v. make as big or large as possible
E.g. Glass shelves help maximise light in a small bathroom.
a. deficient in amount, quality, or extent; having little flesh; lean; scanty or inadequate;
E.g. This was a meal bonus to supplement our meagre rations and kept our spirits up.
v. resolve or settle differences by working with all conflicting parties
E.g. King Solomon was asked to mediate a dispute between two women, each of whom claimed to be the mother of the same child.
v. dwell on anything in thought; think seriously; keep the mind fixed upon; purpose; plan in the mind
E.g. For me the reason to meditate is to clear my mind, as well as to become keen to intuition.
a. quiet and obedient; showing patience and humility
E.g. The essence of meek is to be patient with ignorance, slow to anger and never hold a grudge.
a. gloomy; feeling of thoughtful sadness; affected by depression
E.g. You are not well, you have no friend to cheer you, and this melancholy is the result.
a. harmonious; euphonic; agreeable to hear; producing agreeable, especially musical, sounds
E.g. He was eating an apple, and giving a long, melodious whoop, at intervals, followed by a deep-toned ding-dong-dong, ding-dong-dong.
a. trading; commercial; of or relating to trade or traders
E.g. The ultimate purpose of mercantile policy was to enhance national strength, provide self-sufficiency, and pay for military power.
v. combine; unite
E.g. Their solution to crippling financial problems has been to merge with one another in an attempt to get bigger and hopefully stronger.
n. opening or space enclosed by the threads of a net between knot and knot; network or net
E.g. He is mending the wire mesh in front of the chicken coop.
n. chemical processes occurring within a living cell or organism to maintenance of life
E.g. When you then get down to a lower weight, the damage to metabolism is still there, invisible, affecting all your efforts to control your weight.
a. of or pertaining to metal; of metal nature; resembling metal
E.g. The carriers in metallic conductors are electrons, and they all carry the same negative charge.
n. earth science dealing with phenomena of the atmosphere; predicting what the weather will be
E.g. Bureau of meteorology web homepage provides the Australian community with access to weather forecasts and severe weather warnings.
a. excessively careful; marked by extreme care in treatment of details
E.g. One neighbor, who usually uses the truck to haul away lawn debris, always returns the truck in meticulous condition.
n. standard of measurement; geometric function that describes the distances between pairs of points in a space
E.g. The metric is percent of total unemployed that are unemployed for longer than 1 year.
a. city center; one who lives in a city center
E.g. Trains are less subsidized than roads, and much more efficient in metropolitan areas.
n. germ; minute life form; microorganism, especially a bacterium that causes disease
E.g. A microbe is any living organism that spends its life at a size too tiny to be seen with the naked eye.
n. small, representative system having analogies to larger system; miniature model of something
E.g. The small village community that Jane Austen depicts serves as a microcosm of English society in her time.
n. continuous roll of film containing photographs of documents at a greatly reduced size
E.g. The microfilm is worn out and no effort is made to improve the situation.
v. move from one country or region to another and settle there
E.g. Many Germans chose to migrate to South America in the mid-19th century.
n. growth of minute powdery or webby fungi; state of decay produced in living and dead vegetable matter
E.g. It would be a good idea to treat all the walls in the room because mildew is a microscopic spore and even though it may not be visible, it may still be present.
a. fighting or warring; having a combative character; aggressive
E.g. People are just too preoccupied with trying to survive, to join militant movements.
n. span of one thousand years; thousandth anniversary
E.g. The year 2000 and the third millennium is a fantastic stepping stone in the evolution of the human species.
v. copy or imitate closely, especially in speech, expression
E.g. Scientists process skin tissue to mimic embryonic stem cells.
v. reduce to the smallest possible amount, extent, size, or degree
E.g. Some of them wish only to minimise the number of abortions performed, others will be satisfied with nothing less than reducing the number to zero regardless of the consequences.
n. unreal reflection; optical illusion
E.g. In economics, a mirage is a naturally occurring phenomenon in which economic statistics are bent to produce an image of a desired outcome.
v. cause to sink or become stuck in; hinder, entrap, or entangle
E.g. The mud could mire their rear wheels.
v. appropriate wrongly; use for wrong purpose; embezzle
E.g. I like to give names that either illustrate the character or are wildly misappropriate for the sake of humor.
n. unfortunate occurrence; mishap; bad luck
E.g. By mischance, he lost his week's salary.
v. conceive wrongly; interpret incorrectly; receive false notion of; misjudge; misapprehend.
E.g. The part which is wrong will be discontented, in proportion to the importance of the facts they misconceive.
n. evil deed; wicked action
E.g. Sometimes the excuse is worse than the original misdeed.
n. feeling of doubt, distrust, or apprehension
E.g. I have no misgiving in recommending Ms Liu for the position you have in mind.
n. unfortunate accident; bad luck
E.g. The man who first gets to the winning post without a mishap is the winner.
v. give false or incorrect impression, often deliberately; serve unsatisfactorily as representative
E.g. In his job application, Milton might misrepresent his academic background; he was fired when his employers discovered the truth.
v. treat or use improperly; use to bad purpose; misapply; abuse; treat ill
E.g. Any system of government naturally lends itself to misuse power.
v. make less severe or harsh; moderate
E.g. Nothing Jason did could mitigate Medea's anger; she refused to forgive him for betraying her.
v. assemble, prepare, or put into operation for or as if for war; make mobile or capable of movement
E.g. I want to earn a bike, I need it to mobilize myself in the city, from my house to the office.
a. temperate; gentle; mild; make less fast or intense ; preside over
E.g. Mr. Berlusconi's alliance of moderate and right-wing parties has an absolute majority in the Senate.
v. alter; change
E.g. If you want to modify an existing listing, make sure the url entered below exactly matches the one that appears in our directory.
n. the smallest particle of substance, having all the properties of that substance
E.g. The protein molecule is made up of a number of organic units known as amino acids.