📖 M — The English dictionary · page 18

mazed — Early Modern English, meaning 1: Confused and bewildered.↗ Example: Mazed with fear he struggled on toward the flickering light that looked like help and safety.↗ (More English Fairy Tales) · The greeting had stopped, but the tears were standing on its cheek, and the tiddy thing looked mazed like in the moonshine and the night air.↗ (More English Fairy Tales) · Naturally the poor folk were strangely feared and mazed, and a lot of them went to the Wise Woman who dwelt in the old mill, and asked if so be she could find out where the Moon was gone.↗ (More English Fairy Tales)

mb — Everyday, meaning 1: (computing) MB = megabyte: a unit of computer memory or file size, about one million bytes.↗ Everyday, meaning 2: (computing) Mb = megabit, used for internet speed (Mbps, megabits per second); 8 megabits make 1 megabyte.↗ Everyday, meaning 3: (science, weather) mb = millibar, a unit of air pressure on weather maps.↗ Everyday, meaning 4: (MB) Short for Manitoba, a province of Canada.↗ Everyday, meaning 5: MB is also used for «Bachelor of Medicine» after a doctor's name.↗ Example: This photo is 3 MB.↗ · The file is too big to email; it is 40 MB.↗ · Our broadband speed is 70 Mbps.↗ · 1,000 MB is about 1 GB.↗ · The weather map shows 1,000 mb of pressure.↗ · Winnipeg, MB, is in Canada.↗ · A song is usually about 4 MB.↗

mead — Everyday, meaning 1: Mead is a sweet drink made from honey and water, sometimes with spices, drunk long ago at feasts.↗ Example: The king drank mead at the feast.↗ · Will you not give her a glass of mead?↗ · There was bread, meat and mead on the table.↗

meadow — Everyday, meaning 1: A meadow is a field of grass and wild flowers, often used for hay or grazing animals.↗ Example: We had a picnic in the meadow.↗ · The meadow was full of buttercups and daisies.↗ · Bees buzzed over the wildflower meadow.↗ · Cows were grazing in the meadow.↗ · The path went across the meadow to the river.↗ · Our school planted a small meadow for insects.↗ · Butterflies love sunny meadows.↗ · The farmer cuts the meadow for hay in summer.↗ · Moorland and meadow are covered with ice and snow.↗ · And the sea-coast shall be pastures, even meadows for shepherds, and folds for flocks.↗ (Prophets ZEP.2.6, JPS 1917)↗ · The meadows are clothed with flocks; the valleys also are covered over with corn; they shout for joy, yea, they sing.↗ (Writings PSA.65.14, JPS 1917)↗

meagre — Everyday, meaning 1: Small in amount, not enough: «a meagre meal», «meagre wages».↗ Everyday, meaning 2: (old) Thin, lean.↗ Example: The prisoners ate a meagre meal of bread and water.↗ · They lived on a meagre wage.↗ · We had a meagre harvest after the dry summer.↗ · His meagre savings were not enough for a bike.↗ · The soup was meagre and thin.↗ · In the war, families had meagre rations.↗ · She did not touch it; and the next morning she went off again without taking the meagre breakfast which was left out for her.↗

meal — Everyday, meaning 1: A meal is the food you eat at one time, such as breakfast, lunch or dinner.↗ Everyday, meaning 2: A meal is also the time when you eat this food.↗ Everyday, meaning 3: Meal (uncountable) is grain ground into a rough powder, like oatmeal or cornmeal.↗ Example: Breakfast is the first meal of the day.↗ · We had a lovely meal at Grandma's house.↗ · Wash your hands before every meal.↗ · Try to eat vegetables with every meal.↗ · Three meals a day for a week makes twenty-one meals.↗ · Dinner is my favourite meal.↗ · We cooked a meal for the family together.↗ · Don't eat lots of snacks just before a meal.↗ · Iktomi had no regular meal times.↗ · Thou shalt break it in pieces, and pour oil thereon; it is a meal-offering.↗ (Torah LEV.2.6, JPS 1917)↗ · And thou shalt put oil upon it, and lay frankincense thereon; it is a meal-offering.↗ (Torah LEV.2.15, JPS 1917)↗ · And every meal-offering of the priest shall be wholly made to smoke; it shall not be eaten.↗ (Torah LEV.6.23, JPS 1917)↗ · I have not burdened thee with a meal-offering, nor wearied thee with frankincense.↗ (Prophets ISA.43.23, JPS 1917)↗ · Receive the memorial of all thy meal-offerings, and accept the fat of thy burnt-sacrifice; Selah (Writings PSA.20.4, JPS 1917)↗ · And Solomon's provision for one day was thirty measures of fine flour, and threescore measures of meal; (Prophets 1KI.5.2, JPS 1917)↗

