📖 M — The English dictionary · page 38

ml — Everyday, meaning 1: Short for millilitre, a small unit for measuring liquid; 1000 ml make 1 litre.↗ Everyday, meaning 2: (less common) Short for other words, such as "mile" in old texts; at school it almost always means millilitres.↗ Example: The bottle holds 500 ml of water.↗ · Take 5 ml of medicine twice a day.↗ · Add 200 ml of milk to the flour.↗ · 1 litre is the same as 1000 ml.↗ · A can of lemonade holds 330 ml.↗ · Pour 250 ml into each glass.↗ · How many 100 ml cups can you fill from 1 litre?↗

mm — Everyday, meaning 1: Mm is the short way to write millimetre, a very tiny unit of length.↗ A centimetre has 10 millimetres.↗ Everyday, meaning 2: «Mm» or «mmm» is also a sound people make to say yes, to think, or to say food is tasty.↗ Example: The line is 45 mm long.↗ · It rained 12 mm today.↗ · A coin is 2 mm thick.↗ · How many mm are in 3 cm?↗ · The ant is about 5 mm long.↗ · The small marks on a ruler are millimetres.↗ · "Mmm, this soup is yummy!" said Ella.↗ · "Mm-hm," said Dad, nodding.↗

mnemonic — Everyday, meaning 1: A mnemonic is a trick that helps you remember something, like a rhyme, a saying or a word made from first letters.↗ Everyday, meaning 2: Mnemonic means helping the memory.↗ Example: «Richard Of York Gave Battle In Vain» is a mnemonic for the rainbow.↗ · BIDMAS is a mnemonic for the order of operations.↗ · «Never Eat Shredded Wheat» helps you remember North, East, South, West.↗ · I made up a mnemonic to remember the planets.↗ · «Thirty days hath September» is a mnemonic rhyme.↗ · A mnemonic helped me spell «necessary»: one collar, two sleeves.↗

mnemonics — Everyday, meaning 1: Mnemonics are tricks that help you remember things, like a rhyme, a sentence or a pattern.↗ Everyday, meaning 2: Mnemonics is also the study and use of such memory tricks.↗ Example: Mnemonics help me remember spelling.↗ · «My Very Easy Method Just Speeds Up Naming» is a mnemonic for the planets.↗ · Our teacher taught us mnemonics for the rainbow.↗ · «BIG ELEPHANTS CAN'T ALWAYS UNDERSTAND SMALL ELEPHANTS» is a mnemonic for «because».↗ · Make up your own mnemonics for times tables.↗ · Mnemonics make hard lists easier.↗

mo — Everyday, meaning 1: (informal, UK) «A mo» means a moment, a very short time: «half a mo», «wait a mo».↗ Everyday, meaning 2: (Australia, New Zealand, informal) A mo is a moustache; «Movember» is a November charity month when men grow moustaches.↗ Everyday, meaning 3: (a name) Mo is a short name, for example for Mohammed, Maureen or Morris.↗ Everyday, meaning 4: (abbreviation) «mo.» means month; «MO» can mean «modus operandi», a way of doing something, or a medical officer.↗ Everyday, meaning 5: In some dialects, mo is a short way of saying more.↗ Example: «Half a mo, I'm just getting my coat», said Mum.↗ · Wait a mo — I've forgotten my lunch!↗ · Dad grew a mo for charity.↗ · Mo Farah won lots of running races.↗ · My friend Mo is captain of the football team.↗ · The phone plan costs ten pounds per mo.↗ · «He's got a big bushy mo», said Grandpa.↗ · I won't never do so no mo'!↗

moa — Everyday, meaning 1: A moa was a very large flightless bird that lived only in New Zealand; the tallest kinds stood taller than a person when reaching up.↗ Everyday, meaning 2: All moa are now extinct; they died out a few hundred years after people first arrived in New Zealand.↗ Example: The moa was a giant bird from New Zealand.↗ · Moa could not fly because they had no wings at all.↗ · Haast's eagle hunted moa.↗ · The moa became extinct after people arrived.↗ · We saw a huge moa skeleton at the museum.↗ · Moa ate leaves, twigs and fruit.↗ · (New Zealand) That old phone has gone the way of the moa.↗ · Scientists study moa bones to learn how they lived.↗

