mediated | (adjective) acting or brought about through an intervening agency | - |
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mediateness | (noun) the quality of being mediate | Synonyms: mediacy |
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mediation | (noun) the act of intervening for the purpose of bringing about a settlement | Synonyms: intermediation |
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(noun) a negotiation to resolve differences that is conducted by some impartial party | - |
mediator | (noun) a negotiator who acts as a link between parties | Synonyms: go-between, intercessor, intermediary, intermediator |
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mediatorial | (adjective) of or relating to a mediator or the duties of a mediator | - |
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mediatory | (adjective) of or related to or directed toward mediation | - |
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mediatrix | (noun) a woman who is a mediator | - |
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medic | (noun) a medical practitioner in the armed forces | Synonyms: medical officer |
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(noun) any of several Old World herbs of the genus Medicago having small flowers and trifoliate compound leaves | Synonyms: medick, trefoil |
medical | (adjective) requiring or amenable to treatment by medicine especially as opposed to surgery | - |
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(adjective) relating to the study or practice of medicine | - |
(adjective) of or belonging to Aesculapius or the healing art | Synonyms: aesculapian |
(noun) a thorough physical examination; includes a variety of tests depending on the age and sex and health of the person | Synonyms: checkup, health check, medical checkup, medical exam, medical examination |
medically | (adverb) involving medical practice | - |
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medicament | (noun) (medicine) something that treats or prevents or alleviates the symptoms of disease | Synonyms: medication, medicinal drug, medicine |
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medicate | (verb) treat medicinally, treat with medicine | Synonyms: medicine |
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(verb) impregnate with a medicinal substance | - |
medication | (noun) the act of treating with medicines or remedies | - |
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(noun) (medicine) something that treats or prevents or alleviates the symptoms of disease | Synonyms: medicament, medicinal drug, medicine |
medicative | (adjective) having the properties of medicine | Synonyms: medicinal |
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medicinal | (adjective) having the properties of medicine | Synonyms: medicative |
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medicinally | (adverb) in a medicinal manner | - |
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medicine | (noun) the learned profession that is mastered by graduate training in a medical school and that is devoted to preventing or alleviating or curing diseases and injuries | Synonyms: practice of medicine |
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(noun) punishment for one's actions | Synonyms: music |
(noun) (medicine) something that treats or prevents or alleviates the symptoms of disease | Synonyms: medicament, medication, medicinal drug |
(noun) the branches of medical science that deal with nonsurgical techniques | Synonyms: medical specialty |
(verb) treat medicinally, treat with medicine | Synonyms: medicate |
medick | (noun) any of several Old World herbs of the genus Medicago having small flowers and trifoliate compound leaves | Synonyms: medic, trefoil |
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medico | (noun) a licensed medical practitioner | Synonyms: doc, doctor, Dr., MD, physician |
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(noun) a student in medical school | Synonyms: medical student |
medicolegal | (adjective) pertaining to legal aspects of the practice of medicine (as malpractice or patient consent for operations or patient information) | - |
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mediety | (noun) one of two (approximately) equal parts | Synonyms: moiety |
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medieval | (adjective) relating to or belonging to the Middle Ages | Synonyms: mediaeval |
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(adjective) as if belonging to the Middle Ages; old-fashioned and unenlightened | Synonyms: gothic, mediaeval |
(adjective) characteristic of the time of chivalry and knighthood in the Middle Ages | Synonyms: chivalric, knightly, mediaeval |
medievality | (noun) The quality of being of or relating to the Middle Ages, perhaps circa 500 to circa 1500 CE. | - |
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medina | (noun) the ancient quarter of many cities in northern Africa | - |
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mediocre | (adjective) poor to middling in quality | - |
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(adjective) moderate to inferior in quality | Synonyms: second-rate |
(adjective) lacking exceptional quality or ability | Synonyms: average, fair, middling |
mediocrity | (noun) ordinariness as a consequence of being average and not outstanding | Synonyms: averageness |
