Webster's Unabridged Dictionary - Letter M - Page 28
Measurable (a.) Moderate; temperate; not excessive.
Of his diet measurable was he. -- Chaucer. -- Meas"ur*a*ble*ness, n. -- Meas"ur*a*bly, adv.
Yet do it measurably, as it becometh Christians. -- Latimer.
Measurable (a.) Capable of being measured; "measurable depths" [syn: measurable, mensurable] [ant: immeasurable, immensurable, unmeasurable, unmeasured].
Measurable (a.) Of distinguished importance; "a measurable figure in literature".
Measure (n.) 尺寸；分量 [U]；度量單位 [C]；度量法 [U]；度量器具 [C]；措施；手段；方法 [P1]；（判斷等的）基準，尺度 [C]；程度；限度；分寸 [U] [S1]；【音】拍子，小節 [C]；議案 [C] A standard of dimension; a fixed unit of quantity or extent; an extent or quantity in the fractions or multiples of which anything is estimated and stated; hence, a rule by which anything is adjusted or judged.
Measure (n.) An instrument by means of which size or quantity is measured, as a graduated line, rod, vessel, or the like.
Measure (n.) The dimensions or capacity of anything, reckoned according to some standard; size or extent, determined and stated; estimated extent; as, to take one's measure for a coat.
Measure (n.) The contents of a vessel by which quantity is measured; a quantity determined by a standard; a stated or limited quantity or amount.
Measure (n.) Extent or degree not excessive or beyong bounds; moderation; due restraint; esp. in the phrases, in measure; with measure; without or beyond measure.
Measure (n.) Determined extent, not to be exceeded; limit; allotted share, as of action, influence, ability, or the like; due proportion.
Measure (n.) The quantity determined by measuring, especially in buying and selling; as, to give good or full measure.
Measure (n.) Undefined quantity; extent; degree.
Measure (n.) Regulated division of movement.
Measure (n.) A regulated movement corresponding to the time in which the accompanying music is performed; but, especially, a slow and stately dance, like the minuet.
Measure (n.) The group or grouping of beats, caused by the regular recurrence of accented beats.
Measure (n.) The space between two bars.
Measure (n.) The manner of ordering and combining the quantities, or long and short syllables; meter; rhythm; hence, a foot; as, a poem in iambic measure.
Measure (n.) A number which is contained in a given number a number of times without a remainder; as in the phrases, the common measure, the greatest common measure, etc., of two or more numbers.
Measure (n.) A step or definite part of a progressive course or policy; a means to an end; an act designed for the accomplishment of an object; as, political measures; prudent measures; an inefficient measure.
Measure (n.) The act of measuring; measurement.
Measure (n.) Beds or strata; as, coal measures; lead measures.
Measured (imp. & p. p.) of Measure.
Measuring (p. pr. & vb. n.) of Measure.
Measure (v. t.) 測量；計量；打量；估量；（按量）配給 [（+out）]；酌量，權衡 To ascertain by use of a measuring instrument; to compute or ascertain the extent, quantity, dimensions, or capacity of, by a certain rule or standard; to take the dimensions of; hence, to estimate; to judge of; to value; to appraise.
Measure (v. t.) To serve as the measure of; as, the thermometer measures changes of temperature.
Measure (v. t.) To pass throught or over in journeying, as if laying off and determining the distance.
Measure (v. t.) To adjust by a rule or standard.
Measure (v. t.) To allot or distribute by measure; to set off or apart by measure; -- often with out or off.
Measure (v. i.) 量；有……長（或闊，高等） To make a measurement or measurements.
Measure (v. i.) To result, or turn out, on measuring; as, the grain measures well; the pieces measure unequally.
Measure (v. i.) To be of a certain size or quantity, or to have a certain length, breadth, or thickness, or a certain capacity according to a standard measure; as, cloth measures three fourths of a yard; a tree measures three feet in diameter.
Measure (n.) Any maneuver made as part of progress toward a goal; "the situation called for strong measures"; "the police took steps to reduce crime" [syn: {measure}, {step}].
