📖 M — The English dictionary · page 9

manned — Everyday, meaning 1: To man is to supply people to work a boat, a ship or a machine.↗ Manned means having people on board or in charge.↗ Example: The boat was manned by four sailors.↗ · Little Lasse manned the boat.↗ · The lighthouse is manned all night.↗

mannequin — Everyday, meaning 1: A model of a human body used to show clothes in a shop window.↗ Everyday, meaning 2: (old-fashioned) A person whose job is to model clothes; a fashion model.↗ Everyday, meaning 3: A model of a body used in art or for practising first aid (often called a «manikin»).↗ Example: The mannequin in the window wore a red winter coat.↗ · We practised CPR on a mannequin in first aid class.↗ · My brother stood so still he looked like a mannequin.↗ · The shop staff changed the clothes on the mannequins every week.↗ · An artist's mannequin is a small wooden figure with bendy joints.↗ · The mannequin had no head, just a body.↗ · In the spooky story, the mannequins came alive at night.↗ · The mannequin challenge has everyone freeze in a pose.↗

manner — Everyday, meaning 1: The way in which something is done or happens.↗ Everyday, meaning 2: The way a person behaves towards others.↗ Everyday, meaning 3: manners: polite ways of behaving, such as saying please and thank you.↗ Everyday, meaning 4: all manner of: all kinds of.↗ Example: She spoke in a calm manner.↗ · Mind your manners and say thank you.↗ · It's bad manners to talk with your mouth full.↗ · "Quickly" is an adverb of manner.↗ · The shop sells all manner of toys.↗ · He has a friendly manner with children.↗ · In a manner of speaking, we won.↗ · In this manner many weeks passed by.↗ · Cursed be he that lieth with any manner of beast.↗ (Torah DEU.27.21, JPS 1917)↗ · In like manner thou shalt deal with thy vineyard, and with thy oliveyard.↗ (Torah EXO.23.11, JPS 1917)↗ · This is the law for all manner of plague of leprosy, and for a scall; (Torah LEV.14.54, JPS 1917)↗ · And one said: On this manner; and another said: On that manner.↗ (Prophets 1KI.22.20, JPS 1917)↗ · Howbeit they did not hearken, but they did after their former manner.↗ (Prophets 2KI.17.40, JPS 1917)↗ · And the servants of Saul told him, saying: 'On this manner spoke David.'↗ (Prophets 1SA.18.24, JPS 1917)↗

mannerly — Everyday, meaning 1: Mannerly means polite, well behaved and knowing good manners.↗ Example: The prince was too mannerly to eat without being invited.↗ · Be mannerly and say thank you.↗ · She was not mannerly to the old woman.↗

manners — Everyday, meaning 1: Manners are the polite ways of behaving with other people, like saying please and thank you.↗ Everyday, meaning 2: Table manners are the polite ways to eat at a table.↗ Everyday, meaning 3: A person's manner is the way they behave or speak, like a friendly manner.↗ Everyday, meaning 4: "In a manner" means in a way.↗ Example: It's good manners to say thank you.↗ · Mind your manners at Grandma's house.↗ · It's bad manners to talk with your mouth full.↗ · Our class practised table manners.↗ · She spoke in a calm, friendly manner.↗ · Where are your manners?↗ Say please!↗ · Good manners cost nothing.↗ · It's his bad manners I can't stand."↗ · It is necessary to avoid confusion between these letters ; different authors translate them in different manners.↗ (Sefer Yetzirah, Westcott 1893)↗

manoeuvre — Everyday, meaning 1: A manoeuvre is a planned movement of soldiers, ships or vehicles, often done as practice.↗ Everyday, meaning 2: To manoeuvre is to move something carefully or cleverly, or to steer it through a tight space.↗ Example: The soldiers did their manoeuvres well at the review.↗ · Comrade Wasp's-nest manoeuvred his wasps.↗ · The boat manoeuvred carefully round the rocks.↗

manor — Everyday, meaning 1: A manor is a large country house with land around it, once owned by a lord or squire.↗ Example: It was a lonely life in the old manor house.↗ · An old squire lived at the manor with his two sons.↗ · The manor stood at the end of a long lane.↗

manservant — In Jewish tradition, meaning 1: A male servant.↗ Example: that every man should let his manservant, and every man his maidservant, being a Hebrew man or a Hebrew woman, go free; that none should make bondmen of them, even of a Jew his brother; (Prophets JER.34.9, JPS 1917)↗

