militarily | (adverb) with respect to the military | - |
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militarisation | (noun) act of assembling and putting into readiness for war or other emergency: | Synonyms: militarization, mobilisation, mobilization |
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militarise | (verb) adopt for military use | Synonyms: militarize |
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(verb) lend a military character to (a country), as by building up a military force | Synonyms: militarize |
militarised | (adjective) issued military arms | Synonyms: militarized |
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militarism | (noun) a political orientation of a people or a government to maintain a strong military force and to be prepared to use it aggressively to defend or promote national interests | - |
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militarist | (noun) a person who advocates war or warlike policies | Synonyms: warmonger |
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militaristic | (adjective) imbued with militarism | - |
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militarization | (noun) act of assembling and putting into readiness for war or other emergency: | Synonyms: militarisation, mobilisation, mobilization |
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militarize | (verb) adopt for military use | Synonyms: militarise |
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(verb) lend a military character to (a country), as by building up a military force | Synonyms: militarise |
militarized | (adjective) issued military arms | Synonyms: militarised |
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military | (adjective) associated with or performed by members of the armed services as contrasted with civilians | - |
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(adjective) characteristic of or associated with soldiers or the military | - |
(adjective) of or relating to the study of the principles of warfare | - |
(noun) the military forces of a nation | Synonyms: armed forces, armed services, military machine, war machine |
militate | (verb) have force or influence; bring about an effect or change | - |
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militia | (noun) civilians trained as soldiers but not part of the regular army | Synonyms: reserves |
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(noun) the entire body of physically fit civilians eligible by law for military service | - |
militiaman | (noun) a member of the militia; serves only during emergencies | - |
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milium | (noun) a small whitish lump in the skin due to a clogged sebaceous gland | Synonyms: whitehead |
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milk | (noun) produced by mammary glands of female mammals for feeding their young | - |
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(noun) a white nutritious liquid secreted by mammals and used as food by human beings | - |
(noun) any of several nutritive milklike liquids | - |
(verb) take milk from female mammals | - |
(verb) add milk to | - |
(verb) exploit as much as possible | - |
milkcap | (noun) edible mushroom | Synonyms: Lactarius delicioso |
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milker | (noun) cattle that are reared for their milk | Synonyms: dairy cattle, dairy cow, milch cow, milcher, milk cow |
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milkless | (adjective) having no milk | - |
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milklike | (adjective) resembling milk in color; not clear | Synonyms: milky, whitish |
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milkmaid | (noun) a woman who works in a dairy | Synonyms: dairymaid |
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milkman | (noun) someone who delivers milk | - |
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milkshake | (noun) frothy drink of milk and flavoring and sometimes fruit or ice cream | Synonyms: milk shake, shake |
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milksop | (noun) a timid man or boy considered childish or unassertive | Synonyms: Milquetoast, pansy, pantywaist, sissy |
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milkwagon | (noun) wagon for delivering milk | Synonyms: milk wagon |
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milkweed | (noun) any of numerous plants of the genus Asclepias having milky juice and pods that split open releasing seeds with downy tufts | Synonyms: silkweed |
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(noun) annual Eurasian sow thistle with soft spiny leaves and rayed yellow flower heads | Synonyms: Sonchus oleraceus |
milkwort | (noun) any of various plants of the genus Polygala | - |
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milky | (adjective) resembling milk in color; not clear | Synonyms: milklike, whitish |
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mill | (noun) the act of grinding to a powder or dust | Synonyms: grind, pulverisation, pulverization |
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(noun) machinery that processes materials by grinding or crushing | Synonyms: grinder, milling machinery |
(noun) a plant consisting of one or more buildings with facilities for manufacturing | Synonyms: factory, manufactory, manufacturing plant |
(verb) grind with a mill | - |
(verb) produce a ridge around the edge of | - |
(verb) roll out (metal) with a rolling machine | - |
(verb) move about in a confused manner | Synonyms: mill about, mill around |
millboard | (noun) stout pasteboard used to bind books | - |
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milldam | (noun) dam to make a millpond to provide power for a water mill | - |
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milled | (adjective) (of grains especially rice) having the husk or outer layers removed | Synonyms: polished |
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millenarian | (adjective) relating to or believing in the millennium of peace and happiness | Synonyms: chiliastic |
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(noun) a person who believes in the coming of the millennium (a time of great peace and prosperity) | Synonyms: chiliast, millenarist |