mealtime — Everyday, meaning 1: A time of day when people eat a meal, such as breakfast, lunch or dinner.↗ Example: We don't watch TV at mealtimes.↗ · Mealtimes in our house are noisy and fun.↗ · The dog always waits by the table at mealtime.↗ · Wash your hands before mealtimes.↗ · At camp, mealtimes were at eight, twelve and six.↗ · Gran says mealtime is family time.↗

mealworm — Everyday, meaning 1: The larva (young form) of a darkling beetle; it looks like a small yellow-brown worm and eats grain and flour.↗ Everyday, meaning 2: Mealworms sold as food for birds, reptiles and pets.↗ Example: We watched our mealworms turn into beetles.↗ · Robins love mealworms in winter.↗ · My lizard eats live mealworms.↗ · A mealworm is a larva, not a worm.↗ · Mealworms can live in old flour.↗ · Some people cook mealworms as a snack.↗

mean — Everyday, meaning 1: To mean is to have a sense.↗ e.g. What does this word mean?↗ Everyday, meaning 2: To mean is to want to say.↗ e.g. I mean the red one.↗ Everyday, meaning 3: To mean to do something is to plan it.↗ e.g. I didn't mean to break it.↗ Everyday, meaning 4: Mean (adjective) means unkind.↗ e.g. Don't be mean.↗ Everyday, meaning 5: In maths, the mean is the average: add the numbers and divide by how many there are.↗ Everyday, meaning 6: Means, in the plural, is money or wealth, so a man of means is a rich man.↗ Example: Coming together means adding; going away means subtracting.↗ · Here the word «more» does not mean adding …↗ · «Half» means one of two equal parts.↗ · What does «huge» mean?↗ · Sorry, I didn't mean to bump you.↗ · It's mean to laugh at someone who falls.↗ · A red light means stop.↗ · The mean of 2, 4 and 6 is 4.↗ · He was a man of means.↗ · And Abimelech said unto Abraham: 'What mean these seven ewe-lambs which thou hast set by themselves?'↗ (Torah GEN.21.29, JPS 1917)↗ · And it shall come to pass, when your children shall say unto you: What mean ye by this service?↗ (Torah EXO.12.26, JPS 1917)↗ · And he shall offer one of the turtle-doves, or of the young pigeons, such as his means suffice for; (Torah LEV.14.30, JPS 1917)↗ · No man can by any means redeem his brother, nor give to God a ransom for him — (Writings PSA.49.8, JPS 1917)↗ · Seest thou a man diligent in his business? he shall stand before kings; he shall not stand before mean men.↗ (Writings PRO.22.29, JPS 1917)↗ · What mean ye that ye crush My people, and grind the face of the poor?' saith the Lord, the GOD of hosts.↗ (Prophets ISA.3.15, JPS 1917)↗

meander — Everyday, meaning 1: (of a river or road) To turn this way and that in slow curves instead of going straight.↗ Everyday, meaning 2: To walk or wander slowly without a clear aim.↗ Everyday, meaning 3: (of talk or a story) To go on slowly without a clear point.↗ Everyday, meaning 4: Noun: a bend or loop in a river.↗ Example: The river meanders across the flat valley.↗ · We meandered through the market, looking at the stalls.↗ · The geography class drew a meander and an oxbow lake.↗ · The path meanders up the hill.↗ · His story meandered and never got to the point.↗ · The stream made a wide meander around the field.↗

meaneth — Early Modern English, meaning 1: «meaneth» means «means», a form of «mean»: To mean is to have a sense.↗ e.g. What does this word mean?↗ Example: even all the nations shall say 'Wherefore hath the LORD done thus unto this land? what meaneth the heat of this great anger?'↗ (Torah DEU.29.24, JPS 1917)

meanie — Everyday, meaning 1: (informal) A meanie is a person who is unkind, selfish or not generous, said in a childish or playful way.↗ Everyday, meaning 2: It is often used by young children or as a joke: «Don't be a meanie, share your sweets!».↗ Example: Don't be a meanie, let me have a turn!↗ · My brother is a big meanie; he ate all the cake.↗ · You meanie, you hid my shoes!↗ · The meanie in the story stole the toys.↗ · Dad pretended to be a meanie and said no more biscuits.↗ · She called me a meanie, then laughed.↗ · Nobody likes a meanie.↗ · Stop being a meanie and invite her to play.↗