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(noun) a person of second-rate ability or value | Synonyms: second-rater |
meditate | (verb) reflect deeply on a subject | Synonyms: chew over, contemplate, excogitate, mull, mull over, muse, ponder, reflect, ruminate, speculate, think over |
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(verb) think intently and at length, as for spiritual purposes | Synonyms: contemplate, study |
meditation | (noun) continuous and profound contemplation or musing on a subject or series of subjects of a deep or abstruse nature | Synonyms: speculation |
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(noun) (religion) contemplation of spiritual matters (usually on religious or philosophical subjects) | - |
meditative | (adjective) deeply or seriously thoughtful | Synonyms: brooding, broody, contemplative, musing, pensive, pondering, reflective, ruminative |
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meditatively | (adverb) in a meditative manner | - |
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meditativeness | (noun) deep serious thoughtfulness | Synonyms: contemplativeness, pensiveness |
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medium | (adjective) (meat) cooked until there is just a little pink meat inside | - |
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(adjective) around the middle of a scale of evaluation | Synonyms: average, intermediate |
(noun) an occupation for which you are especially well suited | Synonyms: metier |
(noun) an intervening substance through which signals can travel as a means for communication | - |
(noun) a means or instrumentality for storing or communicating information | - |
(noun) (usually plural) transmissions that are disseminated widely to the public | Synonyms: mass medium |
(noun) the surrounding environment | - |
(noun) someone who serves as an intermediary between the living and the dead | Synonyms: sensitive, spiritualist |
(noun) a state that is intermediate between extremes; a middle position | - |
(noun) (bacteriology) a nutrient substance (solid or liquid) that is used to cultivate micro-organisms | Synonyms: culture medium |
(noun) (biology) a substance in which specimens are preserved or displayed | - |
(noun) a liquid with which pigment is mixed by a painter | - |
(noun) an intervening substance through which something is achieved | - |
medivac | (noun) the evacuation of persons (usually by air transportation) to a place where they can receive medical care | Synonyms: medevac, medical evacuation |
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medlar | (noun) crabapple-like fruit used for preserves | - |
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(noun) a South African globular fruit with brown leathery skin and pithy flesh having a sweet-acid taste | - |
(noun) small deciduous Eurasian tree cultivated for its fruit that resemble crab apples | Synonyms: medlar tree, Mespilus germanica |
(noun) small deciduous tree of southern Africa having edible fruit | Synonyms: Vangueria infausta, wild medlar, wild medlar tree |
medley | (noun) a musical composition consisting of a series of songs or other musical pieces from various sources | Synonyms: pastiche, potpourri |
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medroxyprogesterone | (noun) a progestin compound (trade name Provera) used to treat menstrual disorders | Synonyms: Provera |
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medulla | (noun) the inner part of an organ or structure in plant or animal | - |
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(noun) lower or hindmost part of the brain; continuous with spinal cord; (`bulb' is an old term for medulla oblongata) | Synonyms: bulb, medulla oblongata |
(noun) a white fatty substance that forms a medullary sheath around the axis cylinder of some nerve fibers | Synonyms: myelin, myeline |
medullary | (adjective) of or relating to the medulla of any body part | - |
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(adjective) containing or consisting of or resembling bone marrow | - |
(adjective) of or relating to the medulla oblongata | - |
medullated | (adjective) (of neurons) covered with a layer of myelin | Synonyms: myelinated |
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medusa | (noun) one of two forms that coelenterates take: it is the free-swimming sexual phase in the life cycle of a coelenterate; in this phase it has a gelatinous umbrella-shaped body and tentacles | Synonyms: medusan, medusoid |
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medusan | (noun) one of two forms that coelenterates take: it is the free-swimming sexual phase in the life cycle of a coelenterate; in this phase it has a gelatinous umbrella-shaped body and tentacles | Synonyms: medusa, medusoid |
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medusoid | (adjective) relating to or resembling a medusa | - |
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(noun) one of two forms that coelenterates take: it is the free-swimming sexual phase in the life cycle of a coelenterate; in this phase it has a gelatinous umbrella-shaped body and tentacles | Synonyms: medusa, medusan |
meed | (noun) a fitting reward | - |
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meek | (adjective) very docile | Synonyms: tame |
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(adjective) humble in spirit or manner; suggesting retiring mildness or even cowed submissiveness | Synonyms: mild, modest |
(adjective) evidencing little spirit or courage; overly submissive or compliant | Synonyms: spiritless |
