Webster's Unabridged Dictionary - Letter M - Page 52
Mirror (n.) See Speculum.
Mirror carp (Zool.), A domesticated variety of the carp, having only three or fur rows of very large scales side.
Mirror plate. (a) A flat glass mirror without a frame.
Mirror plate. (b) Flat glass used for making mirrors.
Mirror writing, A manner or form of backward writing, making manuscript resembling in slant and order of letters the reflection of ordinary writing in a mirror. The substitution of this manner of writing for the common manner is a symptom of some kinds of nervous disease.
Mirrored (imp. & p. p.) of Mirror
Mirroring (p. pr. & vb. n.) of Mirror
Mirror (v. t.) To reflect, as in a mirror.
Mirror (v. t.) To copy or duplicate; to mimic or imitate; as, the files at Project Gutenberg were mirrored on several other ftp sites around the world.
Mirror (v. t.) To have a close resemblance to; as, his opinions often mirrored those of his wife.
Mirror (n.) Polished surface that forms images by reflecting light.
Mirror (n.) A faithful depiction or reflection; "the best mirror is an old friend."
Mirror (v.) Reflect as if in a mirror; "The smallest pond at night mirrors the firmament above."
Mirror (v.) Reflect or resemble; "The plane crash in Milan mirrored the attack in the World Trade Center."
Mirror
Mirroring, ()
Writing duplicate data to more than one device (usually two hard disks), in order to protect against loss of data in the event of device failure. This technique may be implemented in either hardware (sharing a disk controller and cables) or in software. It is a common feature of RAID systems.
Several operating systems support software disk mirroring or disk-duplexing, e.g. Novell NetWare.
See also Redundant Array of Independent Disks.
Interestingly, when this technique is used with magnetic tape storage systems, it is usually called "twinning".
A less expensive alternative, which only limits the amount of data loss, is to make regular backups from a single disk to magnetic tape.
Mirror
Mirroring, ()
Mirror site.
(1998-06-11)
Mirth (n.) 歡笑，歡樂，愉快 Merriment; gayety accompanied with laughter; jollity.
Then will I cause to cease . . . from the streets of Jerusalem, the voice of mirth. -- Jer. vii. 34.
Compare: Merriment
Merriment (n.) [ U ] 歡笑；歡樂 An occasion when people laugh or have an enjoyable time together.
// Sounds of merriment came from the kitchen.
// His unusual name has long been a source of merriment among his friends.
Mirth (n.) That which causes merriment. [Obs.] -- Shak.
Syn: Merriment; joyousness; gladness; fun; frolic; glee; hilarity; festivity; jollity. See Gladness.
Mirth (n.) Happiness and laughter.
Mirth (n.) [ U ] (Literary) 歡笑；歡樂，高興 Laughter, humour, or happiness.
// Her impersonations of our teachers were a source of considerable mirth.
Compare: Impersonate
Impersonate (v.) [ T ] （尤指為引人發笑）扮演，模仿 To intentionally copy another person's characteristics, such as their behaviour, speech, appearance, or expressions, especially to make people laugh.
// She's the woman who impersonates all the celebrities on TV.
Impersonate (v.) [ T ] 假冒，冒充 To attempt to deceive someone by pretending that you are another person.
// He was fined for impersonating a police officer.
Impersonation (n.) [ C or U ] 扮演；模仿；人格化 An act of pretending to be another person for the purpose of entertainment or fraud.
// He does a brilliant impersonation of Charles.
// He did an impersonation of Fred Astaire.
Mirth (n.) Great merriment [syn: hilarity, mirth, mirthfulness, glee, gleefulness].
Mirthful (a.) 愉快的，高興的 Full of mirth or merriment; merry; as, mirthful children.
Mirthful (a.) Indicating or inspiring mirth; as, a mirthful face.
Mirthful, comic shows. -- Shak. -- Mirth"ful*ly, adv. -- Mirth"ful*ness, n.
Mirthful (a.) Full of or showing high-spirited merriment; "when hearts were young and gay"; "a poet could not but be gay, in such a jocund company"- Wordsworth; "the jolly crowd at the reunion"; "jolly old Saint Nick"; "a jovial old gentleman"; "have a merry Christmas"; "peals of merry laughter"; "a mirthful laugh" [syn: gay, jocund, jolly, jovial, merry, mirthful].
