📖 M — The English dictionary · page 11

marcel — Everyday, meaning 1: (a name) Marcel is a man's first name, especially in France, as in the French mime artist Marcel Marceau.↗ Everyday, meaning 2: (old use) A marcel or marcel wave is a hairstyle with deep, regular waves made with hot curling irons, popular in the 1920s.↗ Everyday, meaning 3: (verb, old use) To make such waves in hair.↗ Example: Marcel is a popular French boy's name.↗ · Marcel Marceau was a famous French mime artist.↗ · In the 1920s, many women had a marcel wave.↗ · Great-Granny's photo shows her hair marcelled in neat waves.↗ · The hairdresser used hot irons to make a marcel.↗ · In our French book, Marcel lives in Paris with his dog.↗

march — Everyday, meaning 1: March is the third month of the year, with 31 days, between February and April.↗ Everyday, meaning 2: To march is to walk in step with others, like soldiers or a band.↗ Everyday, meaning 3: To march is to walk fast and firmly because you are cross or sure: she marched out.↗ Everyday, meaning 4: A march is a walk by many people to show what they think, or a piece of music for marching.↗ Example: She saved 2 dollars every day in March.↗ · March has 31 days.↗ · The band marched in 6 rows of 8.↗ · How many in the band?↗ · Spring starts in March in Canada.↗ · In Australia, March is in autumn.↗ · The soldiers marched past the castle.↗ · She marched into the room and shut the door.↗ · The school band played a march at the parade.↗ · A great army was marching into Swit-zer-land.↗ · And when Pharaoh drew nigh, the children of Israel lifted up their eyes, and, behold, the Egyptians were marching after them; and they were sore afraid; and the children of Israel cried out unto the LORD.↗ (Torah EXO.14.10, JPS 1917)↗ · The month Nisan begins about March .↗ 29th.↗ (Sefer Yetzirah, Westcott 1893)↗ · Thou marchest through the earth in indignation, Thou threshest the nations in anger.↗ (Prophets HAB.3.12, JPS 1917)↗ · O God, when Thou wentest forth before Thy people, when Thou didst march through the wilderness; Selah (Writings PSA.68.8, JPS 1917)↗ · There are three things which are stately in their march, yea, four which are stately in going: (Writings PRO.30.29, JPS 1917)↗

marcher — Everyday, meaning 1: A person who walks in a march, especially a protest march or a parade.↗ Everyday, meaning 2: (history, UK) The Marcher Lords were powerful nobles who ruled the borderlands («the Marches») between England and Wales.↗ Example: Thousands of marchers walked through the city to protest.↗ · The marchers carried banners and sang songs.↗ · Civil rights marchers crossed the bridge at Selma in 1965.↗ · The police closed the road so the marchers could pass.↗ · Marchers in the St Patrick's Day parade wore green.↗ · Each marcher held a candle for peace.↗ · The Marcher Lords guarded the border with Wales.↗ · Some marchers walked over 300 miles.↗

mare — Everyday, meaning 1: A female horse, donkey or zebra, especially an adult one.↗ Everyday, meaning 2: (astronomy) A large, dark, flat area on the Moon, once thought to be a sea; plural «maria».↗ Everyday, meaning 3: (UK slang, from «nightmare») A terrible or annoying situation: «It was a right mare getting here».↗ Example: The mare stood in the field with her new foal.↗ · A female horse is called a mare.↗ · Apollo 11 landed in a mare called the Sea of Tranquillity.↗ · The dark patches on the Moon are called maria.↗ · (slang, UK) The traffic was a total mare this morning.↗ · (slang, UK) Our goalie had a mare and let in five goals.↗ · The farmer has three mares and one stallion.↗ · The grey mare jumped the fence easily.↗ · Why, this is no horse, but a mare.↗

margin — Everyday, meaning 1: A margin is the empty space at the edge of a page, often with a line, where you do not write.↗ Everyday, meaning 2: The amount by which one thing is more than another, like in a race or vote: «won by a narrow margin».↗ Everyday, meaning 3: An extra amount allowed for safety or mistakes: «a margin of error».↗ Everyday, meaning 4: (business) Profit: the difference between what something costs and what it sells for.↗ Everyday, meaning 5: A margin can also be the edge of something, such as the edge of the sea.↗ Example: Write the date in the margin.↗ · The teacher wrote «Well done!» in the margin.↗ · Our team won by a margin of three goals.↗ · Leave a margin of safety when you cross the road.↗ · The scientist gave a margin of error of two centimetres.↗ · The shop's profit margin on sweets is small.↗ · She continued her walk along by the margin of the sea.↗

