📖 M — The English dictionary · page 12

market — Everyday, meaning 1: A market is a place, often outdoors with stalls, where people buy and sell food and other things.↗ Everyday, meaning 2: The market for something is how many people want to buy it.↗ Everyday, meaning 3: The stock market is where people buy and sell parts of companies.↗ Everyday, meaning 4: To market something is to tell people about it so they buy it.↗ Example: She bought 3 kg of apples at the market.↗ · At the market eggs cost $2 a dozen.↗ · He sold 25 melons at the market.↗ · How much did she spend at the market?↗ · We buy fresh vegetables at the farmers' market.↗ · The market stalls sell fruit, cheese and flowers.↗ · Their old house is on the market.↗ · The company marketed the new toy on TV.↗ · This little piggy went to market.↗ · Next day the mother went to market.↗

marketplace — Everyday, meaning 1: A marketplace is an open square in a town where people buy and sell things, such as food, cloth and animals.↗ Example: The Dog went tinkling his bell all over the marketplace.↗ · Farmers sold apples in the marketplace on Monday.↗ · Everyone came to the marketplace to hear the news.↗

marking — Everyday, meaning 1: Markings are the lines, spots or patterns on an animal, road, plane or object.↗ Everyday, meaning 2: Marking is a teacher's work of checking and scoring pupils' work.↗ Everyday, meaning 3: In sport, marking means staying close to a player of the other team to stop them.↗ Everyday, meaning 4: As a verb form, marking means putting a mark on something.↗ Example: The tiger's markings help it hide in the grass.↗ · The teacher spent the evening marking our tests.↗ · Road markings show where to stop.↗ · The puppy has white markings on its paws.↗ · Our coach said "Keep marking number nine!"↗ · She is marking the answers with a red pen.↗ · The plane had blue markings on its tail.↗ · One of them was brown all over, but the other had strange markings under his fur, as though long ago he had been spotted, and the spots still showed through.↗

marksman — Everyday, meaning 1: A marksman is a person who is very good at hitting a target with a gun or bow.↗ Example: Who was the best marksman in the canton?↗ · Each marksman wore the number of his hits in a garland round his hat.↗ · The marksman hit the bull's-eye every time.↗

marlin — Everyday, meaning 1: A large, fast ocean fish with a long pointed spear-like nose (a bill) and a tall fin on its back.↗ Example: A marlin has a long spear-like nose.↗ · The blue marlin is one of the fastest fish in the sea.↗ · The fisherman fought the marlin for hours.↗ · Marlin leap high out of the water.↗ · Marlin swim in warm oceans around the world.↗ · In the film, the clownfish dad is called Marlin.↗

marmalade — Everyday, meaning 1: A kind of jam made from oranges or other citrus fruits (like lemons or limes), with thin strips of peel in it.↗ Everyday, meaning 2: (colour) An orange colour, often used for ginger cats: «a marmalade cat».↗ Example: I had toast and marmalade for breakfast.↗ · Paddington Bear keeps a marmalade sandwich under his hat.↗ · Gran makes marmalade from Seville oranges every January.↗ · Our marmalade cat sleeps on the windowsill.↗ · Lime marmalade is a bit sour.↗ · Marmalade has thin strips of peel in it.↗ · Can you pass the marmalade, please?↗ · We weighed the sugar and oranges to make marmalade in class.↗

marmite — Everyday, meaning 1: Marmite is a dark brown, sticky, salty spread made from yeast, eaten on toast, especially in the UK; New Zealand has its own Marmite too.↗ Everyday, meaning 2: (informal, UK) Something «Marmite» is something people either love or hate, with nobody in the middle.↗ Everyday, meaning 3: (French) «Une marmite» is a large cooking pot, shown on the jar.↗ Example: I have Marmite on toast every morning.↗ · My brother hates Marmite and says it smells like old socks.↗ · Pineapple on pizza is a Marmite thing — you love it or hate it.↗ · Marmite is made from yeast.↗ · You only need a thin layer of Marmite.↗ · In Australia, people eat Vegemite instead of Marmite.↗ · The singer is a bit Marmite: half my class loves her songs.↗

marmoset — Everyday, meaning 1: A marmoset is a very small monkey with a long tail, soft fur and often tufts of hair on its ears, which lives in the rainforests of South America.↗ Example: A marmoset can fit in the palm of an adult's hand.↗ · The pygmy marmoset is one of the smallest monkeys in the world.↗ · Marmosets scratch tree bark to lick the gum.↗ · At the zoo we saw marmosets with white ear tufts.↗ · Marmosets usually have twins.↗ · The marmoset leapt from branch to branch.↗ · Marmosets live in the rainforests of Brazil.↗

