📖 M — The English dictionary · page 31

milligram — Everyday, meaning 1: A milligram is a very small unit of mass equal to one thousandth of a gram.↗ Example: There are 1000 milligrams in one gram.↗ · Each tablet contains 200 milligrams of ibuprofen.↗ · A grain of salt weighs about a tenth of a milligram.↗ · The label says 30 mg of vitamin C in each glass.↗ · Convert 3 grams to milligrams: 3 × 1000 = 3000 mg.↗ · A mosquito weighs about two milligrams.↗ · The doctor checked the dose in milligrams.↗

millilitre — Everyday, meaning 1: A millilitre is a very small unit for measuring liquid.↗ A litre has 1000 millilitres; a teaspoon holds about 5 millilitres.↗ Everyday, meaning 2: It is written ml or mL.↗ Example: A bottle holds 500 millilitres of water.↗ · She pours 250 millilitres into each glass.↗ · How many millilitres are in 2 litres?↗ · The jug has 1200 millilitres of juice.↗ · Take 5 ml of medicine, as the doctor said.↗ · A can of soda holds 330 ml.↗ · Fill the measuring cylinder to 50 millilitres.↗ · A raindrop is much less than one millilitre.↗

millimetre — Everyday, meaning 1: A millimetre is a small unit of length; there are 10 millimetres in a centimetre and 1,000 in a metre.↗ It is written mm.↗ Example: A millimetre is about the thickness of a credit card.↗ · Measure the line to the nearest millimetre.↗ · 10 millimetres make 1 centimetre.↗ · We had 25 millimetres of rain today.↗ · The ant is 6 mm long.↗ · 35 mm = 3.5 cm.↗ · The gap was only a millimetre wide.↗ · A metre has 1,000 millimetres.↗

milliner — Everyday, meaning 1: A milliner is a person who makes or sells hats, especially women's hats and bonnets.↗ Example: Mum bought a straw bonnet from the milliner.↗ · The milliner's window was full of bright hats.↗ · The milliner made a hat with red ribbons.↗

million — Everyday, meaning 1: A million is the number 1,000,000: a thousand thousands.↗ Everyday, meaning 2: Millions or a million can mean a very large number, not exact (informal).↗ Example: A million is a thousand thousands.↗ · The city has about two million people.↗ · There are millions of stars in the sky.↗ · I've told you a million times!↗ · Write one million in figures: 1,000,000.↗ · She is one in a million.↗ · Light travels about three hundred million metres a second.↗ · One could see the bottom, leagues below, millions of miles below.↗

millionaire — Everyday, meaning 1: A millionaire is a person who has money and property worth at least a million pounds, dollars or other units of money.↗ Example: The lottery winner became a millionaire overnight.↗ · He is a self-made millionaire who started with a market stall.↗ · If you saved £1 a day, it would take more than two and a half thousand years to save a million pounds.↗ · The millionaire gave money to the children's hospital.↗ · Being a millionaire doesn't always make you happy.↗ · A million has six zeros.↗ · In a few years, he had become a millionaire.↗

millionth — Everyday, meaning 1: Millionth means coming at number 1,000,000 in order.↗ Everyday, meaning 2: A millionth is one part when something is divided into a million equal parts (1/1,000,000).↗ Example: She was the shop's millionth customer.↗ · A micrometre is a millionth of a metre.↗ · One millionth is written 0.000001.↗ · For the millionth time, tidy your room!↗ · A grain of dust may weigh a millionth of a gram.↗ · The website celebrated its millionth visitor.↗

millipede — Everyday, meaning 1: A millipede is a small creature with a long body made of many segments, with two pairs of legs on most segments, that lives in damp soil and leaf litter and eats dead plants.↗ Example: We found a millipede under the old log.↗ · The millipede curled up into a tight spiral.↗ · Millipedes eat rotting leaves and help make soil.↗ · A millipede moves its legs in waves.↗ · Millipedes like dark, damp places.↗ · Despite its name, a millipede does not have a thousand legs.↗ · We counted the millipede's legs with a magnifying glass.↗ · A millipede is slower than a centipede.↗

millstone — Everyday, meaning 1: A millstone is one of a pair of large, round, flat stones used in a mill to grind grain into flour.↗ Everyday, meaning 2: A millstone (round your neck) is a heavy problem or responsibility you can't get rid of.↗ Example: The millstone turned slowly and ground the wheat.↗ · Old millstones are sometimes used in gardens.↗ · The river turned the wheel that turned the millstone.↗ · The debt was a millstone round his neck.↗ · A millstone is very heavy.↗ · Jesus spoke of a millstone in one of his warnings in the Gospels.↗ · Four millstones formed his shield, and on a box-tree close by hung his giant sword.↗ · No man shall take the mill or the upper millstone to pledge; for he taketh a man's life to pledge.↗ (Torah DEU.24.6, JPS 1917)↗ · His heart is as firm as a stone; yea, firm as the nether millstone.↗ (Writings JOB.41.16, JPS 1917)↗ · And a certain woman cast an upper millstone upon Abimelech's head, and broke his skull.↗ (Prophets JDG.9.53, JPS 1917)↗ · Take the millstones, and grind meal; remove thy veil, strip off the train, uncover the leg, pass through the rivers.↗ (Prophets ISA.47.2, JPS 1917)↗