mansion — Everyday, meaning 1: A very large, grand house, usually belonging to a rich person.↗ Everyday, meaning 2: (UK, in names) Mansions: a block of flats, such as «Victoria Mansions».↗ Example: The film star lives in a huge mansion with a pool.↗ · The old mansion on the hill was said to be haunted.↗ · The mansion had twenty bedrooms.↗ · We visited a mansion with beautiful gardens.↗ · Our flat is small; it's not exactly a mansion!↗ · The family lost their money and had to sell the mansion.↗ · Gold gates led up to the mansion.↗ · Victoria Mansions is a block of flats near the station.↗ · High up, on the woody hillside, stood the new mansion.↗

manslayer — In Jewish tradition, meaning 1: A person who has killed someone, here by accident.↗ Example: But if the manslayer shall at any time go beyond the border of his city of refuge, whither he fleeth; (Torah NUM.35.26, JPS 1917)↗ · then ye shall appoint you cities to be cities of refuge for you, that the manslayer that killeth any person through error may flee thither.↗ (Torah NUM.35.11, JPS 1917)↗ · And the cities shall be unto you for refuge from the avenger, that the manslayer die not, until he stand before the congregation for judgment.↗ (Torah NUM.35.12, JPS 1917)↗ · that the manslayer that killeth any person through error and unawares may flee thither; and they shall be unto you for a refuge from the avenger of blood.↗ (Prophets JOS.20.3, JPS 1917)↗ · And if the avenger of blood pursue after him, then they shall not deliver up the manslayer into his hand; because he smote his neighbour unawares, and hated him not beforetime.↗ (Prophets JOS.20.5, JPS 1917)↗ · And they gave them Shechem with the open land about it in the hill-country of Ephraim, the city of refuge for the manslayer, and Gezer with the open land about it; (Prophets JOS.21.21, JPS 1917)↗

manta — Everyday, meaning 1: A manta, or manta ray, is a very large, flat sea fish with wide fins like wings, which glides through warm oceans and eats tiny plankton.↗ Everyday, meaning 2: A manta is also a kind of blanket or cloak in Spanish-speaking countries (rare in English).↗ Example: A manta ray glided over the coral reef.↗ · Manta rays eat plankton, not people.↗ · The giant manta can be wider than a car.↗ · Divers swam beside the gentle mantas.↗ · A manta's skeleton is made of cartilage like a shark's.↗ · We watched mantas leap out of the water on a nature film.↗

mantel — Everyday, meaning 1: A mantel is the shelf above a fireplace, where things are put on display.↗ Example: Aunt Em put the vase on the mantel.↗ · The clock ticked on the mantel.↗ · Stand the doll on the mantel.↗

mantelet — In Jewish tradition, meaning 1: A small cloak or cover.↗ In Nahum it is a covering used to protect soldiers attacking a wall.↗ Example: the aprons, and the mantelets, and the cloaks, and the girdles; (Prophets ISA.3.22, JPS 1917)↗ · He bethinketh himself of his worthies; they stumble in their march; they make haste to the wall thereof, and the mantelet is prepared.↗ (Prophets NAM.2.6, JPS 1917)↗

mantelpiece — Everyday, meaning 1: A mantelpiece is the shelf above a fireplace, often with ornaments, clocks, cards or photos on it.↗ Everyday, meaning 2: The frame around a fireplace.↗ Example: Grandma keeps our school photos on the mantelpiece.↗ · The clock on the mantelpiece struck six.↗ · We hung our Christmas stockings from the mantelpiece.↗ · The birthday cards were lined up along the mantelpiece.↗ · The detective found a key hidden behind a vase on the mantelpiece.↗ · A painting hung above the mantelpiece.↗ · It revelled in its liberty, and presently flew up on to the mantelpiece and screamed away to its heart's content.↗

mantis — Everyday, meaning 1: A mantis, often called a praying mantis, is a long green or brown insect that holds its spiky front legs together as if praying, and uses them to snatch other insects.↗ Everyday, meaning 2: Mantises can turn their heads right round to look behind them.↗ Example: The praying mantis waited still on the leaf.↗ · The mantis snatched a fly with its front legs.↗ · A mantis can turn its head to look behind it.↗ · Some mantises look just like pink flowers.↗ · The mantis was so well camouflaged we almost missed it.↗ · Baby mantises hatch from a foamy egg case.↗ · It is called a praying mantis because of how it holds its legs.↗

