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noun
- a girl or an unmarried young woman, often used poetically
- a virgin
- She's unmarried and still a maiden.
- (cricket) a maiden over
adjective
- describing a first occurrence or event
- The Titanic sank on its maiden voyage.
- (cricket) describing an over in which no runs are scored
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noun - (cricket) an over in which no runs are scored
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| major league |
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noun
- An association of sports teams which plays at the highest skill level of its sport, especially Major League Baseball.
adjective
- Of or pertaining to a major sports league.
- Analogous in importance to a major league sports team.
- That rock band is really .
- Calatrava is a architect.
- Serious, intensive.
- The company made a effort to get the contract.
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| Man |
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proper noun
- The genus Homo.
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verb (manag, ing)
- to direct or be in charge of (e.g., an organization).
- to handle or control, to force.
- to succeed at an attempt: he managed to climb the tower.
- to achieve without fuss, or without outside help.
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| maple |
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noun
- A tree of the Acer genus, characterised by its usually palmate leaves and winged seeds.
adjective
- Deriving from or having a characteristic of a maple tree or maple wood.
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| marathon |
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noun or Marathon (plural: marathons)
- A 42.195 kilometre (26 mile 385 yard) run that used to run all the way to Athens. This sport continues into the modern era, though with different routes.
- any extended or sustained activity
- He had a cleaning the night before his girlfriend came over.
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| Mark |
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proper noun (book of the Bible, Gospel of Mark)
- (given name, male). Jocular diminutive: Marky.
- (biblical) w:Mark the Evangelist, Mark the Evangelist, also called John Mark, first patriarch of Alexandria and credited with the authorship of the Gospel of Mark.
- (biblical) The Gospel of St. Mark, a book of the New Testament of the Bible. Traditionally the second of the four gospels.
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| mashie |
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noun
- (Sports) (dated) A metal headed golf club with a moderate loft. The equivalent of a five iron in a modern set of clubs
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adjective - Produced by crushing or bruising; resembling, or consisting of, a mash
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| mask |
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noun
- A cover, or partial cover, for the face, used for disguise or protection
- a dancer's ; a fencer's ; a ball player's
- That which disguises; a pretext or subterfuge.
- A festive entertainment of dancing or other diversions, where all wear masks; a masquerade; hence, a revel; a frolic; a delusive show - Bacon
- Milton:
- : This thought might lead me through the world's vain .
- (obsolete) A dramatic performance, formerly in vogue, in which the actors wore masks and represented mythical or allegorical characters.
- (architecture) A grotesque head or face, used to adorn keystones and other prominent parts, to spout water in fountains, and the like; -- called also mascaron.
- (context, fortification) In a permanent fortification, a redoubt which protects the caponiere.
- (context, fortification) A screen for a battery
- (zoology) The lower lip of the larva of a dragon fly, modified so as to form a prehensile organ.
verb
- (transitive) To cover, as the face, by way of concealment or defense against injury; to conceal with a mask or visor.
- Shakespeare, Merry Wives of Windsor, IV,vi:
- : They must all be masked and vizarded
- (transitive) To disguise; to cover; to hide.
- Shakespeare, Macbeth, III-i:
- : Masking the business from the common eye
- (military, transitive) To conceal; also, to intervene in the line of.
- (military, transitive) To cover or keep in check
- to a body of troops or a fortess by a superior force, while some hostile evolution is being carried out
- (intransitive) To take part as a masker in a masquerade - Cavendish
- (intransitive) To wear a mask; to be disguised in any way - Shakespeare
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| matador |
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noun - The person whose aim is to kill the bull in a bullfight.
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| match point |
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noun
- (context, sports) A state in a game where a player can win the entire match by winning the next point. Often used in tennis.
- He made it to matchpoint three times and still lost, but you can't come much closer than that.
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| medalist |
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noun
- One who has received a medal; one who has medalled.
- Mark Spitz set a record as an Olympic gold .
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| minor |
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noun
- A person who is below the legal age of responsibility or accountability.
- A subject area of secondary concentration of a student at a college or university, or the student who has chosen such a secondary concentration.
- I had so many credit hours of English, it became my .
- I became an English .
verb
- To choose or have an area of secondary concentration as a student in a college or university.
