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.
Meme (n.) A cultural unit (an idea or value or pattern of behavior) that is passed from one person to another by non-genetic means (as by imitation); "memes are the cultural counterpart of genes."
Meme (n.) [coined by analogy with ?gene?, by Richard Dawkins] An idea considered as a replicator, esp. with the connotation that memes parasitize people into propagating them much as viruses do. Used esp. in the phrase meme complex denoting a group of mutually supporting memes that form an organized belief system, such as a religion. This lexicon is an (epidemiological) vector of the ?hacker subculture? meme complex; each entry might be considered a meme. However, meme is often misused to mean meme complex. Use of the term connotes acceptance of the idea that in humans (and presumably other tool-and language-using sophonts) cultural evolution by selection of adaptive ideas has superseded biological evolution by selection of hereditary traits. Hackers find this idea congenial for tolerably obvious reasons.
Meme, () [By analogy with "gene"] Richard Dawkins's term for an idea considered as a replicator, especially with the connotation that memes parasitise people into propagating them much as viruses do.
Memes can be considered the unit of cultural evolution. Ideas can evolve in a way analogous to biological evolution. Some ideas survive better than others; ideas can mutate through, for example, misunderstandings; and two ideas can recombine to produce a new idea involving elements of each parent idea.
The term is used especially in the phrase "meme complex" denoting a group of mutually supporting memes that form an organised belief system, such as a religion. However, "meme" is often misused to mean "meme complex."
Use of the term connotes acceptance of the idea that in humans (and presumably other tool- and language-using sophonts) cultural evolution by selection of adaptive ideas has become more important than biological evolution by selection of hereditary traits. Hackers find this idea congenial for tolerably obvious reasons.
See also memetic algorithm.
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Mementos (n. pl. ) of Memento.
Memento (n.) 紀念物；引起回憶的東西 A hint, suggestion, token, or memorial, to awaken memory; that which reminds or recalls to memory; a souvenir.
Seasonable mementos may be useful. -- Bacon.
Memento (n.) A reminder of past events [syn: memento, 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.
Memorabilia (n. pl.) Mementos of past events; souvenirs.
Memorabilia (n.) A record of things worth remembering.
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. --T. Hook.
Memorialize (v.) Address in a memorial; "The President memorialized the heroes of the battle" [syn: memorialize, memorialise].
Memorialize (v.) Be or provide a memorial to a person or an event; "This sculpture commemorates the victims of the concentration camps"; "We memorialized the Dead" [syn: commemorate, memorialize, memorialise, immortalize, immortalise, record].
Memorializer (n.) One who petitions by a memorial. -- T. Hook.
Memorist (n.) One who, or that which, causes to be remembered. [Obs.]
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. [Obs.]
They neglect to memorize their conquest. -- Spenser.
They meant to . . . memorize another Golgotha. -- Shak.
Memorize (v. t.) To commit to memory; to learn by heart.
Memorize (v.) Commit to memory; learn by heart; "Have you memorized your lines for the play yet?" [syn: memorize, memorise, con, learn].
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 is the purveyor of reason. -- Rambler.
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.
And what, before thy memory, was done From the begining. -- Milton.
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.
The memory of the just is blessed. -- Prov. x. 7.
That ever-living man of memory, Henry the Fifth. -- Shak.
The Nonconformists . . . have, as a body, always venerated her [Elizabeth's] memory. -- Macaulay.
Memory (n.) A memorial. [Obs.]
These weeds are memories of those worser hours. -- Shak.
Syn: Memory, Remembrance, Recollection, Reminiscence.
Usage: Memory is the generic term, denoting the power by which we reproduce past impressions. Remembrance is an exercise of that power when things occur spontaneously to our thoughts. In recollection we make a distinct effort to collect again, or call back, what we know has been formerly in the mind. Reminiscence is intermediate between remembrance and recollection, being a conscious process of recalling past occurrences, but without that full and varied reference to particular things which characterizes recollection. "When an idea again recurs without the operation of the like object on the external sensory, it is remembrance; if it be sought after by the mind, and with pain and endeavor found, and brought again into view, it is recollection." -- Locke.
