📖 M — The English dictionary · page 5

maize — Everyday, meaning 1: Maize is a tall cereal plant that grows yellow seeds (kernels) on large cobs.↗ Everyday, meaning 2: Maize is also the seeds of this plant, eaten as food or given to animals.↗ Example: The farmer grows maize in the big field.↗ · We got lost in the maize maze.↗ · Popcorn is made from a kind of maize.↗ · Cows are often fed on maize.↗ · Maize plants can grow taller than a man.↗ · Tortillas are made from maize flour.↗ · The maize was ready to pick at the end of summer.↗ · The path lay through a field of maize, where several men were working.↗

majestic — Everyday, meaning 1: Very grand, beautiful and impressive, like a king or queen.↗ Example: The eagle spread its majestic wings.↗ · We gazed up at the majestic mountains.↗ · The majestic stag stood still in the forest.↗ · The ship looked majestic with all its sails up.↗ · The lion is often called a majestic animal.↗ · Badger walked into the room in a majestic way.↗ · Soon Jason appeared in the field of Ares, looking as noble and majestic as the god of war himself.↗ · Mine anger is kindled against the shepherds, and I will punish the he-goats; for the LORD of hosts hath remembered His flock the house of Judah, and maketh them as His majestic horse in the battle.↗ (Prophets ZEC.10.3, JPS 1917)↗

majestically — Everyday, meaning 1: Majestically means in a grand, dignified and impressive way, as a king or a great bird might move.↗ Example: The swan glided majestically across the lake.↗ · The queen walked majestically into the hall.↗

majesty — Everyday, meaning 1: Majesty is great beauty, size and power that makes people feel wonder.↗ e.g. "the majesty of the mountains".↗ Everyday, meaning 2: His Majesty, Her Majesty and Your Majesty are polite ways to talk about or to a king or queen.↗ Example: "Thank you, Your Majesty," said the knight, bowing.↗ · His Majesty the King opened the new bridge.↗ · We stood in awe at the majesty of the mountains.↗ · The eagle soared in all its majesty.↗ · Her Majesty waved from the balcony.↗ · The castle rose up with great majesty.↗ · "No, no, your Majesty," they replied.↗ · Shall not His majesty terrify you, and His dread fall upon you?↗ (Writings JOB.13.11, JPS 1917)↗ · Out of the north cometh golden splendour, about God is terrible majesty.↗ (Writings JOB.37.22, JPS 1917)↗ · His work is glory and majesty; and His righteousness endureth for ever.↗ (Writings PSA.111.3, JPS 1917)↗

major — Everyday, meaning 1: Very important, big or serious (a major problem, a major road).↗ Everyday, meaning 2: An army officer of middle rank.↗ Everyday, meaning 3: (music) A major key or scale sounds bright and happy (C major).↗ Everyday, meaning 4: (US, Canada) The main subject a student studies at university, or to study it as the main subject (she majored in maths).↗ Everyday, meaning 5: (informal) Very great (a major fan).↗ Example: There was a major accident on the motorway.↗ · Reading is a major part of our school day.↗ · This song is in C major.↗ · Major Smith led the soldiers.↗ · My cousin is majoring in biology at college (US).↗ · Stay away from major roads when you ride your bike.↗ · I'm a major fan of that band (informal).↗

majority — Everyday, meaning 1: The bigger part of a group; more than half.↗ Everyday, meaning 2: The number of votes by which a winner beats others (won by a majority of ten).↗ Everyday, meaning 3: (formal, law) The age when you are legally an adult.↗ Example: The majority of pupils walk to school.↗ · The majority voted for a trip to the zoo.↗ · She won by a majority of five votes.↗ · In our class, girls are in the majority.↗ · The vast majority of people were kind.↗ · A majority of 30 people means at least 16 people.↗ · Most probably some such thoughts as these discouraged the majority from going out into the world to collect the required information.↗

