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"His obsessive way of covering every surface with his glyphs, transforming them into something else, is actually very similar to my obsession to metamorphose , to modify and mutate. \u2014 Tiziana Cardini, Vogue , 7 June 2022",
"After breeding, the adults move upland again, leaving their eggs to hatch into larvae, who metamorphose either quickly or slowly depending on the speed at which their pool is drying up. \u2014 Carolyn Wells, Longreads , 24 Mar. 2022",
"Even the humblest workout accessories can metamorphose into luxuries: For about $3,000, fashionistas can tone up with Louis Vuitton hand weights \u2014 crafted of lustrous metal and engraved with the LV logo. \u2014 Rhonda K. Garelick, Washington Post , 17 Nov. 2021",
"Its slow development not only leaves it unable to metamorphose but may also prevent adult salamanders from regenerating limbs, a cruel irony. \u2014 Douglas Fox, Scientific American , 1 Feb. 2022",
"Nonetheless, those looking to simply improve their level of fitness while spending time in the great outdoors need not feel obligated to metamorphose into social butterflies. \u2014 cleveland , 29 May 2021",
"The tile installation will metamorphose from a cocoon into a butterfly over a period of months to symbolize the neighborhood\u2019s ongoing transformation. \u2014 Martin Kuz, The Christian Science Monitor , 19 May 2021",
"The front lawn, meanwhile, will metamorphose into one of the world\u2019s most glamorous outdoor lounges for artists to schmooze (at a distance) and pose for the cameras. \u2014 Anna Fixsen, ELLE Decor , 20 Apr. 2021",
"But over very long durations, particularly with many layers of rock atop it, that sedimentary rock will begin to metamorphose , or change its chemical makeup. \u2014 Ethan Siegel, Forbes , 7 Apr. 2021"
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"That metamorphosis was central to the appeal of Patrick Ness\u2019s 2011 novel about Conor, a 13-year-old British boy trying to cope with his mother\u2019s cancer. \u2014 Chris Kelly, Washington Post , 2 June 2022",
"Viggo Mortensen plays a celebrity artists who shares the metamorphosis of internal organs as performance pieces, with the help of his partner Lea Seydoux. \u2014 Matt Donnelly, Variety , 24 May 2022",
"Mortensen plays celebrity performance artist Saul Tenser who, together with his partner Caprice (Seydoux), publicly showcases the metamorphosis of his organs in avant-garde performances. \u2014 Mia Galuppo, The Hollywood Reporter , 23 May 2022",
"Viggo Mortensen plays a celebrity performance artist named Saul Tenser who, working with his partner Caprice (L\u00e9a Seydoux), publicly showcases the metamorphosis of his organs in avant-garde performances. \u2014 Clark Collis, EW.com , 10 May 2022",
"Yet is seems unlikely that far-right segments of the Republican Party can replicate the metamorphosis that allowed Rassemblement National to appeal to youth voters. \u2014 Camille G\u00e9lix, The Conversation , 3 May 2022",
"The sculptor and the painter can represent the miracle in immovable marble and paint, but finally only a filmmaker can show the metamorphosis happening over time. \u2014 Los Angeles Times , 13 Apr. 2022",
"Meanwhile, across the lagoon, the metamorphosis from jungle to garden still has a long way to go. \u2014 Jay Cheshes, WSJ , 4 Feb. 2022",
"Fox doesn\u2019t take her fashion metamorphosis completely seriously, at least according to her Instagram captions, which is great. \u2014 Liana Satenstein, Vogue , 10 Mar. 2022"
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"You see, menudo is our chicken soup for the body and soul, our metaphor for bread-and-butter issues. \u2014 Joe Rodriguez , San Jose Mercury News , 20 May 2003",
"The hapless Humpty Dumpty often crops up as a metaphor for the second law of thermodynamics. \u2014 Charles Day , Physics Today , December 2002",
"Ben Strong, senior, football player, leader of the prayer group, the boy whose very name is a metaphor , has been besieged by the media for interviews. \u2014 Jayne Anne Phillips , Harper's , November 1998",
"The number of songs containing ambiguous metaphors and intriguing but obscure symbolism could be extended indefinitely. Still, \u2026 there are hollers, work songs, field songs, and blues whose meaning is really not subject to a great deal of interpretation. \u2014 Lawrence W. Levine , \"The Concept of the New Negro,\" 1971 , in The Unpredictable Past , 1993",
"\u201cHe was drowning in paperwork\u201d is a metaphor in which having to deal with a lot of paperwork is being compared to drowning in an ocean of water.",
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"Being able to define those patterns ahead of competitors often needs a simple compass, or metaphor for it. \u2014 Michael Gale, Forbes , 28 June 2022",
"The ability to survive underwater becomes, to Gumbs, a metaphor for human resistance to oppressive institutions, both past and present. \u2014 Alana Mohamed, The Atlantic , 27 June 2022",
"The dog has caught the car, to use a metaphor that many used when Republicans succeeded in overturning ObamaCare. \u2014 Jay Nordlinger, National Review , 27 June 2022",
"Voluntarily assuming some of the responsibilities of deceased loved ones is a good deed, without being required \u2014 an extra credit in life, to borrow a metaphor from education. \u2014 Jacobina Martin, Washington Post , 22 June 2022",
"Others saw the sinking ship as a darkly comic metaphor for Hong Kong's alleged fortunes, as the city -- still largely shut off from the rest of the world -- clings on to pandemic restrictions following several years of political turmoil. \u2014 Jessie Yeung, CNN , 20 June 2022",
"The novel, full of dense imagery and metaphor , blends techniques and styles from poetry, memoir and theater, a m\u00e9lange typical of Mr. Lamming\u2019s fiction. \u2014 New York Times , 17 June 2022",
"To wrap it all up in a final boxing metaphor , the Z is swinging wildly hoping for a lucky knockout, while the Supra confidently lands unanswered precision strikes. \u2014 Mark Takahashi, Car and Driver , 10 June 2022",
"In the series, the powerful, dark unseen powers behind the walls represent a metaphor for those special interest groups and lobbyists who work in the shadows trying to influence and shape every aspect of people\u2019s lives. \u2014 Emiliano De Pablos, Variety , 6 June 2022"
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"The hapless Humpty Dumpty often crops up as a metaphor for the second law of thermodynamics. \u2014 Charles Day , Physics Today , December 2002",
"Ben Strong, senior, football player, leader of the prayer group, the boy whose very name is a metaphor , has been besieged by the media for interviews. \u2014 Jayne Anne Phillips , Harper's , November 1998",
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"The ability to survive underwater becomes, to Gumbs, a metaphor for human resistance to oppressive institutions, both past and present. \u2014 Alana Mohamed, The Atlantic , 27 June 2022",
"The dog has caught the car, to use a metaphor that many used when Republicans succeeded in overturning ObamaCare. \u2014 Jay Nordlinger, National Review , 27 June 2022",
"Voluntarily assuming some of the responsibilities of deceased loved ones is a good deed, without being required \u2014 an extra credit in life, to borrow a metaphor from education. \u2014 Jacobina Martin, Washington Post , 22 June 2022",
"Others saw the sinking ship as a darkly comic metaphor for Hong Kong's alleged fortunes, as the city -- still largely shut off from the rest of the world -- clings on to pandemic restrictions following several years of political turmoil. \u2014 Jessie Yeung, CNN , 20 June 2022",
"The novel, full of dense imagery and metaphor , blends techniques and styles from poetry, memoir and theater, a m\u00e9lange typical of Mr. Lamming\u2019s fiction. \u2014 New York Times , 17 June 2022",
"To wrap it all up in a final boxing metaphor , the Z is swinging wildly hoping for a lucky knockout, while the Supra confidently lands unanswered precision strikes. \u2014 Mark Takahashi, Car and Driver , 10 June 2022",
"In the series, the powerful, dark unseen powers behind the walls represent a metaphor for those special interest groups and lobbyists who work in the shadows trying to influence and shape every aspect of people\u2019s lives. \u2014 Emiliano De Pablos, Variety , 6 June 2022"
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"You see, menudo is our chicken soup for the body and soul, our metaphor for bread-and-butter issues. \u2014 Joe Rodriguez , San Jose Mercury News , 20 May 2003",
"The hapless Humpty Dumpty often crops up as a metaphor for the second law of thermodynamics. \u2014 Charles Day , Physics Today , December 2002",
"Ben Strong, senior, football player, leader of the prayer group, the boy whose very name is a metaphor , has been besieged by the media for interviews. \u2014 Jayne Anne Phillips , Harper's , November 1998",
"The number of songs containing ambiguous metaphors and intriguing but obscure symbolism could be extended indefinitely. Still, \u2026 there are hollers, work songs, field songs, and blues whose meaning is really not subject to a great deal of interpretation. \u2014 Lawrence W. Levine , \"The Concept of the New Negro,\" 1971 , in The Unpredictable Past , 1993",
"\u201cHe was drowning in paperwork\u201d is a metaphor in which having to deal with a lot of paperwork is being compared to drowning in an ocean of water.",
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"The ability to survive underwater becomes, to Gumbs, a metaphor for human resistance to oppressive institutions, both past and present. \u2014 Alana Mohamed, The Atlantic , 27 June 2022",
"The dog has caught the car, to use a metaphor that many used when Republicans succeeded in overturning ObamaCare. \u2014 Jay Nordlinger, National Review , 27 June 2022",
"Voluntarily assuming some of the responsibilities of deceased loved ones is a good deed, without being required \u2014 an extra credit in life, to borrow a metaphor from education. \u2014 Jacobina Martin, Washington Post , 22 June 2022",
"Others saw the sinking ship as a darkly comic metaphor for Hong Kong's alleged fortunes, as the city -- still largely shut off from the rest of the world -- clings on to pandemic restrictions following several years of political turmoil. \u2014 Jessie Yeung, CNN , 20 June 2022",
