📖 M — The English dictionary · page 42

monochrome — Everyday, meaning 1: Using only one colour or shades of one colour, especially black, white and grey.↗ Everyday, meaning 2: (noun) A picture, photo or screen in black and white or in one colour.↗ Everyday, meaning 3: Dull and without variety, as in "a monochrome town".↗ Example: Old photos are often monochrome, black and white.↗ · For art we made a monochrome painting using only shades of blue.↗ · Grandad's first TV was monochrome.↗ · The film was shot in monochrome to look old-fashioned.↗ · She wore a stylish monochrome outfit, all black.↗ · The rainy town looked monochrome and sad.↗ · A monochrome printer prints only in black.↗

monopoly — Everyday, meaning 1: Complete control of a product or service by one company or person, so that nobody else sells it.↗ Everyday, meaning 2: (Monopoly) A board game where players buy streets and houses with toy money.↗ Everyday, meaning 3: (a monopoly on) Having something all to yourself: «You don't have a monopoly on the swing!».↗ Example: We played Monopoly all afternoon.↗ · I landed on my brother's hotel and had to pay rent.↗ · One company had a monopoly on the town's water.↗ · Nobody has a monopoly on good ideas.↗ · Monopoly money is not real money.↗ · A monopoly can make prices go up.↗

monotonous — Everyday, meaning 1: Monotonous means dull and boring because it never changes, the same sound or the same thing over and over.↗ Example: The rain made a monotonous sound on the roof.↗ · Counting the same thing over and over is monotonous.↗ · Life in the castle was monotonous, with the same chores every day.↗

monotonously — Everyday, meaning 1: Monotonously means in a dull, unchanging way, the same over and over.↗ Example: The clock ticked monotonously all night.↗ · She counted monotonously, one, two, three.↗ · The bell rang monotonously all morning.↗

monotreme — Everyday, meaning 1: A monotreme is a mammal that lays eggs instead of giving birth to live young; the platypus and the echidnas are the only living monotremes.↗ Example: The platypus is a monotreme, a mammal that lays eggs.↗ · Echidnas are spiny monotremes.↗ · Monotremes feed their babies milk but have no nipples; the milk comes through the skin.↗ · Only five kinds of monotreme are alive today.↗ · Monotremes live in Australia and New Guinea.↗ · The baby echidna is called a puggle.↗

monoxide — Everyday, meaning 1: A monoxide is a chemical made of one atom of oxygen joined to another element.↗ Everyday, meaning 2: Carbon monoxide is a poisonous gas with no colour, smell or taste.↗ Example: Carbon monoxide is a poisonous gas.↗ · We have a carbon monoxide alarm in the kitchen.↗ · You cannot see or smell carbon monoxide.↗ · Never bring a barbecue into a tent; it gives off carbon monoxide.↗ · A faulty boiler can leak carbon monoxide.↗ · Car exhaust contains carbon monoxide.↗

monsieur — Everyday, meaning 1: (French) Monsieur is the French word for "Mr" or "sir", used before a man's name or to speak to a man politely: «Bonjour, monsieur!».↗ Everyday, meaning 2: In English, «monsieur» is sometimes used in jokes or stories to make a man sound French.↗ Everyday, meaning 3: Monsieur can also be a funny title put before an animal's name in a story, such as a cat, to make it sound grand and French.↗ Example: (French) Bonjour, monsieur !↗ · (French) Merci beaucoup, monsieur.↗ · (French) Monsieur Martin is our French teacher.↗ · (French) Mesdames et messieurs, the show is about to begin.↗ · The waiter said, "Your soup, monsieur."↗ · (French) Excusez-moi, monsieur, où est la gare ?↗ · A rash and foolish young rabbit jumped into his bag, and Monsieur Puss, immediately drawing close the strings, took and killed him without pity.↗

monsoon — Everyday, meaning 1: A wind in South Asia and nearby places that changes direction with the seasons.↗ Everyday, meaning 2: The season of very heavy rain that this wind brings.↗ Everyday, meaning 3: (informal) Very heavy rain anywhere.↗ Example: The monsoon brings heavy rain to India every summer.↗ · Farmers wait for the monsoon to water their rice.↗ · During the monsoon, some roads flood.↗ · Northern Australia has a wet season with monsoon rains.↗ · It was like a monsoon outside — we got soaked!↗ (informal)↗ · The monsoon winds change direction with the seasons.↗ · So I stayed with him till the time of the monsoon, and every day we added to our store of ivory till all his ware-houses were overflowing with it.↗