make — Everyday, meaning 1: To make is to build, cook or create something: make a cake.↗ Everyday, meaning 2: To make is to cause something to happen or be.↗ e.g. The joke made me laugh.↗ Everyday, meaning 3: To make someone do something is to force them.↗ Everyday, meaning 4: In maths, to make is to come to a total: 3 and 4 make 7.↗ Everyday, meaning 5: To make a bed, a mistake, a friend, a choice is to do it.↗ Everyday, meaning 6: To make can mean to earn or to reach: make money, make it on time.↗ Everyday, meaning 7: (casual) «Make do» means manage with what you have; «make up» means invent or become friends again; «made up» (UK north, Ireland) means very pleased; «make out» means understand, or (teen slang) kiss.↗ Everyday, meaning 8: (rough) «Make me!» is a cheeky refusal; «you make me sick» is an angry put-down.↗ Everyday, meaning 9: (formal) The exam voice says «construct», «produce», «manufacture», «compose», «constitute», «render», «yield» (give as a result).↗ Example: Giving can make you have more or less …↗ · Mum makes 3 cakes.↗ · Kim makes 4 rows of 5 beads.↗ · 6 and 4 make 10.↗ · Let's make a paper plane.↗ · Please make your bed.↗ · The loud bang made the baby cry.↗ · It's fine to make mistakes when you learn.↗ · I made a new friend today.↗ · no eggs left so we'll make do with 2↗ · «Sit down.»↗ «Make me!»↗ · Kim constructs 4 rows, each comprising 5 beads; determine the aggregate number of beads thus produced.↗ · Oh, that made him so angry!↗ · And thou shalt make settings of gold; (Torah EXO.28.13, JPS 1917)↗ · Thou shalt make thee no molten gods.↗ (Torah EXO.34.17, JPS 1917)↗ · one he-goat, to make atonement for you.↗ (Torah NUM.28.30, JPS 1917)↗ · Then Jesse made Shammah to pass by.↗ (Prophets 1SA.16.9, JPS 1917)↗ · Wilt thou even make void My judgment?↗ (Writings JOB.40.8, JPS 1917)↗ · A Psalm of David, to make memorial.↗ (Writings PSA.38.1, JPS 1917)↗

makeover — Everyday, meaning 1: A big change to how a person looks, with new clothes, hair or make-up.↗ Everyday, meaning 2: A big change to make a room, building or place look better.↗ Everyday, meaning 3: (informal) Any change that makes something new and better: «The team needs a makeover».↗ Example: We gave my bedroom a makeover with new paint.↗ · The old library got a makeover and now looks amazing.↗ · On the show, a family got a garden makeover.↗ · My sister did a makeover on Grandma's hair.↗ · The website needs a makeover.↗ · After the makeover, the classroom was bright and colourful.↗

maker — Everyday, meaning 1: A maker is a person, company or machine that makes something, like a toy maker or a coffee maker.↗ Everyday, meaning 2: A maker is also a person who likes building and inventing things.↗ Example: A toy maker makes 8 toys an hour.↗ · The ice maker makes 24 cubes each time.↗ · Each cake maker bakes 5 cakes a day.↗ · A coffee maker costs $40.↗ · Dad turned on the coffee maker.↗ · The violin maker carved the wood by hand.↗ · A troublemaker is someone who causes trouble.↗ · At the makers' fair children showed robots they built.↗ · Vans was a giant, and a bottle-maker.↗ · And he blessed him, and said: 'Blessed be Abram of God Most High, Maker of heaven and earth; (Torah GEN.14.19, JPS 1917)↗ · And Abram said to the king of Sodom: 'I have lifted up my hand unto the LORD, God Most High, Maker of heaven and earth, (Torah GEN.14.22, JPS 1917)↗ · Make a thing stand in assembly before its Creators; return the Maker to His Site.↗ [1:5] Ten SEFIROT BELIMAH—Their measure is ten; they have no edge.↗ (Sefer Yetzirah, Sefaria community translation)↗ · Shall a man be pure before his Maker?↗ (Writings JOB.4.17, JPS 1917)↗ · But none saith: 'Where is God my Maker, who giveth songs in the night; (Writings JOB.35.10, JPS 1917)↗ · I will fetch my knowledge from afar, and will ascribe righteousness to my Maker.↗ (Writings JOB.36.3, JPS 1917)↗

makest — Early Modern English, meaning 1: «makest» means «you make», a form of «make»: To make is to build, cook or create something: make a cake.↗ Example: And every day shalt thou offer the bullock of sin-offering, beside the other offerings of atonement; and thou shalt do the purification upon the altar when thou makest atonement for it; and thou shalt anoint it, to sanctify it.↗ (Torah EXO.29.36, JPS 1917)

maketh — Early Modern English, meaning 1: «maketh» means «makes», a form of «make»: To make is to build, cook or create something: make a cake.↗ Example: Cursed be he that maketh the blind to go astray in the way.↗ (Torah DEU.27.18, JPS 1917) · As is the sin-offering, so is the guilt-offering; there is one law for them; the priest that maketh atonement therewith, he shall have it.↗ (Torah LEV.7.7, JPS 1917) · 'Speak unto the children of Israel, that they take for Me an offering; of every man whose heart maketh him willing ye shall take My offering.↗ (Torah EXO.25.2, JPS 1917)