"The novel, full of dense imagery and metaphor , blends techniques and styles from poetry, memoir and theater, a m\u00e9lange typical of Mr. Lamming\u2019s fiction. \u2014 New York Times , 17 June 2022",
"To wrap it all up in a final boxing metaphor , the Z is swinging wildly hoping for a lucky knockout, while the Supra confidently lands unanswered precision strikes. \u2014 Mark Takahashi, Car and Driver , 10 June 2022",
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"But a lot of these new metaphysics are being made up on prime time. \u2014 Madeleine Kearns, National Review , 1 Oct. 2019",
"His supporters, though, tend to back him less for metaphysics than for rude practicality. \u2014 Eric Lach, The New Yorker , 25 Nov. 2019",
"Of course, people may also be weak-willed about starting to read about metaphysics , epistemology and ethics. \u2014 Michael Dirda, Washington Post , 20 Nov. 2019",
"Science cannot seek to prove or disprove the existence of God because science cannot use metaphysics or the supernatural for explanation. \u2014 al , 8 Dec. 2019",
"Conversation spiralled, with users making arguments about Cartesian metaphysics and quoting Socrates. \u2014 Anna Wiener, The New Yorker , 8 Aug. 2019",
"And so, my technique with this book \u2014 as with the last one \u2014 is to try to go to everything from the metaphysics and the philosophy all the way through to the popular culture. \u2014 Madeleine Kearns, National Review , 1 Oct. 2019",
"His theory is that art gets the metaphysics of space in a way that many who've been there cannot express. \u2014 Thomas Page, CNN , 16 Sep. 2019",
"The series, which features recurring characters as well as stand-alone stories, plays fast and loose with metaphysics , laws of time and space, and conventional storytelling formats. \u2014 Christopher Arnott, courant.com , 30 Aug. 2019"
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"No 2\u00bd hour drama about a Lutheran priest\u2019s physical, spiritual, moral and metaphysical journey from Denmark to a far-flung corner of colonial Iceland in the late 19th century is ever going to be an easy sell. \u2014 David Rooney, The Hollywood Reporter , 27 May 2022",
"For those who are less interested in scientific credentials, there is the poetry of silver, as expressed through Argentum\u2019s metaphysical manifesto and rather trippy on-pack illustrations. \u2014 Ahmed Zambarakji, Robb Report , 21 June 2022",
"Could derealization have inspired all these metaphysical conjectures",
"Herzog\u2019s belief that meaning is created out of meaningless suffering takes him to some interesting metaphysical places. \u2014 Ryu Spaeth, The New Republic , 2 June 2022",
"While all other Cannes juries judge their movies by roughly the same standards \u2014 story, performance, cinematography \u2014 only the Ecumenical jury explicitly adds a metaphysical dimension. \u2014 Scott Roxborough, The Hollywood Reporter , 21 May 2022",
"There, a wildlife volunteer descends into a metaphysical journey that challenges her grip on reality and pushes her into a living nightmare. \u2014 Brent Lang, Variety , 19 May 2022",
"On an uninhabited island in the Celtic Sea, a wildlife volunteer\u2019s daily observations of a rare flower takes a dark turn into the strange and metaphysical . \u2014 K.j. Yossman, Variety , 21 May 2022",
"In the novel the losses are metaphysical , with only loose connections to the real world. \u2014 Nanjala Nyabola, Vogue , 26 Apr. 2022"
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"Recent Examples on the Web",
"Broadsheets of the era carried listings for spirit boards, erotic elixirs and an endless parade of enterprising metaphysicians . \u2014 Sam Kestenbaum, New York Times , 8 Nov. 2019",
"Taylor is always happy to discuss his favorite philosopher, the 18th-century German metaphysician Immanuel Kant, and his study of moral objectives. \u2014 Joan Niesen, SI.com , 6 Sep. 2019",
"My mother was a terrific metaphysician , passionate about the world around her and the lives of others. \u2014 Susan Fekete, Longreads , 7 Mar. 2018",
"Bannon's reading eventually led him to the work of Ren\u00e9 Gu\u00e9non, an early-20th- century French occultist and metaphysician who was raised a Roman Catholic, practiced Freemasonry, and later became a Sufi Muslim who observed the Sharia. \u2014 Charles P. Pierce, Esquire , 19 July 2017",
"Bannon\u2019s reading eventually led him to the work of Ren\u00e9 Gu\u00e9non, an early-20th-\u200bcentury French occultist and metaphysician who was raised a Roman Catholic, practiced Freemasonry, and later became a Sufi Muslim who observed the Sharia. \u2014 vanityfair.com , 17 July 2017",
"Bannon\u2019s reading eventually led him to the work of Ren\u00e9 Gu\u00e9non, an early-20th-\u200bcentury French occultist and metaphysician who was raised a Roman Catholic, practiced Freemasonry, and later became a Sufi Muslim who observed the Sharia. \u2014 Joshua Green, The Hive , 17 July 2017",
"Occasionally metaphysics invades politics, to the surprise even of metaphysicians like me. \u2014 Crispin Sartwell, WSJ , 5 May 2017"
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"Recent Examples on the Web",
"Even Neil deGrasse Tyson has, more recently, backed away from his Muskian metaphysics . \u2014 Jason Kehe, Wired , 9 Mar. 2022",
"The hollowness of both films goes beyond metaphysics . \u2014 Richard Brody, The New Yorker , 30 Mar. 2022",
"But the tendency to think this way is mostly our inheritance of an inadequate and un-ecological folk- metaphysics . \u2014 Justin E. H. Smith, Wired , 3 Mar. 2022",
"Western thinkers and their societies did not return to classical metaphysics to understand their predicament. \u2014 Richard M. Reinsch Ii, National Review , 17 Feb. 2022",
"In this manner, the Western mind accepts Marxism in its nihilistic aspects and remains, as Del Noce observes, incapable of surpassing it with a school of thought that recovers the old language of classical metaphysics and the religion of the Bible. \u2014 Richard M. Reinsch Ii, National Review , 17 Feb. 2022",
"The documentary centers on a lengthy conversation between David and his longtime friend/Seinfeld and Curb director Larry Charles, with the duo discussing non-showbiz matters \u2014 like fatherhood and metaphysics \u2014 as well as David\u2019s television career. \u2014 Daniel Kreps, Rolling Stone , 16 Feb. 2022",
"He and the reader wade together through a mysterious cosmos that operates by an unseen metaphysics , observing it and learning its rules. \u2014 Gregory Barber, Wired , 10 Feb. 2022",
"Visionaire was launched in 1991, and the abstract equation of these three objects\u2014magazine, garment, pattern\u2014speaks to the growing acceptance of fashion as a realm with its own metaphysics . \u2014 Laura Jacobs, WSJ , 5 Feb. 2022"
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"But now that the Federal Reserve is hiking interest rates in order to combat rising inflation, crypto's meteoric rise is starting to plummet back to Earth, said crypto skeptic Ben McKenzie. \u2014 Khristopher J. Brooks, CBS News , 15 June 2022",
"These are the opening words of Walking Two Worlds, a new documentary that premiered at the Tribeca Film Festival last week exploring the meteoric rise of Indigenous model Quannah Chasinghorse. \u2014 Christian Allaire, Vogue , 15 June 2022",
"Untrapped: The Story of Lil Baby follows Grammy-winning rapper Lil Baby\u2019s meteoric rise in the rap game. \u2014 Cydney Lee, Billboard , 13 June 2022",
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"Booming institutional adoption has lifted the world\u2019s largest cryptocurrency to meteoric new highs this year, but bitcoin's underlying technology has also piqued the interest of central banks looking to forge their own digital currencies. \u2014 Jonathan Ponciano, Forbes , 20 Jan. 2022",
"His death was confirmed by Lee Gi-nam, the producer of a 2020 documentary on Song\u2019s life, which charted a tumultuous course that reflected South Korea\u2019s modern history through war, division, abject poverty and a meteoric rise. \u2014 Victoria Kim, BostonGlobe.com , 10 June 2022"
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"But now that the Federal Reserve is hiking interest rates in order to combat rising inflation, crypto's meteoric rise is starting to plummet back to Earth, said crypto skeptic Ben McKenzie. \u2014 Khristopher J. Brooks, CBS News , 15 June 2022",
"These are the opening words of Walking Two Worlds, a new documentary that premiered at the Tribeca Film Festival last week exploring the meteoric rise of Indigenous model Quannah Chasinghorse. \u2014 Christian Allaire, Vogue , 15 June 2022",
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"Booming institutional adoption has lifted the world\u2019s largest cryptocurrency to meteoric new highs this year, but bitcoin's underlying technology has also piqued the interest of central banks looking to forge their own digital currencies. \u2014 Jonathan Ponciano, Forbes , 20 Jan. 2022",
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"Eerily enough, a meter maid rolled by asking about a car that had been parked in front of the Coopers' house for two days \u2014 one that ostensibly belonged to Chic's creepy (and now very dead) acquaintance. \u2014 Brianna Wiest, Teen Vogue , 8 Feb. 2018"
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"One of the major keys to improving one\u2019s jumper, Galo says, is to eliminate the number of variables in one\u2019s shot (something his method seeks to do). \u2014 Mat Issa, Forbes , 9 June 2022",
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"No matter your method of travel, destinations that span rugged retreats to dazzling oceanfront resorts are issuing a siren call. \u2014 J.d. Simkins, Sunset Magazine , 23 May 2022",
"As Romano, 29, grew to love the ritual, the two began gifting each other new bottles and Romano developed his own method . \u2014 New York Times , 22 May 2022"
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"He blamed the failure of their research on poor methodology .",
"for solving crossword puzzles my usual methodology is to begin by filling in all of the answers I'm reasonably sure of",
"Recent Examples on the Web",
"The traditional implementation methodology is a more sequential process known as waterfall. \u2014 Steve Banker, Forbes , 28 June 2022",
"Oscar winners Adam Valdez and Andrew R. Jones, VFX supervisor and animation supervisor, respectively, on Favreau\u2019s The Jungle Book and The Lion King, shared directing duties on Prehistoric Planet, and that methodology was top of mind. \u2014 Carolyn Giardina, The Hollywood Reporter , 22 June 2022",
