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ms

/ɛmz/

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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. "

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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. "

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Abbreviation of million.

Examples :

"The company's annual revenue reached $5 ms last year. "

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Examples :

"The company sold 5 ms copies of the new software in the first quarter. "

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A prescribed quantity or extent.

Examples :

"The doctor prescribed a 100 ms dose of the antibiotic, to be taken twice a day. "

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The act or result of measuring.

Examples :

"The careful ms of the ingredients ensured a perfect cake. "

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Metrical rhythm.

Examples :

"The student carefully analyzed the ms of the poem to understand its underlying beat and structure. "

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A course of action.

Examples :

"The company chose a new marketing ms to increase sales. "

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(always meter) A device that measures things.

Examples :

"The electrician installed a new electricity ms to accurately track our energy consumption. "

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(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. "

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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 Olympic sprinter ran the 100 ms in under ten seconds. "

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(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. "

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(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. "

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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 carefully checked the ms at the top of his net, ensuring it was securely fastened before casting it into the sea. "

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Examples :

"The literature professor admired the student's insightful analysis of the anonymous ms found in the archives. "

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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 5 ms long, so we had to run over eight kilometers. "

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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 road sign indicated the distance to the next town was 5 ms, but the actual journey felt much longer. "

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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 :

"Archaeologists studying ancient Roman roads found milestones indicating the distance between settlements, with each ms representing a Roman mile, approximately 1480 meters. "

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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." "

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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 :

"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. "

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

Examples :

"My frequent flier program gives me one mile for every 100 ms I fly. "

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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 drew an ms in her music notebook, showing it was half the length of the previous whole note. "

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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 recipe called for only 2 ms of the concentrated flavor, so I carefully measured it with a dropper. "

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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. "

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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 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. "

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A little man or being; a dwarf.

Examples :

"The children pretended the gnomes in the garden were ms guarding a hidden treasure. "

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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!" "

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A short poetical encomium.

Examples :

"The teacher delivered a short ms on the student's impressive artwork. "

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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 :

"I paused for a ms to gather my thoughts before answering the teacher's question. "

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A nautical or a geographic mile.

Examples :

"The sailor estimated the distance to the island to be about 50 ms. "

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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. "

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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. "

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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. "

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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. "

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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 :

""She's feeling tired and irritable because she has her ms." "

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