meekly | (adverb) in a humble manner | Synonyms: humbly |
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(adverb) in a submissive or spiritless manner | - |
meekness | (noun) a disposition to be patient and long suffering | Synonyms: subduedness |
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(noun) the feeling of patient, submissive humbleness | Synonyms: submission |
meerestone | (noun) an old term for a landmark that consisted of a pile of stones surmounted by an upright slab | Synonyms: mearstone, merestone |
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meerkat | (noun) a mongoose-like viverrine of South Africa having a face like a lemur and only four toes | Synonyms: mierkat |
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meerschaum | (noun) a pipe having a bowl made of meerschaum | - |
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(noun) a white clayey mineral | Synonyms: sepiolite |
meet | (adjective) being precisely fitting and right | Synonyms: fitting |
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(noun) a meeting at which a number of athletic contests are held | Synonyms: sports meeting |
(verb) contend against an opponent in a sport, game, or battle | Synonyms: encounter, play, take on |
(verb) fill, satisfy or meet a want or need or condition or restriction | Synonyms: conform to, fill, fit, fulfil, fulfill, satisfy |
(verb) be in direct physical contact with; make contact | Synonyms: adjoin, contact, touch |
(verb) come together | Synonyms: come across, encounter, run across, run into, see |
(verb) meet by design; be present at the arrival of | - |
(verb) undergo or suffer | Synonyms: suffer |
(verb) collect in one place | Synonyms: assemble, foregather, forgather, gather |
(verb) get together socially or for a specific purpose | Synonyms: get together |
(verb) get to know; get acquainted with | - |
(verb) experience as a reaction | Synonyms: encounter, receive |
(verb) be adjacent or come together | Synonyms: converge |
meeter | (noun) a person who is present and participates in a meeting | Synonyms: attendant, attendee, attender |
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meeting | (noun) the social act of assembling for some common purpose | Synonyms: coming together, congress |
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(noun) the act of joining together as one | Synonyms: coming together, merging |
(noun) a casual or unexpected convergence | Synonyms: encounter |
(noun) a formally arranged gathering | Synonyms: group meeting |
(noun) a small informal social gathering | Synonyms: get together |
(noun) a place where things merge or flow together (especially rivers) | Synonyms: confluence |
meetinghouse | (noun) a building for religious assembly (especially Nonconformists, e.g., Quakers) | Synonyms: conventicle |
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mefloquine | (noun) an antimalarial drug (trade name Lariam and Mephaquine) that is effective in cases that do not respond to chloroquine; said to produce harmful neuropsychiatric effects on some people | Synonyms: Lariam, mefloquine hydrochloride, Mephaquine |
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meg | (noun) the number that is represented as a one followed by 6 zeros | Synonyms: 1000000, million, one thousand thousand |
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megabat | (noun) large Old World bat of warm and tropical regions that feeds on fruit | Synonyms: fruit bat |
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megabit | (noun) a unit of information equal to 1000 kilobits or 10^6 (1,000,000) bits | Synonyms: Mb, Mbit |
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megabucks | (noun) a large sum of money (especially as pay or profit) | Synonyms: big bucks, big money, bundle, pile |
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megabyte | (noun) a unit of information equal to 1024 kibibytes or 2^20 (1,048,576) bytes | Synonyms: M, MB, mebibyte, MiB |
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(noun) a unit of information equal to 1000 kilobytes or 10^6 (1,000,000) bytes | Synonyms: M, MB |
megacardia | (noun) an abnormal enlargement of the heart | Synonyms: cardiomegaly, enlarged heart, megalocardia |
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megacephaly | (noun) an abnormally large head; differs from hydrocephalus because there is no increased intracranial pressure and the overgrowth is symmetrical | Synonyms: macrocephaly, megalocephaly |
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megacolon | (noun) an abnormal enlargement of the colon; can be congenital (as in Hirschsprung's disease) or acquired (as when children refuse to defecate) | - |
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megacycle | (noun) one million periods per second | Synonyms: Mc, megacycle per second, megahertz, MHz |
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megadeath | (noun) the death of a million people | - |
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megadose | (noun) an exceptionally large dose, as of a drug or vitamin. | - |
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megaflop | (noun) (computer science) a unit for measuring the speed of a computer system, one megaflops is a million floating point operations per second | Synonyms: MFLOP, million floating point operations per second |
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megagametophyte | (noun) the female gametophyte produced by the megaspore of a plant that produces both microspore and megaspores | - |