Measure (n.) How much there is or how many there are of something that you can quantify [syn: {measure}, {quantity}, {amount}].
Measure (n.) A statute in draft before it becomes law; "they held a public hearing on the bill" [syn: {bill}, {measure}].
Measure (n.) The act or process of assigning numbers to phenomena according to a rule; "the measurements were carefully done"; "his mental measurings proved remarkably accurate" [syn: {measurement}, {measuring}, {measure}, {mensuration}].
Measure (n.) A basis for comparison; a reference point against which other things can be evaluated; "the schools comply with federal standards"; "they set the measure for all subsequent work" [syn: {standard}, {criterion}, {measure}, {touchstone}].
Measure (n.) (prosody) The accent in a metrical foot of verse [syn: {meter}, {metre}, {measure}, {beat}, {cadence}].
Measure (n.) Musical notation for a repeating pattern of musical beats; "the orchestra omitted the last twelve bars of the song" [syn: {measure}, {bar}].
Measure (n.) Measuring instrument having a sequence of marks at regular intervals; used as a reference in making measurements [syn: {measuring stick}, {measure}, {measuring rod}].
Measure (n.) A container of some standard capacity that is used to obtain fixed amounts of a substance.
Measure (v.) Determine the measurements of something or somebody, take measurements of; "Measure the length of the wall" [syn: {measure}, {mensurate}, {measure out}].
Measure (v.) Express as a number or measure or quantity; "Can you quantify your results?" [syn: {quantify}, {measure}].
Measure (v.) Have certain dimensions; "This table surfaces measures 20inches by 36 inches".
Measure (v.) Evaluate or estimate the nature, quality, ability, extent, or significance of; "I will have the family jewels appraised by a professional"; "access all the factors when taking a risk" [syn: {measure}, {evaluate}, {valuate}, {assess}, {appraise}, {value}].
Measured (a.) Regulated or determined by a standard; hence, equal; uniform; graduated; limited; moderated; as, he walked with measured steps; he expressed himself in no measured terms.
Measured (a.) Careful and controlled, or not fast.
// Her response to their criticism was calm and measured.
Measureless (a.) 無限的；不可量的；極大的 Without measure; unlimited; immeasurable.
Measurement (n.) 測量法 [U]；測量，測定 [U]；尺寸，大小，長度；（女性的）三圍 [P] The act or result of measuring; mensuration; as, measurement is required.
Measurement (n.) The extent, size, capacity, amount. or quantity ascertained by measuring; as, its measurement is five acres.
Measurement (n.) The act or process of assigning numbers to phenomena according to a rule; "the measurements were carefully done"; "his mental measurings proved remarkably accurate" [syn: {measurement}, {measuring}, {measure}, {mensuration}].
Measurement (n.) (C2) [ C or U ] 丈量，測量 The act or process of measuring.
// The test is based on the measurement of blood levels.
// The machine makes thousands of measurements every day.
Measurement (n.) (B2) [ C ] （量得的）尺寸，大小，品質 A value, discovered by measuring, that correponds to the size, shape, quality, etc. of something.
// The measurements of both rooms were identical.
// What is your inside leg measurement?
Measurements (n. pl.) 尺碼（尤指三圍） Your measurements are the sizes of various parts of your body, especially your chest, waist, and hips, that you refer to when you want to buy clothes.
Measurer (n.) One who measures; one whose occupation or duty is to measure commondities in market.
Measure up (phrasal verb with measure) (v.) To be good enough, or as good as someone or something else.
// She could never measure up to her mother's expectations.
Measuring (a.) Used in, or adapted for, ascertaining measurements, or dividing by measure.
Meat (n.) [U] （食用的）肉；（蛋，貝類，果子等的）食用部分；實質，要點；內容；【古】食物，餐食 Food, in general; anything eaten for nourishment, either by man or beast. Hence, the edible part of anything; as, the meat of a lobster, a nut, or an egg.