Mirthful (a.) Arousing or provoking laughter; "an amusing film with a steady stream of pranks and pratfalls"; "an amusing fellow"; "a comic hat"; "a comical look of surprise"; "funny stories that made everybody laugh"; "a very funny writer"; "it would have been laughable if it hadn't hurt so much"; "a mirthful experience"; "risible courtroom antics" [syn: amusing, comic, comical, funny, laughable, mirthful, risible].
Mirthless (a.) 不快樂的，悲傷的，陰森的 Without mirth. -- Mirth"less*ness, n.
Mirthless (a.) Lacking mirth.
Miry (a.) Abounding with deep mud; full of mire; muddy; as, a miry road.
Miry (a.) (Of soil) Soft and watery; "the ground was boggy under foot"; "a marshy coastline"; "miry roads"; "wet mucky lowland"; "muddy barnyard"; "quaggy terrain"; "the sloughy edge of the pond"; "swampy bayous" [syn: boggy, marshy, miry, mucky, muddy, quaggy, sloppy, sloughy, soggy, squashy, swampy, waterlogged].
Mirza (n.) The common title of honor in Persia, prefixed to the surname of an individual. When appended to the surname, it signifies Prince.
Mis- () A prefix used adjectively and adverbially in the sense of amiss, wrong, ill, wrongly, unsuitably; as, misdeed, mislead, mischief, miscreant.
Mis (a. & adv.) Wrong; amiss. [Obs.] "To correcten that [which] is mis." -- Chaucer.
MIS, () Management Information System
MIS, () Mega Iterations per Second.
Misacceptation (n.) Wrong acceptation; understanding in a wrong sense.
Misaccompt (v. t.) To account or reckon wrongly. [Obs.] -- Chaucer.
Misadjust (v. t.) To adjust wrongly of unsuitably; to throw of adjustment. -- I. Taylor.
Misadjustment (n.) Wrong adjustment; unsuitable arrangement.
Misadventure (n.) 運氣不佳的遭遇 Mischance; misfortune; ill lick; unlucky accident; ill adventure. -- Chaucer.
Homicide by misadventure (Law), homicide which occurs when a man, doing a lawful act, without any intention of injury, unfortunately kills another; -- called also excusable homicide. See Homicide. -- Blackstone.
Syn: Mischance; mishap; misfortune; disaster; calamity.
Misadventure (n.) An instance of misfortune [syn: mishap, misadventure, mischance].
Misadventure, () crim. law, torts. An accident by which an injury occurs to another.
Misadventure, () When applied to homicide, misadventure is the act of a man who, in the performance of a lawful act, without any intention to do harm, and after using proper precaution to prevent danger, unfortunately kills another person. The act upon which the death ensues, must be neither malum in se, nor malum prohibitum. The usual examples under this head are, 1. When the death ensues from innocent recreations. 2. From moderate and lawful correction (q.v.) in foro domestico. 3. From acts lawful and indifferent in themselves, done with proper and ordinary caution. 4 Bl. Com. 182; 1 East, P C. 221.
Misadventured (a.) Unfortunate. [Obs.]
Misadventurous (a.) Unfortunate.
Misadvertence (n.) Inadvertence.
Misadvice (n.) 錯誤的勸告；餿主意 Bad advice.
Misadvise (v. t.) To give bad counsel to.
Misadvised (a.) Ill advised. -- Mis`ad*vis"ed*ly, adv.
Misaffect (v. t.) To dislike. [Obs.]
Misaffected (a.) Ill disposed. [Obs.]
Misaffection (n.) An evil or wrong affection; the state of being ill affected. [Obs.] -- Bp. Hall.
Misaffirm (v. t.) To affirm incorrectly.
Misaimed (a.) Not rightly aimed. -- Spenser.
Misallegation (n.) A erroneous statement or allegation. -- Bp. Hall.
Misallege (v. t.) To state erroneously.
Misalliance (n.) A marriage with a person of inferior rank or social station; an improper alliance; a mesalliance.
A Leigh had made a misalliance, and blushed A Howard should know it. -- Mrs. Browning.
Misalliance (n.) An unsuitable alliance (especially with regard to marriage).
Misallied (a.) Wrongly allied or associated.
Misallotment (n.) A wrong allotment.
Misalter (v. t.) To alter wrongly; esp., to alter for the worse. -- Bp. Hall.
