Webster's Unabridged Dictionary - Letter M - Page 45
Micrometry (n.) The art of measuring with a micrometer.
Micromillimeter (n.) The millionth part of a meter.
Micron (n.) A measure of length; the thousandth part of one millimeter; the millionth part of a meter.
Micronesian (a.) Of or pertaining to Micronesia, a collective designation of the islands in the western part of the Pacific Ocean, embracing the Marshall and Gilbert groups, the Ladrones, the Carolines, etc.
Micronesians (n. pl.) A dark race inhabiting the Micronesian Islands. They are supposed to be a mixed race, derived from Polynesians and Papuans.
Micronometer (n.) An instrument for noting minute portions of time.
Microorganism (n.) 微生物，微小動植物 Any microscopic form of life; -- particularly applied to bacteria and similar organisms, esp. such are supposed to cause infectious diseases.
Microorganism (n.) [ C ] 微生物 A living thing that on its own is too small to be seen without a microscope.
Micropantograph (n.) 縮微片縮放儀 A kind of pantograph which produces copies microscopically minute.
Micropegmatite (n.) A rock showing under the microscope the structure of a graphic granite (pegmatite).
Microphone (n.) An instrument for intensifying and making audible very feeble sounds. It produces its effects by the changes of intensity in an electric current, occasioned by the variations in the contact resistance of conducting bodies, especially of imperfect conductors, under the action of acoustic vibrations.
Microphonics (n.) The science which treats of the means of increasing the intensity of low or weak sounds, or of the microphone.
Microphonous (a.) Serving to augment the intensity of weak sounds; microcoustic.
Microphotograph (n.) A microscopically small photograph of a picture, writing, printed page, etc.
Microphotograph (n.) An enlarged representation of a microscopic object, produced by throwing upon a sensitive plate the magnified image of an object formed by a microscope or other suitable combination of lenses.
Microphotography (n.) The art of making microphotographs.
Microphthalmia (n.) Alt. of Microphthalmy
Microphthalmy (n.) An unnatural smallness of the eyes, occurring as the result of disease or of imperfect development.
Microphyllous (a.) Small-leaved.
Microphytal (a.) Pertaining to, or of the nature of, microphytes.
Microphyte (n.) A very minute plant, one of certain unicellular algae, such as the germs of various infectious diseases are believed to be.
Micropyle (n.) An opening in the membranes surrounding the ovum, by which nutrition is assisted and the entrance of the spermatozoa permitted.
Micropyle (n.) An opening in the outer coat of a seed, through which the fecundating pollen enters the ovule.
Microscopal (a.) Pertaining to microscopy, or to the use of the microscope.
Microscope (n.) 顯微鏡 An optical instrument, consisting of a lens, or combination of lenses, for making an enlarged image of an object which is too minute to be viewed by the naked eye.
Microscope (n.) An optical instrument consisting of a lens or combination of lenses for making enlarged images of minute objects; especially : compound microscope.
Microscope (n.) A non-optical instrument (such as one using radiations other than light or using vibrations) for making enlarged images of minute objects an acoustic microscope.
Microscopial (a.) Microscopic.
Microscopic (a.) 顯微鏡的 Alt. of Microscopical
Microscopical (a.) Of or pertaining to the microscope or to microscopy; made with a microscope; as, microscopic observation.
Microscopical (a.) Able to see extremely minute objects.
Microscopical (a.) Very small; visible only by the aid of a microscope; as, a microscopic insect.
Microscopically (adv.) 用顯微鏡；極仔細地；精確地 By the microscope; with minute inspection; in a microscopic manner.
Microscopist (n.) One skilled in, or given to, microscopy.
Microscopy (n.) The use of the microscope; investigation with the microscope.
Microseme (a.) Having the orbital index relatively small; having the orbits broad transversely; -- opposed to megaseme.
Microspectroscope (n.) A spectroscope arranged for attachment to a microscope, for observation of the spectrum of light from minute portions of any substance.
Microsporangium (n.) A sporangium or conceptacle containing only very minute spores. Cf. Macrosporangium.
Microspore (n.) One of the exceedingly minute spores found in certain flowerless plants, as Selaginella and Isoetes, which bear two kinds of spores, one very much smaller than the other. Cf. Macrospore.
Microsporic (a.) Of or pertaining to microspores.
Microsthene (n.) One of a group of mammals having a small size as a typical characteristic. It includes the lower orders, as the Insectivora, Cheiroptera, Rodentia, and Edentata.
Microsthenic (a.) Having a typically small size; of or pertaining to the microsthenes.
Microtasimeter (n.) A tasimeter, especially when arranged for measuring very small extensions. See Tasimeter.
Microtome (n.) An instrument for making very thin sections for microscopical examination.
Microtomist (n.) One who is skilled in or practices microtomy.
Microtomy (n.) The art of using the microtome; investigation carried on with the microtome.
Microvolt (n.) A measure of electro-motive force; the millionth part of one volt.
Microweber (n.) The millionth part of one weber.
Microzoa (n. pl.) The Infusoria.
Microzoospore (n.) A small motile spore furnished with two vibratile cilia, found in certain green algae.
