📖 M — The English dictionary · page 43

moonbeam — Everyday, meaning 1: A moonbeam is a ray of light from the moon.↗ Example: A moonbeam came through the window.↗ · The fairies danced in the moonbeams.↗ · Something glistened in the moonbeam like drops of dew.↗

moonlight — Everyday, meaning 1: Moonlight is the light that comes from the Moon at night.↗ Everyday, meaning 2: To moonlight is to do a second job secretly or in your spare time.↗ Example: The lake shone in the moonlight.↗ · We walked home by moonlight.↗ · Moonlight is sunlight bouncing off the Moon.↗ · The owl hunted in the moonlight.↗ · The garden looked silver in the moonlight.↗ · He moonlights as a taxi driver at weekends.↗ · I ran about the streets in the moonlight.↗

moonlit — Everyday, meaning 1: Moonlit means lit by the light of the Moon.↗ Example: We walked along the moonlit beach.↗ · The moonlit garden looked silver.↗ · An owl flew across the moonlit sky.↗ · The castle stood dark on a moonlit hill.↗ · A moonlit night is good for spotting badgers.↗ · The lake shone in the moonlit darkness.↗

moonshine — Everyday, meaning 1: Moonshine is the pale light of the moon.↗ Everyday, meaning 2: (informal) Moonshine means nonsense or untrue talk.↗ Example: They danced hand in hand by the lake in the moonshine.↗ · Stand in the moonshine and wait for the elves.↗ · "Don't talk moonshine," said Mum when I told her about the dragon.↗

moonwalk — Everyday, meaning 1: A walk on the surface of the Moon by an astronaut.↗ Everyday, meaning 2: A dance move where you seem to walk forwards but actually slide backwards, made famous by the singer Michael Jackson.↗ Everyday, meaning 3: To do this dance move, or to walk on the Moon.↗ Example: Neil Armstrong's moonwalk was watched by millions of people on television.↗ · The astronauts collected rocks during their moonwalk.↗ · Leo can moonwalk across the kitchen floor in his socks.↗ · At the school disco everyone tried to moonwalk.↗ · On a moonwalk, astronauts bounce because the Moon's gravity is weak.↗ · Michael Jackson made the moonwalk famous in 1983.↗ · We read a book about the first moonwalk.↗

moor — Everyday, meaning 1: (noun, mostly UK) A wide, open area of high land with rough grass, heather and few trees.↗ Everyday, meaning 2: (verb) To tie up a boat or ship so it stays in one place, using ropes or an anchor.↗ Everyday, meaning 3: Moor (capital M): one of the Muslim people from North Africa who ruled much of Spain in the Middle Ages.↗ Example: We went walking across the moor.↗ · Purple heather covers the moors in summer.↗ · The fog came down over the moor and we got lost.↗ · The sailors moored the boat at the harbour.↗ · The yacht was moored to a buoy.↗ · The Moors built beautiful palaces in Spain.↗ · In the story, a strange howl came from the moor.↗ · "In our nest on the moor.↗

moorhen — Everyday, meaning 1: A moorhen is a black water bird with a red and yellow beak and a white stripe on its side, often seen on ponds, rivers and canals.↗ Example: A moorhen swam across the duck pond.↗ · The moorhen has a bright red beak.↗ · Moorhen chicks are fluffy and black.↗ · Moorhens flick their tails when nervous.↗ · We counted three moorhens on the canal.↗ · A moorhen built its nest in the reeds.↗

mooring — Everyday, meaning 1: A place where a boat is tied up, often with a rope to a post or buoy.↗ Everyday, meaning 2: Moorings are the ropes, chains and anchors that hold a boat in place.↗ Everyday, meaning 3: «Mooring» is also the -ing form of «to moor», tying a boat up.↗ Everyday, meaning 4: (figurative) Losing your moorings means losing the things that keep you steady.↗ Example: The Rat tied the boat to its mooring.↗ · The boats bobbed at their moorings in the harbour.↗ · They were mooring the boat for the night.↗ · The storm tore the yacht from its moorings.↗ · We found a mooring near the lock.↗ · Without his friends, he felt he had lost his moorings.↗

moorish — Everyday, meaning 1: To do with the Moors, the Muslim people from North Africa who ruled much of Spain and Portugal for hundreds of years in the Middle Ages.↗ Everyday, meaning 2: In the style of Moorish art and buildings, with arches, tiles, patterns and courtyards.↗ Everyday, meaning 3: (UK, informal, usually spelled "moreish") So tasty that you want more.↗ Example: The Alhambra in Granada is a beautiful Moorish palace.↗ · Moorish buildings often have horseshoe-shaped arches.↗ · The walls were covered in Moorish tiles with star patterns.↗ · Moorish scholars brought new ideas in maths and science to Europe.↗ · We learned about Moorish Spain in our history topic.↗ · These crisps are really moreish, I can't stop eating them!↗ (UK)↗ · The courtyard had a Moorish fountain in the middle.↗