marginalia — In Jewish tradition, meaning 1: Notes or marks written in the margins, or edges, of a book.↗ Example: Marks, notations and other marginalia present in the original volume will appear in this file - a reminder of this book's long journey from the publisher to a library and finally to you.↗ (Sefer Yetzirah, Westcott 1893)↗

mari — Everyday, meaning 1: (a people) The Mari are a Finno-Ugric people who live mainly in the Mari El Republic in Russia, by the Volga river.↗ Everyday, meaning 2: (a language) Mari is the language of that people, related to Finnish and Hungarian.↗ Everyday, meaning 3: (history) Mari was an ancient city in what is now Syria, famous for clay tablets with old writing.↗ Everyday, meaning 4: (a name) A girl's name in several countries, such as Estonia, Finland and Japan.↗ Example: The Mari people have their own language and traditions.↗ · Mari is related to Finnish.↗ · Archaeologists found a royal palace at ancient Mari.↗ · Clay tablets from Mari tell us about life 4,000 years ago.↗ · My friend Mari comes from Estonia.↗ · The Mari El Republic is in Russia.↗ · Mari is a short name, often used in Finland and Japan.↗ · The ruins of Mari are near the border of Syria and Iraq.↗

maria — Everyday, meaning 1: Maria: a common girl's name in many countries.↗ Everyday, meaning 2: (astronomy) maria: the plural of «mare», the large dark flat areas on the Moon, once thought to be seas.↗ Everyday, meaning 3: Maria is also the name of the Virgin Mary, mother of Jesus, used in old exclamations like 'Sancta Maria!'.↗ Example: Maria has twelve stickers and gives away five.↗ · Maria is the tallest girl in our class.↗ · The dark patches on the Moon are called maria.↗ · The maria were made by lava long ago.↗ · Maria and her dad went fishing.↗ · You can see the lunar maria without a telescope.↗ · Ask Maria to share the crayons.↗ · "Sancta Maria!" resounded from the interior.↗

marigold — Everyday, meaning 1: A garden plant with bright orange or yellow flowers.↗ Everyday, meaning 2: There are different kinds: pot marigolds (calendula) and French or African marigolds.↗ Example: We planted marigold seeds in yoghurt pots.↗ · The marigolds are bright orange.↗ · Marigold garlands hung everywhere for Diwali.↗ · Gardeners plant marigolds next to tomatoes to keep pests away.↗ · Bees love the marigolds in our school garden.↗ · Mum puts on her Marigolds to wash the dishes.↗ · In Mexico, marigolds decorate the Day of the Dead.↗

marinade — Everyday, meaning 1: A mixture of liquids like oil, vinegar, lemon juice, soy sauce, herbs and spices, in which food (meat, fish, tofu, vegetables) is soaked before cooking to add flavour or make it softer.↗ Everyday, meaning 2: (verb, mostly UK) To soak food in such a mixture; also called «marinate».↗ Example: We made a marinade of lemon, garlic and olive oil.↗ · Leave the chicken in the marinade for two hours.↗ · The tofu soaked up the soy sauce marinade.↗ · Dad's barbecue marinade has honey in it.↗ · Keep meat in the marinade in the fridge, not on the table.↗ · Throw away marinade that had raw meat in it, unless you boil it first.↗ · The fish was marinaded in lime juice.↗ · A yogurt marinade makes chicken soft and tasty.↗

marine — Everyday, meaning 1: (adjective) To do with the sea or the animals and plants that live in it: marine life.↗ Everyday, meaning 2: (adjective) To do with ships and sailing.↗ Everyday, meaning 3: (noun) A soldier trained to fight both at sea and on land: he joined the Marines.↗ Example: Coral reefs are full of marine life.↗ · She wants to be a marine biologist and study dolphins.↗ · Plastic is a danger to marine animals.↗ · We visited a marine park and saw sea lions.↗ · His grandad was a marine in the navy.↗ · The marine forecast warned of strong winds at sea.↗ · The bay is a protected marine reserve.↗ · Seaweed is a marine plant.↗ · Like most sea-divinities he was gifted with prophetic power, and each year visited all the islands and coasts with a train of marine monsters, foretelling all kinds of evil.↗