millenarianism | (noun) belief in the Christian doctrine of the millennium mentioned in the Book of Revelations | Synonyms: chiliasm, millenarism, millenniumism |
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millenarism | (noun) belief in the Christian doctrine of the millennium mentioned in the Book of Revelations | Synonyms: chiliasm, millenarianism, millenniumism |
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millenarist | (noun) a person who believes in the coming of the millennium (a time of great peace and prosperity) | Synonyms: chiliast, millenarian |
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millenary | (adjective) relating to or consisting of 1000 | - |
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(adjective) of or relating to the doctrine of the millennium | - |
(noun) a sum or aggregate of one thousand (especially one thousand years) | - |
(noun) a span of 1000 years | Synonyms: millennium |
(noun) the 1000th anniversary (or the celebration of it) | Synonyms: millennium |
millennial | (adjective) relating to a millennium or span of a thousand years | Synonyms: millennian |
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millennian | (adjective) relating to a millennium or span of a thousand years | Synonyms: millennial |
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millennium | (noun) a span of 1000 years | Synonyms: millenary |
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(noun) (New Testament) in the Book of Revelation it is foretold that those faithful to Jesus will reign with Jesus over the earth for a thousand years; the meaning of these words have been much debated; some denominations (e.g. Jehovah's Witnesses) expect it to be a thousand years of justice and peace and happiness | - |
(noun) the 1000th anniversary (or the celebration of it) | Synonyms: millenary |
millenniumism | (noun) belief in the Christian doctrine of the millennium mentioned in the Book of Revelations | Synonyms: chiliasm, millenarianism, millenarism |
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millepede | (noun) any of numerous herbivorous nonpoisonous arthropods having a cylindrical body of 20 to 100 or more segments most with two pairs of legs | Synonyms: milliped, millipede |
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miller | (noun) any of various moths that have powdery wings | Synonyms: moth miller |
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(noun) machine tool in which metal that is secured to a carriage is fed against rotating cutters that shape it | Synonyms: milling machine |
(noun) someone who works in a mill (especially a grain mill) | - |
millerite | (noun) a yellow mineral consisting of nickel sulfide; a minor source of nickel | - |
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millet | (noun) small seed of any of various annual cereal grasses especially Setaria italica | - |
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(noun) any of various small-grained annual cereal and forage grasses of the genera Panicum, Echinochloa, Setaria, Sorghum, and Eleusine | - |
millettia | (noun) any of several tropical trees or shrubs yielding showy streaked dark reddish or chocolate-colored wood | - |
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milliammeter | (noun) a sensitive ammeter graduated in milliamperes | - |
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milliampere | (noun) one thousandth of an ampere | Synonyms: mA |
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milliard | (noun) a billion | - |
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millibar | (noun) a unit of atmospheric pressure equal to one thousandth of a bar | - |
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millicurie | (noun) a unit of radioactivity equal to one thousandth of a curie | - |
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millidegree | (noun) a unit of temperature equal to one-thousandth of a degree | - |
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milliequivalent | (noun) one-thousandth of an equivalent | Synonyms: meq |
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millifarad | (noun) a unit of capacitance equal to one thousandth of a farad | - |
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milligram | (noun) one thousandth (1/1,000) gram | Synonyms: mg |
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millihenry | (noun) a unit of inductance equal to one thousandth of a henry | - |
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milliliter | (noun) a metric unit of volume equal to one thousandth of a liter | Synonyms: cc, cubic centimeter, cubic centimetre, mil, millilitre, ml |
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millilitre | (noun) a metric unit of volume equal to one thousandth of a liter | Synonyms: cc, cubic centimeter, cubic centimetre, mil, milliliter, ml |
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millime | (noun) 1,000 millimes equal 1 dinar in Tunisia | - |
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millimeter | (noun) a metric unit of length equal to one thousandth of a meter | Synonyms: millimetre, mm |
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millimetre | (noun) a metric unit of length equal to one thousandth of a meter | Synonyms: millimeter, mm |
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millimicron | (noun) a metric unit of length equal to one billionth of a meter | Synonyms: micromillimeter, micromillimetre, nanometer, nanometre, nm |
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milline | (noun) an advertising measure; one agate line appearing in one million copies of a publication | - |
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milliner | (noun) someone who makes and sells hats | Synonyms: hatmaker, hatter, modiste |
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millinery | (noun) hats for women; the wares sold by a milliner | Synonyms: woman's hat |
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(noun) shop selling women's hats | Synonyms: hat shop |
milling | (noun) corrugated edge of a coin | - |
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million | (adjective) (in Roman numerals, M written with a macron over it) denoting a quantity consisting of 1,000,000 items or units | - |
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(noun) the number that is represented as a one followed by 6 zeros | Synonyms: 1000000, meg, one thousand thousand |
