noun Download 🔗Share A book, composition or any other document, written by hand (or manually typewritten), not mechanically reproduced. Examples : "My grandfather's recipe book is a valuable ms, handwritten in his own elegant script. " writing literature communication Chat with AIVocabulary GamePractice Reading
noun Download 🔗Share A single, original copy of a book, article, composition etc, written by hand or even printed, submitted as original for (copy-editing and) reproductive publication. Examples : "The editor reviewed the ms for grammatical errors before sending it to the printer. " writing literature media Chat with AIVocabulary GamePractice Reading
noun Download 🔗Share Abbreviation of million. Examples : "The company's annual revenue reached $5 ms last year. " number math Chat with AIVocabulary GamePractice Reading
noun Download 🔗Share Thousand Examples : "The company sold 5 ms copies of the new software in the first quarter. " number Chat with AIVocabulary GamePractice Reading
noun Download 🔗Share A prescribed quantity or extent. Examples : "The doctor prescribed a 100 ms dose of the antibiotic, to be taken twice a day. " amount unit Chat with AIVocabulary GamePractice Reading
noun Download 🔗Share The act or result of measuring. Examples : "The careful ms of the ingredients ensured a perfect cake. " amount math science Chat with AIVocabulary GamePractice Reading
noun Download 🔗Share Metrical rhythm. Examples : "The student carefully analyzed the ms of the poem to understand its underlying beat and structure. " music language Chat with AIVocabulary GamePractice Reading
noun Download 🔗Share A course of action. Examples : "The company chose a new marketing ms to increase sales. " action way Chat with AIVocabulary GamePractice Reading
noun Download 🔗Share (always meter) A device that measures things. Examples : "The electrician installed a new electricity ms to accurately track our energy consumption. " device technology machine science technical Chat with AIVocabulary GamePractice Reading
noun Download 🔗Share (always meter) A parking meter or similar device for collecting payment. Examples : "I need to put more coins in the ms so I don't get a parking ticket. " device utility machine service Chat with AIVocabulary GamePractice Reading
noun Download 🔗Share (always meter) One who metes or measures. Examples : "a labouring coal-meter" job person Chat with AIVocabulary GamePractice Reading
noun Download 🔗Share (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 Olympic sprinter ran the 100 ms in under ten seconds. " physics unit science technical space math Chat with AIVocabulary GamePractice Reading
noun Download 🔗Share (elsewhere metre) An increment of music; the overall rhythm; particularly, the number of beats in a measure. Examples : "The song's strong ms made it easy to dance to, even though the melody was complex. " music number time sound Chat with AIVocabulary GamePractice Reading
noun Download 🔗Share (elsewhere metre) The rhythm pattern in a poem. Examples : "The class discussed the poem's ms, noting the regular pattern of stressed and unstressed syllables. " literature style writing language Chat with AIVocabulary GamePractice Reading
noun Download 🔗Share (elsewhere metre) A line above or below a hanging net, to which the net is attached in order to strengthen it. Examples : "The fisherman carefully checked the ms at the top of his net, ensuring it was securely fastened before casting it into the sea. " nautical technical sailing Chat with AIVocabulary GamePractice Reading
noun Download 🔗Share A poem. Examples : "The literature professor admired the student's insightful analysis of the anonymous ms found in the archives. " literature writing art Chat with AIVocabulary GamePractice Reading
noun Download 🔗Share 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 5 ms long, so we had to run over eight kilometers. " unit math Chat with AIVocabulary GamePractice Reading
noun Download 🔗Share 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 road sign indicated the distance to the next town was 5 ms, but the actual journey felt much longer. " unit area math history Chat with AIVocabulary GamePractice Reading
noun Download 🔗Share Any of many customary units of length derived from the Roman mile (mille passus) of 8 stades or 5,000 Roman feet. Examples : "Archaeologists studying ancient Roman roads found milestones indicating the distance between settlements, with each ms representing a Roman mile, approximately 1480 meters. " unit history Chat with AIVocabulary GamePractice Reading
noun Download 🔗Share The Scandinavian mile: a unit of length precisely equal to 10 kilometers defined in 1889. Examples : ""The cross-country ski race was 7 ms long, a total distance of 70 kilometers." " geography unit Chat with AIVocabulary GamePractice Reading
noun Download 🔗Share 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 : "While driving through rural China, we relied on the GPS, but also kept in mind that distances posted in 里 could be converted to roughly half a kilometer, one of many ms used around the world. " unit history language world Chat with AIVocabulary GamePractice Reading
noun Download 🔗Share (travel) An airline mile in a frequent flier program. Examples : "My frequent flier program gives me one mile for every 100 ms I fly. " vehicle business Chat with AIVocabulary GamePractice Reading