mantle — Everyday, meaning 1: In science, the mantle is the thick hot layer of rock inside the Earth, between the crust and the core.↗ Everyday, meaning 2: A mantle is a duty or important role that passes from one person to another, as in «take on the mantle».↗ Everyday, meaning 3: (old) A mantle is a loose cloak without sleeves.↗ Everyday, meaning 4: A mantle can be a covering of something, like «a mantle of snow».↗ Example: The mantle lies under the Earth's crust.↗ · Rock in the mantle moves very slowly.↗ · The mantle is much thicker than the crust.↗ · A mantle of snow covered the hills.↗ · The queen wore a red velvet mantle.↗ (old)↗ · She took on the mantle of team captain.↗ · Heat from the mantle helps push the plates.↗ · "It's like a green silk mantle worked with flowers," said the Princess, smiling.↗ · And the first came forth ruddy, all over like a hairy mantle; and they called his name Esau.↗ (Torah GEN.25.25, JPS 1917)↗ · and the gauze robes, and the fine linen, and the turbans, and the mantles.↗ (Prophets ISA.3.23, JPS 1917)↗ · Then Job arose, and rent his mantle, and shaved his head, and fell down upon the ground, and worshipped; (Writings JOB.1.20, JPS 1917)↗ · He took up also the mantle of Elijah that fell from him, and went back, and stood by the bank of the Jordan.↗ (Prophets 2KI.2.13, JPS 1917)↗

mantra — Everyday, meaning 1: (religion) A word, sound or short phrase repeated again and again in prayer or meditation, especially in Hinduism and Buddhism.↗ Everyday, meaning 2: A saying or motto that a person or group repeats often because they believe it strongly: «Practice makes perfect is my mantra».↗ Example: Our coach's mantra is «Work hard, play fair».↗ · Buddhists may repeat a mantra while meditating.↗ · «Om» is a well-known mantra in Hinduism.↗ · When I'm nervous, I say my mantra: «I can do this».↗ · The school's mantra is «Be kind, be safe, be your best».↗ · She repeated the mantra slowly to calm her breathing.↗ · «Reduce, reuse, recycle» became the class mantra.↗ · Some mantras are in the old language Sanskrit.↗

mantua — In Jewish tradition, meaning 1: An Italian city where books were printed long ago, and where a famous edition of Sefer Yetzirah came out in 1562.↗ Example: A Version by Saadiah, ab. ben David, and three others, Mantua, 1562, 4to.↗ (Sefer Yetzirah, Westcott 1893)↗ · Interested readers can check the 1562 Mantua edition for themselves through the digital archives of the National Library of Israel: nli.org.il/he/books/NNLALEPH990012793690205171/NLI.↗ (Sefer Yetzirah, Sefaria community translation)↗ · The "Zohar was first printed in Mantua in 1558, again in Cremona, 1560, and at Lublin, 1623, and a fourth edition by Knorr von Rosenroth, at Sulzbach in 1684.↗ (Sefer Yetzirah, Westcott 1893)↗

manual — Everyday, meaning 1: Manual means done by hand or by a person's effort, not by a machine: «manual work».↗ Everyday, meaning 2: A manual is a book of instructions telling you how to use or fix something.↗ Everyday, meaning 3: A manual car has gears the driver changes by hand (called a «stick shift» in the US).↗ Example: Read the manual before using the drill.↗ · Building a wall is hard manual work.↗ · Dad drives a manual car.↗ · The game came with a thin manual.↗ · You can switch the camera to manual mode.↗ · Farm work used to be mostly manual.↗

manufacture — Everyday, meaning 1: To manufacture means to make goods in large numbers, usually in a factory with machines.↗ Everyday, meaning 2: (noun) Manufacture is the making of goods.↗ e.g. "the manufacture of cars".↗ Everyday, meaning 3: To manufacture an excuse or a story means to invent it, especially a false one.↗ Example: The factory manufactures 500 bikes a week.↗ · If a machine manufactures 40 toys an hour, it makes 320 toys in 8 hours.↗ · Cars are manufactured in many countries.↗ · The manufacture of paper uses lots of water.↗ · He manufactured an excuse for being late.↗ · This phone was manufactured in Korea.↗ · Manufacturing jobs are found in big towns.↗ · And now the Emperor himself wished to see the costly manufacture, while it was still in the loom.↗

manufactured — Everyday, meaning 1: Made in large numbers in a factory, using machines.↗ Everyday, meaning 2: Made by people, not natural (manufactured materials like plastic).↗ Everyday, meaning 3: Made up or invented to trick people (a manufactured story, manufactured evidence).↗ Example: These toys were manufactured in a factory.↗ · Plastic is a manufactured material, not a natural one.↗ · The factory manufactured 300 bikes each week.↗ · Most cars are manufactured by robots and workers together.↗ · The story about the ghost was manufactured to scare us.↗ · Manufactured goods are sent around the world by ship.↗ · This the old one opened, and took out an exquisite carpet, of so beautiful a design, that it certainly could have been manufactured nowhere upon the earth.↗