"No one has ever grown sequoias in the wild at this scale and the methodology of re-engineering the forests is unproven. \u2014 Kurtis Alexander, San Francisco Chronicle , 30 Apr. 2022",
"India insists that the WHO's methodology is flawed. \u2014 Arkansas Online , 17 Apr. 2022",
"And the consistent and tested methodology used by experienced but distant researchers can be more accurate than reports produced by local agencies newer to the game. \u2014 Joan Meiners, The Arizona Republic , 30 Mar. 2022",
"Forbes' methodology for determining value is as follows: Forbes\u2019 team values are enterprise values (equity plus net debt) calculated using a multiple of revenue. \u2014 Dave Clark, The Enquirer , 28 Mar. 2022",
"To its occasional detriment, the film is decidedly light on the practical details of the women\u2019s daunting task, including their exact route, timetable and methodology . \u2014 Gary Goldstein, Los Angeles Times , 15 June 2022",
"Training might be in response to the shifts above or to cover a new product and its positioning, new market opportunities, new buyer personas, a new sales methodology , etc. \u2014 Graham Glass, Forbes , 13 June 2022"
],
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"1800, in the meaning defined at sense 1":""
},
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"New Latin methodologia , from Latin methodus + -logia -logy":""
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"\u02ccme-th\u0259-\u02c8d\u00e4-l\u0259-j\u0113"
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"synonyms":[
"course",
"line",
"policy",
"procedure",
"program"
],
"time_of_retrieval":"20220707-040903",
"type":[
"noun"
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},
"methyl":{
"antonyms":[],
"definitions":{
": an alkyl radical CH 3 derived from methane":[]
},
"examples":[
"Recent Examples on the Web",
"By occupying these sites like roadblocks on a highway, methyl groups can alter transcription, a basic step in gene expression where a piece of RNA is made from a DNA template. \u2014 Rachel Yehuda, Scientific American , 18 June 2022",
"This shampoo includes aloe barbadensis leaf to act as a natural source of moisture and sodium methyl cocoyl taurate, a mild surfactant that makes this shampoo creamy and luxurious. \u2014 Grooming Playbook, The Salt Lake Tribune , 1 June 2022",
"The academic literature in chemistry is filled with papers describing reactions that open and close ring structures, add methyl groups, remove oxygens, and much more. \u2014 John Timmer, Ars Technica , 3 May 2022",
"The taste derived from L-aspartyl-L-phenylalnine methyl ester, a dipeptide of amino acids that is 200 times sweeter than sucrose or table sugar. \u2014 Scott Lafee, San Diego Union-Tribune , 19 Apr. 2022",
"It was replaced with MTBE ( methyl tertiary butyl ether), an oxygenate. \u2014 Bob Weber, chicagotribune.com , 21 Oct. 2021",
"Chemical refrigerants like sulfur dioxide and methyl chloride filled most fridges and coolers, and leaks could kill a child, poison a hospital floor, even blow up a basement. \u2014 Eric Dean Wilson, Time , 30 June 2021",
"Before the invention of modern refrigeration technology, solutions used for refrigeration included industrial gases like ammonia, sulfur dioxide, and methyl chloride, which can be corrosive, poisonous and even explosive. \u2014 Forbes , 22 June 2021",
"The Shiyan explosion came a day after eight people died and three others were injured when toxic methyl formate leaked from a vehicle at a chemical handling facility in the southwestern city of Guiyang. \u2014 BostonGlobe.com , 13 June 2021"
],
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"1840, in the meaning defined above":""
},
"history_and_etymology":{
"International Scientific Vocabulary, back-formation from methylene":""
},
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"\u02c8me-th\u0259l",
"\u02c8meth-\u0259l, British also \u02c8m\u0113-\u02ccth\u012bl"
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"type":[
"adjective",
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"methyl parathion":{
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": a highly toxic synthetic organophosphate insecticide C 8 H 10 NO 5 PS":[
"Methyl parathion , a restricted-use organophosphate insecticide that affects the central nervous system, is formulated only for outdoor use on cotton, soybeans, and other crops.",
"\u2014 Chemical & Engineering News"
]
},
"examples":[
"Recent Examples on the Web",
"At least 144 containers were labeled as methyl parathion and had liquids remaining in the bottoms. \u2014 jsonline.com , 15 Feb. 2017"
],
"first_known_use":{
"1957, in the meaning defined above":""
},
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"time_of_retrieval":"20220707-204057",
"type":[
"noun"
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},
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"definitions":{
": a synthetic rubber made in Germany during World War I by polymerization of dimethyl-butadiene":[]
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"time_of_retrieval":"20220706-153622",
"type":[
"noun"
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"definitions":{
": oil yellow sense 1b":[]
},
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"history_and_etymology":{},
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"time_of_retrieval":"20220707-064421",
"type":[
"noun"
]
},
"methylate":{
"antonyms":[],
"definitions":{
": to introduce the methyl radical into":[]
},
"examples":[
"Recent Examples on the Web",
"High levels of stress experienced in early life can methylate the key gene that controls this stress system. \u2014 Daniel P. Keating, Scientific American , 5 May 2017"
],
"first_known_use":{
"1852, in the meaning defined above":""
},
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"pronounciation":[
"\u02c8me-th\u0259-\u02ccl\u0101t"
],
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"time_of_retrieval":"20220707-203651",
"type":[
"noun",
"verb"
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},
"methylation":{
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"first_known_use":{
"1855, in the meaning defined above":""
},
"history_and_etymology":{},
"pronounciation":[
"\u02ccmeth-\u0259-\u02c8l\u0101-sh\u0259n",
"\u02ccme-th\u0259-\u02c8l\u0101-sh\u0259n"
],
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"time_of_retrieval":"20220707-202409",
"type":[
"noun",
"transitive verb"
]
},
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": a methylated xanthine derivative (such as caffeine, theobromine, or theophylline)":[]
},
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"first_known_use":{
"1949, in the meaning defined above":""
},
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"pronounciation":[
"\u02ccmeth-\u0259l-\u02c8zan-\u02ccth\u0113n",
"\u02ccme-th\u0259l-\u02c8zan-\u02ccth\u0113n"
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"time_of_retrieval":"20220707-202552",
"type":[
"noun"
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},
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"definitions":{
": a serotonin antagonist C 21 H 27 N 3 O 2 used in the form of its maleate especially in the treatment and prevention of migraine headaches":[]
": an alien resident of an ancient Greek city who had some civil privileges":[]
},
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"history_and_etymology":{
"Greek metoikos , from meta- + oikos house":""
},
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"\u02c8metik"
],
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"time_of_retrieval":"20220707-043618",
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"noun"
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"definitions":{
"the basic monetary unit of Mozambique \u2014 see Money Table":[]
},
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"first_known_use":{
"1980, in the meaning defined above":""
},
"history_and_etymology":{
"Portuguese, miskal (a unit of weight in Muslim countries), from Arabic mithq\u0101l":""
},
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"\u02ccme-ti-\u02c8k\u00e4l",
"\u02c8me-ti-k\u0259l"
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"time_of_retrieval":"20220707-080547",
"type":[
"noun"
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]
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"Always meticulous about his appearance in the past, he had become dirty and unkempt, with straggly hair, stained clothes, and patches of silver stubble on his chin. \u2014 Minette Walters , Fox Evil , 2002",
"She was very much the craftswoman, all her work meticulous , slow, perfect. \u2014 Simon Winchester , The Professor and the Madman , 1998",
"In dense, meticulous arguments \u2026 Brooten mounts an assault on that view. \u2014 Cullen Murphy , Atlantic , August 1993",
"He described the scene in meticulous detail.",
"He is meticulous about keeping accurate records.",
"Recent Examples on the Web",
"Olsen is meticulous rendering her seal oil, running it multiple times through cheesecloth to strain out any flavors that might pack too pungent a punch. \u2014 Zachariah Hughes, Anchorage Daily News , 11 June 2022",
"The process of creating the paintings, which historically were commissioned to illustrate religious stories, scientific texts, poetry, tales, and imperial histories, was meticulous . \u2014 Naib Mian, The New Yorker , 1 June 2022",
"In 2010 Smith\u2019s bold, meticulous and often skin-baring designs grabbed the attention of fashion editor Andr\u00e9 Leon Talley. \u2014 Leah Faye Cooper, The Hollywood Reporter , 11 June 2022",
"But Hoekstra, as organized and meticulous as Macdonald was proudly shambolic, usually just shook off her initial skepticism and did her job, which was to make Macdonald\u2019s ideas happened. \u2014 Geoff Edgers, Washington Post , 29 May 2022",
"From meticulous and quirky designs to views of the Straits of Mackinac, these five putt-putt golf courses are worth a summertime visit. \u2014 Lauren Wethington, Detroit Free Press , 22 May 2022",
"The film received a meticulous and costly restoration and was hailed at the 2012 New York Film Festival, widely praised by critics, and released (including an interview with Cimino and Carelli) on DVD by the Criterion Collection. \u2014 Richard Brody, The New Yorker , 22 May 2022",
"Mark Rylance gives a typically crafty and meticulous performance as Leonard, an English immigrant in 1950s Chicago who makes men\u2019s suits in the shop. \u2014 Kyle Smith, National Review , 19 Mar. 2022",