moan — Everyday, meaning 1: To make a long low sound because of pain or sadness.↗ Everyday, meaning 2: (informal, especially UK, Australia) To complain in an annoying way about small things.↗ e.g. Stop moaning about your homework!↗ Everyday, meaning 3: Noun: a low sound of pain, or the wind's low sound.↗ Everyday, meaning 4: Noun (informal): a complaint: to have a moan.↗ Example: The injured player moaned in pain.↗ · The wind moaned through the trees.↗ · Stop moaning — it's only one page of homework!↗ · Dad likes a good moan about the traffic.↗ · We heard a low moan from the cellar.↗ · She moaned that the bus was late again.↗ · My brother moans whenever it's his turn to wash up.↗ · The world which Abraham and his teacher Shem were able to form after three years of study of the Sefer Yetzirah may lie understood to moan the world of letters.↗ (Mordell, The Origin of Letters and Numerals according to Sefer Yetzirah (1914))↗ · Why art thou cast down, O my soul? and why moanest thou within me?↗ (Writings PSA.42.6, JPS 1917)↗ · Attend unto me, and hear me; I am distraught in my complaint, and will moan; (Writings PSA.55.3, JPS 1917)↗ · And thou moan, when thine end cometh, when thy flesh and thy body are consumed, (Writings PRO.5.11, JPS 1917)↗

moat — Everyday, meaning 1: A moat is a deep, wide ditch dug around a castle or town, usually filled with water, to keep enemies out.↗ Example: The castle was surrounded by a moat.↗ · The knights lowered the drawbridge over the moat.↗ · Enemies could not cross the deep moat.↗ · Ducks swim in the old moat now.↗ · We drew a castle with a moat around it.↗ · The lions' enclosure has a moat instead of a fence.↗ · Its doors are of iron, and round it runs a deep moat, spanned by no bridge.↗ · And of Jezebel also spoke the LORD, saying: The dogs shall eat Jezebel in the moat of Jezreel.↗ (Prophets 1KI.21.23, JPS 1917)↗ · And they came and besieged him in Abel of Beth-maacah, and they cast up a mound against the city, and it stood in the moat; and all the people that were with Joab battered the wall, to throw it down.↗ (Prophets 2SA.20.15, JPS 1917)↗

mob — Everyday, meaning 1: (noun) A large, noisy, often angry crowd that may become violent.↗ Everyday, meaning 2: (verb) To crowd round someone in a big, excited or aggressive group: fans mob a star.↗ Everyday, meaning 3: (the Mob) Organised criminals, the Mafia.↗ Everyday, meaning 4: (informal, Australia) A group of people or animals, also a group of kangaroos or cattle; (Aboriginal English) a person's family, clan or community.↗ Everyday, meaning 5: (informal, UK) A gang or crowd of friends: «the whole mob».↗ Example: An angry mob gathered outside the castle gates.↗ · The footballer was mobbed by fans after the match.↗ · We saw a mob of kangaroos in the paddock.↗ · «Which mob are you from?» asked the Aboriginal elder.↗ · The whole mob came round for Sunday lunch.↗ · A flash mob suddenly started dancing in the shopping centre.↗ · In the film, the Mob ran the city's gambling.↗ · Just then they heard a shout of "Stop, thief!" and looking around, saw a mob of people armed with clubs coming down the road.↗

mobile — Everyday, meaning 1: Mobile means able to move or be moved easily from place to place.↗ Everyday, meaning 2: A mobile (or mobile phone) is a phone you carry with you; in the USA it is usually called a cell phone.↗ Everyday, meaning 3: A mobile is also a hanging decoration with parts that move in the air, often above a baby's cot.↗ Everyday, meaning 4: Mobile is also the name of a city in Alabama, USA.↗ Example: Turn off your mobile in the cinema.↗ · Do not look at your mobile when crossing the road.↗ · The mobile library visits our village every Tuesday.↗ · We made a mobile of planets to hang in the classroom.↗ · Grandad is mobile again after his knee operation.↗ · Can I have your mobile number?↗ · They live in a mobile home near the beach.↗ · The baby watched the mobile spinning above her cot.↗

moccasin — Everyday, meaning 1: A moccasin is a soft leather shoe with no hard heel, first worn by Native American peoples.↗ Example: He pulled on his soft moccasins.↗ · The boy walked quietly in his moccasins.↗ · Moccasins are made from deerskin.↗ · A pair of moccasins has two shoes.↗

mocha — Everyday, meaning 1: A coffee drink made with chocolate, hot milk and espresso.↗ Everyday, meaning 2: A kind of strong coffee, first traded from the port of Mocha in Yemen.↗ Everyday, meaning 3: A mid-brown colour like milky coffee.↗ Everyday, meaning 4: A flavour mixing coffee and chocolate, as in mocha cake.↗ Example: Mum ordered a mocha with whipped cream.↗ · A mocha has coffee and chocolate in it.↗ · The sofa is a mocha brown colour.↗ · Mocha in Yemen was a famous coffee port long ago.↗ · Grandad baked a mocha cake for his birthday.↗ · My hot chocolate is for me; the mocha is for Dad.↗ · Coffee drinks like mochas have caffeine, so they are not good for children.↗ · Ginsburg asserts that the system of vowel polluting was invented by a Rabbi Mocha in Palestine about a.d.↗ 570, who designed it to assist his pupils.↗ (Sefer Yetzirah, Westcott 1893)↗