Microzyme (n.) A microorganism which is supposed to act like a ferment in causing or propagating certain infectious or contagious diseases; a pathogenic bacterial organism.
Micturition (n.) 頻尿，排尿 The act of voiding urine; also, a morbidly frequent passing of the urine, in consequence of disease.
Micturition (n.) The discharge of urine [syn: {micturition}, {urination}].
Micturition (n.) [ U ] (Specialized) （醫）頻尿；排尿 The act of passing urine from the body.
// Symptoms related to the prostate include painful micturition.
Mid (n.) Middle. [Obs.]
About the mid of night come to my tent. -- Shak.
Mid (prep.) See Amid.
Mid (a.) Denoting the middle part; as, in mid ocean.
No more the mounting larks, while Daphne sings, Shall list'ning in mid air suspend their wings. -- Pope.
Mid (a.) Occupying a middle position; middle; as, the mid finger; the mid hour of night.
Mid (a.) (Phon.) Made with a somewhat elevated position of some certain part of the tongue, in relation to the palate; midway between the high and the low; -- said of certain vowel sounds; as, [=a] ([=a]le), [e^] ([e^]ll), [=o] ([=o]ld). See Guide to Pronunciation, [sect][sect] 10, 11.
Note: Mid is much used as a prefix, or combining form, denoting the middle or middle part of a thing; as, mid-air, mid-channel, mid-age, midday, midland, etc. Also, specifically, in geometry, to denote a circle inscribed in a triangle (a midcircle), or relation to such a circle; as, mid-center, midradius.
Mid (a.) Used in combination to denote the middle; "midmorning"; "midsummer"; "in mid-1958"; "a mid-June wedding".
MID () Message IDentifier (ATM).
MID () Mobile Information Device.
MID () Multiple Interface Declaration (OLSR).
Mida (n.) The larva of the bean fly.
Midas (n.) A genus of longeared South American monkeys, including numerous species of marmosets. See Marmoset.
Midas's ear () A pulmonate mollusk (Auricula, / Ellobium, aurismidae); -- so called from resemblance to a human ear.
Midbrain (n.) The middle segment of the brain; the mesencephalon. See Brain.
Midday (n.) The middle part of the day; noon.
Midday (a.) Of or pertaining to noon; meridional; as, the midday sun.
Midday (n.) [ U ] (A2) 正午；中午 Twelve o'clock in the middle of the day.
// I just have a sandwich at midday/for my midday meal.
Midden (n.) A dunghill.
Midden (n.) An accumulation of refuse about a dwelling place; especially, an accumulation of shells or of cinders, bones, and other refuse on the supposed site of the dwelling places of prehistoric tribes, -- as on the shores of the Baltic Sea and in many other places. See Kitchen middens.
Midden crow () The common European crow.
Middest (a.) Situated most nearly in the middle; middlemost; midmost. [Obs.] " 'Mongst the middest crowd." -- Spenser.
Middest (n.) Midst; middle. [Obs.] -- Fuller.
Compare: Midden
Midden (n.) A dunghill. [Prov. Eng.]
Midden (n.) An accumulation of refuse about a dwelling place; especially, an accumulation of shells or of cinders, bones, and other refuse on the supposed site of the dwelling places of prehistoric tribes, -- as on the shores of the Baltic Sea and in many other places. See Kitchen middens.
Midding (n.) Same as Midden.
Middle (n.) [C] 中部，中途；中央 [the S]；【口】（人體的）腰部 The point or part equally distant from the extremities or exterior limits, as of a line, a surface, or a solid; an intervening point or part in space, time, or order of series; the midst; central portion ; specif., the waist. -- Chaucer. "The middle of the land." -- Judg. ix. 37.
In this, as in most questions of state, there is a middle. -- Burke.
Syn: See Midst.
Middle (a.) [B] 中部的，中間的；中等的，中級的；（大寫）中古的 Equally distant from the extreme either of a number of things or of one thing; mean; medial; as, the middle house in a row; a middle rank or station in life; flowers of middle summer; men of middle age.
Middle (a.) Intermediate; intervening.
Will, seeking good, finds many middle ends. -- Sir J. Davies.
Note: Middle is sometimes used in the formation of self-explaining compounds; as, middle-sized, middle-witted.
Middle Ages, The period of time intervening between the decline of the Roman Empire and the revival of letters. Hallam regards it as beginning with the sixth and ending with the fifteenth century.
Middle class, In England, people who have an intermediate position between the aristocracy and the artisan class. It includes professional men, bankers, merchants, and small landed proprietors.
The middle-class electorate of Great Britain. -- M. Arnold.
Middle distance. (Paint.) See Middle-ground.
Middle English. See English, n., 2.
Middle Kingdom, China.
Middle oil (Chem.), That part of the distillate obtained from coal tar which passes over between 170 [deg] and 230 [deg] Centigrade; -- distinguished from the light oil, and the heavy oil or dead oil.
Middle passage, In the slave trade, that part of the Atlantic Ocean between Africa and the West Indies.
Middle post. (Arch.) Same as King-post.
