Webster's Unabridged Dictionary - Letter M - Page 66
Monger (n.) A small merchant vessel. [Obs.] -- Blount.
Monger (v. t.) To deal in; to make merchandise of; to traffic in; -- used chiefly of discreditable traffic.
Monger (n.) Someone who purchases and maintains an inventory of goods to be sold [syn: trader, bargainer, dealer, monger].
Monger (v.) Sell or offer for sale from place to place [syn: peddle, monger, huckster, hawk, vend, pitch].
Mongol (n.) One of the Mongols.
Mongol (a.) Of or pertaining to Mongolia or the Mongols.
Mongol (a.) Of or relating to the region of Mongolia or its people or their languages or cultures; "the Mongol invaders"; "a Mongolian pony"; "Mongolian syntax strongly resembles Korean syntax" [syn: Mongol, Mongolian].
Mongol (n.) A member of the nomadic peoples of Mongolia [syn: Mongol, Mongolian].
Mongolian (a.) Of or pertaining to Mongolia or the Mongols.
Mongolian (n.) One of the Mongols.
Mongolian (a.) Of or relating to the modern Mongolian People's Republic; "the Mongolian embassy."
Mongolian (a.) Of or relating to the region of Mongolia or its people or their languages or cultures; "the Mongol invaders"; "a Mongolian pony"; "Mongolian syntax strongly resembles Korean syntax" [syn: Mongol, Mongolian].
Mongolian (n.) A member of the nomadic peoples of Mongolia [syn: Mongol, Mongolian].
Mongolian (n.) A family of Altaic language spoken in Mongolia [syn: Mongolian, Mongolic, Mongolic language].
Mongolic (a.) See Mongolian.
Mongolic (n.) A family of Altaic language spoken in Mongolia [syn: Mongolian, Mongolic, Mongolic language].
Mongoloid (a.) Resembling a Mongol or the Mongols; having race characteristics, such as color, hair, and features, like those of the Mongols. -- Huxley.
Mongoloid (a.) Of, related to, or affected with, Down syndrome; -- not a technical term.
Mongoloid (n.) A person affected with Down syndrome; -- not a technical term. Mongols
Mongoloid (a.) Characteristic of or resembling a Mongol; "the mongoloid epicanthic fold."
Mongoloid (a.) Of or pertaining to or characteristic of one of the traditional racial division of humankind including especially peoples of central and eastern Asia.
Mongoloid (a.) Of or relating to or suffering from Down syndrome.
Mongoloid (n.) A member of the Mongoloid race.
Mongoloid (n.) A person suffering from Down syndrome (no longer used technically in this sense).
Mongols (n. pl.) Alt. of Mongolians.
Mongolians (n. pl.) (Ethnol.) One of the great races of man, including the greater part of the inhabitants of China, Japan, and the interior of Asia, with branches in Northern Europe and other parts of the world. By some American Indians are considered a branch of the Mongols. In a more restricted sense, the inhabitants of Mongolia and adjacent countries, including the Burats and the Kalmuks. Mongoose
Compare: Ichneumon
Ichneumon (n.) (Zool.) Any carnivorous mammal of the genus Herpestes, and family Viverrid[ae]. Numerous species are found in Asia and Africa. The Egyptian species ({Herpestes ichneumon), which ranges to Spain and Palestine, is noted for destroying the eggs and young of the crocodile as well as various snakes and lizards, and hence was considered sacred by the ancient Egyptians. The common species of India ({Herpestes griseus), known as the mongoose, has similar habits and is often domesticated. It is noted for killing the cobra.
Ichneumon (n.) (Zool.) Any hymenopterous insect of the family Ichneumonid[ae], of which several thousand species are known, belonging to numerous genera.
Note: The female deposits her eggs upon, or in, the bodies of other insects, such as caterpillars, plant lice, etc. The larva lives upon the internal tissues of the insect in which it is parasitic, and finally kills it. Hence, many of the species are beneficial to agriculture by destroying noxious insects.