milt — In Jewish tradition, meaning 1: The spleen, a small organ near the stomach; also the sperm of male fish.↗ Example: The twelve organs of the human body are: two hands, two feet, two kidneys, gall, small intestines, liver, gullet [39] or esophagus, stomach and milt.↗ (Sefer Yetzirah, Kalisch 1877)↗

mime — Everyday, meaning 1: Mime is acting a story using only movements, faces and gestures, without words.↗ Everyday, meaning 2: A mime is a performer who does this, often with a white painted face.↗ Everyday, meaning 3: To mime means to show something with actions instead of words.↗ Everyday, meaning 4: To mime a song means to move your lips as if singing while a recording plays.↗ Example: We acted out the story in mime.↗ · The mime pretended to be trapped in a glass box.↗ · Mime brushing your teeth.↗ · In charades you have to mime the film title.↗ · The pop star was caught miming at the concert.↗ · She mimed "Call me" through the window.↗ · Our drama teacher showed us how to mime pulling a rope.↗

mimic — Everyday, meaning 1: To copy the way someone talks or moves, often to be funny or to make fun of them.↗ Everyday, meaning 2: In nature, to look or sound like something else to stay safe or to trick, as some animals do.↗ Everyday, meaning 3: (noun) A person or animal that is good at copying sounds or actions.↗ Example: Parrots can mimic human words.↗ · The lyrebird mimics the sound of a camera shutter.↗ · The hoverfly mimics a wasp so birds leave it alone.↗ · Please don't mimic Sam's voice; it upsets him.↗ · My sister is a brilliant mimic of our teacher.↗ · The stick insect mimics a twig.↗ · Robots can mimic the way people walk.↗ · By-and-by he began to mimic the speech and gait of persons in the street.↗

mimicry — Everyday, meaning 1: Mimicry is copying the way someone talks, moves or behaves, often to make people laugh.↗ Everyday, meaning 2: (science) Mimicry is when a living thing looks or sounds like another thing to protect itself or to trick others, like a harmless hoverfly that looks like a wasp.↗ Example: The hoverfly's stripes are an example of mimicry.↗ · Parrots are famous for their mimicry of human speech.↗ · The lyrebird's mimicry can copy a car alarm.↗ · His mimicry of the head teacher made the class giggle.↗ · Mimicry helps harmless animals look dangerous.↗ · Some orchids use mimicry to look like bees.↗

mimosa — Everyday, meaning 1: A tree or shrub with fluffy yellow or pink flowers.↗ Everyday, meaning 2: A small «sensitive plant» whose leaves fold up when you touch them.↗ Everyday, meaning 3: A drink of orange juice and sparkling wine (in the UK called a Buck's Fizz).↗ Example: When I touched the mimosa, its leaves folded up.↗ · The mimosa tree was covered in fluffy yellow flowers.↗ · Mimosa blossoms smell sweet.↗ · In Australia, yellow mimosa is called wattle.↗ · The grown-ups had mimosas at brunch.↗ · This evening they sit beneath the lofty palm trees, where the crane flutters round them with its long wings, and the pelican watches them from the branches of the mimosa.↗

min — Everyday, meaning 1: Min is the short way to write minute.↗ There are 60 min in one hour.↗ Everyday, meaning 2: Min can also be short for minimum, the smallest amount allowed (as in «min 3 players»).↗ Example: The bus ride takes 25 min.↗ · She reads for 15 min every day.↗ · 1 h 20 min = 80 min.↗ · The cake bakes for 40 min.↗ · An hour has 60 minutes.↗ · Cook the pasta for 10 min.↗ · The next train comes in 5 min.↗ · Min. age 8 years, says the board game box.↗

mince — Everyday, meaning 1: Mince is meat cut into very small pieces in a machine, used for burgers, spaghetti bolognese and cottage pie; in the US and Canada it is called «ground beef» or «hamburger meat».↗ Everyday, meaning 2: To mince food is to cut it into very small pieces.↗ Everyday, meaning 3: To mince is to walk with small, quick, fussy steps.↗ Everyday, meaning 4: «Not mince your words» means to say something directly, even if it is not polite.↗ Example: Mum bought beef mince for burgers.↗ · Fry the mince with onions.↗ · Mince the garlic very finely.↗ · We eat mince pies at Christmas.↗ · She didn't mince her words: «That's wrong.»↗ · (Scotland) Stop talking mince!↗ · In the US, mince is called ground beef.↗ · The mince is browning in the pan.↗ · Moreover the LORD said: Because the daughters of Zion are haughty, and walk with stretched-forth necks and wanton eyes, walking and mincing as they go, and making a tinkling with their feet; (Prophets ISA.3.16, JPS 1917)↗