"Levine said his friend was always meticulous and thorough. \u2014 Caroline Silva, ajc , 2 Mar. 2022"
],
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"1827, in the meaning defined above":""
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"earlier, \"fearful,\" borrowed from Latin met\u012bcul\u014dsus, met\u016bcul\u014dsus \"timid, apprehensive,\" from met\u016b-, stem of metus \"fear, dread\" (of uncertain origin) + -cul\u014dsus (in per\u012bcul\u014dsus \"involving danger, perilous \")":""
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"m\u0259-\u02c8ti-ky\u0259-l\u0259s",
"m\u0259-\u02c8tik-y\u0259-l\u0259s"
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"painstaking",
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"time_of_retrieval":"20220707-105054",
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]
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"Always meticulous about his appearance in the past, he had become dirty and unkempt, with straggly hair, stained clothes, and patches of silver stubble on his chin. \u2014 Minette Walters , Fox Evil , 2002",
"She was very much the craftswoman, all her work meticulous , slow, perfect. \u2014 Simon Winchester , The Professor and the Madman , 1998",
"In dense, meticulous arguments \u2026 Brooten mounts an assault on that view. \u2014 Cullen Murphy , Atlantic , August 1993",
"He described the scene in meticulous detail.",
"He is meticulous about keeping accurate records.",
"Recent Examples on the Web",
"Olsen is meticulous rendering her seal oil, running it multiple times through cheesecloth to strain out any flavors that might pack too pungent a punch. \u2014 Zachariah Hughes, Anchorage Daily News , 11 June 2022",
"The process of creating the paintings, which historically were commissioned to illustrate religious stories, scientific texts, poetry, tales, and imperial histories, was meticulous . \u2014 Naib Mian, The New Yorker , 1 June 2022",
"In 2010 Smith\u2019s bold, meticulous and often skin-baring designs grabbed the attention of fashion editor Andr\u00e9 Leon Talley. \u2014 Leah Faye Cooper, The Hollywood Reporter , 11 June 2022",
"But Hoekstra, as organized and meticulous as Macdonald was proudly shambolic, usually just shook off her initial skepticism and did her job, which was to make Macdonald\u2019s ideas happened. \u2014 Geoff Edgers, Washington Post , 29 May 2022",
"From meticulous and quirky designs to views of the Straits of Mackinac, these five putt-putt golf courses are worth a summertime visit. \u2014 Lauren Wethington, Detroit Free Press , 22 May 2022",
"The film received a meticulous and costly restoration and was hailed at the 2012 New York Film Festival, widely praised by critics, and released (including an interview with Cimino and Carelli) on DVD by the Criterion Collection. \u2014 Richard Brody, The New Yorker , 22 May 2022",
"Mark Rylance gives a typically crafty and meticulous performance as Leonard, an English immigrant in 1950s Chicago who makes men\u2019s suits in the shop. \u2014 Kyle Smith, National Review , 19 Mar. 2022",
"Levine said his friend was always meticulous and thorough. \u2014 Caroline Silva, ajc , 2 Mar. 2022"
],
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"1827, in the meaning defined above":""
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"earlier, \"fearful,\" borrowed from Latin met\u012bcul\u014dsus, met\u016bcul\u014dsus \"timid, apprehensive,\" from met\u016b-, stem of metus \"fear, dread\" (of uncertain origin) + -cul\u014dsus (in per\u012bcul\u014dsus \"involving danger, perilous \")":""
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"m\u0259-\u02c8ti-ky\u0259-l\u0259s",
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]
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"Always meticulous about his appearance in the past, he had become dirty and unkempt, with straggly hair, stained clothes, and patches of silver stubble on his chin. \u2014 Minette Walters , Fox Evil , 2002",
"She was very much the craftswoman, all her work meticulous , slow, perfect. \u2014 Simon Winchester , The Professor and the Madman , 1998",
"In dense, meticulous arguments \u2026 Brooten mounts an assault on that view. \u2014 Cullen Murphy , Atlantic , August 1993",
"He described the scene in meticulous detail.",
"He is meticulous about keeping accurate records.",
"Recent Examples on the Web",
"Olsen is meticulous rendering her seal oil, running it multiple times through cheesecloth to strain out any flavors that might pack too pungent a punch. \u2014 Zachariah Hughes, Anchorage Daily News , 11 June 2022",
"The process of creating the paintings, which historically were commissioned to illustrate religious stories, scientific texts, poetry, tales, and imperial histories, was meticulous . \u2014 Naib Mian, The New Yorker , 1 June 2022",
"In 2010 Smith\u2019s bold, meticulous and often skin-baring designs grabbed the attention of fashion editor Andr\u00e9 Leon Talley. \u2014 Leah Faye Cooper, The Hollywood Reporter , 11 June 2022",
"But Hoekstra, as organized and meticulous as Macdonald was proudly shambolic, usually just shook off her initial skepticism and did her job, which was to make Macdonald\u2019s ideas happened. \u2014 Geoff Edgers, Washington Post , 29 May 2022",
"From meticulous and quirky designs to views of the Straits of Mackinac, these five putt-putt golf courses are worth a summertime visit. \u2014 Lauren Wethington, Detroit Free Press , 22 May 2022",
"The film received a meticulous and costly restoration and was hailed at the 2012 New York Film Festival, widely praised by critics, and released (including an interview with Cimino and Carelli) on DVD by the Criterion Collection. \u2014 Richard Brody, The New Yorker , 22 May 2022",
"Mark Rylance gives a typically crafty and meticulous performance as Leonard, an English immigrant in 1950s Chicago who makes men\u2019s suits in the shop. \u2014 Kyle Smith, National Review , 19 Mar. 2022",
"Levine said his friend was always meticulous and thorough. \u2014 Caroline Silva, ajc , 2 Mar. 2022"
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"1827, in the meaning defined above":""
},
"history_and_etymology":{
"earlier, \"fearful,\" borrowed from Latin met\u012bcul\u014dsus, met\u016bcul\u014dsus \"timid, apprehensive,\" from met\u016b-, stem of metus \"fear, dread\" (of uncertain origin) + -cul\u014dsus (in per\u012bcul\u014dsus \"involving danger, perilous \")":""
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"m\u0259-\u02c8ti-ky\u0259-l\u0259s",
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],
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"time_of_retrieval":"20220707-110531",
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": an area of activity in which one excels : forte":[
"Chess had become his m\u00e9tier ."
],
": vocation , trade":[
"Journalism is her m\u00e9tier ."
]
},
"examples":[
"After trying several careers, she found her true m\u00e9tier in computer science.",
"public speaking is not my m\u00e9tier , as others can attest",
"Recent Examples on the Web",
"The short story is a cruel little metier and a poor choice for anyone hoping to conceal his or her faults as a writer. \u2014 Deborah Treisman, The New Yorker , 11 Oct. 2021",
"The pandemic intensifies the domesticity that is Wolitzer\u2019s metier . \u2014 BostonGlobe.com , 2 Sep. 2021",
"Her timing seemed strange to some, just as her metier was fading. \u2014 The Economist , 20 June 2020",
"That the business of fashion was of great interest to Daves didn\u2019t preclude her enjoyment of the metier . \u2014 Laird Borrelli-persson, Vogue , 16 Dec. 2019",
"And ambiguous and withholdy endings are the metier of this show\u2019s makers. \u2014 Wired , 2 Dec. 2019",
"Margiela is a man who appreciates the beauty existing objects, and was never afraid to reveal the process and craft of his metier . \u2014 Laird Borrelli-persson, Vogue , 1 Apr. 2019",
"But with the Premier League season coming to a close on Sunday, Faria - who has followed Mourinho throughout his storied metier - has decided that a career change would be best for him. \u2014 SI.com , 12 May 2018",
"Telles began his metier at Brazilian side Juventude in 2011 and signed with Gremio in 2013. \u2014 SI.com , 10 July 2018"
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"1792, in the meaning defined at sense 1":""
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"borrowed from French, going back to Old French mistier, mestier \"divine service, function, duty, craft, profession\" \u2014 more at mystery entry 2":""
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"me-\u02c8ty\u0101",
"\u02c8me-\u02ccty\u0101"
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"speciality",
"specialty",
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"thing"
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"time_of_retrieval":"20220706-200358",
"type":[
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"definitions":{
": m\u00e9tis":[]
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"history_and_etymology":{
"French m\u00e9tif , alteration of m\u00e9tis":""
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"pronounciation":[
"m\u0101\u02c8t\u0113f"
],
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"time_of_retrieval":"20220707-093051",
"type":[
"noun"
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},
"metis":{
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"first_known_use":{
"1810, in the meaning defined above":""
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"history_and_etymology":{
"French, from Late Latin mixticius mixed \u2014 more at mestizo":""
},
"pronounciation":[
"m\u0101-\u02c8t\u0113(s)"
],
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"time_of_retrieval":"20220708-082733",
"type":[
"noun"
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},
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"definitions":{
": a symbol variously written (as by:) and used in ancient manuscripts (as of the Septuagint) to mark the end of a suspected or spurious passage \u2014 compare obelus":[]
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"examples":[],
"first_known_use":{},
"history_and_etymology":{
"New Latin, from meta- + obelus":""
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"pronounciation":[
"(\u02c8)met+"
],
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"time_of_retrieval":"20220706-125803",
"type":[
"noun"