Ichneumon fly. See Ichneumon, 2.
Ichneumon (n.) Northern African mongoose; in ancient times thought to devour crocodile eggs [syn: ichneumon, Herpestes ichneumon].
Mongoose (n.) Alt. of Mongoos.
Mongoos (n.) (Zool.) A species of ichneumon ({Herpestes griseus), native of India. Applied also to other allied species, as the African banded mongoose ({Crossarchus fasciatus). [Written also mungoose, mungoos, mungous.]
Mongoos (n.) [Tamil manegos.] A Madagascan lemur ({Lemur mongos).
Mongoose (n.) Agile grizzled Old World viverrine; preys on snakes and rodents.
Mongrel (n.) The progeny resulting from a cross between two breeds, as of domestic animals; anything of mixed breed. -- Drayton.
Mongrel (a.) (Zool.) Not of a pure breed.
Mongrel (a.) Of mixed kinds; as, mongrel language.
Mongrel (n.) Derogatory term for a variation that is not genuine; something irregular or inferior or of dubious origin; "the architecture was a kind of bastard suggesting Gothic but not true Gothic" [syn: bastard, mongrel].
Mongrel (n.) An inferior dog or one of mixed breed [syn: cur, mongrel, mutt].
Mongrelize (v. t. & i.) To cause to be mongrel; to cross breeds, so as to produce mongrels.
Mongrelize (v.) Cause to become a mongrel; "mongrelized dogs" [syn: mongrelize, mongrelise].
'Mongst (prep.) See Amongst. Monicker
Compare: Moneyed
Moneyed (adv.) Supplied with money; having money; wealthy; as, moneyed men. [Also spelled monied.] -- Bacon.
Moneyed (adv.) Converted into money; coined.
If exportation will not balance importation, away must your silver go again, whether moneyed or not moneyed. -- Locke.
Moneyed (adv.) Consisting in, or composed of, money. -- A. Hamilton.
Monied (a.) See Moneyed.
Monied (a.) Based on or arising from the possession of money or wealth; "moneyed interests" [syn: moneyed, monied] [ant: moneyless].
Monifier (n.) (Paleon.) A fossil fish.
Moniliform (a.) (Biol.) 【生】念珠形的 Joined or constricted, at regular intervals, so as to resemble a string of beads; as, a moniliform root; a moniliform antenna. See Illust. of {Antenna}.
Moniment (n.) Something to preserve memory; a reminder; a monument; hence, a mark; an image; a superscription; a record. [Obs.] -- Spenser.
Monish (v. t.) To admonish; to warn. See {Admonish}. [Archaic] -- Ascham.
Monish (v.) Warn strongly; put on guard [syn: {caution}, {admonish}, {monish}].
Monish (v.) Admonish or counsel in terms of someone's behavior; "I warned him not to go too far"; "I warn you against false assumptions"; "She warned him to be quiet" [syn: {warn}, {discourage}, {admonish}, {monish}].
Monisher (n.) One who monishes; an admonisher. [Archaic]
Monishment (n.) Admonition. [Archaic]
Monism (n.) (Metaph.) That doctrine which refers all phenomena to a single ultimate constituent or agent; -- the opposite of {dualism}.
Note: The doctrine has been held in three generic forms: matter and its phenomena have been explained as a modification of mind, involving an idealistic monism; or mind has been explained by and resolved into matter, giving a materialistic monism; or, thirdly, matter, mind, and their phenomena have been held to be manifestations or modifications of some one substance, like the substance of Spinoza, or a supposed unknown something of some evolutionists, which is capable of an objective and subjective aspect.
Monism (n.) (Biol.) See {Monogenesis}, 1.
Monism (n.) The doctrine that the universe is an organized unitary being or total self-inclusive structure.
