📖 M — The English dictionary · page 54

mutualism — Everyday, meaning 1: Mutualism is a relationship between two different kinds of living things in which both of them benefit.↗ Everyday, meaning 2: Examples are bees and flowers, or clownfish and sea anemones.↗ Example: Bees and flowers show mutualism: bees get nectar and flowers get pollinated.↗ · Clownfish and sea anemones live in mutualism.↗ · Oxpecker birds eat ticks off zebras; that is mutualism.↗ · Mutualism means both sides win.↗ · We drew a poster of mutualism in the rainforest.↗ · Fungi and tree roots help each other in mutualism.↗ · The bacteria in your gut and you share a kind of mutualism.↗ · Is a flea on a dog mutualism?↗ No, the dog is harmed.↗

mutually — Everyday, meaning 1: Mutually means felt or done by each of two or more people towards the other, or shared by both.↗ Everyday, meaning 2: In maths, "mutually exclusive" events cannot both happen at the same time.↗ Example: We mutually agreed to share the last biscuit.↗ · The two schools have a mutually helpful friendship.↗ · Bees and flowers have a mutually beneficial relationship.↗ · (maths) Rolling a 2 and rolling a 5 on one throw are mutually exclusive.↗ · They are mutually respectful even though they disagree.↗ · (formal) The meeting was cancelled by mutual agreement — the two sides mutually decided to stop.↗ · Being tired and being happy are not mutually exclusive.↗

muzzle — Everyday, meaning 1: A muzzle is the nose and mouth of an animal such as a dog or horse.↗ Everyday, meaning 2: A muzzle is a cover of straps or wire put over a dog's nose and mouth to stop it biting.↗ Everyday, meaning 3: The muzzle of a gun is the open end the bullet comes out of.↗ Everyday, meaning 4: To muzzle someone means to stop them speaking freely.↗ Example: The dog's muzzle was grey with age.↗ · Our greyhound wears a muzzle at the park.↗ · Never point the muzzle of a gun at anyone.↗ · The horse nuzzled me with its soft muzzle.↗ · The rulers tried to muzzle the newspapers.↗ · The vet put a muzzle on the scared dog.↗ · A solemn-nosed, stern-eyed cow would amble and stamp in his wood to find a flyless shadow; or a strayed sheep would poke its gentle muzzle through leaves.↗ · Thou shalt not muzzle the ox when he treadeth out the corn.↗ (Torah DEU.25.4, JPS 1917)↗

mycelium — Everyday, meaning 1: Mycelium is the mass of thin white threads of a fungus that grows underground or inside rotting wood; mushrooms grow out of it.↗ Example: Mushrooms grow from mycelium under the ground.↗ · The mycelium spread through the rotting log.↗ · Mycelium looks like white cotton threads.↗ · Fungi break down dead leaves with their mycelium.↗ · Some trees swap food through mycelium in the soil.↗ · A single mycelium can be huge.↗

myoglobin — Everyday, meaning 1: Myoglobin is a protein in muscles that holds oxygen until the muscle needs it.↗ Example: Myoglobin stores oxygen in muscles.↗ · Whale muscles have a lot of myoglobin.↗ · Red meat is red because of myoglobin.↗ · Myoglobin is like haemoglobin, but it stays in the muscle.↗ · Diving seals depend on myoglobin.↗ · Chicken breast has little myoglobin, so it is pale.↗

myopia — Everyday, meaning 1: Short-sightedness: being able to see things close to you clearly but things far away look blurry.↗ Everyday, meaning 2: (formal) Not thinking about the future or about what will happen later; only thinking about now.↗ Example: The optician said I have myopia, so I need glasses for the board.↗ · Myopia means you can read a book but not a sign across the road.↗ · More children have myopia today, and doctors say playing outside may help.↗ · Glasses for myopia have lenses that are thinner in the middle.↗ · My brother's myopia got worse, so he got contact lenses.↗ · The newspaper blamed the council's myopia for not planning ahead.↗

myriad — Everyday, meaning 1: A myriad is a very great number, far more than anyone could count: a myriad of stars.↗ Everyday, meaning 2: (old use) «Myriad» can also mean countless, very many: myriad lights.↗ Example: There were myriads of gnats dancing over the lake.↗ · The palace glowed with myriad lights.↗ · A myriad of stars filled the sky.↗ · And he said: The LORD came from Sinai, and rose from Seir unto them; He shined forth from mount Paran, and He came from the myriads holy, at His right hand was a fiery law unto them.↗ (Torah DEU.33.2, JPS 1917)↗ · The chariots of God are myriads, even thousands upon thousands; the Lord is among them, as in Sinai, in holiness.↗ (Writings PSA.68.18, JPS 1917)↗