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megahertz | (noun) one million periods per second | Synonyms: Mc, megacycle, megacycle per second, MHz |
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megahit | (noun) an unusually successful hit with widespread popularity and huge sales (especially a movie or play or recording or novel) | Synonyms: blockbuster, smash hit |
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megakaryocyte | (noun) a large bone marrow cell; regarded as the source of blood platelets | - |
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megakaryocytic | (adjective) of or pertaining to large bone marrow cells | - |
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megalith | (noun) memorial consisting of a very large stone forming part of a prehistoric structure (especially in western Europe) | Synonyms: megalithic structure |
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megalithic | (adjective) of or relating to megaliths or the people who erected megaliths | - |
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megaloblast | (noun) abnormally large red blood cell present in pernicious anemia and folic acid deficiency | - |
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megaloblastic | (adjective) of or relating to megaloblasts | - |
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megalocardia | (noun) an abnormal enlargement of the heart | Synonyms: cardiomegaly, enlarged heart, megacardia |
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megalocephaly | (noun) an abnormally large head; differs from hydrocephalus because there is no increased intracranial pressure and the overgrowth is symmetrical | Synonyms: macrocephaly, megacephaly |
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megalocyte | (noun) abnormally large red blood cell (associated with pernicious anemia) | Synonyms: macrocyte |
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megalohepatia | (noun) abnormal enlargement of the liver | Synonyms: hepatomegaly |
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megalomania | (noun) a psychological state characterized by delusions of grandeur | - |
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megalomaniac | (noun) a pathological egotist | - |
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megalomaniacal | (adjective) suffering from megalomania | Synonyms: megalomanic |
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megalomanic | (adjective) suffering from megalomania | Synonyms: megalomaniacal |
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megalopolis | (noun) a very large urban complex (usually involving several cities and towns) | - |
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megalosaur | (noun) gigantic carnivorous bipedal dinosaur of the Jurassic or early Cretaceous in Europe | Synonyms: megalosaurus |
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megalosaurus | (noun) gigantic carnivorous bipedal dinosaur of the Jurassic or early Cretaceous in Europe | Synonyms: megalosaur |
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megaphone | (noun) a cone-shaped acoustic device held to the mouth to intensify and direct the human voice | - |
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megapode | (noun) large-footed short-winged birds of Australasia; build mounds of decaying vegetation to incubate eggs | Synonyms: mound-bird, mound bird, mound builder, scrub fowl |
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megascopic | (adjective) visible to the naked eye (especially of rocks and anatomical features) | Synonyms: gross |
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megasporangium | (noun) a plant structure that produces megaspores | Synonyms: macrosporangium |
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megaspore | (noun) larger of the two types of spore produced in heterosporous plants; develops in ovule into a female gametophyte | Synonyms: macrospore |
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megasporophyll | (noun) in non-flowering plants, a sporophyll that bears only megasporangia | - |
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megathere | (noun) gigantic extinct terrestrial sloth-like mammal of the Pliocene and Pleistocene in America | Synonyms: ground sloth |
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megatherian | (noun) a large extinct ground sloth | Synonyms: megatherian mammal, megatheriid |
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megatheriid | (noun) a large extinct ground sloth | Synonyms: megatherian, megatherian mammal |
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megaton | (noun) one million tons | - |
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(noun) a measure of explosive power (of an atomic weapon) equal to that of one million tons of TNT | - |
megawatt | (noun) a unit of power equal to one million watts | - |
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megestrol | (noun) a synthetic progestational compound used to treat endometrial carcinoma | Synonyms: megestrol acetate |
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megillah | (noun) (Yiddish) a long boring tediously detailed account | - |
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megilp | (noun) a medium for oil-paints; linseed oil mixed with mastic varnish or turpentine | Synonyms: magilp |
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