Middle States, New York, New Jersey, Pennsylvania, and Delaware; which, at the time of the formation of the Union, occupied a middle position between the Eastern States (or New England) and the Southern States. [U.S.].
Middle term (Logic), That term of a syllogism with which the two extremes are separately compared, and by means of which they are brought together in the conclusion. -- Brande.
Middle tint (Paint.), A subdued or neutral tint. -- Fairholt.
Middle voice. (Gram.) See under Voice.
Middle watch, The period from midnight to four a. m.; also, the men on watch during that time. -- Ham. Nav. Encyc.
Middle weight, A pugilist, boxer, or wrestler classed as of medium weight, i. e., over 140 and not over 160 lbs., in distinction from those classed as light weights, heavy weights, etc.
Middle (a.) Being neither at the beginning nor at the end in a series; "adolescence is an awkward in-between age"; "in a mediate position"; "the middle point on a line" [syn: in-between, mediate, middle].
Middle (a.) Equally distant from the extremes [syn: center(a), halfway, middle(a), midway].
Middle (a.) Of a stage in the development of a language or literature between earlier and later stages; "Middle English is the English language from about 1100 to 1500"; "Middle Gaelic" [ant: early, late].
Middle (a.) Between an earlier and a later period of time; "in the middle years"; "in his middle thirties" [ant: early, late].
Middle (n.) An area that is approximately central within some larger region; "it is in the center of town"; "they ran forward into the heart of the struggle"; "they were in the eye of the storm" [syn: center, centre, middle, heart, eye].
Middle (n.) An intermediate part or section; "A whole is that which has beginning, middle, and end"- Aristotle [ant: beginning, end].
Middle (n.) The middle area of the human torso (usually in front); "young American women believe that a bare midriff is fashionable" [syn: middle, midriff, midsection].
Middle (n.) Time between the beginning and the end of a temporal period; "the middle of the war"; "rain during the middle of April" [ant: beginning, commencement, end, ending, first, get-go, kickoff, offset, outset, showtime, start, starting time].
Middle (v.) Put in the middle.
Middle (a.) the waist.
Middle-age () Of or pertaining to the Middle Ages; mediaeval.
Middle-aged (a.) Being about the middle of the ordinary age of man; early in the century, it was considered between 30 and 50 years old, but by the end of the 19th centruy it was considered as 40 to 60.
Middle-aged (a.) Being roughly between 45 and 65 years old.
Middle-earth (n.) The world, considered as lying between heaven and hell. [Obs.] -- Shak.
Middle-ground (n.) (Paint.) That part of a picture between the foreground and the background.
Middlemen (n. pl. ) of Middleman
Middleman (n.) An agent between two parties; a broker; a go-between; any dealer between the producer and the consumer; in Ireland, one who takes land of the proprietors in large tracts, and then rents it out in small portions to the peasantry.
Middleman (n.) A person of intermediate rank; a commoner.
Middleman (n.) (Mil.) The man who occupies a central position in a file of soldiers.
Middlemost (a.) Being in the middle, or nearest the middle; midmost.
Middlemost (a.) Being in the exact middle [syn: middlemost, midmost].
Middler (n.) One of a middle or intermediate class in some schools and seminaries.
Middlescence (n.) The middle-age period of life, especially when considered a difficult time of self-doubt and readjustment.
Middling (a.) Of middle rank, state, size, or quality; about equally distant from the extremes; medium; moderate; mediocre; ordinary.
Middlings (n. pl.) A combination of the coarser parts of ground wheat the finest bran, separated from the fine flour and coarse bran in bolting; -- formerly regarded as valuable only for feed; but now, after separation of the bran, used for making the best quality of flour. Middlings contain a large proportion of gluten.
Middlings (n. pl.) In the southern and western parts of the United States, the portion of the hog between the ham and the shoulder; bacon; -- called also middles.
Middies (n. pl. ) of Middy
Middy (n.) A colloquial abbreviation of midshipman.
Midfeather (n.) A vertical water space in a fire box or combustion chamber.
Midfeather (n.) A support for the center of a tunnel.
Midgard (n.) The middle space or region between heaven and hell; the abode of human beings; the earth.
Midge (n.) Any one of many small, delicate, long-legged flies of the Chironomus, and allied genera, which do not bite. Their larvae are usually aquatic.
Midge (n.) A very small fly, abundant in many parts of the United States and Canada, noted for the irritating quality of its bite.
Midget (n.) A minute bloodsucking fly.
Midget (n.) A very diminutive person.
Midgut (n.) The middle part of the alimentary canal from the stomach, or entrance of the bile duct, to, or including, the large intestine.
Midheaven (n.) The midst or middle of heaven or the sky.
Midheaven (n.) The meridian, or middle line of the heavens; the point of the ecliptic on the meridian.
Midland (a.) Being in the interior country; distant from the coast or seashore; as, midland towns or inhabitants.
Midland (a.) Surrounded by the land; mediterranean.
Midland (n.) The interior or central region of a country; -- usually in the plural.
Midmain (n.) The middle part of the main or sea.
Midmost (a.) Middle; middlemost.