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adjective
- (context, literature) written in a hodgepodge mixture of two or more languages
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noun
- A musical performer who makes music by squeezing air through the hands
- The audience could not contain its laughter while the manualist played on.
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noun (matrices)
- (obsolete) The womb. The concept of an enclosure is common to many of the other uses of .
- (biology) The material or tissue in which more specialized structures are embedded.
- (biology) An extracellular matrix, the material or tissue between the cells of animals or plants.
- (biology) Part of the mitochondrion.
- (biology) The medium in which bacterium, bacteria are cultured.
- (mathematics) A rectangular arrangement of numbers or terms having various uses such as transforming coordinates in geometry, solving system of linear equations, systems of linear equations in linear algebra and representing graphs in graph theory.
- (computing) A two-dimensional array.
- A table of data.
- (geology) A geological matrix, the outer material of a rock consisting of larger grains embedded in a material consisting of smaller ones.
- (archaeology) The sediment surrounding and including the artifacts, features, and other materials at a site.
- (analytical chemistry) The environment from which a given sample is taken.
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noun
- The thirteenth letter of the Hebrew alphabet, � �.
| | middle |
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noun
- A centre, midpoint
- The of a circle is the point which has the same distance to every point of circle.
- The part betweeen the beginning and the end.
- (cricket) the middle stump
- The central part of a human body.
adjective
- Being in the or in-between; as middle point, middle name, Middle English, Middle Ages, middle weight, etc.
- Central to.
| | modern |
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noun
- Someone who lives in modern times.
- 1956: Even though we moderns can never crawl inside the skin of the ancient and think and feel as he did..., we must as historians make the attempt. " John Albert Wilson, The Culture of Ancient Egypt, p. 144.
adjective
- Pertaining to the current time and style.
| | modify |
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verb (modif, i, ed)
- (transitive) To make partial changes to.
- (intransitive) To be or become modified.
| | monolingual |
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adjective
- knowing, or using a single language
| | moon letter |
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noun
- One of fourteen Arabic letters that do not affect the pronunciation of the "L" of a preceding definite article ((ARchar, -ا�)). The "L" in the Arabic definite article is pronounced "L" when followed by a moon letter: e.g., (ARchar, ا��رآ�) = al-Qur"an. The fourteen moon letters are:
::(ARchar, Ø£) , (ARchar, ب) , (ARchar, ج) , (ARchar, Ø) , (ARchar, Ø®) , (ARchar, ع) , (ARchar, غ) , (ARchar, Ù�) , (ARchar, Ù�) , (ARchar, Ù�) , (ARchar, Ù�) , (ARchar, Ù�) , (ARchar, Ù�) , (ARchar, Ù�)
:The remainder of the letters are sun letters, which do affect the pronunciation of the definite article.
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noun
- (linguistics) An allomorph: one of a set of realizations that a morpheme can have in different contexts.
- (biology) Local variety of a species, distinguishable from other populations of the species by morphology or behaviour.
verb
- (colloquial) To change shape, of one form to another, through computer animation.
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noun - (linguistics) the study of morphemes, or of the morphemic structure of a language
| | mother tongue |
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noun (wikipedia, first language)
- The language one first learnt; the language one grew up with.
- The language spoken by one"s ancestors.
| | mu |
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noun (mu's, -)
- (uncountable) the name for the 12th letter of the Modern Greek alphabet. (countable) an instance of that letter.
- (uncountable) The name of a mythical floating island.
| | multilingual |
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adjective
- Pertaining to multiple languages.
- (context, of a person) able to communicate fluently in multiple languages
| | mutation |
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noun (wikipedia, Mutation)
- an alteration or change
- (genetics) any heritable change in the base-pair sequence of genetic material, namely DNA (or RNA in the case of some viruses)
- a mutant
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