moorland — Everyday, meaning 1: Moorland is wide open high land covered with heather and rough grass, often wet and bare.↗ Example: Sheep graze on the moorland.↗ · The path crossed the moorland in thick mist.↗ · Snow covered the moorland all winter.↗

moose — Everyday, meaning 1: A moose is a very large deer with long legs, a big nose, a flap of skin under its chin, and wide flat antlers on the male.↗ Example: A moose stood in the lake eating plants.↗ · The moose is the biggest kind of deer.↗ · We saw three moose in Canada.↗ · Only male moose grow antlers.↗ · Watch out for moose on the road at night.↗ · A baby moose is called a calf.↗

moot — Everyday, meaning 1: A moot point is a question that people still argue about and have not settled.↗ Everyday, meaning 2: (formal) To moot an idea is to raise it for discussion.↗ Example: Whether the wolf was really a dog is a moot point.↗ · The teacher mooted a trip to the zoo.↗ · Nobody has settled the moot question of who first wrote the tale.↗

mop — Everyday, meaning 1: A mop is a cleaning tool with a long handle and thick strings or a sponge at the end, used to wash floors.↗ Everyday, meaning 2: To mop means to clean or wipe with a mop or cloth.↗ Everyday, meaning 3: A mop of hair is a thick, messy lot of hair.↗ Everyday, meaning 4: To mop up means to clean up liquid, or to finish dealing with something.↗ Example: Please mop up the spilled juice.↗ · Dad mopped the kitchen floor.↗ · Careful — the floor has just been mopped!↗ · She has a mop of curly red hair.↗ · The caretaker brought a mop and bucket.↗ · He mopped his face with a towel.↗ · We mopped up the water after the bath overflowed.↗ · Put out a wet floor sign after you mop.↗ · The man took off his cap and mopped his brow.↗

mope — Everyday, meaning 1: To mope is to be low, sad and dull, sitting about and not wanting to join in.↗ Example: Don't mope; go and play with the others.↗ · He moped in his room all day.↗ · Brer Rabbit moped about the house, looking sad.↗

mopping — Everyday, meaning 1: Mopping is cleaning a floor with a mop and water.↗ Everyday, meaning 2: Mopping can mean wiping something such as sweat or tears with a cloth.↗ Everyday, meaning 3: "Mopping up" means cleaning up spilled liquid or finishing the last parts of a job.↗ Example: Mum is mopping the kitchen floor.↗ · Careful, I've just finished mopping.↗ · The caretaker was mopping up the spilled paint.↗ · He kept mopping his brow in the heat.↗ · We spent the afternoon mopping up after the flood.↗ · Mopping is easier with warm water.↗ · "No," answered Uncle Remus, mopping his benign features with a very large and very red bandana.↗

moral — Everyday, meaning 1: (noun) The lesson about right and wrong that a story teaches (the moral of the story).↗ Everyday, meaning 2: (adjective) To do with what is right and wrong (a moral choice).↗ Everyday, meaning 3: (adjective) Good, honest and fair (a very moral person).↗ Everyday, meaning 4: Morals (plural noun): a person's beliefs about right and wrong.↗ Everyday, meaning 5: Moral support: help by being there and encouraging, not by doing.↗ Example: The moral of the story is: don't tell lies.↗ · Aesop's fables each end with a moral.↗ · Telling the truth was the moral thing to do.↗ · She came to the dentist with me for moral support.↗ · He is a man of strong morals.↗ · Should you keep money you find?↗ That's a moral question.↗ · “Do you mean to say that the story has a moral?”↗

moralise — Everyday, meaning 1: To moralise is to talk or write about right and wrong, often in a preachy way, drawing a lesson from a story.↗ Example: The teacher moralised about telling the truth.↗ · The old tale moralises: be kind to all.↗ · Don't moralise at me; I know what is right.↗

morality — Everyday, meaning 1: Morality is knowing what is right and wrong, and a set of rules about how people should behave.↗ Example: Stories can teach morality to young children.↗ · The fairy tale has a clear morality: be honest.↗ · Homer's gods have little morality.↗