To draw to memory, To put on record; to record. [Obs.] -- Chaucer. Gower.
Memory (n.) Something that is remembered; "search as he would, the memory was lost."
Memory (n.) The cognitive processes whereby past experience is remembered; "he can do it from memory"; "he enjoyed remembering his father" [syn: memory, remembering].
Memory (n.) The power of retaining and recalling past experience; "he had a good memory when he was younger" [syn: memory, retention, retentiveness, retentivity].
Memory (n.) An electronic memory device; "a memory and the CPU form the central part of a computer to which peripherals are attached" [syn: memory, computer memory, storage, computer storage, store, memory board].
Memory (n.) The area of cognitive psychology that studies memory processes; "he taught a graduate course on learning and memory."
Memory, () These days, usually used synonymously with Random Access Memory or Read-Only Memory, but in the general sense it can be any device that can hold data in machine-readable format.
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MEMORY, TIME OF. () According to the English common law, which has been altered by 2 & 3 Wm. IV., c. 71, the time of memory commenced from the reign of Richard the First, A. D. 1189. 2 Bl. Com. 31.
MEMORY, TIME OF. () But proof of a regular usage for twenty years, not explained or contradicted, is evidence upon which many public and private rights are held, and sufficient for a jury in finding the existence of an immemorial custom or prescription. 2 Saund. 175, a, d; Peake's Ev. 336; 2 Price's R. 450; 4 Price's R. 198.
MEMORY. () Understanding; a capacity to make contracts, a will, or to commit a
crime, so far as intention is necessary.
MEMORY. () Memory is sometimes employed to express the capacity of the understanding, and sometimes its power; when we speak of a retentive memory, we use it in the former sense; when of a ready memory, in the latter. Shelf. on Lun. Intr. 29, 30.
MEMORY. () Memory, in another sense, is the reputation, good or bad, which a man leaves at his death. This memory, when good, is highly prized by the relations of the deceased, and it is therefore libelous to throw a shade over the memory of the dead, when the writing has a tendency to create a breach of the peace, by inciting the friends and relations of the deceased to avenge the insult offered to the family. 4 T. R. 126; 5 Co. R. 125; Hawk. b. 1, c. 73, s. 1.
Memphian (a.) Of or pertaining to the ancient city of Memphis in Egypt; hence, Egyptian; as, Memphian darkness.
Memphian (a.) Of or pertaining to the city of Memphis in Tennessee.
Memphian (prop. n.) A native or resident of the city of Memphis in Tennessee. memsahib
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. [Obs.] -- Piers Plowman.
Men moot give silver to the poure friars. -- Chaucer.
A privy thief, men clepeth death. -- Chaucer.
Men (n.) The force of workers available [syn: work force, workforce, manpower, hands, men].
Menaccanite (n.) (Min.) 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.) 威脅地；威嚇地 In a threatening manner.
Menacingly (adv.) In a menacing manner; "the voice at the other end of the line dropped menacingly" [syn: menacingly, threateningly].
Menage (n.) See Manage.
Menage (n.) A collection of animals; a menagerie. [Obs.] -- Addison.
Menage (n.) A social group living together; a household.
Syn: family, household, house.
Menage (n.) A menage a trois. menage-a-trois
Menage (n.) A social unit living together; "he moved his family to Virginia"; "It was a good Christian household"; "I waited until the whole house was asleep"; "the teacher asked how many people made up his home" [syn: family, household, house, home, menage].
Menagerie (n.) A piace where animals are kept and trained.
Menagerie (n.) A collection of wild or exotic animals, kept for exhibition.
Menagerie (n.) A collection of live animals for study or display
Menagerie (n.) The facility where wild animals are housed for exhibition [syn: menagerie, zoo, zoological garden].
Menagogue (n.) (Med.) 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.) 可改正的 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.) 乞丐生活；化緣；行乞 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. [Obs.] -- Chaucer.
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.