Monism means that the whole of reality, i.e., everything that is, constitutes one inseparable and indivisible entirety. Monism accordingly is a unitary conception of the world. It always bears in mind that our words are abstracts representing parts or features of the One and All, and not separate existences. Not only are matter and mind, soul and body, abstracts, but also such scientific terms as atoms and molecules, and also religious terms such as God and world. -- Paul Carus.
Monogenesis (n.) Oneness of origin; esp. (Biol.), development of all beings in the universe from a single cell; -- opposed to {polygenesis}. Called also {monism}. -- Dana. -- Haeckel.
Monogenesis (n.) (Biol.) That form of reproduction which requires but one parent, as in reproduction by fission or in the formation of buds, etc., which drop off and form new individuals; asexual reproduction. -- Haeckel.
Monogenesis (n.) (Biol.) The direct development of an embryo, without metamorphosis, into an organism similar to the parent organism; -- opposed to {metagenesis}. -- E. van Beneden.
Monism (n.) The doctrine that reality consists of a single basic substance or element [ant: {pluralism}].
Monist (n.) A believer in monism.
Monistic (a.) Of, pertaining to, or involving, monism.
Monistic (a.) Of or relating to the philosophical doctrine of monism; "the monistic school would regard national law and international law as an integrated whole" -- J.S.Roucek
Monition (n.) Instruction or advice given by way of caution; an admonition; a warning; a caution.
Sage monitions from his friends. --Swift.
Monition (n.) Information; indication; notice; advice.
We have no visible monition of . . . other periods, such as we have of the day by successive light and darkness. -- Holder.
Monition (n.) (Admiralty Practice) A process in the nature of a summons to appear and answer.
Monition (n.) (Eccl. Law) An order monishing a party complained against to obey under pain of the law.
Monition (n.) A firm rebuke [syn: admonition, admonishment, monition].
Monition (n.) Cautionary advice about something imminent (especially imminent danger or other unpleasantness); "a letter of admonition about the dangers of immorality"; "the warning was to beware of surprises"; "his final word of advice was not to play with matches" [syn: admonition, monition, warning, word of advice].
Monition (n.) A summons issued after the filing of a libel or claim directing all parties concerned to show cause why the judgment asked for should not be granted [syn: monition, process of monition].
Monition, () practice. In those courts which use the civil law process, (as the court of admiralty, whose proceedings are, under the provisions of the acts of congress, to be according to the course of the civil law,) it is a process in the nature of a summons; it is either, general, special, or mixed.
Monition, () The general monition is a citation or summons to all persons interested, or, as is commonly said, to the whole world, to appear and show cause why the libel filed in the case should not be sustained, and the prayer of relief granted. This is adopted in prize cases, admiralty suits
for forfeitures, and other suits in rem, when no particular individuals are summoned to answer. In such cases the taking possession of the property libeled, and this general citation or nomination, served according to law, are considered constructive notice to the world of the pendency of the suit; and the judgment rendered thereupon is conclusive upon the title of the property which may be affected. In form, the monition is a warrant of the court, in an admiralty cause, directed to the marshal or his deputy, commanding him in the name of the president of the United States, to give public notice, by advertisements in such newspapers as the court may select, and by notification to be posted in public places, that a libel has been filed in a certain admiralty cause pending, and of the time and place appointed for the trial. A brief statement of the allegations in the libel is usually contained in the monition. The monition is served in the manner directed in the warrant.
Monition, () A special monition is a similar warrant, directed to the marshal or his deputy, requiring him to give special notice to certain persons, named in the warrant, of the pendency of the suit, the grounds of it, and the time and place of trial. It is served by delivery of a copy of the warrant, attested by the officer, to each one of the adverse parties, or by leaving the same at his usual place of residence; but the service should be personal if possible. Clark. Prax. tit. 21; Dunl. Admr. Pr. 135.
Monition, () A mixed monition is one which contains directions for a general monition to all persons interested, and a special summons to particular persons named in the warrant. This is served by newspaper advertisements, by notifications posted in public places, and by delivery of a copy attested by the officer to each person specially named, or by leaving it at his usual place of residence. See Dunlap's Adm. Pr. Index, h.t.; Bett's Adm. Pr. Index, h.t.
