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m

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Abbreviation of million.

Examples :

"The company earned 50 m in profit last year. "

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Examples :

"The company made a profit of $2 m last year. "

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verb

Examples :

"My teacher will make a new schedule for the class. "

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Of or pertaining to the male gender; manly.

Examples :

"My brother is very m; he always wears a suit and talks confidently in meetings. "

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Of or pertaining to the male sex; biologically male, not female.

Examples :

"My brother is a m student in the school's science club. "

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Belonging to males; typically used by males.

Examples :

"“John”, “Paul” and “Jake” are masculine names."

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Having the qualities stereotypically associated with men: virile, aggressive, not effeminate.

Examples :

"The character in the action movie was known for his m demeanor and fearless approach to danger. "

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(grammar) Of, pertaining or belonging to the male grammatical gender, in languages that have gender distinctions.

Examples :

"The m pronoun, used for the male student, refers to a boy in Spanish grammar. "

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A prescribed quantity or extent.

Examples :

"The teacher assigned a m of homework, enough for the entire week. "

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The act or result of measuring.

Examples :

"The m of the student's height was recorded in the class roster. "

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Metrical rhythm.

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"The poem's m, a consistent pattern of stressed and unstressed syllables, created a pleasing rhythm. "

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A course of action.

Examples :

""Faced with low sales, the company decided their best move was to launch a new advertising campaign." "

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(always meter) A device that measures things.

Examples :

"The m on my taxi showed that the trip cost $15. "

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(always meter) A parking meter or similar device for collecting payment.

Examples :

"The parking m malfunctioned, preventing me from getting a parking ticket. "

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(always meter) One who metes or measures.

Examples :

"a labouring coal-meter"

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(elsewhere metre) The base unit of length in the International System of Units (SI), conceived of as 1/10000000 of the distance from the North Pole to the Equator, and now defined as the distance light will travel in a vacuum in 1/299792458 second.

Examples :

"The schoolyard's length was measured in meters. "

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(elsewhere metre) An increment of music; the overall rhythm; particularly, the number of beats in a measure.

Examples :

"The song had a strong m, making it easy to tap your foot to the rhythm. "

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(elsewhere metre) The rhythm pattern in a poem.

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"The poem's m emphasizes a strong beat on every other syllable. "

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(elsewhere metre) A line above or below a hanging net, to which the net is attached in order to strengthen it.

Examples :

"The fisherman added a strong m to his fishing net to prevent it from tearing. "

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Examples :

"My favorite m is the one my grandmother wrote about her childhood home. "

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The international mile: a unit of length precisely equal to 1.609344 kilometers established by treaty among Anglophone nations in 1959, divided into 5,280 feet or 1,760 yards.

Examples :

"The race was five m long, requiring the runners to push their limits. "

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Any of several customary units of length derived from the 1593 English statute mile of 8 furlongs, equivalent to 5,280 feet or 1,760 yards of various precise values.

Examples :

"The runner's personal best was 10 m. "

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Any of many customary units of length derived from the Roman mile (mille passus) of 8 stades or 5,000 Roman feet.

Examples :

"The track for the school's annual race was one kilometer long, which is about one-fifth of a Roman m. "

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The Scandinavian mile: a unit of length precisely equal to 10 kilometers defined in 1889.

Examples :

"The runner's training schedule included distances measured in m, as the Scandinavian mile is used in some parts of the Nordic countries. "

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Any of many customary units of length from other measurement systems of roughly similar values, as the Chinese (里) or Arabic mile (al-mīl).

Examples :

"When comparing distances on old maps, you might see lengths given in "m," representing traditional units like the Arabic mile, instead of kilometers or modern miles. "

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(travel) An airline mile in a frequent flier program.

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"I need 2,000 more m to get a free flight to visit my family. "

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Any similarly large distance.

Examples :

"The shot missed by a mile."

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A race of 1 mile's length; a race of around 1 mile's length (usually 1500 or 1600 meters)

Examples :

"The runners competed in the mile."

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One mile per hour, as a measure of speed.

Examples :

"five miles over the speed limit"

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A half note, drawn as a semibreve with a stem.

Examples :

"The student wrote an "m" (half note) on the music staff, followed by two quarter notes. "

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A unit of volume, in the Imperial and U.S. customary systems, 1/60 fluid drachm. Approximately equal to 1 drop, 62 μL or 0.9 grain (weight) of water.

Examples :

"The medicine dropper dispensed one m of liquid medication. "

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A short vertical stroke used in handwriting.

Examples :

"The teacher pointed out that some students were not closing the gaps at the bottom of the "m" in their handwriting. "

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Anything very minute; applied to animalcula and the like.

Examples :

"the minims of existence"

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The smallest kind of worker in a leaf-cutter ant colony.

Examples :

"The m diligently carried a tiny piece of leaf back to the nest. "

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A little man or being; a dwarf.

Examples :

"The children giggled when the storyteller described the tiny m who lived under the mushroom. "

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A small fish; a minnow.

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"The children caught many small m's in the creek behind the school. "

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A short poetical encomium.

Examples :

"The bride's father began his wedding speech with a touching m, praising her kindness and beauty in just a few heartfelt lines of poetry. "

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A unit of time equal to sixty seconds (one-sixtieth of an hour).

Examples :

"You have twenty minutes to complete the test."

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A short but unspecified time period.

Examples :

"Wait a minute, I’m not ready yet!"

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A unit of angle equal to one-sixtieth of a degree.

Examples :

"We need to be sure these maps are accurate to within one minute of arc."

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(chiefly in the plural, minutes) A (usually formal) written record of a meeting or a part of a meeting.

Examples :

"Let’s look at the minutes of last week’s meeting."

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A unit of purchase on a telephone or other network, especially a cell phone network, roughly equivalent in gross form to sixty seconds' use of the network.

Examples :

"If you buy this phone, you’ll get 100 free minutes."

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A point in time; a moment.

Examples :

"The m I saw my friend before school was a perfect time to chat. "

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A nautical or a geographic mile.

Examples :

"The sailboat sailed ten nautical miles to reach the harbor. "

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An old coin, a half farthing.

Examples :

"My grandfather found a rare m in his old coin collection. "

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A very small part of anything, or anything very small; a jot; a whit.

Examples :

"The student only needed a tiny m of extra help to understand the problem. "

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A fixed part of a module.

Examples :

"In this computer program, the "m" handles the user interface and is a fixed part of the display module. "

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A while or a long unspecified period of time

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"It's been a m since I last saw my cousins. "

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A period into which a year is divided, historically based on the phases of the moon.

Examples :

"July is my favourite month."

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A period of 30 days, 31 days, or some alternation thereof.

Examples :

"We went on holiday for two months."

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(in the plural) A woman's period; menstrual discharge.

Examples :

"Sarah's m started a few days ago, so she's feeling a bit tired. "

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