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"metric":{
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"definitions":{
": a mathematical function that associates a real nonnegative number analogous to distance with each pair of elements in a set such that the number is zero only if the two elements are identical, the number is the same regardless of the order in which the two elements are taken, and the number associated with one pair of elements plus that associated with one member of the pair and a third element is equal to or greater than the number associated with the other member of the pair and the third element":[],
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"\u2014 T. S. Eliot"
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"\u2014 Scientific Monthly"
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": of, relating to, or using the metric system":[
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"according to the usual metrics by which we judge fiction, this novel is an utter failure",
"Adjective",
"The metric unit of energy is the \u201cjoule.\u201d",
"Recent Examples on the Web: Noun",
"The authors of the index evaluated 370 ports using port hours per ship call as the primary metric . \u2014 Adam A. Millsap, Forbes , 27 May 2022",
"The importance of that metric has changed somewhat since at home COVID tests became widely available, but the trend of increasing positivity rate is far from good news. \u2014 Ramsey Archibald | Rarchibald@al.com, al , 21 May 2022",
"But perhaps the greatest risk for Austria right now is that these measures alone won\u2019t be enough to minimize hospitalizations, which is the primary metric that the government is focused on. \u2014 Yasmeen Serhan, The Atlantic , 20 Nov. 2021",
"According to this metric , Barry Lopez contributed enough in his 75 years on this planet for dozens of lifetimes. \u2014 Jonathan Russell Clark, BostonGlobe.com , 19 May 2022",
"Many companies keep track of this key metric , but certainly not all do. \u2014 Jon Miller, Forbes , 25 Apr. 2022",
"Operational results can\u2019t justify anything close to the company\u2019s $1-trillion market value, based on any kind of traditional stock-pricing metric . \u2014 Russ Mitchellstaff Writer, Los Angeles Times , 12 Apr. 2022",
"With those victories, the Commodores moved into the top 75 of the NCAA's NET metric , moving Kentucky's earlier win in Nashville into the Quadrant 1 category. \u2014 Jon Hale, The Courier-Journal , 12 Mar. 2022",
"Oats, though, noted how Alabama\u2019s offensive efficiency ranked in the top 10 of KenPom before the Kentucky game and was on pace to be the program\u2019s best in the history of that metric . \u2014 Mike Rodak | Mrodak@al.com, al , 9 Feb. 2022",
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"Cook County, including Chicago, dropped to a medium rating on the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention metric Thursday, local public health officials announced. \u2014 Alice Yin, Chicago Tribune , 16 June 2022",
"While there isn\u2019t a seven-day average for this metric , positivity sat around 1% in mid-March. \u2014 Erin Prater, Fortune , 16 Apr. 2022",
"Countries without available figures in either metric were excluded. \u2014 David Yanofsky, Quartz , 14 Apr. 2022",
"Based on their regular-season stats, the players were divided into four tiers in each metric : excellent, above average, average, and below average. \u2014 Alex Hutchinson, Outside Online , 2 Mar. 2022",
"The song drew 55 million streams and sold 5,000 (down 1% in each metric ) worldwide in the Feb. 18-24 tracking week. \u2014 Gary Trust, Billboard , 28 Feb. 2022",
"Able to cover zero to 60 mph in 3.7 seconds, the XJ200 was quicker in that metric than both the Ferrari F40 and Lamborghini Diablo, while setting a new production-car lap record at the N\u00fcrburgring. \u2014 Robert Ross, Robb Report , 31 Jan. 2022",
"That equates to about 21% availability for each metric , slightly above the state threshold signaling stress. \u2014 Lisa Schencker, chicagotribune.com , 15 Jan. 2022",
"Tampa, Florida, came in second on that metric with just over 4 dog parks per 100,000 residents. \u2014 Meena Thiruvengadam, Travel + Leisure , 12 Jan. 2022"
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"Modern weapons also require sophisticated maintenance, which takes further training, and American weapons generally do not use the metric system , which means different tools and wrenches. \u2014 New York Times , 15 June 2022",
"The United States may have retired the metric system , but the rest of the world hasn't. \u2014 Rena Behar, Travel + Leisure , 6 May 2022",
"Local dialects were effectively banned, and use of the new, highly rational metric system was required. \u2014 Christopher Beha, Harper\u2019s Magazine , 18 Jan. 2022",
"The metric system , which makes far more sense than the imperial system, works in tens. \u2014 Elise Hannum, Vulture , 17 Dec. 2021",
"As a scientist who publishes in the scientific literature, the standard expectation is to use the metric system and the Celsius or even Kelvin scales. \u2014 Marshall Shepherd, Forbes , 9 Nov. 2021",
"An investigation found the root of the problem: The spacecraft was using the metric system while commands from the ground were sent in English units (pounds-seconds). \u2014 April Margulies, Forbes , 2 Sep. 2021",
"Like most of the world, the U.K. has used the metric system for more than half a century, though people there never stopped ordering pints in the pub and measuring themselves in feet and inches. \u2014 David Meyer, Fortune , 17 Sep. 2021",
"As Artnet News notes, Antoine was highly regarded in late 18th-century France for helping to develop the metric system and discovering the role that oxygen plays in combustion. \u2014 Nora Mcgreevy, Smithsonian Magazine , 3 Sep. 2021"
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"Tesla drivers were also stopped from using certain roads in Chengdu earlier this month when President Xi Jinping was visiting the metropolis in southwestern China, according to Reuters. \u2014 Michelle Toh, CNN , 23 June 2022",
"Auster\u2019s obsessions with identity, language, ambiguity and defeat are revealed on the long, tailing walks through the metropolis that give his labyrinthine novels their switchback shape, and New York looms throughout like a modern-day Babel. \u2014 Alice Mcdermott, New York Times , 22 June 2022",
"The Century of Progress marked Chicago\u2019s centennial, the title reflecting the city\u2019s spectacular growth from a frontier settlement to an industrial metropolis . \u2014 Chicago Tribune Staff, Chicago Tribune , 5 June 2022",
"Quartz: Still on partnerships, the Lagos state government has been digging the ground and laying ducts for fiber optic cables around the metropolis . \u2014 Alexander Onukwue, Quartz , 27 May 2022",
"Last month, Philadelphia abandoned its indoor mask mandate just days after becoming the first U.S. metropolis to reimpose compulsory masking in response to an increase in covid-19 cases and hospitalizations. \u2014 Compiled Democrat-gazette Staff From Wire Reports, Arkansas Online , 4 May 2022",
"The milk rode the train into Boston each morning, and so did more and more residents; as the twentieth century began, Lexington was in the process of turning from a farm town into a bedroom community for the expanding metropolis . \u2014 Bill Mckibben, The New Yorker , 1 May 2022",
"Growing up in S\u00e3o Paulo, Brazil, the largest city in the South American country and the fourth-biggest metropolis in the world, Joy Sales was influenced by a diverse set of cultures and spiritual practices all around her, at all times. \u2014 Ashley Garcia Lezcano, refinery29.com , 28 Apr. 2022",
"The city abandoned its indoor mask mandate Friday, just days after becoming the first U.S. metropolis to reimpose compulsory masking in response to an increase in COVID-19 cases and hospitalizations. \u2014 From Usa Today Network And Wire Reports, USA TODAY , 25 Apr. 2022"
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"The city was the last metropolitan in Alabama to rid itself of the commission form of government. \u2014 John Sharp, al , 18 Jan. 2022",
"Thailand declared semi-lockdowns in the Bangkok metropolitan and 6 other province on July 12. \u2014 Fernando Alfonso Iii, CNN , 17 July 2021",
"But truly rural areas are a relatively small slice of the electorate: In 2016, only 14 percent of all voters cast ballots in counties defined by the Census Bureau as non- metropolitan . \u2014 David Wasserman, NBC News , 28 Oct. 2019",
"Brexit devolved into an identity war: an English counter-revolution between nationalists and internationalists, country geezers versus young metropolitans , Little England versus Great Britain. \u2014 Tina Brown, Time , 6 June 2019",
"The new list ranks the country's 125 largest metropolitan areas based on affordability, job prospects and quality of life. \u2014 Enquirer Staff, Cincinnati.com , 13 Apr. 2018",
"The new list ranks the country's 125 largest metropolitan areas based on affordability, job prospects and quality of life. \u2014 Enquirer Staff, Cincinnati.com , 13 Apr. 2018",
"The new list ranks the country's 125 largest metropolitan areas based on affordability, job prospects and quality of life. \u2014 Enquirer Staff, Cincinnati.com , 13 Apr. 2018",
"The new list ranks the country's 125 largest metropolitan areas based on affordability, job prospects and quality of life. \u2014 Enquirer Staff, Cincinnati.com , 13 Apr. 2018",
"Recent Examples on the Web: Adjective",
"Two other applicants for police chief in Little Rock have experience working for large metropolitan police departments. \u2014 Joseph Flaherty, Arkansas Online , 26 June 2022",
"Although quality is essential to the success of any metropolitan venue, Habre says social media and marketing have been just as vital, if not more so. \u2014 Rob Chilton, Time , 23 June 2022",
"In metropolitan Atlanta, home to about 6 million people, the high should peak at about 100 degrees Wednesday and Thursday. \u2014 Matthew Cappucci, BostonGlobe.com , 20 June 2022",
"In metropolitan Atlanta, home to about 6 million people, the high should peak around 100 degrees Wednesday and Thursday. \u2014 Matthew Cappucci, Washington Post , 19 June 2022",
"Workday use of Barcelona\u2019s metropolitan bike-lane network grew 49% between 2019 and 2021, according to a recent study. \u2014 Erika Page, The Christian Science Monitor , 17 June 2022",