mariner — Everyday, meaning 1: (old or literary) A sailor; a person who works on a ship.↗ Everyday, meaning 2: (Mariner) The name of some space probes and sports teams, such as NASA's Mariner probes or the Seattle Mariners baseball team.↗ Example: The old mariner told stories of storms at sea.↗ · «The Rime of the Ancient Mariner» is a long poem.↗ · Mariners used the North Star to find their way.↗ · A master mariner can captain a big ship.↗ · The mariner's compass was a great invention.↗ · NASA's Mariner 4 sent the first close pictures of Mars.↗ · The mariners sang as they pulled the ropes.↗ · The terrified mariners started back, expecting no better fate than to be torn to pieces and devoured.↗ · And all that handle the oar, the mariners, and all the pilots of the sea, shall come down from their ships, they shall stand upon the land, (Prophets EZK.27.29, JPS 1917)↗ · The elders of Gebal and the wise men thereof were in thee thy calkers; all the ships of the sea with their mariners were in thee to exchange thy merchandise.↗ (Prophets EZK.27.9, JPS 1917)↗ · And the mariners were afraid, and cried every man unto his god; and they cast forth the wares that were in the ship into the sea, to lighten it unto them.↗ (Prophets JON.1.5, JPS 1917)↗

marionette — Everyday, meaning 1: A marionette is a puppet, a doll moved by strings held from above.↗ Example: The marionette had always hated chick-peas.↗ · The first pranks of the marionette were fun to read about.↗ · The marionette danced on its strings.↗

maritime — Everyday, meaning 1: Connected with the sea, ships and sailing.↗ Everyday, meaning 2: Near the sea or living by the sea: a maritime country or climate.↗ Everyday, meaning 3: (Canada) «the Maritimes» are the three east-coast provinces.↗ e.g. Nova Scotia, New Brunswick and Prince Edward Island.↗ Example: We visited the maritime museum and saw an old ship's wheel.↗ · Britain has a maritime climate with cool summers and mild winters.↗ · Portugal was a great maritime nation that sent explorers across the oceans.↗ · Maritime law decides who owns a shipwreck.↗ · My cousin lives in the Maritimes, in Halifax, Nova Scotia.↗ · The maritime police check boats in the harbour.↗ · Lighthouses are part of maritime safety.↗

mark — Everyday, meaning 1: A mark is a small sign, spot or line on something: a pen mark, a dirty mark.↗ Everyday, meaning 2: A mark is a score or point for school work: she got full marks.↗ Everyday, meaning 3: To mark is to put a sign on something, or to check and score work.↗ Everyday, meaning 4: To mark a day is to celebrate or remember it.↗ Everyday, meaning 5: In games, to mark a player is to stay close to stop them.↗ Everyday, meaning 6: To mark someone well means to listen to them and pay close attention.↗ Example: She got 18 marks out of 20.↗ · Each right answer is worth 2 marks.↗ · Mark the number 15 on the line.↗ · How many marks did he lose?↗ · There is a muddy mark on the carpet.↗ · The teacher marked our tests over the weekend.↗ · On your marks, get set, go!↗ · Put a question mark at the end of a question.↗ · We planted a tree to mark the school's birthday.↗ · And ye shall mark out your line for the east border from Hazar-enan to Shepham; (Torah NUM.34.10, JPS 1917)↗ · And this shall be your north border: from the Great Sea ye shall mark out your line unto mount Hor; (Torah NUM.34.7, JPS 1917)↗ · Ye shall not make any cuttings in your flesh for the dead, nor imprint any marks upon you: I am the LORD.↗ (Torah LEV.19.28, JPS 1917)↗ · Or canst thou mark when the hinds do calve?↗ (Writings JOB.39.1, JPS 1917)↗ · If Thou, LORD, shouldest mark iniquities, O Lord, who could stand?↗ (Writings PSA.130.3, JPS 1917)↗ · Mark well, O Job, hearken unto me; hold thy peace, and I will speak.↗ (Writings JOB.33.31, JPS 1917)↗

markedly — Everyday, meaning 1: In a way that is clear and easy to notice; very noticeably (markedly better, markedly different).↗ Example: Her reading has improved markedly this term.↗ · The two plants grew markedly differently.↗ · The weather was markedly colder in the hills.↗ · Prices rose markedly over the summer.↗ · After the rain, the river was markedly higher.↗ · His handwriting is markedly neater now.↗

marker — Everyday, meaning 1: A marker is a pen with a thick, coloured tip, often called a felt-tip pen or marker pen.↗ Everyday, meaning 2: A marker is also a sign or object that shows a place, like a mile marker or a bookmark.↗ Everyday, meaning 3: A marker is a person who marks pupils' work or tests, or a player who marks an opponent in a game.↗ Example: A pack has 12 markers.↗ · Each marker costs 75 cents.↗ · She shared 24 markers among 4 friends.↗ · The mile marker says 15.↗ · The teacher wrote on the board with a blue marker.↗ · Put the cap back on the marker so it does not dry out.↗ · A permanent marker does not wash off.↗ · Cones were used as markers for the race.↗ · N] = original page markers; [N] = note references (notes are in sy08 section).↗ (Sefer Yetzirah, Kalisch 1877)↗