Misanthrope (n.) A hater of mankind; a misanthropist. Misanthropic
Misanthrope (n.) Someone who dislikes people in general [syn: misanthrope, misanthropist].
Misanthropic (a.) Alt. of Misanthropical.
Misanthropical (a.) Hating or disliking mankind.
Misanthropic (a.) Believing the worst of human nature and motives; having a sneering disbelief in e.g. selflessness of others [syn: cynical, misanthropic, misanthropical].
Misanthropic (a.) Hating mankind in general [syn: misanthropic, misanthropical].
Misanthropist (n.) A misanthrope.
Misanthropist (n.) Someone who dislikes people in general [syn: misanthrope, misanthropist].
Misanthropos (n.) A misanthrope. [Obs.] -- Shak.
Misanthropy (M.) Hatred of, or dislike to, mankind; -- opposed to philanthropy. -- Orrery.
Misanthropy (n.) Hatred of mankind.
Misanthropy (n.) A disposition to dislike and mistrust other people.
Misapplication (n.) A wrong application.
-- Sir T. Browne.
Misapplication (n.) Wrong use or application.
Misapplication (n.) The fraudulent appropriation of funds or property entrusted to your care but actually owned by someone else [syn: embezzlement, peculation, defalcation, misapplication, misappropriation].
Misapplied (imp. & p. p.) of Misapply.
Misapplying (p. pr. & vb. n.) of Misapply.
Misapply (v. t.) To apply wrongly; to use for a wrong purpose; as, to misapply a name or title; to misapply public money.
Misappreciated (a.) Improperly appreciated.
Misapprehend (v. t.) To take in a wrong sense; to misunderstand. -- Locke.
Misapprehend (v.) Interpret in the wrong way; "Don't misinterpret my comments as criticism"; "She misconstrued my remarks" [syn: misconstrue, misinterpret, misconceive, misunderstand, misapprehend, be amiss].
Misapprehension (n.) A mistaking or mistake; wrong apprehension of one's meaning of a fact; misconception; misunderstanding.
Misapprehension (n.) An understanding of something that is not correct; "he wasn't going to admit his mistake"; "make no mistake about his intentions"; "there must be some misunderstanding – I don't have a sister" [syn: mistake, misunderstanding, misapprehension].
Misapprehensively (adv.) By, or with, misapprehension.
Misappropriate (v. t.) To appropriate wrongly; to use for a wrong purpose.
Misappropriate (v.) Appropriate (as property entrusted to one's care) fraudulently to one's own use; "The accountant embezzled thousands of dollars while working for the wealthy family" [syn: embezzle, defalcate, peculate, misappropriate, malversate].
Misappropriation (n.) Wrong appropriation; wrongful use.
Misappropriation (n.) The fraudulent appropriation of funds or property entrusted to your care but actually owned by someone else [syn: embezzlement, peculation, defalcation, misapplication, misappropriation].
Misappropriation (n.) Wrongful borrowing; "his explanation was a misappropriation of sociological theory."
Misarranged (imp. & p. p.) of Misarrange.
Misarranging (p. pr. & vb. n.) of Misarrange.
Misarrange (v. t.) To place in a wrong order, or improper manner.
Misarrangement (n.) Wrong arrangement.
Misarcribe (v. t.) To ascribe wrongly.
Misassay (v. t.) To assay, or attempt, improperly or unsuccessfully. [Obs.] -- W. Browne.
Misassign (v. t.) To assign wrongly.
Misattend (v. t.) To misunderstand; to disregard. [Obs.] -- Milton.
Misaventure (n.) Misadventure. [Obs.]
Misavize (v. t.) To misadvise. [Obs.]
Misbear (v. t.) To carry improperly; to carry (one's self) wrongly; to misbehave. [Obs.] -- Chaucer.
Misbecome (v. t.) Not to become; to suit ill; not to befit or be adapted to. -- Macaulay.
Thy father will not act what misbecomes him. -- Addison.
Misbecoming (a.) Unbecoming. -- Milton. -- Mis`be*com"ing*ly, adv. -- Mis`be*com"ing*ness, n. -- Boyle.
Misbode (imp.) of Misbede.
Misboden (p. p.) of Misbede.
Misbede (v. t.) To wrong; to do injury to. [Obs.]
Who hath you misboden or offended? -- Chaucer.
