | Synonyms: arbitrate, intercede, intermediate, liaise |
| (verb) occupy an intermediate or middle position or form a connecting link or stage between two others | - |