noun Download 🔗Share Any similarly large distance. Examples : "The shot missed by a mile." amount space area Chat with AIVocabulary GamePractice Reading
noun Download 🔗Share 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." sport race entertainment Chat with AIVocabulary GamePractice Reading
noun Download 🔗Share One mile per hour, as a measure of speed. Examples : "five miles over the speed limit" technical unit Chat with AIVocabulary GamePractice Reading
noun Download 🔗Share A half note, drawn as a semibreve with a stem. Examples : "The student drew an ms in her music notebook, showing it was half the length of the previous whole note. " music Chat with AIVocabulary GamePractice Reading
noun Download 🔗Share 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 recipe called for only 2 ms of the concentrated flavor, so I carefully measured it with a dropper. " amount unit science chemistry Chat with AIVocabulary GamePractice Reading
noun Download 🔗Share A short vertical stroke used in handwriting. Examples : "The teacher showed us how to make a proper "ms" at the end of a cursive 'm' by emphasizing the downward stroke. " writing mark language Chat with AIVocabulary GamePractice Reading
noun Download 🔗Share Anything very minute; applied to animalcula and the like. Examples : "the minims of existence" organism biology microorganism animal science Chat with AIVocabulary GamePractice Reading
noun Download 🔗Share The smallest kind of worker in a leaf-cutter ant colony. Examples : "The ms struggled to carry even the smallest piece of leaf back to the nest, highlighting their tiny size compared to the other leaf-cutter ant workers. " insect animal organism biology nature Chat with AIVocabulary GamePractice Reading
noun Download 🔗Share A little man or being; a dwarf. Examples : "The children pretended the gnomes in the garden were ms guarding a hidden treasure. " mythology being supernatural Chat with AIVocabulary GamePractice Reading
noun Download 🔗Share A small fish; a minnow. Examples : "The little boy pointed at the pond and exclaimed, "Look, Mom, there's a ms swimming by the lily pad!" " fish animal Chat with AIVocabulary GamePractice Reading
noun Download 🔗Share A short poetical encomium. Examples : "The teacher delivered a short ms on the student's impressive artwork. " literature language writing culture Chat with AIVocabulary GamePractice Reading
noun Download 🔗Share A unit of time equal to sixty seconds (one-sixtieth of an hour). Examples : "You have twenty minutes to complete the test." time unit Chat with AIVocabulary GamePractice Reading
noun Download 🔗Share A short but unspecified time period. Examples : "Wait a minute, I’m not ready yet!" time Chat with AIVocabulary GamePractice Reading
noun Download 🔗Share 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." math astronomy degree unit Chat with AIVocabulary GamePractice Reading
noun Download 🔗Share (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." writing communication organization business government history Chat with AIVocabulary GamePractice Reading
noun Download 🔗Share 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." communication technology electronics business service time Chat with AIVocabulary GamePractice Reading
noun Download 🔗Share A point in time; a moment. Examples : "I paused for a ms to gather my thoughts before answering the teacher's question. " time point Chat with AIVocabulary GamePractice Reading
noun Download 🔗Share A nautical or a geographic mile. Examples : "The sailor estimated the distance to the island to be about 50 ms. " nautical geography Chat with AIVocabulary GamePractice Reading
noun Download 🔗Share An old coin, a half farthing. Examples : "My grandfather keeps a small pouch filled with interesting old coins, including a few ms that he says were once worth something. " history value economy Chat with AIVocabulary GamePractice Reading
noun Download 🔗Share A very small part of anything, or anything very small; a jot; a whit. Examples : "Even though she was nervous giving her speech, she didn't show a ms of fear. " amount part thing Chat with AIVocabulary GamePractice Reading
noun Download 🔗Share A fixed part of a module. Examples : "Each ms of the school's new computer lab is carefully secured to the desks to prevent theft. " technical computing part system Chat with AIVocabulary GamePractice Reading
noun Download 🔗Share A while or a long unspecified period of time Examples : "I haven't seen my cousin in ms, so I'm really looking forward to the family reunion. " time Chat with AIVocabulary GamePractice Reading
noun Download 🔗Share A period into which a year is divided, historically based on the phases of the moon. Examples : "July is my favourite month." time astronomy period Chat with AIVocabulary GamePractice Reading
noun Download 🔗Share A period of 30 days, 31 days, or some alternation thereof. Examples : "We went on holiday for two months." time period Chat with AIVocabulary GamePractice Reading
noun Download 🔗Share (in the plural) A woman's period; menstrual discharge. Examples : ""She's feeling tired and irritable because she has her ms." " physiology body sex medicine Chat with AIVocabulary GamePractice Reading