Monitive (a.) Conveying admonition; admonitory. -- Barrow.
Monitor (n.) One who admonishes; one who warns of faults, informs of duty, or gives advice and instruction by way of reproof or caution.
You need not be a monitor to the king. -- Bacon.
Monitor (n.) Hence, specifically, a pupil selected to look to the school in the absence of the instructor, to notice the absence or faults of the scholars, or to instruct a division or class.
Monitor (n.) (Zool.) Any large Old World lizard of the genus Varanus; esp., the Egyptian species ({Varanus Niloticus), which is useful because it devours the eggs and young of the crocodile. It is sometimes five or six feet long.
Monitor (n.) An ironclad war vessel, very low in the water, and having one or more heavily-armored revolving turrets, carrying heavy guns.
Monitor (n.) (Mach.) A tool holder, as for a lathe, shaped like a low turret, and capable of being revolved on a vertical pivot so as to bring successively the several tools in holds into proper position for cutting.
Monitor (n.) A monitor nozzle.
Monitor top, () The raised central portion, or clearstory, of a car
roof, having low windows along its sides.
Monitor (n.) Someone who supervises (an examination) [syn: proctor, monitor].
Monitor (n.) Someone who gives a warning so that a mistake can be avoided [syn: admonisher, monitor, reminder].
Monitor (n.) An ironclad vessel built by Federal forces to do battle with the Merrimac.
Monitor (n.) Display produced by a device that takes signals and displays them on a television screen or a computer monitor [syn: monitor, monitoring device].
Monitor (n.) Electronic equipment that is used to check the quality or content of electronic transmissions.
Monitor (n.) A piece of electronic equipment that keeps track of the operation of a system continuously and warns of trouble.
Monitor (n.) Any of various large tropical carnivorous lizards of Africa and Asia and Australia; fabled to warn of crocodiles [syn: monitor, monitor lizard, varan].
Monitor (v.) Keep tabs on; keep an eye on; keep under surveillance; "we are monitoring the air quality"; "the police monitor the suspect's moves" [syn: monitor, supervise].
Monitor (v.) Check, track, or observe by means of a receiver.
Monitor, () A cathode-ray tube and associated electronics connected to a computer's video output. A monitor may be either monochrome (black and white) or colour ({RGB"> monochrome (black and white) or colour ({RGB). Colour monitors may show either digital colour (each of the red, green and blue signals may be either on or off, giving eight possible colours: black, white, red, green, blue, cyan, magenta and yellow) or analog colour (red, green and blue signals are continuously variable allowing any combination to be displayed). Digital monitors are sometimes known as TTL because the voltages on the red, green and blue inputs are compatible with TTL logic chips.
See also gamut, multisync, visual display unit.
Monitor, () A programming language construct which encapsulates variables, access procedures and initialisation code within an abstract data type. The monitor's variable may only be accessed via its access procedures and only one process may be actively accessing the monitor at any one time. The access procedures are critical sections. A monitor may have a queue of processes which are waiting to access it.
Monitor, () A hardware device that measures electrical events such as pulses or voltage levels in a digital computer.
Monitor, () To oversee a program during execution. For example, the monitor function in the Unix C library enables profiling of a certain range of code addresses. A histogram is produced showing how often the program counter was found to be at each position and how often each profiled function was called.
Unix man page: monitor (3).
Monitor, () A control program within the operating system that manages the allocation of system resources to active programs.
Monitor, () A program that measures software performance.
Monitorial (a.) Of or pertaining to a monitor or monitors.
Monitorial (a.) Done or performed by a monitor; as, monitorial work; conducted or taught by monitors; as, a monitorial school; monitorial instruction.
Monitorially (adv.) In a monitorial manner.
Monitorship (n.) The post or office of a monitor.