Meat (n.) The flesh of animals used as food; esp., animal muscle; as, a breakfast of bread and fruit without meat.
Meat (n.) Specifically, dinner; the chief meal.
Meat (v. t.) (Obsolete) To supply with food.
Meat (n.) The flesh of animals (including fishes and birds and snails) used as food.
Meat (n.) The inner and usually edible part of a seed or grain or nut or fruit stone; "black walnut kernels are difficult to get out of the shell" [syn: {kernel}, {meat}].
Meat (n.) The choicest or most essential or most vital part of some idea or experience; "the gist of the prosecutor's argument"; "the heart and soul of the Republican Party"; "the nub of the story" [syn: {kernel}, {substance}, {core}, {center}, {centre}, {essence}, {gist}, {heart}, {heart and soul}, {inwardness}, {marrow}, {meat}, {nub}, {pith}, {sum}, {nitty- gritty}].
Meatal (a.) Of or pertaining to a meatus; resembling a meatus.
Meated (a.) Fed; fattened.
Meated (a.) Having (such) meat; -- used chiefly in composition; as, thick-meated.
Meath (n.) Alt. of Meathe.
Meathe (n.) A sweet liquor; mead.
Meatiness (n.) Quality of being meaty.
Meatless (a.) Having no meat; without food.
Meatoscope (n.) A speculum for examining a natural passage, as the urethra.
Meatotome (n.) An instrument for cutting into the urethra so as to enlarge its orifice.
Meatuses (n. pl. ) of Meatus.
Meatus (n. sing. & pl.) A natural passage or canal; as, the external auditory meatus. See Illust. of Ear.
Meaty (a.) Abounding in meat.
Meaw (n.) The sea mew.
Meaw (v. i.) See Mew, to cry as a cat.
Meawl (v. i.) See Mewl, and Miaul.
Meazel (n.) See 1st Measle.
Meazling (a.) Falling in small drops; mistling; mizzing.
Mebles (n. pl.) See Moebles.
Mecate (n.) A rope of hair or of maguey fiber, for tying horses, etc.
Mecca (n.) 麥加（阿拉伯語：مكّة المكرمة；羅馬化：Makkah Al-Mukarramah），伊斯蘭教第一大聖城，全稱是麥加·穆卡拉瑪，意為「榮譽的麥加」，中文較罕見的翻譯有滿克、墨克等譯名。麥加是伊斯蘭教最神聖的城市，擁有天房和禁寺。麥加有名的朝覲活動每年吸引將近300萬人，是伊斯蘭教的五功之一。
傳統上伊斯蘭教認為麥加是易斯馬儀（以實瑪利）的後代所建。七世紀時伊斯蘭教先知穆罕默德在麥加宣揚伊斯蘭教，當時該地是一個重要的商業中心，在伊斯蘭早期歷史上扮演著重要的角色。966年後，麥加一直都由當地的謝里夫所統治，直到1924年統治權歸紹德家族所有。[3]麥加進入現代後土地面積和基礎建設都大大擴增。
現代麥加是沙烏地阿拉伯麥加省的省會，麥加省是傳統上的希賈茲地區。麥加共有一百七十萬人口（2008），地處較為內陸的狹小山谷，距離海港吉達73公里，海拔277公尺高。
非穆斯林被禁止進入麥加和麥地那。
Mecca [3] (/ˈmɛkə/) or Makkah (Arabic: مكة Makkah [ˈmaka]) is a city in the Hejaz region of Saudi Arabia [4] that is also capital of the Makkah Region. The city is located 70 km (43 mi) inland from Jeddah in a narrow valley at a height of 277 m (909 ft) above sea level, and 340 kilometres (210 mi) south of Medina. Its resident population in 2012 was roughly 2 million, although visitors more than triple this number every year during the hajj ("pilgrimage") period held in the twelfth Muslim lunar month of Dhu al-Hijjah.