monster — Everyday, meaning 1: A monster is a big, scary, made-up creature in stories, films and games.↗ Everyday, meaning 2: A monster can be a very cruel or wicked person.↗ Everyday, meaning 3: A monster can mean something enormous, like a monster wave.↗ Everyday, meaning 4: Children sometimes call a naughty child a «little monster» as a joke.↗ Example: The monster in the story had three eyes and green fur.↗ · There are no monsters under your bed.↗ · A monster wave crashed over the harbour wall.↗ · We dressed up as monsters for Halloween.↗ · My baby brother is a little monster at bath time.↗ · Some people say there is a monster in Loch Ness, but nobody has ever proved it.↗ · The giant pumpkin was a monster!↗ · The cruel king was a monster to his people.↗ · The monster soon came in, saying:↗ · And God created the great sea-monsters, and every living creature that creepeth, wherewith the waters swarmed, after its kind, and every winged fowl after its kind; and God saw that it was good.↗ (Torah GEN.1.21, JPS 1917)↗ · Praise the LORD from the earth, ye sea-monsters, and all deeps; (Writings PSA.148.7, JPS 1917)↗ · Am I a sea, or a sea-monster, that Thou settest a watch over me?↗ (Writings JOB.7.12, JPS 1917)↗ · Thou didst break the sea in pieces by Thy strength; Thou didst shatter the heads of the sea-monsters in the waters.↗ (Writings PSA.74.13, JPS 1917)↗

monstrous — Everyday, meaning 1: Very large and frightening, like a monster: «a monstrous wave».↗ Everyday, meaning 2: Very wrong, cruel or shocking: «a monstrous lie».↗ Everyday, meaning 3: Ugly and strange in shape.↗ Example: A monstrous wave crashed over the boat.↗ · It was a monstrous lie.↗ · Alice grew to a monstrous size in the little house.↗ · The giant had monstrous hands.↗ · The ogre built a monstrous wall round his castle.↗ · The cruelty of the slave trade was monstrous.↗ · Wild and shy and monstrous creatures ranged in her plains and forests.↗

montage — Everyday, meaning 1: In films and TV, a quick series of short clips put together to show time passing or many things happening.↗ Everyday, meaning 2: A picture made by putting many photos or pieces together.↗ Everyday, meaning 3: The skill of choosing and joining pieces of film or pictures.↗ Example: The film showed a montage of the team training hard all winter.↗ · For our end-of-year assembly we made a montage of class photos.↗ · The artist made a montage from old magazine pictures.↗ · A montage of holiday clips played at the party.↗ · Every sports film seems to have a training montage.↗ · The news ended with a montage of the best moments of the Games.↗ · We learned how editors cut film to build a montage.↗

montezuma — Everyday, meaning 1: Montezuma (also Moctezuma) was a famous ruler, or emperor, of the Aztecs in Mexico long ago, when Spanish soldiers arrived.↗ Everyday, meaning 2: (slang, joking) «Montezuma's revenge» means an upset tummy and diarrhoea that travellers catch from food or water abroad.↗ Example: Montezuma was the ruler of the Aztecs when the Spanish arrived.↗ · Our history project was about Montezuma and the city of Tenochtitlan.↗ · Montezuma lived in a great palace with gardens and zoos.↗ · Uncle Pete got Montezuma's revenge after drinking tap water on holiday.↗ · Montezuma met the Spanish leader Cortes.↗ · The town of Montezuma is named after the Aztec ruler.↗

month — Everyday, meaning 1: A month is one of the twelve parts of a year, like March or July.↗ A year has 12 months.↗ Everyday, meaning 2: A month has about 30 days, or about 4 weeks; some have 31 days, and February has 28 or 29.↗ Everyday, meaning 3: A month can also mean any time of about four weeks: «in a month».↗ Example: She saves 20 dollars every month.↗ · There are 12 months in a year.↗ · The rent is 500 dollars a month.↗ · How much does he earn in 3 months?↗ · My birthday is in the month of May.↗ · The puppy is 3 months old.↗ · We go to the library once a month.↗ · It takes about a month for the Moon to go round the Earth.↗ · A month passed; a year passed.↗ · This day ye go forth in the month Abib.↗ (Torah EXO.13.4, JPS 1917)↗ · This is the burnt-offering of every new moon throughout the months of the year.↗ (Torah NUM.28.14, JPS 1917)↗ · And in the first month, on the fourteenth day of the month, is the LORD'S passover.↗ (Torah NUM.28.16, JPS 1917)↗ · Canst thou number the months that they fulfil?↗ (Writings JOB.39.2, JPS 1917)↗ · So Hananiah the prophet died the same year in the seventh month.↗ (Prophets JER.28.17, JPS 1917)↗ · And the ark of the LORD was in the country of the Philistines seven months.↗ (Prophets 1SA.6.1, JPS 1917)↗

monthly — Everyday, meaning 1: Happening, done or paid once every month.↗ Everyday, meaning 2: Measured over one month (monthly rainfall).↗ Everyday, meaning 3: (noun) A magazine that comes out once a month.↗ Example: I get my pocket money monthly.↗ · The club has a monthly meeting.↗ · Look at the monthly rainfall in the bar chart.↗ · We pay for the gym monthly.↗ · Mum reads a monthly cooking magazine.↗ · If the monthly cost is 15 dollars, the cost for a year is 15 × 12 = 180 dollars.↗ · In the window stood a bush bearing monthly roses.↗ · Thou art wearied in the multitude of thy counsels; let now the astrologers, the stargazers, the monthly prognosticators, stand up, and save thee from the things that shall come upon thee.↗ (Prophets ISA.47.13, JPS 1917)↗