"By mid-July, another metropolitan Atlanta school district was courting Lewis. \u2014 Nicole Carr, ProPublica , 16 June 2022",
"Waymo, the other company with the most total crashes, operates the most extensive robotaxi service in the country, with operations in much of metropolitan Phoenix, Arizona and San Francisco. \u2014 Matt Mcfarland, CNN , 15 June 2022",
"And, in honor of Pride Month, a metrosexual (reportedly invented in 1994) describes a metropolitan person of ambiguous sexuality. \u2014 Kevin Fisher-paulson, San Francisco Chronicle , 14 June 2022"
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"And there are methodological issues, too: for example, some studies require participants to limit their consumption of anthocyanin-rich foods in the days leading up to the experiment. \u2014 Alex Hutchinson, Outside Online , 9 Apr. 2022",
"Experts also pointed to several methodological oddities in the company\u2019s work. \u2014 New York Times , 18 Apr. 2022",
"Not the first time While some early clinical work had suggested ivermectin may be effective for treating COVID-19, experts have since noted methodological weaknesses in those studies. \u2014 Beth Mole, Ars Technica , 21 Feb. 2022",
"In addition to works from the 19th and early 20th centuries, the collection embraces contemporary photography with a process of value selection and a thorough methodological approach under the responsibility of Urs Stahel. \u2014 Vogue , 23 Feb. 2022",
"One study of people born in Scotland in the mid-1930s\u2014which admittedly had some methodological issues\u2014found no correlation between participants\u2019 conscientiousness at ages 14 and 77. \u2014 Olga Khazan, The Atlantic , 10 Feb. 2022",
"The rarity itself can create a methodological problem. \u2014 Eric Boodman, STAT , 18 Feb. 2022",
"Hurston\u2019s methodological irreverence, combined with her diligent research methods, leaves us with an important documentation of Black folkways. \u2014 Imani Perry, The Atlantic , 8 Feb. 2022",
"Existing challenges including methodological , legal, privacy and security issues need to be addressed to promote practical use of non-traditional data. \u2014 Deepali Khanna, Forbes , 1 Feb. 2022"
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"Typical levels of methemoglobin in the blood range from 0% to 2%. \u2014 Beth Mole, Ars Technica , 23 Sep. 2019",
"Lab tests showed that the Rhode Island woman\u2019s percentage of methemoglobin was 44%. \u2014 Beth Mole, Ars Technica , 23 Sep. 2019",
"So, methemoglobinemia is a rare blood disorder that causes people to produce an abnormal amount of methemoglobin . \u2014 Maggie O'neill, Health.com , 19 Sep. 2019"
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"Recent Examples on the Web",
"Washer fluid is already 40 percent methyl alcohol and 60 percent water. \u2014 Mike Allen, Popular Mechanics , 15 May 2018",
"As a last resort, use methyl alcohol instead of washer fluid in the tank. \u2014 Mike Allen, Popular Mechanics , 15 May 2018"
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"Recent Examples on the Web: Verb",
"CEOs have the power to mete out punishments and benefits. \u2014 Lynne Curry | Alaska Workplace, Anchorage Daily News , 9 May 2022",
"This collaboration can help mete out a plan, determine who will be responsible for what, and what sub-teams might collaborate on which details. \u2014 Peter High, Forbes , 26 Apr. 2022",
"The Academy, meanwhile, is still trying to figure out what punishment, if any, to mete out. \u2014 Andy Meek, BGR , 29 Mar. 2022",
"Society hasn\u2019t benefited from the exemptions, which mete out justice to those who can afford to lobby the state Legislature\u2014and continue to prioritize the interests of small groups of locals over worthy statewide policy objectives. \u2014 Chris Carr, WSJ , 9 Mar. 2022",
"As part of the agreement, a special court is supposed to uncover the truth about seven decades of rebel violence, mete out justice and compensate victims. \u2014 Mary Anastasia O\u2019grady, WSJ , 20 Mar. 2022",
"Greene and Gosar may have brought embarrassment on their party, but Republican leadership struggled to mete out any type of strong punishment. \u2014 Jason Linkins, The New Republic , 9 Mar. 2022",
"Batman and Superman were not the only superheroes to mete out vengeance during the war years. \u2014 Samantha Baskind, Smithsonian Magazine , 3 Mar. 2022",
"The raging, swirling winds that struck Bowling Green did not mete out their damage evenly. \u2014 Washington Post , 15 Dec. 2021",
"Recent Examples on the Web: Noun",
"This is an interesting linguistic development, given that the etymology of the word meat can be traced back to the old English mete , which denoted foodstuffs more generally. \u2014 Sarah Garland, The New Republic , 5 Oct. 2021",
"Common sense would dictate asking for nothing short of the moon back, especially with the leverage mete running. \u2014 Sean Keeler, The Denver Post , 22 Dec. 2019",
"It has not yet been snared in a catalog of designations and coordinates, of metes and bounds. \u2014 Barry Lopez, Harper's magazine , 10 Jan. 2019",
"It has not yet been snared in a catalog of designations and coordinates, of metes and bounds. \u2014 Barry Lopez, Harper's magazine , 10 Jan. 2019"
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"\u02ccme-t\u0259m-\u02ccs\u012b-",
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": any of numerous administrative divisions that with the City of London form Greater London":[]
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"Recent Examples on the Web",
"Some opposition candidates quit their parties to run as independents in an attempt to keep control of key metropolitan boroughs . \u2014 Anatoly Kurmanaev, WSJ , 11 Dec. 2017"
],
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"Recent Examples on the Web",
"Linda Collins is a behavioral scientist and research methodologist who has developed and expanded the multiphase optimization strategy (MOST) framework for integrating basic engineering principles into intervention science. \u2014 Aline Holzwarth, Forbes , 21 June 2022",
"The former chief methodologist and vice president at the Urban Institute became the bureau's 26th director. \u2014 Chron , 5 Jan. 2022",
"President Biden\u2019s nominee for Census Bureau director, Robert Santos, is the chief methodologist and a vice president at the Urban Institute and had an advisory role on the report\u2019s methodology. \u2014 Washington Post , 2 Nov. 2021",
"Jeremy Gilbertson is a metaverse methodologist and Web3 strategist. \u2014 Jeremy Gilbertson, Variety , 11 Mar. 2022",
"Santos currently serves as the president of the American Statistical Association and vice president and chief methodologist at the Washington, D.C.-based Urban Institute. \u2014 Cayla Harris, San Antonio Express-News , 4 Nov. 2021",
"Santos is president of the ASA and vice president and chief methodologist at the Urban Institute. \u2014 Washington Post , 5 Aug. 2021",
"Santos, who was born and raised in San Antonio and lives in Austin, is currently the vice president and chief methodologist at the Urban Institute, a think tank in Washington. \u2014 Michael Collins, USA TODAY , 13 Apr. 2021",
"Santos currently is vice president and chief methodologist at the Urban Institute. \u2014 Mike Schneider, Chron , 13 Apr. 2021"
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"Soapstone is a metamorphic rock, composed mostly of the mineral talc, and has been used for carving for thousands of years. \u2014 oregonlive , 10 Mar. 2022",
"As Netflix endures another week of the maelstrom created by Dave Chappelle\u2019s controversial comedy special that shows no signs of slowing down, the streamer finds itself on the edge of a metamorphic moment. \u2014 Washington Post , 20 Oct. 2021",
"More recently, however, cybercriminals have developed metamorphic malware which rewrites code itself so each version appears different. \u2014 Danny Lopez, Forbes , 19 Jan. 2022",
"In life and work alike, his contradictions are pressed together like layers in metamorphic rock. \u2014 Alex Ross, The New Yorker , 17 Jan. 2022",
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"Their collective influence on the 20th century art world was metamorphic . \u2014 Natasha Gural, Forbes , 25 Sep. 2021",
"There are no throwaway lines in Lesser Known Monsters; each story is rich and metamorphic , perfect for breaking the monotony of winter days. \u2014 Wired Staff, Wired , 26 Nov. 2021"
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"The protagonist is a woman who is a Kentucky Blue Fugate with the rare, real-life genetic condition methemoglobinemia , which turns white skin blue. \u2014 Heather John Fogarty, Los Angeles Times , 1 Apr. 2020",
"When used at high levels, as is planned in the trials proposed by Berra, the gas will require close monitoring of hemoglobin levels to avert the development of methemoglobinemia , a condition in which red blood cells fail to bond to oxygen. \u2014 Los Angeles Times , 5 Apr. 2020",
"While these reactions are rare, the Food and Drug Administration has issued a warning to hospitals, noting that benzocaine can lead to methemoglobinemia . \u2014 NBC News , 18 Sep. 2019",
"Warren explained in the study that patients with blue blood from methemoglobinemia still have high oxygen levels, despite oxygen-rich blood usually thought of as looking bright-red. \u2014 Georgia Slater, PEOPLE.com , 20 Sep. 2019",
"But even though blood appears blue in patients with methemoglobinemia , oxygen levels are actually quite high, Warren said. \u2014 Cnn.com Wire Service, The Mercury News , 19 Sep. 2019"
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"The team found that the tiny birds responded to the colder shift in temperature by increasing torpor, a state that allows the hummingbirds to save energy by slowing down their metabolism . \u2014 Elizabeth Gamillo, Smithsonian Magazine , 27 May 2022",
"Wiemann and her colleagues, however, came up with a new -- and in their view, more definitive -- method to assess a dinosaur's metabolism . \u2014 Katie Hunt, CNN , 25 May 2022",
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"Carr, who wasn't involved with Wilkes' treatment, said that in his experience patients whose tumors spread to the lungs tend to have more favorable outcomes than patients whose cancer spreads to the liver, a more common site of metastasis . \u2014 Reynolds Lewis, NBC News , 2 June 2022",
"The metastasis of the woke ideology and the virtue signaling that accompanies it into medical education and practice does nothing to improve care. \u2014 WSJ , 23 May 2022",