mincer — Everyday, meaning 1: (UK, Australia, NZ, Ireland) A kitchen machine that cuts meat or other food into very small pieces by pushing it through a plate with holes; in the US usually called a «meat grinder».↗ Everyday, meaning 2: (informal, old) A person who walks with small fussy steps; this sense is rare and can be unkind.↗ Example: Grandma's old mincer is clamped to the kitchen table.↗ · Put the beef through the mincer to make mince.↗ · The butcher has an electric mincer.↗ · Never put your fingers into a mincer.↗ · We used a mincer to make homemade burgers.↗ · In America a mincer is called a meat grinder.↗ · The mincer turns round and round when you crank the handle.↗ · (idiom, UK) «I feel like I've been through the mincer» means «I feel worn out».↗

mind — Everyday, meaning 1: Your mind is the part of you that thinks, feels, remembers and imagines.↗ Everyday, meaning 2: To mind means to feel annoyed or upset about something.↗ e.g. I don't mind waiting.↗ Everyday, meaning 3: To mind means to be careful of something (UK): mind the gap, mind your head.↗ Everyday, meaning 4: To mind someone means to look after them: mind your little sister.↗ Everyday, meaning 5: «Change your mind» means to decide something different.↗ Everyday, meaning 6: When you say “mind you” before an instruction, you mean “make sure you” or “remember to.”.↗ Example: Do you mind if I open the window?↗ · I don't mind which game we play.↗ · Mind the step!↗ · Can you mind your baby brother for a minute?↗ · I've changed my mind; I want the blue one.↗ · Keep in mind that the shop closes at five.↗ · Never mind, we can try again tomorrow.↗ · Do this sum in your mind, without a pencil.↗ · And his brethren envied him; but his father kept the saying in mind.↗ (Torah GEN.37.11, JPS 1917)↗ · And Moses said: 'Hereby ye shall know that the LORD hath sent me to do all these works, and that I have not done them of mine own mind.↗ (Torah NUM.16.28, JPS 1917)↗ · And he spoke with them, saying: 'If it be your mind that I should bury my dead out of my sight, hear me, and entreat for me to Ephron the son of Zohar, (Torah GEN.23.8, JPS 1917)↗ · Or who hath given understanding to the mind?↗ (Writings JOB.38.36, JPS 1917)↗ · This I recall to my mind, therefore have I hope.↗ (Writings LAM.3.21, JPS 1917)↗ · Remember this, and stand fast; bring it to mind, O ye transgressors.↗ (Prophets ISA.46.8, JPS 1917)↗

mindful — Everyday, meaning 1: To be mindful is to keep something in mind and be careful about it: mindful of the rules.↗ Example: Be mindful of your little brother on the stairs.↗ · She was mindful of the rules of the game.↗ · He was mindful of what his mother had said, so he stayed home.↗ · He hath given food unto them that fear Him; He will ever be mindful of His covenant.↗ (Writings PSA.111.5, JPS 1917)↗ · What is man, that Thou art mindful of him? and the son of man, that Thou thinkest of him?↗ (Writings PSA.8.5, JPS 1917)↗ · O God of hosts, return, we beseech Thee; look from heaven, and behold, and be mindful of this vine, (Writings PSA.80.15, JPS 1917)↗

mine — Everyday, meaning 1: (pronoun) Belonging to me: «That book is mine».↗ Everyday, meaning 2: (noun) A deep hole or tunnels in the ground where people dig out coal, gold, metals or stones.↗ Everyday, meaning 3: (noun) A bomb hidden in the ground or the sea that explodes when touched.↗ Everyday, meaning 4: (verb) To dig coal, metals or stones out of the ground.↗ Everyday, meaning 5: (noun) A rich source: «a mine of information».↗ Example: That red pencil is mine.↗ · Is this yours or mine?↗ · She's a friend of mine from swimming.↗ · Coal was dug out of a deep mine.↗ · They mine gold and copper in the mountains.↗ · Keep out of old mines — the tunnels can collapse.↗ · Grandpa is a mine of information about birds.↗ · Mines left after wars still hurt people today.↗ · Thy need is greater than mine."↗ · And now when shall I provide for mine own house also?'↗ (Torah GEN.30.30, JPS 1917)↗ · I will heap evils upon them; I will spend Mine arrows upon them; (Torah DEU.32.23, JPS 1917)↗ · I took thee to curse mine enemies, and, behold, thou hast blessed them altogether.'↗ (Torah NUM.23.11, JPS 1917)↗ · Repentance be hid from Mine eyes!↗ (Prophets HOS.13.14, JPS 1917)↗ · How many are mine iniquities and sins?↗ (Writings JOB.13.23, JPS 1917)↗ · LORD, how many are mine adversaries become!↗ (Writings PSA.3.2, JPS 1917)↗