Misbefitting (a.) No befitting. Misbegot
Misbegot (p. a.) Alt. of Misbegotten.
Misbegotten (p. a.) 私生的；可鄙的；以非法手段得到的 Unlawfully or irregularly begotten; of bad or disreputable origin; pernicious. "Valor misbegot." -- Shak.
Misbegotten (p. a.) Poorly designed or planned; badly carried out; ill-conceived.
Misbehaved (imp. & p. p.) of Misbehave.
Misbehaving (p. pr. & vb. n.) of Misbehave.
Misbehave (v. t. & i.) To behave ill; to conduct one's self improperly; -- often used with a reciprocal pronoun.
Misbehaved (a.) Guilty of ill behavior; illbred; rude.
Misbehavior (n.) Improper, rude, or uncivil behavior; ill conduct.
Misbelief (n.) Erroneous or false belief.
Misbelieve (v. i.) To believe erroneously, or in a false religion.
Misbeliever (n.) One who believes wrongly; one who holds a false religion.
Misbeseem (v. t.) To suit ill.
Misbestow (v. t.) To bestow improperly.
Misbestowal (n.) The act of misbestowing.
Misbileve (n.) Misbelief; unbelief; suspicion. [Obs.] -- Chaucer.
Misbode () imp. of Misbede.
Misboden () p. p. of Misbede.
Misborn (a.) Born to misfortune. -- Spenser.
Miscalculate (v. t. & i.) To calculate erroneously; to judge wrongly.
Miscall (v. t.) To call by a wrong name; to name improperly.
Miscall (v. t.) To call by a bad name; to abuse.
Miscarriage (n.) Unfortunate event or issue of an undertaking; failure to attain a desired result or reach a destination.
Miscarriage (n.) Ill conduct; evil or improper behavior; as, the failings and miscarriages of the righteous.
Miscarriage (n.) The act of bringing forth before the time; premature birth.
Miscarriage (n.) [ C or U ] 流產 An early, unintentional end to a pregnancy when the baby is born too early and dies because it has not developed enough.
// The amniocentesis test carries a significant risk of miscarriage.
// I had two miscarriages before I gave birth to my daughter.
Compare: Abortion
Abortion (n.) (End of pregnancy) (C1) [ C or U ] （通常指透過手術進行的）墮胎，人工流產 The intentional ending of a pregnancy.
// She decided to have/ get an abortion.
// Abortion is restricted in some American states.
Abortion (n.) (Failure) [ C ] (Slang) 失敗 A failure.
// This project is a complete abortion.
Compare: Stillbirth
Stillbirth (n.) [ C ] 死產 The birth of a dead baby.
Miscarriageable (a.) Capable of miscarrying; liable to fail. [R.] -- Bp. Hall.
Miscarried (imp. & p. p.) of Miscarry.
Miscarrying (p. pr. & vb. n.) of Miscarry.
Miscarry (v. i.) （人，事等）失敗，受挫；（郵件，貨物等）被誤送；未送達 To carry, or go, wrong; to fail of reaching a destination, or fail of the intended effect; to be unsuccessful; to suffer defeat.
My ships have all miscarried. -- Shak.
The cardinal's letters to the pope miscarried. -- Shak.
Miscarry (v. i.) To bring forth young before the time they are viable; to have a spontaneous abortion.
Miscarry (v.) Be unsuccessful; "Where do today's public schools fail?"; "The attempt to rescue the hostages failed miserably" [syn: fail, go wrong, miscarry] [ant: bring home the bacon, come through, deliver the goods, succeed, win].
Miscarry (v.) Suffer a miscarriage [ant: carry to term].
Miscast (v. t.) （常用被動語態）使（劇中）角色分配不當；使（演員）演不適合的角色；加錯 To cast or reckon wrongly.
Miscast (n.) 角色分配不當 An erroneous cast or reckoning.
Miscast (v.) Cast an actor, singer, or dancer in an unsuitable role.
Miscegenation (n.) 種族混合；雜婚 A mixing of races; amalgamation, as by intermarriage of black and white.
Note: Until the late twentieth century, misceganation was a crime in some states of the Southern United States.
Miscegenation (n.) Reproduction by parents of different races (especially by white and non-white persons) [syn: miscegenation, crossbreeding, interbreeding].
Miscellanarian (a.) Of or pertaining to miscellanies. -- Shaftesbury.