"The work felt useful, and the research\u2013on the role of microRNA in metastasis \u2013was genuinely compelling. \u2014 Katy Waldman, The New Yorker , 1 Apr. 2022",
"The mouse tests can predict metastasis and whether a drug slows recurrence. \u2014 Max G. Levy, Wired , 9 Mar. 2022",
"Some outraged Canadians see a kind of cross-border metastasis of U.S.-style crass politics \u2014 a notion amplified when conservatives like Donald Trump, Texas Sen. Ted Cruz and Tucker Carlson, the Fox news host, heap praise on the protesters. \u2014 Los Angeles Times , 16 Feb. 2022",
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"Cancerous tumors can invade other tissues beyond where theyoriginated, causing new tumors to form in a process called metastasis . \u2014 Sudiksha Kochi, USA TODAY , 21 Oct. 2021"
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"Allara reduces the difficult path to diagnosis from years to days, with their diagnostic tool which tests a wide range of hormonal and metabolic markers, such as thyroid levels and insulin resistance. \u2014 Anna Haines, Forbes , 15 June 2022",
"Broadly speaking, the firm\u2019s Cambridge, UK, research site also has an emphasis on cancer, its Gaithersburg, Md., location focuses on biologic drugs, and labs in Gothenburg, Sweden, work on cardiovascular and metabolic diseases. \u2014 Globe Staff, BostonGlobe.com , 29 Apr. 2022",
"There are clear biological and metabolic mechanisms at play. \u2014 Kendall Powell, Smithsonian Magazine , 17 Dec. 2021",
"Experts say circadian misalignment has been associated with adverse effects on cognition and mood as well as cardiovascular and metabolic function. \u2014 Washington Post , 17 Dec. 2021",
"Part of the challenge in understanding long COVID-19 is that many of the symptoms, like fatigue and brain fog, can stem from a variety of conditions from hormonal or metabolic changes to sleep disruption or depression. \u2014 Allison Navis, The Conversation , 16 Aug. 2021",
"After an investigation, a SUID death might be from suffocation via airway blockage or tangled in bedding and blankets, infection, choking, injury or a cardiac or metabolic dysfunction. \u2014 Sandee Lamotte, CNN , 27 Apr. 2021",
"At issue is a medicine known as CDCA that is used to treat people with cerebrotendinous xanthomatosis, or CTX, a rare genetic metabolic disease. \u2014 Ed Silverman, STAT , 3 June 2022",
"The researchers compared their own metabolic data to a range of other insect species, as there was no other insect with such a breadth of size. \u2014 New York Times , 13 Aug. 2021"
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"Eight small, bead-like carpal bones connect to the two lower-arm bones\u2014the ulna and the radius\u2014and to the metacarpal bones of the hand. \u2014 Esther Smith, Outside Online , 8 Aug. 2021",
"In their post, the humane society team said X-rays revealed the fall had broken Ludwig's femur and three metacarpal bones that required a specialized surgery to repair, an operation that would cost $7,000 at minimum. \u2014 Krista Johnson, The Courier-Journal , 25 Feb. 2022",
"Cleveland Cavaliers swingman Dylan Windler suffered a fourth metacarpal fracture during the team\u2019s season-opening win on Wednesday night that will sideline him for at least one week. \u2014 Chris Fedor, cleveland , 24 Dec. 2020",
"Foster broke the fifth metacarpal bone in one hand after the encounter, coach Tom Herman said Thursday on a Zoom call with reporters. \u2014 Chuck Carlton, Dallas News , 11 June 2020",
"Meanwhile, backup guard Edmund Sumner fractured his right third metacarpal . \u2014 J. Michael, Indianapolis Star , 31 Oct. 2019",
"Nickelberry broke the metacarpal bone in his pinky finger while playing one-on-one with fellow freshman Samuell Williamson last week, Louisville coach Chris Mack told the Courier Journal. \u2014 Danielle Lerner, The Courier-Journal , 19 June 2019",
"The team said he was diagnosed with a fractured fifth metacarpal bone on right hand, but did not say how long Cano would be out of action. \u2014 Scooby Axson, SI.com , 13 May 2018",
"Then Tagovailoa fractured the second metacarpal bone in his left hand during the first offseason practice last month, leaving the team's offense in a state of abeyance. \u2014 Rainer Sabin, AL.com , 20 Apr. 2018",
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"During this past season, Seager was hit by a pitch and suffered a fracture of a right metacarpal , which is the long, slender bone that connects the wrist to the finger. \u2014 Bernie Pleskoff, Forbes , 9 Dec. 2021",
"After spending most of his first two seasons as a pro in the G League, Sumner started the first three games of the 2019-20 season before a non-displaced fracture of the right third metacarpal forced him out for a month. \u2014 Akeem Glaspie, The Indianapolis Star , 6 Oct. 2021",
"After spending most of his first two seasons as a pro in the G League, Sumner started the first three games of the 2019-20 season before a non-displaced fracture of the right third metacarpal forced him out for a month. \u2014 Akeem Glaspie, The Indianapolis Star , 6 Oct. 2021",
"After spending most of his first two seasons as a pro in the G League, Sumner started the first three games of the 2019-20 season before a non-displaced fracture of the right third metacarpal forced him out for a month. \u2014 Akeem Glaspie, The Indianapolis Star , 6 Oct. 2021",
"After spending most of his first two seasons as a pro in the G League, Sumner started the first three games of the 2019-20 season before a non-displaced fracture of the right third metacarpal forced him out for a month. \u2014 Akeem Glaspie, The Indianapolis Star , 6 Oct. 2021",
"After spending most of his first two seasons as a pro in the G League, Sumner started the first three games of the 2019-20 season before a non-displaced fracture of the right third metacarpal forced him out for a month. \u2014 Akeem Glaspie, The Indianapolis Star , 6 Oct. 2021"
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"On Thursday, Russians fired on the factory, hitting one of the administrative buildings and a warehouse where methanol was stored. \u2014 Katya Soldak, Forbes , 2 June 2022",
"The 90-footer incorporates a hybrid propulsion system that Sanlorenzo has developed with Siemens\u2014the two are also working on a methanol fuel-cell system\u2014to limit carbon emissions. \u2014 Michael Verdon, Robb Report , 31 May 2022",
"The IndyCar Series uses an 85%/15% methanol /gasoline blend, also called E85. \u2014 Scott Horner, The Indianapolis Star , 23 May 2022",
"The Mickey Mouse sanitizer contains traces of methanol . \u2014 Chris Smith, BGR , 7 Apr. 2022",
"In the first week of February, Nigerian authorities said petrol imported into the country by oil marketers contained unsafe levels of methanol . \u2014 Alexander Onukwue, Quartz , 16 Mar. 2022",
"However, exposure to methanol and benzene can be dangerous. \u2014 Chris Smith, BGR , 7 Apr. 2022",
"Exposure to methanol can cause nausea, vomiting, headache, blurred vision, coma, seizures, permanent blindness, permanent damage to the central nervous system, or death, said the agency. \u2014 Brett Molina, USA TODAY , 4 Apr. 2022",
"The Mandalorian have been recalled over the presence of benzene and methanol . \u2014 Brett Molina, USA TODAY , 4 Apr. 2022"
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"But Paisley\u2019s supporters came from dissenter stock: Presbyterians, Methodists and evangelical Protestants whose British ancestors colonized Catholic Ireland during the 17th-century wars of religion. \u2014 Ed O\u2019loughlin, The Seattle Times , 10 June 2017",
"Area Methodists formed the Lake Bluff Camp Association and held lectures, concert and other activities, Bergmann said. \u2014 Mark Lawton, chicagotribune.com , 25 May 2017",
"Methodists in the Southern jurisdictions are predominantly conservative, and those in the Western areas are more progressive. \u2014 Danika Worthington, The Denver Post , 28 Apr. 2017",
"Evangelical Methodists , who have gained strength in the denomination in part through growth of Methodist churches overseas, have responded by pushing to enforce church policies. \u2014 Rachel Zoll, The Seattle Times , 28 Apr. 2017"
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"The use of methyl ethyl ketone had increased scores so much that rules were put in place mandating a degree of coverstock hardness as measured by a device known as a Shore durometer. \u2014 Brendan I. Koerner, Wired , 27 May 2021",
"In the early 1970s, several pros had enjoyed great success by soaking their balls in methyl ethyl ketone , a flammable solvent that softened the coverstocks. \u2014 Brendan I. Koerner, Wired , 27 May 2021",
"Less than six months later, in February 2004, a leak in a heat exchanger at Sarnia's Imperial Oil discharged cooling water to the St. Clair River contaminated with two potentially harmful chemicals, methyl ethyl ketone and methyl isobutyl ketone. \u2014 Keith Matheny, Detroit Free Press , 3 Oct. 2017"
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"The ring peddled marijuana, cocaine, methaqualone and LSD in 1979 and 1980, making millions of dollars, according to federal court records. \u2014 John Caniglia, cleveland , 18 June 2021",
"McTaggart and Graewe served as enforcers for the Zagaria drug ring, which sold millions of dollars of cocaine, methaqualone , LSD and other drugs in 1979 and 1980, according to federal court records. \u2014 John Caniglia, cleveland , 29 May 2021"
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"Her father is a recovering alcoholic, opiate and crystal methedrine addict who left the family when Ms. Danler was 3, Ms. Danler writes in the book. \u2014 Alex Williams, New York Times , 13 Feb. 2020"
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"Aluminum prices are down from a high of about $3,700 per metric ton in early March 2022 and $2,850 in January to just about $2,500 currently. \u2014 Trefis Team, Forbes , 24 June 2022",
"In April, premium Russian coking coal delivered to Jingtang port in northern China was priced at 2,710 yuan ($403) per metric ton , according to Chinese industry data provider MySteel. \u2014 Laura He, CNN , 20 May 2022",
"The price per metric ton topped $3,400 by Feb. 28, compared with just over $2,400 on May 28, 2021, according to data provider FactSet Inc. \u2014 Jennifer Williams-alvarez, WSJ , 20 May 2022",
"Three-month copper on the LME drops 1% to $9,301.50 a metric ton . \u2014 WSJ , 29 June 2021",
