Webster's Unabridged Dictionary - Letter M - Page 34
Meme (n.) [ C ] (Behaviour) (Specialized) (Biology) 網路爆紅（也被音譯為網絡模因或網路迷因） A cultural feature or a type of behaviour that is passed from one generation to another, without the influence of genes.
// A meme is the cultural equivalent of the unit of physical heredity, the gene.
Meme (n.) [ C ] (On internet) (Specialized) (Internet & telecoms) An idea, image, video, etc. that is spread very quickly on the internet.
// Take a look at the top ten internet memes for this past year.
Mementos (n. pl. ) of Memento.
Memento (n.) A hint, suggestion, token, or memorial, to awaken memory; that which reminds or recalls to memory; a souvenir.
Meminna (n.) A small deerlet, or chevrotain, of India.
Memnon (n.) A celebrated Egyptian statue near Thebes, said to have the property of emitting a harplike sound at sunrise.
Memoir (n.) Alt. of Memoirs.
Memoirs (n.) A memorial account; a history composed from personal experience and memory; an account of transactions or events (usually written in familiar style) as they are remembered by the writer. See History, 2.
Memoirs (n.) A memorial of any individual; a biography; often, a biography written without special regard to method and completeness.
Memoirs (n.) An account of something deemed noteworthy; an essay; a record of investigations of any subject; the journals and proceedings of a society.
Memoirist (n.) A writer of memoirs.
Memorabilia (n. pl.) Things remarkable and worthy of remembrance or record; also, the record of them.
Memorability (n.) The quality or state of being memorable.
Memorable (a.) 值得懷念的；難忘的；顯著的 Worthy to be remembered; very important or remarkable.
Memorandums (n. pl. ) of Memorandum.
Memoranda (n. pl. ) of Memorandum.
Memorandum (n.) 備忘錄，便箋，買賣契約書 A record of something which it is desired to remember; a note to help the memory.
Memorandum (n.) A brief or informal note in writing of some transaction, or an outline of an intended instrument; an instrument drawn up in a brief and compendious form.
Memorandum (n.) [ C ] (pl. Memoranda or Memorandums) (Specialized) (Document) (Business) 報告 A short written report prepared specially for a person or group of people that contains information about a particular matter.
// Michael Davis has prepared a memorandum outlining our need for an additional warehouse.
Memorandum (n.) [ C ] (Law) 協議備忘錄 An informal legal agreement.
// The three countries have signed a memorandum pledging to work together.
Memorandum (n.) [ C ] (Message) (Formal) 備忘錄；備忘便條 A memo.
Memorate (v. t.) (Obsolete) To commemorate.
Memorate (v. t.) (Obsolete) To memorize.
Memorative (a.) Commemorative.
Memoria (n.) Memory.
Memorial (a.) 紀念的；追悼的；記憶的 Serving to preserve remembrance; commemorative; as, a memorial building.
Memorial (a.) Mnemonic; assisting the memory.
Memorial (n.) 紀念物；紀念碑；紀念館；紀念活動 [C] [（+to）]；記錄；編年史 [P]；陳情書，請願書 [C] Anything intended to preserve the memory of a person or event; something which serves to keep something else in remembrance; a monument.
Memorial (n.) A memorandum; a record.
Memorial (n.) A written representation of facts, addressed to the government, or to some branch of it, or to a society, etc., -- often accompanied with a petition.
Memorial (n.) Memory; remembrance.
Memorial (n.) A species of informal state paper, much used in negotiation.
Memorialist (n.) One who writes or signs a memorial.
Memorialized (imp. & p. p.) of Memorialize.
Memorializing (p. pr. & vb. n.) of Memorialize.
Memorialize (v. t.) To address or petition by a memorial; to present a memorial to; as, to memorialize the legislature.
Memorializer (n.) One who petitions by a memorial.
Memorist (n.) One who, or that which, causes to be remembered.
Memoriter (adv.) By, or from, memory.
Memorized (imp. & p. p.) of Memorize.
Memorizing (p. pr. & vb. n.) of Memorize.
Memorize (v. t.) To cause to be remembered ; hence, to record.
Memorize (v. t.) To commit to memory; to learn by heart.
Memories (n. pl. ) of Memory.
Memory (n.) The faculty of the mind by which it retains the knowledge of previous thoughts, impressions, or events.
Memory (n.) The reach and positiveness with which a person can remember; the strength and trustworthiness of one's power to reach and represent or to recall the past; as, his memory was never wrong.
Memory (n.) The actual and distinct retention and recognition of past ideas in the mind; remembrance; as, in memory of youth; memories of foreign lands.
Memory (n.) The time within which past events can be or are remembered; as, within the memory of man.