As the birthplace of Muhammad and the site of Muhammad's first revelation of the Quran (specifically, a cave 3 km (2 mi) from Mecca), [5] [6] Mecca is regarded as the holiest city in the religion of Islam [7] and a pilgrimage to it known as the Hajj is obligatory for all able Muslims. Mecca is home to the Kaaba, by majority description Islam's holiest site, as well as being the direction of Muslim prayer. Mecca was long ruled by Muhammad's descendants, the sharifs, acting either as independent rulers or as vassals to larger polities. It was conquered by Ibn Saud in 1925. In its modern period, Mecca has seen tremendous expansion in size and infrastructure, home to structures such as the Abraj Al Bait, also known as the Makkah Royal Clock Tower Hotel, the world's fourth tallest building and the building with the third largest amount of floor area. During this expansion, Mecca has lost some historical structures and archaeological sites, such as the Ajyad Fortress. [8] Today, more than 15 million Muslims visit Mecca annually, including several million during the few days of the Hajj. [9] As a result, Mecca has become one of the most cosmopolitan cities in the Muslim world, [10] even though non-Muslims are prohibited from entering the city. [11] [12]
Meccawee (a.) Of or pertaining to Mecca, in Arabia.
Meccawee (n.) A native or inhabitant of Mecca.
Mechanic (a.) The art of the application of the laws of motion or force to construction.
Mechanic (a.) A mechanician; an artisan; an artificer; one who practices any mechanic art; one skilled or employed in shaping and uniting materials, as wood, metal, etc., into any kind of structure, machine, or other object, requiring the use of tools, or instruments.
Mechanic (a.) Having to do with the application of the laws of motion in the art of constructing or making things; of or pertaining to mechanics; mechanical; as, the mechanic arts.
Mechanic (a.) Of or pertaining to a mechanic or artificer, or to the class of artisans; hence, rude; common; vulgar.
Mechanic (a.) Base.
Mechanical (a.) 機械的，用機械的 [Z]；似機械的，呆板的，無表情（或感情）的，無意識的；機械學的，力學的；物理的；手工操作的，技工的；技巧上的，細節上的 Pertaining to, governed by, or in accordance with, mechanics, or the laws of motion; pertaining to the quantitative relations of force and matter, as distinguished from mental, vital, chemical, etc.; as, mechanical principles; a mechanical theory; mechanical deposits.
Mechanical (a.) Of or pertaining to a machine or to machinery or tools; made or formed by a machine or with tools; as, mechanical precision; mechanical products.
Mechanical (a.) Done as if by a machine; uninfluenced by will or emotion; proceeding automatically, or by habit, without special intention or reflection; as, mechanical singing; mechanical verses; mechanical service.
Mechanical (a.) Made and operated by interaction of forces without a directing intelligence; as, a mechanical universe.
Mechanical (a.) Obtained by trial, by measurements, etc.; approximate; empirical. See the 2d Note under Geometric.
Mechanical (n.) (Obsolete) 機械工，修理工，技工 [C] A mechanic.
Mechanicalize (v. t.) (variants: also British Mechanicalise) To cause to become mechanical.
Mechanically (adv.) 機械方面地；機械地；物理上地 In a mechanical manner.
Mechanicalness (n.) The state or quality of being mechanical.
Mechanician (n.) 機械技師，機械學者，機械工 One skilled in the theory or construction of machines; a machinist.
Mechanico-chemical (a.) Pertaining to, connected with, or dependent upon, both mechanics and chemistry; -- said especially of those sciences which treat of such phenomena as seem to depend on the laws both of mechanics and chemistry, as electricity and magnetism.
Mechanics (n.) That science, or branch of applied mathematics, which treats of the action of forces on bodies.
Note: That part of mechanics which considers the action of forces in producing rest or equilibrium is called statics; that which relates to such action in producing motion is called dynamics. The term mechanics includes the action of forces on all bodies, whether solid, liquid, or gaseous. It is sometimes, however, and formerly was often, used distinctively of solid bodies only: The mechanics of liquid bodies is called also hydrostatics, or hydrodynamics, according as the laws of rest or of motion are considered. The mechanics of gaseous bodies is called also pneumatics. The mechanics of fluids in motion, with special reference to the methods of obtaining from them useful results, constitutes hydraulics.