myrrh — Everyday, meaning 1: A sweet-smelling, bitter gum (resin) from a small thorny tree in Arabia and Africa, used in perfumes, medicines and incense.↗ Everyday, meaning 2: (Bible) One of the three gifts the wise men gave the baby Jesus, with gold and frankincense; Christians see it as a sign of his death, because myrrh was used to prepare bodies for burial.↗ Example: The third wise man brought myrrh.↗ · Myrrh is a resin from a thorny tree.↗ · Gold, frankincense and myrrh were gifts for a king.↗ · Myrrh was used to prepare bodies for burial.↗ · The Egyptians used myrrh for their mummies.↗ · In the carol, myrrh's «bitter perfume» speaks of sorrow.↗ · 'Take thou also unto thee the chief spices, of flowing myrrh five hundred shekels, and of sweet cinnamon half so much, even two hundred and fifty, and of sweet calamus two hundred and fifty, (Torah EXO.30.23, JPS 1917)↗ · I have perfumed my bed with myrrh, aloes, and cinnamon.↗ (Writings PRO.7.17, JPS 1917)↗ · My beloved is unto me as a bag of myrrh, that lieth betwixt my breasts.↗ (Writings SNG.1.13, JPS 1917)↗ · Myrrh, and aloes, and cassia are all thy garments; out of ivory palaces stringed instruments have made thee glad.↗ (Writings PSA.45.9, JPS 1917)↗

myrtle — Everyday, meaning 1: A myrtle is an evergreen shrub with shiny leaves and small white or pink flowers, often grown in gardens.↗ Everyday, meaning 2: (old use) In old stories the myrtle was a plant sacred to love.↗ Example: Her favourite plants were the myrtle and the rose.↗ · The myrtle branch was carried as a sign of peace.↗ · And the man that stood among the myrtle-trees answered and said: 'These are they whom the LORD hath sent to walk to and fro through the earth.'↗ (Prophets ZEC.1.10, JPS 1917)↗ · I will plant in the wilderness the cedar, the acacia-tree, and the myrtle, and the oil-tree; I will set in the desert the cypress, the plane-tree, and the larch together; (Prophets ISA.41.19, JPS 1917)↗ · I saw in the night, and behold a man riding upon a red horse, and he stood among the myrtle-trees that were in the bottom; and behind him there were horses, red, sorrel, and white.↗ (Prophets ZEC.1.8, JPS 1917)↗

mysterious — Everyday, meaning 1: Mysterious means strange and hard to explain or understand.↗ Everyday, meaning 2: A mysterious person keeps secrets or does not tell much about themselves.↗ Example: A mysterious parcel arrived with no name on it.↗ · We heard mysterious footsteps in the attic.↗ · The mysterious stranger wore a long black cloak.↗ · The cookies disappeared mysteriously.↗ · Scientists study mysterious objects in space.↗ · She smiled in a mysterious way and said nothing.↗ · The old house looked dark and mysterious.↗ · The whole affair is indeed mysterious.↗ · other Biblical form of Holy mysterious animal, as given in I. (Sefer Yetzirah, Westcott 1893)↗ · Thirty-two mysterious ways has the Lord, Lord of hosts, ordained through Scribe, Script, and Scroll.↗ (Mordell, The Origin of Letters and Numerals according to Sefer Yetzirah (1914))↗ · "Thirty-two mysterious ways has the Lord, the Lord of hosts, ordained through Scribe, Script and Scroll."↗ (Mordell, The Origin of Letters and Numerals according to Sefer Yetzirah (1914))↗

mysteriously — Everyday, meaning 1: In a way that is strange and cannot be explained.↗ Everyday, meaning 2: In a secretive way, keeping something hidden on purpose, as in "she smiled mysteriously".↗ Example: My homework mysteriously disappeared from my desk.↗ · The door creaked open mysteriously.↗ · She smiled mysteriously and would not tell us the secret.↗ · The cookies mysteriously vanished from the jar.↗ · The lights in the old house mysteriously went off.↗ · The ship mysteriously disappeared at sea.↗ · "Wait and see," said Grandad mysteriously.↗ · Then one day a favorite rabbit of the Princess's, called Frederick, mysteriously disappeared, and then came a terrible morning when the Mexican lapdog was missing.↗