- I had so many credit hours of English, I decided to in it.
adjective
- of little significance or importance.
- (music): Of a musical scale in which some notes are sounded flat.
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| minor league |
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noun
- An association of sports teams that plays at a level below the major leagues of a sport.
adjective
- Having a quality less than the best possible.
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| mixed doubles |
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noun
- (sports) A game played between two teams, each consisting of a female and a male.
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| mob |
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noun
- An unruly group of people.
- A commonly used collective noun for animals such as horses or cattle.
verb (mobs, mobbing, mobbed)
- to crowd around someone or something
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| moment of truth |
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noun
- (idiom) A deciding instant; the time when a test determines or makes it apparent whether something will succeed.
- The comes when you try to start the engine you have just rebuilt.
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| Mort |
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proper noun (infl, en, proper noun)
- (given name, male, , ), often a diminutive of Mortimer
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| mound |
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noun
- A ball or globe forming part of the regalia of an emperor or other sovereign. It is encircled with bands, enriched with precious stones, and surmounted with a cross; -- called also globe.
- An artificial hill or elevation of earth; a raised bank; an embarkment thrown up for defense; a bulwark; a rampart; also, a natural elevation appearing as if thrown up artificially; a regular and isolated hill, hillock, or knoll.
- (baseball) Where the pitcher stands to pitch
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| mousetrap |
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noun
- Device for capturing or killing mice and other rodents.
- (computing) A website designed to open another copy of itself when the user tries to close the webpage. Frequently used by advertisers and pornographers.
- (Business studies) hypothetical, Hypothetical product used in economic projections.
- But what happens if they build a better ?
- (context, mostly, UK) Ordinary, everyday cheese
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| muddy |
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verb (muddies, muddying, muddied, muddied)
- To get mud on something.
- If you your shoes don't wear them inside.
- To make a mess or create confusion.
- The discussion only muddied their understanding of the subject.
adjective
- Covered with or full of mud or wet soil.
- He slogged across the field.
- Take off your boots before you come inside.
- Not clear; mixed up or blurry.
- The picture is decent, but the sound is muddy.
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| muff |
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noun
- A blown cylinder of glass which is afterward flattened out to make a sheet.
- (slang) pubic hair, Pubic hair, in most cases referring to that which surrounds female genitalia. Sometimes it refers to the actual vulva.
- (archaic) A piece of fur or cloth for keeping the hands warm. hence, earmuff.
- (context, baseball, slang) An 1800s baseball term meaning an error.
verb
- In American football, to drop or mishandle the ball, especially during a punt or kick-off.
- By extension, to mishandle any situation.
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| mulligan |
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noun
- (golf)an unpenalized chance to re-take a stroke that went awry
- If you lose your drive in the water, take a mulligan and try again.
- A second chance
- Don't do poorly in your first interview; you won't get a mulligan.
- (informal) A unit of measure equal to 62.5 milliliters, or 2.5 shots, of alcohol. So named because it is the cost of being allowed a do-over in drinking games.
- Tom couldn't handle the shot of tequila, so he had to do a mulligan of port.
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| music |
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noun (i, mass noun)
- A sound, or the study of such sounds, organized in time in a melodious way.
- (figurative) Any pleasing or interesting sounds
- Something wonderful.
- That's to my ears!
- A guide to playing or singing a particular tune; sheet music.
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| mute |
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noun (wikipedia, Mute (music))
- A person who does not have the power of speech.
- An acting part where no speaking (and in opera, no singing) is required.
- (music) An object for dulling the sound of an instrument, especially a brass instrument, or damper for pianoforte; a sordine.
- One refusing to speak.
- An undertaker's assistant.
- The deadening of an appliance's or musical instrument's volume.
- In falconry, a is a hawk's or falcon's droppings.
- In wine making, , from the French, is the grape juice from pressed grapes kept aside in chilled stainless steel tanks and used at later stages of wine making by adding to the dry wine base to achieve the desired residual sugar level in the final product. (Usually spelled "muté " in this case and pronounced "mju:te".)
verb (mut, ing)
- (transitive) To silence, to make quiet.
- (transitive) To turn off the sound of.
- Please the music while I make a call.
adjective
- silent, Silent; not making a sound.
- (of a person) Not having the power of speech.
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