Animal mechanics (Physiol.), That portion of physiology which has for its object the investigation of the laws of equilibrium and motion in the animal body. The most important mechanical principle is that of the lever, the bones forming the arms of the levers, the contractile muscles the power, the joints the fulcra or points of support, while the weight of the body or of the individual limbs constitutes the weight or resistance.
Applied mechanics, The principles of abstract mechanics applied to human art; also, the practical application of the laws of matter and motion to the construction of machines and structures of all kinds.
Orbital mechanics, The principles governing the motion of bodies in orbit around other bodies under gravitational influence, such as artificial Earth satellites.
Mechanics (n.) The branch of physics concerned with the motion of bodies in a frame of reference.
Mechanics (n.) The technical aspects of doing something; "a mechanism of social control"; "mechanisms of communication"; "the mechanics of prose style" [syn: mechanism, mechanics].
Mechanism (n.) 機械，機構，結構，機理，技巧 The arrangement or relation of the parts of a machine; the parts of a machine, taken collectively; the arrangement or relation of the parts of anything as adapted to produce an effect; as, the mechanism of a watch; the mechanism of a sewing machine; the mechanism of a seed pod.
Mechanism (n.) The series of causal relations that operate to produce an effect in any system; as, the mechanism of a chemical reaction.
Mechanism (n.) Mechanical operation or action.
Mechanism (n.) An ideal machine; a combination of movable bodies constituting a machine, but considered only with regard to relative movements.
Mechanist (n.) 機械技師；【哲】機械論者 A maker of machines; one skilled in mechanics.
Mechanist (n.) One who regards the phenomena of nature as the effects of forces merely mechanical.
Mechanist (n.) A philosopher who subscribes to the doctrine of mechanism.
Mechanized (imp. & p. p.) of Mechanize.
Mechanizing (p. pr. & vb. n.) of Mechanize.
Mechanize (v. t.) To cause to be mechanical.
Mechanograph (n.) One of a number of copies of anything multiplied mechanically.
Mechanographic (a.) Treating of mechanics.
Mechanographic (a.) Written, copied, or recorded by machinery; produced by mechanography; as, a mechanographic record of changes of temperature; mechanographic prints.
Mechanographist (n.) An artist who, by mechanical means, multiplies copies of works of art.
Mechanography (n.) The art of mechanically multiplying copies of a writing, or any work of art.
Mechanurgy (n.) That branch of science which treats of moving machines.
Mechitarist (n.) One of a religious congregation of the Roman Catholic Church devoted to the improvement of Armenians.
Mechlin (n.) A kind of lace made at, or originating in, Mechlin, in Belgium.
Mechoacan (n.) A species of jalap, of very feeble properties, said to be obtained from the root of a species of Convolvulus (C. Mechoacan); -- so called from Michoacan, in Mexico, whence it is obtained.
Meckelian (a.) Pertaining to, or discovered by, J. F. Meckel, a German anatomist.
Meconate (n.) A salt of meconic acid.
Meconic (a.) Pertaining to, or obtained from, the poppy or opium; specif. (Chem.), designating an acid related to aconitic acid, found in opium and extracted as a white crystalline substance.
Meconidine (n.) An alkaloid found in opium, and extracted as a yellow amorphous substance which is easily decomposed.
Meconidium (n.) A kind of gonophore produced by hydroids of the genus Gonothyraea. It has tentacles, and otherwise resembles a free medusa, but remains attached by a pedicel.
Meconin (n.) A substance regarded as an anhydride of meconinic acid, existing in opium and extracted as a white crystalline substance. Also erroneously called meconina, meconia, etc., as though it were an alkaloid.
Meconinic (a.) Pertaining to, or designating, an acid which occurs in opium, and which may be obtained by oxidizing narcotine.