marmot — Everyday, meaning 1: A marmot is a large, plump ground squirrel that lives in mountains and grasslands of Europe, Asia and North America, digs burrows and hibernates through the winter.↗ Example: A marmot whistled to warn the others of an eagle.↗ · Marmots hibernate in burrows all winter.↗ · We saw marmots sunbathing on rocks in the Alps.↗ · The groundhog is a kind of marmot.↗ · Marmots live in family groups.↗ · A marmot is about the size of a big cat.↗

maroon — Everyday, meaning 1: Maroon is a dark brownish-red colour, like the colour of some school uniforms.↗ Everyday, meaning 2: To maroon someone means to leave them alone in a place they cannot escape from, like a desert island; if you are marooned, you are stuck.↗ Everyday, meaning 3: The Maroons were people in Jamaica and other places who escaped slavery and built free communities in the mountains.↗ Everyday, meaning 4: (UK) A maroon is a loud firework rocket used as a signal, once used to call lifeboat crews.↗ Everyday, meaning 5: (Australia) The Maroons is the nickname of the Queensland rugby league team.↗ Example: Our school jumpers are maroon.↗ · The pirates marooned the captain on a tiny island.↗ · We were marooned at home because of the snow.↗ · Maroon is darker than red.↗ · The Maroons of Jamaica fought for their freedom.↗ · Robinson Crusoe was marooned for many years.↗ · (Australia) The Maroons won the State of Origin match.↗ · The flood marooned the village for a week.↗

marquee — Everyday, meaning 1: (UK, Australia, NZ, Ireland) A very large tent used for outdoor events like weddings, fairs and garden parties.↗ Everyday, meaning 2: (US, Canada) A sign or roof over the entrance of a theatre or cinema, showing the names of shows and stars in lights.↗ Everyday, meaning 3: (adjective, US) Most famous and important: «a marquee player».↗ Example: The school fête had a big white marquee for the cake stall.↗ · When it rained, everyone crowded into the marquee.↗ · The wedding party danced in a marquee in the garden.↗ · The cinema marquee showed the name of the new film in lights.↗ · The club's marquee signing scored in his first game.↗ · It took ten people to put up the marquee.↗ · The flower show was held in three marquees.↗ · The marquee pegs were hammered deep into the grass.↗

marquis — Everyday, meaning 1: A marquis is a nobleman with a high title, ranking below a duke and above an earl or count.↗ Everyday, meaning 2: In Britain the title is usually spelled «marquess»; «marquis» is used in France and other countries.↗ Everyday, meaning 3: The wife of a marquis is a marchioness (UK) or a marquise (France).↗ Example: The marquis lived in a grand castle in France.↗ · A marquis ranks below a duke.↗ · In the novel, the cruel marquis rode past the starving villagers.↗ · The Marquess of Bath owns a safari park in England.↗ · The marquis bowed to the queen.↗ · His title passed from the old marquis to his son.↗ · "Truly a fine estate," said the King to the Marquis of Carabas.↗

marred — Everyday, meaning 1: To mar something is to spoil it so that it is less good than it was.↗ Example: After three happy years an accident marred their happiness.↗ · Rain marred our picnic.↗ · A scratch marred the new table.↗ · For the LORD restoreth the pride of Jacob, as the pride of Israel; for the emptiers have emptied them out, and marred their vine-branches. — (Prophets NAM.2.3, JPS 1917)↗ · According as many were appalled at thee — so marred was his visage unlike that of a man, and his form unlike that of the sons of men — (Prophets ISA.52.14, JPS 1917)↗ · Then I went to Perath, and digged, and took the girdle from the place where I had hid it; and, behold, the girdle was marred, it was profitable for nothing.↗ (Prophets JER.13.7, JPS 1917)↗

marriage — Everyday, meaning 1: Marriage is the legal relationship between two people who are husband and wife, or partners, joined in law.↗ Everyday, meaning 2: A marriage is a wedding, the ceremony where two people get married.↗ Everyday, meaning 3: A marriage is the time two people are married: a long, happy marriage.↗ Example: Their marriage lasted fifty years.↗ · My aunt's marriage was in a little church.↗ · The prince asked for her hand in marriage.↗ · A marriage is celebrated with a wedding.↗ · Grandma showed us photos of her marriage.↗ · In some countries, marriage is allowed only from age 18.↗ · And then the marriage was celebrated.↗ · And make ye marriages with us; give your daughters unto us, and take our daughters unto you.↗ (Torah GEN.34.9, JPS 1917)↗ · neither shalt thou make marriages with them: thy daughter thou shalt not give unto his son, nor his daughter shalt thou take unto thy son.↗ (Torah DEU.7.3, JPS 1917)↗ · Fire devoured their young men; and their virgins had no marriage-song.↗ (Writings PSA.78.63, JPS 1917)↗ · Now Jehoshaphat had riches and honour in abundance; and he allied himself with Ahab by marriage.↗ (Writings 2CH.18.1, JPS 1917)↗ · Else if ye do in any wise go back, and cleave unto the remnant of these nations, even these that remain among you, and make marriages with them, and go in unto them, and they to you; (Prophets JOS.23.12, JPS 1917)↗