mock — Everyday, meaning 1: To mock someone means to laugh at them or copy them in an unkind way to make them look silly.↗ Everyday, meaning 2: Mock means not real, made to look like the real thing: mock exam, mock trial.↗ Everyday, meaning 3: In the UK, mocks are practice exams before the real ones.↗ Example: It's unkind to mock someone's accent.↗ · The bullies mocked his new glasses.↗ · We have mock exams next month.↗ · Our class held a mock trial of the Big Bad Wolf.↗ · The architect made a mock-up of the new school.↗ · Don't mock — everyone was a beginner once.↗ · My brother has his mocks in winter.↗ · She did a mock bow to make us laugh.↗ · And your father hath mocked me, and changed my wages ten times; but God suffered him not to hurt me.↗ (Torah GEN.31.7, JPS 1917)↗ · And she spoke unto him according to these words, saying: 'The Hebrew servant, whom thou hast brought unto us, came in unto me to mock me.↗ (Torah GEN.39.17, JPS 1917)↗ · And Balaam said unto the ass: 'Because thou hast mocked me; I would there were a sword in my hand, for now I had killed thee.'↗ (Torah NUM.22.29, JPS 1917)↗ · Or as one mocketh a man, will ye mock Him?↗ (Writings JOB.13.9, JPS 1917)↗ · If the scourge slay suddenly, He will mock at the calamity of the guiltless.↗ (Writings JOB.9.23, JPS 1917)↗ · Suffer me, that I may speak; and after that I have spoken, mock on.↗ (Writings JOB.21.3, JPS 1917)↗

mocker — In Jewish tradition, meaning 1: A person who makes fun of others in an unkind way; a scoffer.↗ Example: Surely there are mockers with me, and mine eye abideth in their provocation.↗ (Writings JOB.17.2, JPS 1917)↗

mockery — Everyday, meaning 1: Laughing at someone or something in an unkind way; teasing.↗ Everyday, meaning 2: Something so bad or unfair that it seems a silly copy of the real thing: the trial was a mockery of justice.↗ Everyday, meaning 3: make a mockery of: to make something seem stupid or pointless.↗ Example: The new boy faced mockery because of his accent.↗ · Mockery can hurt as much as hitting.↗ · Cheating makes a mockery of the game.↗ · The badly run election was a mockery.↗ · She ignored their mockery and kept dancing.↗ · His laugh was full of mockery.↗ · The rules are a mockery if nobody follows them.↗ · With the profanest mockeries of backbiting they gnash at me with their teeth.↗ (Writings PSA.35.16, JPS 1917)↗

mocking — Everyday, meaning 1: Mocking means laughing at someone or something in an unkind way, often by copying how they speak or move.↗ Everyday, meaning 2: As an adjective, mocking describes a voice, smile or look that shows unkind fun at someone.↗ Example: Stop mocking your sister's accent.↗ · He gave a mocking laugh when I missed the ball.↗ · Mocking someone for their clothes is a form of bullying.↗ · The villain's mocking smile made Ellie angry.↗ · They kept mocking the new boy, so the teacher stepped in.↗ · Her voice was mocking, not friendly.↗ · The mockingbird was mocking the other birds' songs.↗ · Laughing with a friend is fine; mocking them is not.↗ · "Do you ever get anywhere?" he asked with a mocking laugh.↗

mockingly — Everyday, meaning 1: Mockingly means in a way that teases or makes fun of someone.↗ Example: “You will never win,” she said mockingly.↗ · The crow called mockingly from the branch.↗ · He bowed mockingly to the king.↗ · The boys laughed mockingly at the lost puppy.↗

mod — Everyday, meaning 1: (informal, games) A change or add-on made to a video game or a machine by players, not by the makers: «a Minecraft mod».↗ Everyday, meaning 2: (informal) A moderator: a person who keeps an online chat, forum or game server safe and polite.↗ Everyday, meaning 3: «Mod cons» (UK) are modern conveniences in a house, like a dishwasher or heating.↗ Everyday, meaning 4: Mods were young people in Britain in the time of the Beatles with smart suits and scooters.↗ Everyday, meaning 5: In maths and computing, «mod» means the remainder after division: 17 mod 5 = 2.↗ Example: My cousin installed a mod that adds dragons to the game.↗ · Ask an adult before you download a mod.↗ · The mod deleted the rude message from the chat.↗ · The house has all mod cons.↗ · In coding, 10 mod 3 equals 1.↗ · The Mods rode scooters and wore smart suits.↗ · He modded his bike with a new bell and lights.↗