Monitory (n.) Admonition; warning; especially, a monition proceeding from an ecclesiastical court, but not addressed to any one person. Monitress
Monitory (a.) Giving admonition; instructing by way of caution; warning.
Losses, miscarriages, and disappointments, are monitory and instructive. -- L'Estrange.
Monitory (a.) Serving To warn; "shook a monitory finger at him"; "an exemplary jail sentence" [syn: admonitory, cautionary, exemplary, monitory, warning(a)].
Monitress (n.) Alt. of Monitrix
Monitrix (n.) A female monitor.
Monk (n.) 修道士；僧侶 [C] A man who retires from the ordinary temporal concerns of the world, and devotes himself to religion; one of a religious community of men inhabiting a monastery, and bound by vows to a life of chastity, obedience, and poverty. "A monk out of his cloister." -- Chaucer.
Monks in some respects agree with regulars, as in the substantial vows of religion; but in other respects monks and regulars differ; for that regulars, vows excepted, are not tied up to so strict a rule of life as monks are. -- Ayliffe.
Monk (n.) (Print.) A blotch or spot of ink on a printed page, caused by the ink not being properly distributed. It is distinguished from a friar, or white spot caused by a deficiency of ink.
Monk (n.) A piece of tinder made of agaric, used in firing the powder hose or train of a mine.
Monk (n.) (Zool.) A South American monkey ({Pithecia monachus); also applied to other species, as Cebus xanthocephalus.
Monk (n.) (Zool.) The European bullfinch.
Monk bat (Zool.), A South American and West Indian bat ({Molossus nasutus); -- so called because the males live in communities by themselves.
Monk bird (Zool.), The friar bird.
Monk seal (Zool.), A species of seal ({Monachus albiventer) inhabiting the Black Sea, the Mediterranean Sea, and the adjacent parts of the Atlantic.
Monk's rhubarb (Bot.), A kind of dock; -- also called patience ({Rumex Patientia"> patience ({Rumex Patientia).
Monk (n.) A male religious living in a cloister and devoting himself to contemplation and prayer and work [syn: {monk}, {monastic}].
Monk (n.) United States jazz pianist who was one of the founders of the bebop style (1917-1982) [syn: {Monk}, {Thelonious Monk}, {Thelonious Sphere Monk}].
Monkeries (n. pl. ) of Monkery.
Monkery (n.) The life of monks; monastic life; monastic usage or customs; -- now usually applied by way of reproach.
Miters, and wretched dead mediaeval monkeries. -- Carlyle.
Monkery (n.) A collective body of monks. [Obs.]
Though he have a whole monkery to sing for him. -- Latimer.
Monkeys (n. pl. ) of Monkey.
Monkey (n.) (Zool.) In the most general sense, any one of the Quadrumana, including apes, baboons, and lemurs.
Monkey (n.) (Zool.) Any species of Quadrumana, except the lemurs.
Monkey (n.) (Zool.) Any one of numerous species of Quadrumana (esp. such as have a long tail and prehensile feet) exclusive of apes and baboons.
Note: The monkeys are often divided into three groups: ({a) Catarrhines, or Simidae. These have an oblong head, with the oblique flat nostrils near together. Some have no tail, as the apes. All these are natives of the Old World. ({b) Platyrhines, or Cebidae. These have a round head, with a broad nasal septum, so that the nostrils are wide apart and directed downward. The tail is often prehensile, and the thumb is short and not opposable. These are natives of the New World. ({c) Strepsorhines, or Lemuroidea. These have a pointed head with curved nostrils. They are natives of Southern Asia, Africa, and Madagascar.
Monkey (n.) A term of disapproval, ridicule, or contempt, as for a mischievous child.
This is the monkey's own giving out; she is persuaded I will marry her. -- Shak.
Monkey (n.) The weight or hammer of a pile driver, that is, a very heavy mass of iron, which, being raised on high, falls on the head of the pile, and drives it into the earth; the falling weight of a drop hammer used in forging.