morally — Everyday, meaning 1: In a way that is about right and wrong behaviour: morally right, morally wrong.↗ Everyday, meaning 2: In a way that is good and honest: to act morally.↗ Everyday, meaning 3: Morally can also mean in the mind or feelings rather than in the body, as when grief crushes a person.↗ Example: Stealing is morally wrong.↗ · Is it morally right to keep money you find?↗ · She felt morally bound to tell the truth.↗ · The knight always tried to act morally.↗ · Something can be allowed by law but still be morally wrong.↗ · We discussed a morally difficult choice.↗ · [238] Properly speaking "grief," that which morally krushit or crushes a man.↗

morass — Everyday, meaning 1: A morass is soft, wet ground that sinks under your feet, a bog.↗ Everyday, meaning 2: A morass can also mean a confused mess one is stuck in.↗ Example: The horse sank into the morass.↗ · They waded through a morass of mud.↗ · He was stuck in a morass of debts and worry.↗

moray — Everyday, meaning 1: A moray, or moray eel, is a long, snake-like fish with sharp teeth that lives in holes in coral reefs and rocks in warm seas.↗ Everyday, meaning 2: (a name) Moray is also an area in the north-east of Scotland, and the Moray Firth is a sea inlet there famous for dolphins.↗ Example: A moray eel peeked out of its hole in the reef.↗ · Moray eels have two sets of jaws.↗ · Divers keep their hands away from moray eels.↗ · The moray looked fierce but stayed in its hole.↗ · We saw dolphins in the Moray Firth.↗ · Moray is in the north of Scotland.↗ · Morays hunt fish and octopus at night.↗ · Cleaner shrimps clean the moray eel's teeth.↗

more — Everyday, meaning 1: More means a bigger number or amount: more apples, more water.↗ Everyday, meaning 2: More means extra, in addition: three more.↗ Everyday, meaning 3: «More than» compares: 8 is more than 5 (8 > 5).↗ Everyday, meaning 4: More makes longer adjectives compare: more beautiful.↗ Everyday, meaning 5: Most means the biggest number or amount of all.↗ Everyday, meaning 6: «More or less» means about; «once more» means one more time; «no more» means none left or not any longer.↗ Everyday, meaning 7: (casual) «Any more?», «more pls», «moar» (joking spelling online) ask for extra; «what's more» adds a point.↗ Everyday, meaning 8: (formal) The exam voice says «additional», «further», «a further 4», «in excess of», «exceeding», «surplus», «by how many does … exceed …».↗ Example: Zoe gets 8 more cards.↗ · How many more books does Tom have than Ben?↗ · Ann has 3 apples.↗ She picks 4 more.↗ · Can I have some more pasta?↗ · 10 is more than 7.↗ · Read it once more, please.↗ · This puzzle is more difficult than the last one.↗ · Who has the most stickers?↗ · There is no more milk.↗ · can i have 2 more?? pleeease↗ · You've got 3 more than me, that's not fair!↗ · By how many does the quantity held by Tom exceed that held by Ben, given that Tom holds 12 and Ben holds 7?↗ · He mustn't have that any more!"↗ · And Balak sent yet again princes, more, and more honourable than they.↗ (Torah NUM.22.15, JPS 1917)↗ · Circumcise therefore the foreskin of your heart, and be no more stiffnecked.↗ (Torah DEU.10.16, JPS 1917)↗ · 'Ye shall no more give the people straw to make brick, as heretofore.↗ (Torah EXO.5.7, JPS 1917)↗ · It shall be no more, saith the Lord GOD.↗ (Prophets EZK.21.18, JPS 1917)↗ · Thou lovest evil more than good; falsehood rather than speaking righteousness.↗ (Writings PSA.52.5, JPS 1917)↗ · The LORD increase you more and more, you and your children.↗ (Writings PSA.115.14, JPS 1917)↗

moreover — Everyday, meaning 1: Moreover means also, and besides.↗ It adds one more point to what has just been said.↗ Example: Moreover, the Giantess was very kind to me.↗ · It was cold; moreover, the wind was strong.↗ · The old man was poor and, moreover, he was lonely.↗ · Moreover the LORD spoke unto Moses, saying: (Torah EXO.30.22, JPS 1917)↗ · I know not the LORD, and moreover I will not let Israel go.'↗ (Torah EXO.5.2, JPS 1917)↗ · She said moreover unto him: 'We have both straw and provender enough, and room to lodge in.'↗ (Torah GEN.24.25, JPS 1917)↗ · Moreover the LORD answered Job, and said: (Writings JOB.40.1, JPS 1917)↗ · Moreover the word of the LORD came unto me, saying: (Prophets EZK.7.1, JPS 1917)↗ · Moreover the word of the LORD came to me, saying: (Prophets EZK.12.17, JPS 1917)↗