mystery — Everyday, meaning 1: A mystery is something strange that is not known or explained yet.↗ Everyday, meaning 2: A mystery is a story or film about solving a crime or a puzzle, often by a detective.↗ Everyday, meaning 3: «A mystery number» or «mystery prize» is one you do not know yet.↗ Example: The mystery number plus 6 is 15.↗ · Find the mystery number.↗ · She reads a mystery book of 200 pages.↗ · Solve the mystery: who has more?↗ · How the dog got onto the roof is a mystery.↗ · The detective followed the clues to solve the mystery.↗ · It's a mystery to me why he left.↗ · I am thinking of a mystery number: double it and you get 14.↗ · Everything was said in whispers, every word was a mystery.↗ · The Siphra Dtzeniouta, or Book of Concealed Mystery, translated by Mac Gregor Mathers, in his " Kabalah Denudata," opens with a reference to this Equilibrium as a fundamental neces- sity of stable existence.↗ (Sefer Yetzirah, Westcott 1893)↗ · Depth [note 15: עוֹמֶק ʽomeq ‘depth’ here is based on the metaphor of עֲמֻקָּה ʽamuqqah ‘deepness’ as a symbol of divine mystery, as found in Biblical poetry, ex.↗ [Job 11:8], [Psalms 64:7], [Ecclesiastes 7:24].↗ (Sefer Yetzirah, Sefaria community translation)↗ · These three mothers enclose a mighty mystery, most occult and most marvelous, sealed as with six rings, and from them proceed primeval Fire, Water, and Air; these are subsequently differentiated into male and female.↗ (Sefer Yetzirah, Westcott 1887)↗

mystic — Everyday, meaning 1: Mystic means connected with a hidden or secret meaning, something that cannot be understood by reason alone.↗ Everyday, meaning 2: A mystic is a person who seeks direct contact with God or the spirits.↗ Example: The mystic signs were known only to the priests.↗ · Certain mystic rites were kept secret.↗ · The opinions of Hebrew Kabalistic Rabbis and of two French mystics may be fitly introduced here.↗ (Sefer Yetzirah, Westcott 1893)↗ · It has been the subject of deep study, not only to the mystic, who regarded it as the source ot esoteric lore, but also to the philosopher and the Talmudist.↗ (Mordell, The Origin of Letters and Numerals according to Sefer Yetzirah (1914))↗

mystical — Everyday, meaning 1: Having a hidden spiritual meaning that is hard to explain, beyond the everyday world.↗ Everyday, meaning 2: Strange, magical and full of wonder.↗ Example: The forest at dawn felt mystical.↗ · Rat and Mole had a mystical meeting on the island.↗ · Some Christians tell of mystical experiences in prayer.↗ · The old stone circle has a mystical feel.↗ · The music sounded mystical and far away.↗ · The story is full of mystical creatures.↗ · D., remarked very truly in his German preface to the book "Yezirah," published in Leipzig, 1830: "This book is for two reasons highly important: in the first place, that the real Cabala, or mystical (Sefer Yetzirah, Kalisch 1877)↗ · All the other commentaries mentioned above, together with all quotations of other expounders of the same book, contain nothing but a medley of arbitrary, mystical explanations and sophistical distortions of scriptural verses, astrological notions, oriental (Sefer Yetzirah, Kalisch 1877)↗ · For it was originally written in an obscure half-mystical style.↗ (Mordell, The Origin of Letters and Numerals according to Sefer Yetzirah (1914))↗

mysticism — In Jewish tradition, meaning 1: The search for knowledge of God and hidden truth through deep spiritual thought and experience.↗

myth — Everyday, meaning 1: A myth is a very old story about gods, heroes or magical creatures, often explaining how the world or nature began.↗ Everyday, meaning 2: A myth is a common idea that many people believe but that is not true.↗ Example: We read the Greek myth of Theseus and the Minotaur.↗ · Myths often explain how the world began.↗ · It's a myth that goldfish only remember for three seconds.↗ · Thor is a god from Norse myths.↗ · The idea that bats are blind is a myth.↗ · Many myths have been told for thousands of years.↗ · Scientists test ideas to find out which are myths.↗

mythical — Everyday, meaning 1: Found in myths and legends, not real: a mythical creature like a dragon or unicorn.↗ Everyday, meaning 2: Imagined or made up, believed in but not true: a mythical «perfect day».↗ Example: The dragon is a mythical creature that breathes fire.↗ · We made a poster of mythical beasts from Greek stories.↗ · The unicorn is Scotland's national animal, even though it is mythical.↗ · Pegasus is a mythical horse with wings.↗ · My dad talks about the mythical day when he will clean the garage.↗ · The kraken is a mythical sea monster.↗ · Is the Loch Ness monster real or mythical?↗ · Troyan is also the name of a mythical king who often figures in Slavonic legends.↗

mythology — Everyday, meaning 1: Mythology is the whole collection of myths that belong to a people, such as Greek mythology.↗ Everyday, meaning 2: A mythology is one such collection.↗ Example: Greek mythology is full of gods and monsters.↗ · We read a book on Norse mythology.↗