makeup — Everyday, meaning 1: Makeup is coloured creams and powders, like lipstick, mascara and foundation, put on the face to change how it looks.↗ Everyday, meaning 2: The makeup of something is what it is made of, or the different parts or people in it: «the makeup of the class».↗ Everyday, meaning 3: A person's makeup is their character.↗ Everyday, meaning 4: (US, school) A makeup test or class is one you take later because you missed the first one.↗ Example: Mum puts on makeup before work.↗ · The actors wore stage makeup.↗ · The clown's makeup made him look happy.↗ · The makeup of the team is five girls and six boys.↗ · What is the makeup of the Earth's atmosphere?↗ · Being kind is part of his makeup.↗ · (US) I missed the test, so I have a makeup on Friday.↗

making — Everyday, meaning 1: Making is the act of making or forming something, as in merry-makings, which are parties or festivities.↗ Everyday, meaning 2: Makings means the things needed to make something, such as the ingredients for a cake.↗ Example: You will not get any makings of a cake from me.↗ · We went out to the merry-makings in the village.↗ · I have the makings of a good tea here.↗ · Then these men came tumultuously, and found Daniel making petition and supplication before his God.↗ (Writings DAN.6.12, JPS 1917)↗ · And Sarah saw the son of Hagar the Egyptian, whom she had borne unto Abraham, making sport.↗ (Torah GEN.21.9, JPS 1917)↗ · And they that fall away are gone deep in making slaughter; and I am rejected of them all.↗ (Prophets HOS.5.2, JPS 1917)↗ · Judah and Israel were many, as the sand which is by the sea in multitude, eating and drinking and making merry.↗ (Prophets 1KI.4.20, JPS 1917)↗

mako — Everyday, meaning 1: A mako is a large, very fast shark that lives in warm and mild seas.↗ Example: The mako is the fastest shark in the sea.↗ · A mako shark can jump high out of the water.↗ · Makos have long, pointed teeth.↗ · The mako is shiny dark blue on top.↗ · Mako sharks are now endangered because of overfishing.↗ · The mako swims across whole oceans.↗

malacca — Everyday, meaning 1: (a name, place) Malacca, also spelled Melaka, is a historic city and state in Malaysia on the west coast of the Malay Peninsula.↗ Everyday, meaning 2: (place) The Strait of Malacca is a narrow sea passage between Malaysia and the Indonesian island of Sumatra, one of the busiest shipping routes in the world.↗ Everyday, meaning 3: (rare) A malacca is a walking stick made from a kind of rattan palm.↗ Example: Malacca was a busy port where traders swapped spices and cloth.↗ · Ships carrying oil sail through the Strait of Malacca.↗ · The city is now usually spelled Melaka.↗ · Find the Strait of Malacca on the map between Malaysia and Sumatra.↗ · The old man walked with a malacca cane.↗ · Portuguese and Dutch traders fought over Malacca.↗

malady — Everyday, meaning 1: A malady is an illness, especially a long or serious one.↗ Old or formal use.↗ Example: The doctors could not cure the Prince's malady.↗ · As the day went on, the malady grew worse.↗

malapropism — Everyday, meaning 1: The funny mistake of using a word that sounds like the right word but means something quite different: «He's the pineapple of politeness» instead of «pinnacle».↗ Example: Saying «for all intensive purposes» instead of «for all intents and purposes» is a malapropism.↗ · Grandad's malapropisms make us laugh.↗ · «He's the pineapple of politeness» is a famous malapropism.↗ · The comedian used lots of malapropisms.↗ · Our teacher asked us to spot the malapropism in the sentence.↗ · «Dance a flamingo» instead of «flamenco» is a malapropism.↗

malaria — Everyday, meaning 1: Malaria is a serious illness that causes high fever, shivering and sweating, and can kill if it is not treated.↗ Everyday, meaning 2: It is caused by a tiny parasite that gets into the blood when an infected mosquito bites a person.↗ Example: Malaria is spread by mosquito bites.↗ · Many children in Africa sleep under nets to stop malaria.↗ · Before the trip, Dad took anti-malaria tablets.↗ · Malaria gives you a very high fever.↗ · Mosquitoes lay their eggs in still water, so people drain puddles to fight malaria.↗ · Scientists have made vaccines against malaria.↗ · You cannot catch malaria by touching someone who has it.↗

malay — Everyday, meaning 1: The Malays are a people living mostly in Malaysia, Indonesia, Brunei, Singapore and southern Thailand.↗ Everyday, meaning 2: Malay is the language of the Malay people, an official language of Malaysia, Brunei and Singapore; Indonesian is a form of it.↗ Everyday, meaning 3: (adjective) Malay describes things to do with this people, language or culture.↗ Example: Malay is spoken in Malaysia and Singapore.↗ · The word «orangutan» comes from Malay.↗ · We ate Malay satay with peanut sauce.↗ · The Malay Peninsula stretches down to Singapore.↗ · My friend's family is Malay and celebrates Hari Raya.↗ · Malay uses the same alphabet as English.↗