Monkey (n.) A small trading vessel of the sixteenth century.
Monkey boat. (Naut.) (a) A small boat used in docks.
Monkey boat. (Naut.) (b) A half-decked boat used on the River Thames.
Monkey block (Naut.), A small single block strapped with a swivel. -- R. H. Dana, Jr.
Monkey flower (Bot.), A plant of the genus Mimulus; -- so called from the appearance of its gaping corolla. -- Gray.
Monkey gaff (Naut.), A light gaff attached to the topmast for the better display of signals at sea.
Monkey jacket, A short closely fitting jacket, worn by sailors.
Monkey rail (Naut.), A second and lighter rail raised about six inches above the quarter rail of a ship.
Monkey shine, Monkey trick. [Slang, U.S.]
Monkey trick, A mischievous prank. -- Saintsbury.
Monkey wheel. See Gin block, under 5th Gin.
Monkey (v. t. & i.) To act or treat as a monkey does; to ape; to act in a grotesque or meddlesome manner.
To monkey with, To monkey around with, To handle in a meddlesome manner. [Colloq.]
Monkey (n.) Any of various long-tailed primates (excluding the prosimians).
Monkey (n.) One who is playfully mischievous [syn: imp, scamp, monkey, rascal, rapscallion, scalawag, scallywag].
Monkey (v.) Play around with or alter or falsify, usually secretively or dishonestly; "Someone tampered with the documents on my desk"; "The reporter fiddle with the facts" [syn: tamper, fiddle, monkey].
Monkey (v.) Do random, Unplanned work or activities or spend time idly; "The old lady is usually mucking about in her little house" [syn: putter, mess around, potter, tinker, monkey, monkey around, muck about, muck around].
Monkey, (n.) An arboreal animal which makes itself at home in genealogical trees.
Monkey-bread (n.) (Bot.) The fruit of the Adansonia digitata; also, the tree. See Adansonia.
Monkey-cup (n.) (Bot.) See Nepenthes. monkeypod
Monkey-pot (n.) (Zool.) The fruit of two South American trees ({Lecythis Ollaria, and L. Zabucajo), which have for their fruit large, pot-shaped, woody capsules containing delicious nuts, and opening almost explosively by a circular lid at the top. Vases and pots are made of this capsule.
Monkeypox (n.) 猴痘 A viral disease affecting rodents and primates in rainforest areas of west and central Africa, related to smallpox and sometimes transmitted to humans.
‘Smallpox vaccine has been reported to reduce the risk of monkeypox among previously vaccinated persons in Africa.’
Monkeypox virus (n.) 猴痘病毒 The orthopoxvirus that causes monkeypox. Origin 1950s.
Monkey's puzzle (Bot.) A lofty coniferous Chilian tree ({Araucaria araucana, formerly Araucaria imbricata), the branches of which are so crowded and intertwisted "as to puzzle a monkey to climb." It is also called monkey puzzle and monkey puzzle tree. The edible nuts are over an inch long, and are called pi[~n]on by the Chilians.
Monkeytail (n.) (Naut.) A short, round iron bar or lever used in naval gunnery. -- Totten. Monkeywrench
Monkfish (n.) (Zool.) The angel fish ({Squatina).
Monkfish (n.) (Zool.) The angler ({Lophius) , esp. the goosefishes Lophius
Americanus in America and Lophius piscatorius in Europe, used for food. -- [MW10]
Angler (n.) One who angles.
Angler (n.) (Zool.) A fish ({Lophius piscatorius), of Europe and America, having a large, broad, and depressed head, with the mouth very large. Peculiar appendages on the head are said to be used to entice fishes within reach. Called also fishing frog, frogfish, toadfish, goosefish, allmouth, monkfish, etc.
Monkfish (n.) Flesh of a large-headed anglerfish of the Atlantic waters of North America.