monument — Everyday, meaning 1: A statue, building or stone made to remember a famous person or event.↗ Everyday, meaning 2: An old building or place that is important in history: an ancient monument.↗ Everyday, meaning 3: A great example of something: a monument to hard work.↗ Example: We visited a monument to the soldiers of the town.↗ · The Statue of Liberty is a famous monument.↗ · Stonehenge is an ancient monument.↗ · The city built a monument to its firefighters.↗ · Please do not climb on the monument.↗ · The bridge stands as a monument to the builders' skill.↗ · Tourists queued to see the monument.↗ · Our class laid flowers at the monument.↗ · A monument was also erected over his grave.↗ · Even unto them will I give in My house and within My walls a monument and a memorial better than sons and daughters; I will give them an everlasting memorial, that shall not be cut off.↗ (Prophets ISA.56.5, JPS 1917)↗

moo — Everyday, meaning 1: A moo is the long, low sound a cow makes.↗ Everyday, meaning 2: To moo is to make this sound.↗ Everyday, meaning 3: (UK, informal, rude) «Silly moo» or «old moo» is a cheeky or rude name for a woman, meaning a silly person.↗ Example: The cow said «Moo!»↗ · The cows mooed loudly at milking time.↗ · With a moo-moo here and a moo-moo there!↗ · We heard a sad moo from the barn.↗ · My little sister moos every time she sees a cow.↗ · «You silly moo, you've locked us out!» laughed Gran.↗ · When they were on the way there they heard a cow mooing.↗

mood — Everyday, meaning 1: How someone feels at a particular time, such as happy, grumpy or calm.↗ Everyday, meaning 2: The feeling of a place, story or piece of music.↗ e.g. "The music had a spooky mood."↗ Everyday, meaning 3: "In the mood for" means wanting to do something.↗ Example: Dad is in a good mood today.↗ · I'm in a bad mood because I'm tired.↗ · Are you in the mood for a game?↗ · The dark forest gave the story a scary mood.↗ · Exercise can lift your mood.↗ · The candles set a calm mood.↗ · So on he went in a melancholy mood till he came to an inn, and the landlord at his door smoking.↗

moodily — Everyday, meaning 1: Moodily means in a sulky, gloomy way, as someone does when they are in a bad mood.↗ Example: He sat moodily by the fire.↗ · "Fine," she said moodily.↗ · The boy kicked the stone moodily down the road.↗

moody — Everyday, meaning 1: Often changing mood suddenly, especially becoming sad, cross or grumpy for no clear reason.↗ Everyday, meaning 2: Grumpy or sulky right now (he's in a moody mood).↗ Everyday, meaning 3: Dark and gloomy in a way that creates a feeling (a moody painting, moody lighting).↗ Example: My sister is moody in the mornings.↗ · Our cat gets moody if you wake him up.↗ · Don't be so moody — it's only a game.↗ · The film had dark, moody music.↗ · The sky looked moody before the storm.↗ · He was moody all day after losing the match.↗

moon — Everyday, meaning 1: The big round object that goes around the Earth and shines at night by reflecting sunlight (often the Moon).↗ Everyday, meaning 2: A natural object that goes around another planet.↗ e.g. "Jupiter has many moons."↗ Everyday, meaning 3: As a verb, to move around lazily or dreamily.↗ Example: The moon is full tonight.↗ · The Moon goes around the Earth.↗ · The moon shines because it reflects sunlight.↗ · Astronauts walked on the Moon.↗ · Jupiter has dozens of moons.↗ · The Moon pulls the sea and makes tides.↗ · She was over the moon about her present.↗ · We go there once in a blue moon.↗ · Hear what the Moon told me.↗ · This is the burnt-offering of every new moon throughout the months of the year.↗ (Torah NUM.28.14, JPS 1917)↗ · And for the precious things of the fruits of the sun, and for the precious things of the yield of the moons, (Torah DEU.33.14, JPS 1917)↗ · And in your new moons ye shall present a burnt-offering unto the LORD: two young bullocks, and one ram, seven he-lambs of the first year without blemish; (Torah NUM.28.11, JPS 1917)↗ · Who appointedst the moon for seasons; the sun knoweth his going down.↗ (Writings PSA.104.19, JPS 1917)↗ · The sun shall not smite thee by day, nor the moon by night.↗ (Writings PSA.121.6, JPS 1917)↗ · Praise ye Him, sun and moon; praise Him, all ye stars of light.↗ (Writings PSA.148.3, JPS 1917)↗