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noun
- (context, now historical) A copy made by the manifold writing process.
- (mechanics) A pipe fitting or similar device that connects multiple inputs or outputs.
- (context, US regional, plural) The third stomach of a ruminant animal.
- 1830 http://www.cals.ncsu.edu/agexed/aee501/sheep.html Anson, Somerset Co. Me., accessed 12 June 2007
- :My conjecture being right he will find the third stomach, or manifolds, the seat of difficulty.
- (mathematics) A topological space that looks locally like the "ordinary" Euclidean space <math>\mathbb{R}^n</math> and is a Hausdorff space.
adjective
- various, Various in kind or quality; many in number; numerous; multiplied; complicated; diverse.(rfex)
- exhibit, Exhibited at diverse times or in various ways.
- c1384 ... the manyfold grace of God. " I Petre 4:10 (http://wesley.nnu.edu/biblical_studies/wycliffe/ Wycliffe's Bible)
- 1611 The manifold wisdom of God. " http://en.wikisource.org/wiki/Bible_%28King_James%29/Ephesians?oldid=448367
- Chapter_3 Ephesians 3:10. (King James Bible)
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noun
- Matter which may be shaped or manipulated, particularly in making something.
- Asphalt, composed of oil and sand, is a widely used for roads.
- Cloth to be made into a garment.
- You'll need about a yard of to make this.
- (entertainment) Things written to be performed.
- We were a warm-up act at the time; we didn't have enough original to headline.
- A person who is qualified for a certain position or activity.
- Joe Manchin is a great governor, and I also believe he is presidential .
adjective
- Having to do with matter.
- This compound has a number of interesting properties.
- Worldly, as opposed to spiritual.
- Don't let concerns get in the way of living a good life.
- significant
- You've made several contributions to this project.
- This is the most fact in this lawsuit.
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noun
- Constant concern over material possessions and wealth; a great or excessive regard for worldly concerns.
- The philosophical belief that nothing exists beyond what is physical (also called physicalism).
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adverb
- In a material manner; pertaining to physical entities.
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noun
- (mathematics) Any function of multiple variables that satisfies certain properties and yields a number representative of its arguments.
- (context, mathematics, more, _, specifically) The arithmetic mean.
- (mathematics) Either of the two numbers in the middle of a proportion, as 2 and 3 in 1:2=3:6.
- Commonly, an intermediate value.
verb (means, meaning, meant)
- (transitive) To convey, signify, or indicate.
- What does this hieroglyph ?
- The sky is red this morning—does that we're in for a storm?
- (transitive) To want or intend to convey.
- I'm afraid I don't understand what you .
- Say what you and mean what you say.
- (transitive) To intend; to plan on doing.
- I didn't to knock your tooth out.
- I mean to go to Baddeck this summer.
- I meant to take the car in for a smog check, but it slipped my mind.
- (transitive) To have conviction in what one says.
- Does she really what she said to him last night?
- Say what you mean and what you say.
- (transitive) To have intentions of a some kind.
- Don't be angry; she meant well.
- Someone's coming up. He means business.
- (transitive) To result in; to bring about.
- One faltering step means certain death.
adjective
- Causing or intending to cause intentional harm; bearing ill will towards another; cruel; malicious.
- Watch out for her, she's . I said good morning to her, and she punched me in the nose.
- Miserly; stingy.
- ''He's so . I've never seen him spend so much as five pounds on presents for his children.
- Selfish; acting without consideration of others; unkind.
- It was to steal the girl's piggy bank, but he just had to get uptown and he had no cash of his own.
- Powerful; fierce; harsh; damaging.
- It must have been a typhoon that levelled this town.
- Accomplished with great skill; deft; hard to compete with.
- Your mother can roll a cigarette.
- He hits a backhand.
- Low in quality; inferior.
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adjective - Related to mechanics, done by machine
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noun
- Within a machine or machinery; any mechanical means for the conversion or control of motion, or the transmission or control of power
- Any combination of cams, gears, links, belts, chains and logical mechanical elements
- A group of objects or parts that interact together. (Political machine)
- A mental, physical or chemical process.
- (philosophy) A theory that all natural phenomena can be explained by physical causes.
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adjective
- Of or pertaining to metaphysics.
- immaterial, Immaterial, supersensual, not physical (more properly, "beyond" that which is physical).
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noun
- (philosophy) The branch of philosophy which studies fundamental principles intended to describe or explain all that is, and which are not themselves explained by anything more fundamental; the study of first principles; the study of being insofar as it is being (ens in quantum ens).
- Philosophers sometimes say that is the study of the ultimate furniture of the universe.
- (philosophy) The view or theory of a particular philosopher or school of thinkers concerning the first principles which describe or explain all that is.
- The of Thomas Aquinas holds that all real beings have both essence and existence.
- In Aristotelian physical objects have both form and matter.
- In his Pensées, Pascal mentioned some first principles recognized within his : space, time, motion, and number.
- (context, by extension from the philosophical sense) Any fundamental principles or rules.
- 1990, Lance Morrow, "http://www.time.com/time/magazine/article/0,9171,969082,00.html Gorbachev: The Unlikely Patron of Change," Time, 1 Jan,
- :The of global power has changed. Markets are now more valuable than territory.
- The study of a supersensual realm or of phenomena which transcend the physical world.
- I have a collection of books on , covering astral projection, reincarnation, and communication with spirits.
- A displeasingly abstruse, complex written work on any subject.
- This political polemic strikes me as a protracted piece of overwrought, fog shrouded !
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verb
- (past of, mix)
adjective
- Having two or more separate aspects.
- I get a very feeling from this painting.
- Not completely pure.
- My joy was somewhat when my girlfriend said she was pregnant; it's a lot of responsibility.
- Including both men and women.
- The tennis match was with a male and a female on each side.
- ''My son attends a school, unlike my daughter, who goes to the local all-girl grammar school.
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noun
- a modal auxiliary
adjective
- of, or relating to a mode
- (grammar) of, relating to, or describing the mood of a clause
- (music) of, relating to, or composed in the moods of medieval ecclesiastical music
- (logic) of, or relating to modality
- (computer science) requiring immediate user interaction (often used as modal dialog or modal window)
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noun (modalities)
- the state of being modal
- (logic) the classification of propositions on the basis on whether they claim possibility, impossibility, contingency or necessity; mode
- (linguistics) the inflection of a verb that shows how its action is conceived by the speaker; mood
- (medicine) any method of therapy that involves therapeutic treatment
- any of the senses (such as sight or taste)
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noun (pl2=momenta)
- (physics) (of a body in motion) the product of its mass and velocity.
- The impetus, either of a body in motion, or of an idea or course of events.
- 1843, Nathaniel Hawthorne, "The Old Apple Dealer", in Mosses from an Old Manse
- :The travellers swarm forth from the cars. All are full of the which they have caught from their mode of conveyance.
- 1882, Thomas Hardy, Two on a Tower
- :Their intention to become husband and wife, at first halting and timorous, had accumulated with the lapse of hours, till it now bore down every obstacle in its course.
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noun
- The doctrine of the oneness and unity of reality, despite the appearance of diversity in the world.
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