Monkfish (n.) Fishes having large mouths with a wormlike filament attached for luring prey [syn: goosefish, angler, anglerfish, angler fish, monkfish, lotte, allmouth, Lophius Americanus].
Monkfish (n.) Sharks with broad flat bodies and winglike pectoral fins but that swim the way sharks do [syn: angel shark, angelfish, Squatina squatina, monkfish].
Monkflower (n.) (Bot.) A name of certain curious orchids which bear three kinds of flowers formerly referred to three genera, but now ascertained to be sexually different forms of the same genus ({Catasetum tridentatum, etc.).
Monkhood (n.) 修道士（或僧侶）之身分；（總稱）修道士；僧侶 The character or condition of a monk. -- Atterbury.
Monkhood (n.) Monks, regarded collectively. -- Longfellow.
Monking (a.) Monkish. [R.] -- Coleridge.
Monkish (a.) 修道士（似）的；僧侶（似）的 Like a monk, or pertaining to monks; monastic; as, monkish manners; monkish dress; monkish solitude. -- Monk"ish*ness, n.
Monkish (a.) Befitting a monk; inclined to self-denial.
Monkly (a.) Like, or suitable to, a monk. [R.]
Monkshood (n.) (Bot.) A plant of the genus Aconitum; aconite. See Aconite.
Monkshood (n.) A poisonous herb native to northern Europe having hooded blue-purple flowers; the dried leaves and roots yield aconite [syn: monkshood, helmetflower, helmet flower, Aconitum napellus].
Monk's seam () (Naut.) An extra middle seam made at the junction of two breadths of canvas, ordinarily joined by only two rows of stitches.
Mono (n.) [Sp.] (Zool.) Black howler ({Mycetes villosus"> The black howler ({Mycetes villosus), a monkey of Central America.
Mono- () Alt. of Mon-.
Mon- () A prefix signifying one, single, alone; as, monocarp, monopoly; (Chem.) indicating that a compound contains one atom, radical, or group of that to the name of which it is united; as, monoxide, monosulphide, monatomic, etc.
Monophonic (a.) (Mus.) Single-voiced; having but one part; as, a monophonic composition; -- opposed to polyphonic.
Monophonic (a.) Of or relating to a system for recording and reproducing sound, which has only one sound channel; also called monaural or mono. It contrasts with stereophonic (or stereo), quadraphonic, or surround-sound, which have two or more channels, and can thus reproduce the effect of the sound coming from more than one direction.
Mono -- U.S. County in California
Population (2000): 12853
Housing Units (2000): 11757
Land area (2000): 3044.398749 sq. miles (7884.956227 sq. km)
Water area (2000): 87.401808 sq. miles (226.369633 sq. km)
Total area (2000): 3131.800557 sq. miles (8111.325860 sq. km)
Located within: California (CA), FIPS 06
Location: 37.853807 N, 118.961375 W
Headwords:
Mono
Mono, CA
Mono County
Mono County, CA
Mono (n.) [Sp.] (Zool.) The black howler (Mycetes villosus), a monkey of Central America.
Monobasic (a.) (Chem.) Capable of being neutralized by a univalent base or basic radical; having but one acid hydrogen atom to be replaced; -- said of acids; as, acetic, nitric, and hydrochloric acids are monobasic. monocarbonic
Monocarbonic (a.) (Chem.) Containing one carboxyl group; as, acetic acid is a monocarbonic acid. The more common term is monocarboxylic.
Contrasted with dicarboxylic, tricarboxylic, etc.
Monocardian (a.) (Zool.) Having a single heart, as fishes and amphibians.
Monocardian (n.) An animal having a single heart.
Monocarp (n.) (Bot.) A monocarpic plant.
Monocarp (n.) A plant that bears fruit once and dies [syn: monocarp, monocarpic plant, monocarpous plant].
Monocarpellary (a.) (Bot.) Consisting of a single carpel, as the fruit of the pea, cherry, and almond. Monocarpic
Monocarpic (a.) Alt. of Monocarpous.