meaning — Everyday, meaning 1: The meaning of a word or sign is what it stands for or expresses.↗ Everyday, meaning 2: The meaning of something is its purpose or importance: the meaning of life, a life full of meaning.↗ Everyday, meaning 3: The hidden message or idea behind something: the meaning of a poem or a dream.↗ Everyday, meaning 4: «Meaning» is also the -ing form of «mean».↗ e.g. I've been meaning to call you (planning to).↗ Example: What is the meaning of «enormous»?↗ · Some words have more than one meaning.↗ · The red light has a clear meaning: stop!↗ · We discussed the meaning of the poem.↗ · Helping others gives her life meaning.↗ · Jesus told parables with a deeper meaning.↗ · I've been meaning to tidy my room all week.↗ · A shrug can have many meanings.↗ · He understood the gypsy woman's meaning now.↗ · The meaning of Belimah is more doubtful.↗ (Sefer Yetzirah, Westcott 1893)↗ · What was intended was שְׁטוּחָה shetuchah, meaning ‘flat’.↗ (Sefer Yetzirah, Sefaria community translation)↗ · 18) Meaning outlets, outgates of the creative power, formations.↗ (Sefer Yetzirah, Kalisch 1877)↗

meaningful — Everyday, meaning 1: Having a clear meaning or making sense: «a meaningful sentence».↗ Everyday, meaning 2: Important, serious or valuable to someone: «a meaningful friendship», «a meaningful job».↗ Everyday, meaning 3: Showing a hidden feeling without words: «a meaningful look».↗ Everyday, meaning 4: (maths, science) Big or real enough to matter, not just chance: «a meaningful difference».↗ Example: Volunteering at the food bank felt really meaningful.↗ · Mum gave Dad a meaningful look, and he stopped talking.↗ · Put the words in order to make a meaningful sentence.↗ · We had a meaningful talk about being kind.↗ · A small difference of 1 cm is not meaningful when we measure with a ruler to the nearest cm.↗ · Her grandfather's watch is very meaningful to her.↗ · The teacher wants our feedback to be meaningful, not just «good job».↗ · Meaningful work helps people feel proud.↗ · He said nothing, but he exchanged a meaningful glance with the dragon, and everyone went home to tea.↗

meaningless — Everyday, meaning 1: Meaningless means having no meaning or no sense: a meaningless string of letters.↗ Everyday, meaning 2: Meaningless means having no purpose or importance.↗ Example: «Xqvzt» is a meaningless jumble of letters.↗ · The score was meaningless because the match was only practice.↗ · Without units, the answer 12 is meaningless.↗ · He made a meaningless promise he never kept.↗ · The old code looked meaningless until we found the key.↗ · A long list of facts can feel meaningless without a story.↗

meanly — Everyday, meaning 1: Meanly means in an unkind or nasty way.↗ Everyday, meaning 2: Meanly can mean in a stingy way, not willing to share or spend.↗ Everyday, meaning 3: Meanly can mean poorly or shabbily, as in "meanly dressed".↗ Example: He laughed meanly when I fell over.↗ · She meanly took the last biscuit without asking.↗ · The giant meanly kept all the gold for himself.↗ · Don't speak meanly to your little sister.↗ · The beggar was meanly dressed.↗ · The bully smiled meanly.↗

meanness — Everyday, meaning 1: Meanness is being unkind or nasty to others.↗ Everyday, meaning 2: Meanness is not wanting to share or spend money; being stingy.↗ Example: The bully's meanness made the little ones cry.↗ · Scrooge was famous for his meanness with money.↗ · There was no meanness in her; she shared everything.↗ · We talked about how meanness hurts feelings.↗ · His meanness meant he never bought anyone a drink.↗ · Kindness is the cure for meanness.↗ · Many a time her poor husband regretted the day that he had first seen her, and often her meanness and shabby ways put him to shame.↗

meantime — Everyday, meaning 1: The time between two events: «in the meantime» means while you wait for something else to happen.↗ Everyday, meaning 2: (adverb) Meanwhile; at the same time.↗ Example: Dinner will be ready in an hour; in the meantime, do your homework.↗ · The doctor is coming.↗ In the meantime, keep the ice on your knee.↗ · Meantime, Ratty was rowing up the river.↗ · The new library opens in May; for the meantime, use the mobile library.↗ · In the meantime, the snow kept falling.↗ · We waited for the bus and in the meantime ate our sandwiches.↗ · In the meantime, what of the boys?↗

meanwhile — Everyday, meaning 1: At the same time, while something else is happening.↗ e.g. Meanwhile, back at the castle...↗ Everyday, meaning 2: In the time between two events: the bus is late; meanwhile, let's sit down.↗ Everyday, meaning 3: Used to compare two different things.↗ e.g. Sam loves maths; meanwhile, his sister hates it.↗ Example: The cake was baking; meanwhile, we washed up.↗ · Meanwhile, back at the farm, the pigs had escaped.↗ · Dinner will be ready soon; meanwhile, lay the table.↗ · Ben ran to get help.↗ Meanwhile, Ella kept the dog calm.↗ · I love winter; meanwhile, my brother can't wait for summer.↗ · The film starts at six; in the meanwhile, let's get popcorn.↗ · The firefighters arrived.↗ Meanwhile, the crowd watched from the street.↗ · The fox meanwhile was enjoying himself mightily.↗