Memory (n.) Something, or an aggregate of things, remembered; hence, character, conduct, etc., as preserved in remembrance, history, or tradition; posthumous fame; as, the war became only a memory.
Memory (n.) A memorial.
Memphian (a.) Of or pertaining to the ancient city of Memphis in Egypt; hence, Egyptian; as, Memphian darkness.
Men (n.) pl. of Man.
Men (pron.) A man; one; -- used with a verb in the singular, and corresponding to the present indefinite one or they.
Menaccanite (n.) An iron-black or steel-gray mineral, consisting chiefly of the oxides of iron and titanium. It is commonly massive, but occurs also in rhombohedral crystals. Called also titanic iron ore, and ilmenite.
Menace (v. i.) To act in threatening manner; to wear a threatening aspect.
Who ever knew the heavens menace so? -- Shak.
Menace (n.) 威脅，恐嚇 [C] [U] [（+to）]；威脅性的言行；具有危害性的人（或物）[C]；【口】極端討厭的人（或物）[C] The show of an intention to inflict evil; a threat or threatening; indication of a probable evil or catastrophe to come.
His (the pope's) commands, his rebukes, his menaces. -- Milman.
The dark menace of the distant war. -- Dryden.
Menaced (imp. & p. p.) of Menace.
Menacing (p. pr. & vb. n.) of Menace.
Menace (v. t.) 威脅，恐嚇；危及 To express or show an intention to inflict, or to hold out a prospect of inflicting, evil or injury upon; to threaten; -- usually followed by with before the harm threatened; as, to menace a country with war.
My master . . . did menace me with death. -- Shak.
Menace (v. t.) To threaten, as an evil to be inflicted.
By oath he menaced Revenge upon the cardinal. -- Shak.
Menace (n.) Something that is a source of danger; "earthquakes are a constant threat in Japan" [syn: {menace}, {threat}].
Menace (n.) A threat or the act of threatening; "he spoke with desperate menace".
Menace (v.) Pose a threat to; present a danger to; "The pollution is endangering the crops" [syn: {endanger}, {jeopardize}, {jeopardise}, {menace}, {threaten}, {imperil}, {peril}].
Menace (v.) Express a threat either by an utterance or a gesture; "he menaced the bank manager with a stick."
Menace (v.) Act in a threatening manner; "A menacing person."
Menace (n.) A threat; a declaration of an intention to cause evil to happen to another.
Menace (n.) When menaces to do an injury to another have been made, the party making them may, in general, be held to bail to keep the peace; and, when followed by any inconvenience or loss, the injured party has a civil action against the wrong doer. Com. Dig. Battery, D; Vin. Ab. h.t.; Bac. Ab. Assault; Co. Litt. 161 a, 162 b, 253 b; 2 Lutw. 1428. Vide Threat.
Menacer (n.) One who menaces.
Menacingly (adv.) In a threatening manner.
Menage (n.) See Manage.
Menage (n.) A collection of animals; a menagerie.
Menagerie (n.) A piace where animals are kept and trained.
Menagerie (n.) A collection of wild or exotic animals, kept for exhibition.
Menagogue (n.) Emmenagogue.
Menaia (n. pl. ) of Menaion.
Menaion (n.) (Eccl.) A work of twelve volumes, each containing the offices in the Greek Church for a month; also, each volume of the same. -- Shipley. Menild
Menald (a.) Alt. of Menild.
Menild (a.) Covered with spots; speckled; variegated. [Obs.]
Mended (imp. & p. p.) of Mend.
Mending (p. pr. & vb. n.) of Mend.
Mend (v. t.) 修理，修補；縫補；改善，改良；糾正，改正 To repair, as anything that is torn, broken, defaced, decayed, or the like; to restore from partial decay, injury, or defacement; to patch up; to put in shape or order again; to re-create; as, to mend a garment or a machine.
Mend (v. t.) To alter for the better; to set right; to reform; hence, to quicken; as, to mend one's manners or pace.
The best service they could do the state was to mend the lives of the persons who composed it. -- Sir W. Temple.
Mend (v. t.) To help, to advance, to further; to add to.
Though in some lands the grass is but short, yet it mends garden herbs and fruit. -- Mortimer.
You mend the jewel by the wearing it. -- Shak.
Syn: To improve; help; better; emend; amend; correct; rectify; reform.
Mend (v. i.) 漸癒；好轉；改過；改善 To grow better; to advance to a better state; to become improved ; to recover; to heal. -- Shak.
On the mend pred. a. Recovering from an illness or injury.
Mend (n.) 修繕部位 [C]；好轉；痊癒 [the S] Sewing that repairs a worn or torn hole (especially in a garment); "her stockings had several mends" [syn: mend, patch, darn].
Mend (n.) The act of putting something in working order again [syn: repair, fix, fixing, fixture, mend, mending, reparation].