Monocarpous (a.) (Bot.) Bearing fruit but once, and dying after fructification, as beans, maize, mustard, etc.
Note: Annual and biennual herbs are monocarpic, so also some plants of longer duration, as the century plant.
Monocarpic (a.) Dying after bearing fruit only once.
Monocephalous (a.) (Bot.) Having a solitary head; -- said of unbranched composite plants.
Monoceros (n.) A one-horned creature; a unicorn; a sea monster with one horn.
Mighty monoceroses with immeasured tails. -- Spenser.
Monoceros (n.) (Astron.) The Unicorn, a constellation situated to the east Orion.
Monochlamydeous (a.) (Bot.) Having a single floral envelope, that is, a calyx without a corolla, or, possibly, in rare cases, a corolla without a calyx.
Monochord (n.) (Mus.) An instrument for experimenting upon the mathematical relations of musical sounds. It consists of a single string stretched between two bridges, one or both of which are movable, and which stand upon a graduated rule for the purpose of readily changing and measuring the length of the part of the string between them.
Compare: Monochromic
Monochromic (a.) Made, or done, with a single color; as, a monochromic picture. Called also, monochromatic and monochrome.
Compare: Monochromatic
Monochromatic (a.) Consisting of one color, or presenting rays of light of one color only.
Monochromatic lamp (Opt.), A lamp whose flame yields rays of some one homogenous light. It is of great importance in optical experiments.
Compare: Black-and-white
Black-and-white, black and white (a.) (Photography, Imaging; Printing) Depicted only in black and white colors, or in shades of gray; also called monochromatic and monochrome; -- of images. Opposite of color or in color, and contrasting with polychrome technicolor three-color; as, a black-and-white TV; black-and-white film; the movie "Schindler's List" was shot in black and white.
Syn: black and white, monochromatic, monochrome.
Monochromatic (a.) Of or relating to monochromatism.
Monochromatic (a.) (Of light or other electromagnetic radiation) Having only one wavelength; "monochromatic light" [syn: monochromatic, homochromatic] [ant: polychromatic].
Monochromatic (a.) Having or appearing to have only one color [syn: monochromatic, monochrome, monochromic, monochromous].
Monochrome (n.) A painting or drawing in a single color; a picture made with a single color.
Monochrome (a.) Having or appearing to have only one color [syn: monochromatic, monochrome, monochromic, monochromous].
Monochrome (n.) Painting done in a range of tones of a single color.
Monochrome (n.) A black-and-white photograph or slide [syn: black and white, monochrome].
Monochrome, () Literally "one colour". Usually used for a black and white (or sometimes green or orange) monitor as distinct from a color monitor. Normally, each pixel on the display will correspond to a single bit of display memory and will therefore be one of two intensities. A grey-scale display requires several bits per pixel but might still be called monochrome.
Compare: Bitonal.
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Monochromic (a.) Made, or done, with a single color; as, a monochromic picture. Called also, monochromatic and monochrome.
Monochromic (a.) Having or appearing to have only one color [syn: monochromatic, monochrome, monochromic, monochromous].
Monochromy (n.) The art of painting or drawing in monochrome.
Monochronic (a.) Existing at the same time; contemporaneous.
Monociliated (a.) (Biol.) Having but one cilium.
Monocle (n.) An eyeglass for one eye. -- Simmonds.
Compare: Eyeglass
Eyeglass (n.) A lens of glass worn in front of the eye to assist vision; -- usually used in the plural, referring to a pair of lenses fixed together in a frame, and worn resting on the bridge of the nose, to improve the vision. A single eyeglass in a frame is called a monocle.
Eyeglass (n.) Eyepiece of a telescope, microscope, etc.
Eyeglass (n.) The retina. [Poetic]
Eyeglass (n.) A glass eyecup. See Eyecup.
Monocle (n.) Lens for correcting defective vision in one eye; held in place by facial muscles [syn: monocle, eyeglass].