married — Everyday, meaning 1: Having a husband or wife.↗ Everyday, meaning 2: (past form) Became husband and wife, or joined two people in marriage.↗ Everyday, meaning 3: married to (informal): very involved in something, such as work.↗ Example: My aunt and uncle are married.↗ · They got married on a beach.↗ · She is married to a teacher.↗ · The married couple went on holiday.↗ · A priest married them in the church.↗ · He's married to his job!↗ · How long have your grandparents been married?↗ · She said "Yes," and they were married.↗ · For Mahlah, Tirzah, and Hoglah, and Milcah, and Noah, the daughters of Zelophehad, were married unto their father's brothers' sons.↗ (Torah NUM.36.11, JPS 1917)↗ · And Miriam and Aaron spoke against Moses because of the Cushite woman whom he had married; for he had married a Cushite woman.↗ (Torah NUM.12.1, JPS 1917)↗ · If he come in by himself, he shall go out by himself; if he be married, then his wife shall go out with him.↗ (Torah EXO.21.3, JPS 1917)↗ · For an odious woman when she is married; and a handmaid that is heir to her mistress.↗ (Writings PRO.30.23, JPS 1917)↗ · In those days also saw I the Jews that had married women of Ashdod, of Ammon, and of Moab; (Writings NEH.13.23, JPS 1917)↗ · And they were finished with all the men that had married foreign women by the first day of the first month.↗ (Writings EZR.10.17, JPS 1917)↗

marrieth — Early Modern English, meaning 1: «marrieth» means «marries», a form of «marry».↗ e.g. To marry someone means to become their husband or wife in a wedding.↗

marrow — Everyday, meaning 1: (bone marrow) The soft tissue inside bones where new blood cells are made.↗ Everyday, meaning 2: (UK, Australia, NZ, Ireland) A large, long, green vegetable like a giant courgette (zucchini).↗ Everyday, meaning 3: (to the marrow) Completely, deeply: «chilled to the marrow».↗ Example: Bone marrow makes new blood cells.↗ · Grandpa grew a huge marrow in his garden.↗ · The dog chewed a marrow bone.↗ · We were frozen to the marrow after the snow walk.↗ · Marrow is like a big courgette.↗ · People can donate bone marrow to help sick patients.↗ · He heard them crack the small round bones with their strong long teeth and eat out the oily marrow.↗ · It shall be health to thy navel, and marrow to thy bones.↗ (Writings PRO.3.8, JPS 1917)↗ · His pails are full of milk, and the marrow of his bones is moistened.↗ (Writings JOB.21.24, JPS 1917)↗ · My soul is satisfied as with marrow and fatness; and my mouth doth praise Thee with joyful lips; (Writings PSA.63.6, JPS 1917)↗

marry — Everyday, meaning 1: To marry someone means to become their husband or wife in a wedding.↗ Everyday, meaning 2: To marry means to perform the wedding.↗ e.g. "The priest married them."↗ Everyday, meaning 3: To marry two things means to join or combine them well.↗ Everyday, meaning 4: Marry is an old word, used to mean "indeed" or "truly" to show strong feeling.↗ Example: My aunt is going to marry her boyfriend next summer.↗ · They got married in a small church.↗ · The prince married the princess and they lived happily ever after.↗ · My grandparents have been married for fifty years.↗ · The judge married the couple at the town hall.↗ · This dish marries sweet and sour flavours.↗ · "Marry, I'm in earnest," said the tinker.↗ · Shall we then hearken unto you to do all this great evil, to break faith with our God in marrying foreign women?'↗ (Writings NEH.13.27, JPS 1917)↗

marseille — Everyday, meaning 1: Marseille is a large port city on the Mediterranean coast in southern France, the second-largest city in France.↗ Everyday, meaning 2: (French) The name is French; in older English it is often spelled «Marseilles».↗ Example: Marseille is a busy port in the south of France.↗ · Greek sailors founded Marseille long ago.↗ · The French national anthem is called «La Marseillaise».↗ · We took a ferry from Marseille to Corsica.↗ · Marseille has a famous football club.↗ · Fish soup called bouillabaisse comes from Marseille.↗