Mend (v.) Restore by replacing a part or putting together what is torn or broken; "She repaired her TV set"; "Repair my shoes please" [syn: repair, mend, fix, bushel, doctor, furbish up, restore, touch on] [ant: break, bust].
Mend (v.) Heal or recover; "My broken leg is mending" [syn: mend, heal].
Mendable (a.) Capable of being mended.
Mendacious (a.) 虛偽的；說謊的 Given to deception or falsehood; lying; as, a mendacious person.
Mendacious (a.) False; counterfeit; containing falsehood; as, a mendacious statement. -- Men*da"cious*ly, adv. -- Men*da"cious*ness, n.
Mendacious (a.) Given to lying; "a mendacious child."
Mendacious (a.) Intentionally untrue; "a mendacious statement."
Mendacious (a.) Addicted to rhetoric.
Mendacities (n. pl. ) of Mendacity.
Mendacity (n.) 虛偽；謊言 The quality or state of being mendacious; a habit of lying. -- Macaulay.
Mendacity (n.) A falsehood; a lie. -- Sir T. Browne.
Syn: Lying; deceit; untruth; falsehood.
Mendacity (n.) The tendency to be untruthful [ant: veracity].
Mender (n.) One who mends or repairs.
Mender (n.) A skilled worker who mends or repairs things [syn: mender, repairer, fixer].
Mendiant (n.) See Mendinant. [Obs.]
Mendicancy (n.) The condition of being mendicant; beggary; begging. -- Burke.
Mendicancy (n.) 乞丐生活；乞討；化緣 The state of being a beggar or mendicant; "they were reduced to mendicancy" [syn: beggary, mendicancy, mendicity].
Mendicancy (n.) A solicitation for money or food (especially in the street by an apparently penniless person) [syn: beggary, begging, mendicancy].
Mendicant (a.) 行乞的；托缽修道會的 Practicing beggary; begging; living on alms; as, mendicant friars.
Mendicant orders (R. C. Ch.), Certain monastic orders which are forbidden to acquire landed property and are required to be supported by alms, esp. the Franciscans, the Dominicans, the Carmelites, and the Augustinians.
Mendicant (n.) 乞丐；（常作M-）托缽僧 A beggar; esp., one who makes a business of begging; specifically, a begging friar.
Mendicant (a.) Practicing beggary; "mendicant friars."
Mendicant (n.) A male member of a religious order that originally relied solely on alms [syn: friar, mendicant].
Mendicant (n.) A pauper who lives by begging [syn: beggar, mendicant].
Mendicate (v. t.& i.) To beg. [R.] -- Johnson.
Mendication (n.) The act or practice of begging; beggary; mendicancy. -- Sir T. Browne.
Mendicity (n.) The practice of begging; the life of a beggar; mendicancy. -- Rom. of R.
Mendicity (n.) The state of being a beggar or mendicant; "they were reduced to mendicancy" [syn: beggary, mendicancy, mendicity].
Mendinant (n.) A mendicant or begging friar.
Mendment (n.) Amendment. [Obs.]
Mendole (n.) (Zool.) The cackerel.
Mendregal (n.) (Zool.) Medregal.
Mends (n.) See Amends. [Obs.] -- Shak.
Mente (imp.) of Menge.
Meinte (imp.) of Menge.
Ment (p. p.) of Menge.
Meint (p. p.) of Menge.
Menge (v. i.) [imp. {Mente}, {Meinte}; p. p. {Ment}, {Meint}.] [See {Mingle}.] To mix. [Obs.] -- Spenser.
Menhaden (n.) (Zool.) An American marine fish ({Brevoortia tyrannus) of the Herring family ({Clupeidae), chiefly valuable for its oil and as a component of fertilizers; -- called also mossbunker, bony fish, chebog, pogy, hardhead, whitefish, etc.
Menhaden (n.) Shad-like North American marine fishes used for fish meal and oil and fertilizer [syn: menhaden, Brevoortia tyrannis].
Menhir (n.) A large stone set upright in olden times as a memorial or monument. Many, of unknown date, are found in Brittany and throughout Northern Europe.
Menhir (n.) A tall upright megalith; found primarily in England and northern France [syn: menhir, standing stone].
Menial (a.) 僕人的；適於僕人的；奴顏婢膝的；卑賤的 Belonging to a retinue or train of servants; performing servile office; serving.
Two menial dogs before their master pressed. -- Dryden.
Menial (a.) Pertaining to servants, esp. domestic servants; servile; low; mean ; as, menial tasks. " Menial offices." -- Swift.
Menial (n.) 奴僕；奴顏婢膝的人 [C] A domestic servant or retainer, esp. one of humble rank; one employed in low or servile offices.