(noun) a very large indefinite number (usually hyperbole) | Synonyms: bazillion, billion, gazillion, jillion, trillion, zillion |
millionaire | (noun) a person whose material wealth is valued at more than a million dollars | - |
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millionairess | (noun) a woman millionaire | - |
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millionfold | (adverb) by a factor of a million | Synonyms: a million times |
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millionth | (adjective) the ordinal number of one million in counting order | - |
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(noun) one part in a million equal parts | Synonyms: one-millionth |
(noun) position 1,000,000 in a countable series of things | - |
milliped | (noun) any of numerous herbivorous nonpoisonous arthropods having a cylindrical body of 20 to 100 or more segments most with two pairs of legs | Synonyms: millepede, millipede |
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millipede | (noun) any of numerous herbivorous nonpoisonous arthropods having a cylindrical body of 20 to 100 or more segments most with two pairs of legs | Synonyms: millepede, milliped |
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milliradian | (noun) a unit of angular distance equal to one thousandth of a radian | - |
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millirem | (noun) a dosage of ionizing radiation equivalent to one thousandth (1/1000) of a rem | Synonyms: mrem |
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milliroentgen | (noun) a unit of exposure to ionizing radiation, one thousandth of a roentgen. | - |
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millisecond | (noun) one thousandth (10^-3) of a second | Synonyms: msec |
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millivolt | (noun) a unit of potential equal to one thousandth of a volt | Synonyms: mV |
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millivoltmeter | (noun) sensitive voltmeter that can measure voltage in millivolts | - |
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milliwatt | (noun) a unit of power equal to one thousandth of a watt | - |
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millpond | (noun) a pond formed by damming a stream to provide a head of water to turn a mill wheel | - |
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millrace | (noun) a channel for the water current that turns a millwheel | Synonyms: millrun |
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millrun | (noun) a channel for the water current that turns a millwheel | Synonyms: millrace |
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millstone | (noun) one of a pair of heavy flat disk-shaped stones that are rotated against one another to grind the grain | - |
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(noun) any load that is difficult to carry | - |
(noun) (figurative) something that hinders or handicaps | Synonyms: albatross |
millwheel | (noun) water wheel that is used to drive machinery in a mill | Synonyms: mill wheel |
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millwork | (noun) woodwork that has been machined at a mill | - |
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millwright | (noun) a workman who designs or erects mills and milling machinery | - |
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milo | (noun) small drought-resistant sorghums having large yellow or whitish grains | Synonyms: milo maize |
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milometer | (noun) a meter that shows mileage traversed | Synonyms: hodometer, mileometer, odometer |
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milord | (noun) a term of address for an English lord | - |
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milt | (noun) seminal fluid produced by male fish | - |
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(noun) fish sperm or sperm-filled reproductive gland; having a creamy texture | Synonyms: soft roe |
miltomate | (noun) Mexican annual naturalized in eastern North America having yellow to purple edible fruit resembling small tomatoes | Synonyms: jamberry, Physalis philadelphica, purple ground cherry, tomatillo |
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mime | (noun) a performance using gestures and body movements without words | Synonyms: dumb show, pantomime |
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(noun) an actor who communicates entirely by gesture and facial expression | Synonyms: mimer, mummer, pantomimer, pantomimist |
(verb) act out without words but with gestures and bodily movements only | Synonyms: pantomime |
(verb) imitate (a person or manner), especially for satirical effect | Synonyms: mimic |
mimeo | (noun) a rotary duplicator that uses a stencil through which ink is pressed (trade mark Roneo) | Synonyms: mimeograph, mimeograph machine, Roneo, Roneograph |
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(verb) print copies from (a prepared stencil) using a mimeograph | Synonyms: mimeograph |
mimeograph | (noun) a rotary duplicator that uses a stencil through which ink is pressed (trade mark Roneo) | Synonyms: mimeo, mimeograph machine, Roneo, Roneograph |
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(verb) print copies from (a prepared stencil) using a mimeograph | Synonyms: mimeo |
mimer | (noun) an actor who communicates entirely by gesture and facial expression | Synonyms: mime, mummer, pantomimer, pantomimist |
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mimesis | (noun) the imitative representation of nature and human behavior in art and literature | - |
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(noun) the representation of another person's words in a speech | - |
(noun) any disease that shows symptoms characteristic of another disease | - |
mimetic | (adjective) exhibiting mimicry | - |
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(adjective) characterized by or of the nature of or using mimesis | - |
mimic | (adjective) constituting an imitation | - |
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(noun) someone who mimics (especially an actor or actress) | Synonyms: mimicker |
(verb) imitate (a person or manner), especially for satirical effect | Synonyms: mime |
mimicker | (noun) someone who mimics (especially an actor or actress) | Synonyms: mimic |
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