"The price for lithium carbonate\u2014the compound that gets extracted from the ground\u2014has shot up 432% year over year, hitting nearly $62,000 per metric ton in April. \u2014 Emily Barone, Time , 26 May 2022",
"In an earnings call last month, the publisher and president of the Dallas Morning News, which still prints daily, said the company\u2019s newsprint costs had soared to about $720 a metric ton , from $520 two years earlier. \u2014 Washington Post , 12 Apr. 2022",
"The commodity\u2019s price has come down from its peak of more than $3,700 a metric ton earlier this month, but remains high. \u2014 Ananya Bhattacharya, Quartz , 14 Mar. 2022",
"Nickel prices, a metal used in electric vehicle batteries, soared to an all-time high in early March, doubling to $100,000 per metric ton , and triggering the London Metal Exchange to suspend trading. \u2014 Anna Cooban And Inke Kappeler, CNN , 28 Apr. 2022"
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"The University of Oklahoma has a policy stating that anyone who chases storms does so at their own risk and that storm chasing isn\u2019t part of the school\u2019s meteorology curriculum. \u2014 Todd Richmond, Chron , 15 May 2022",
"The group also launched a podcast featuring interviews with women in storm chasing and meteorology . \u2014 NBC News , 22 Apr. 2022",
"In 1924, the Parisians swapped the flag pole for television antennas and meteorology equipment. \u2014 Rachel Cormack, Robb Report , 18 Mar. 2022",
"By 1924, the flag pole had changed to television antennas and meteorology equipment, and in 1957, new live broadcasting dishes and transmitters were added to bring the tower to 1,050 feet. \u2014 Alison Fox, Travel + Leisure , 17 Mar. 2022",
"Dust storms are a familiar occurrence in the meteorology world, particularly in dry areas. \u2014 Monica Garrett, CNN , 16 Mar. 2022",
"Prieto said he first was drawn to meteorology when Hurricane Katrina hit the New Orleans area in August 2005. \u2014 Tim Casey, Forbes , 7 Mar. 2022",
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"Recent Examples on the Web",
"The direct solvent method uses methylene chloride , coffee oil or ethyl acetate to dissolve the caffeine in the beans and extract it from the coffee, according to Clydesdale. \u2014 Ella Lee, USA TODAY , 21 Apr. 2019",
"The US Environmental Protection Agency recognizes paints and varnishes as sources of common hazardous air pollutants, such as toluene and methylene chloride . \u2014 CNN , 3 June 2021",
"Volatile organic compounds, such as benzene, naphthalene and methylene chloride , have a low boiling point and can be dispersed into the air easily. \u2014 Max Horberry, Star Tribune , 8 Oct. 2020",
"Volatile organic compounds, such as benzene, naphthalene and methylene chloride , have a low boiling point and can be dispersed into the air easily. \u2014 Max Horberry, Star Tribune , 8 Oct. 2020",
"Volatile organic compounds, such as benzene, naphthalene and methylene chloride , have a low boiling point and can be dispersed into the air easily. \u2014 Max Horberry, Star Tribune , 8 Oct. 2020",
"Volatile organic compounds, such as benzene, naphthalene and methylene chloride , have a low boiling point and can be dispersed into the air easily. \u2014 Max Horberry, Star Tribune , 8 Oct. 2020",
"Volatile organic compounds, such as benzene, naphthalene and methylene chloride , have a low boiling point and can be dispersed into the air easily. \u2014 Max Horberry, Star Tribune , 8 Oct. 2020",
"Volatile organic compounds, such as benzene, naphthalene and methylene chloride , have a low boiling point and can be dispersed into the air easily. \u2014 Max Horberry, Star Tribune , 8 Oct. 2020"
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"In Kitamura\u2019s books, career is frequently a metonym for character. \u2014 Katy Waldman, The New Yorker , 24 July 2021",
"In so many ways, golf serves as a metonym for power. \u2014 Whizy Kim, refinery29.com , 17 June 2021",
"Within a year, its name was a metonym for excellence in the art of raw fish. \u2014 Pete Wells, New York Times , 14 Jan. 2020",
"This little glass disk designed as corrective eyewear wound up as a comic prop, a universal metonym for wealth and snobbery. \u2014 Austin Grossman, The Atlantic , 13 Oct. 2019",
"Hip-hop culture has long been a metonym for the American right wing\u2019s own racist stereotypes about crime in inner cities. \u2014 Los Angeles Times , 6 Aug. 2019",
"And yet the phallus is a dominant symbol of the moment, as metonym for power but also an object of ridicule as gender relations shift. \u2014 Vogue , 1 Apr. 2019",
"But to people who live in Washington, D.C., the Watergate is more than a metonym . \u2014 Rachel Kurzius, Curbed , 25 Apr. 2018",
"Hip-hop culture has long been a metonym for the American right wing\u2019s own racist stereotypes about crime in inner cities. \u2014 Los Angeles Times , 6 Aug. 2019"
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"Recent Examples on the Web: Noun",
"The sequence with newcomer Eddie and Dustin, for example is literally metal and an absolute blast. \u2014 Jeff Ewing, Forbes , 1 July 2022",
"Fireworks prohibited: Aerial consumer fireworks, firecrackers and chasers, skyrockets, roman candles, bombs, and metal wire sparklers. \u2014 Scott Gleeson, USA TODAY , 1 July 2022",
"Chill a large metal mixing bowl and the wire beater attachment in the freezer for about 20 minutes. \u2014 Kaitlyn Keegan, Hartford Courant , 1 July 2022",
"Anthrax were part of the thrash- metal Big Four, alongside Metallica, Slayer and Megadeth. \u2014 Ed Masley, The Arizona Republic , 1 July 2022",
"So the incidents in question, of course there was the top thrill dragster incident in which woman waiting in line for the ride was severely injured when a, this metal projectile flew off the ride and struck her in the head. \u2014 Laura Johnston, cleveland , 1 July 2022",
"The exterior metal cladding has defined the massive, six-story building since the 1970s, when the former department store was converted into a warehouse. \u2014 Tom Daykin, Journal Sentinel , 30 June 2022",
"The energy of the show at Wednesday\u2019s opening seemed mild at times, as though D\u2019Lo didn\u2019t exactly know his audience and was hesitant to put pedal to the metal . \u2014 Los Angeles Times , 30 June 2022",
"That\u2019s the longest a visit can last at the prison in Hong Kong where Wong goes every day to see Lau, her partner of seven years, the couple separated by metal bars and sandwiched between two pieces of plexiglass. \u2014 NBC News , 30 June 2022",
"Recent Examples on the Web: Verb",
"Masks, for instance, have metal nose clips, polypropylene filters and elastic headbands. \u2014 Charles Schmidt, Scientific American , 7 Mar. 2022",
"The particles of glass and/or metal the company found in some drinks are likely very small. \u2014 Chris Smith, BGR , 23 Nov. 2021",
"The silicone holder attaches to metal vehicle surfaces (don\u2019t try it on aluminum or fiberglass). \u2014 Kim Campbell Thornton, sacbee , 2 May 2018"
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"history_and_etymology":{
"Middle English, from Anglo-French, from Latin metallum mine, metal, from Greek metallon":"Noun"
},
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"13th century, in the meaning defined at sense 1":"Noun",
"1617, in the meaning defined above":"Verb"
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"time_of_retrieval":"20220709-061201"
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"type":[
"adjective",
"noun",
"transitive verb"
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": being any of a series of mordant azo dyes":[],
": relating to a one-bath method of dyeing by applying a chromium mordant and a dye simultaneously":[],
": to dye by the metachrome method":[]
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"\""
],
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"synonym_discussion":"",
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"history_and_etymology":{
"International Scientific Vocabulary meta- + -chrome (noun suffix); originally formed as French m\u00e9tachrome":"Noun",
": the condition of having or the stage of evolutionary development characterized by a body made up of metameres":[
"The basic principle of arthropod design is metamerism , the construction of the body from an extended series of repeated segments.",
"\u2014 Stephen Jay Gould"
],
": the identical visual appearance of two colors that have different physical or spectral compositions : the condition of being metameric in color":[
"\u2026 the colors of dyes or pigments that match in daylight may not match in incandescent or fluorescent light, and so on, a characteristic known as metamerism .",
"\u2014 Kurt Nassau"
]
},
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"m\u0259-\u02c8ta-m\u0259-\u02ccri-z\u0259m",
"m\u0259-\u02c8tam-\u0259-\u02ccriz-\u0259m"
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"examples":[],
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"first_known_use":{
"1877, in the meaning defined at sense 1":""
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"time_of_retrieval":"20220709-064729"
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"noun"
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": a free allophonic variant chosen in preference to another because regarded as more suitable to the style of speech being used":[]
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"examples":[],
"history_and_etymology":{
"meta- + -phone":""
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"time_of_retrieval":"20220709-070027"
},
"metonymy":{
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"adjective",
"noun"
],
"definitions":{
": a figure of speech consisting of the use of the name of one thing for that of another of which it is an attribute or with which it is associated (such as \"crown\" in \"lands belonging to the crown\")":[]
},
"pronounciation":[
"m\u0259-\u02c8t\u00e4-n\u0259-m\u0113"
],
"synonyms":[],
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"synonym_discussion":"",
"examples":[
"Recent Examples on the Web",
"Or one that lets the signs of starvation, in Auschwitz or Utah, stand in for one another, like a metonymy . \u2014 Anna Shechtman, The New Yorker , 20 Dec. 2021",
"But rather than presenting their fate as an ending, Simpson goes beyond rhetorical strategies of synecdoche and metonymy to represent the whole encased in ice. \u2014 Star Tribune , 12 Feb. 2021",
"Though Vietnam would be Simulmatics\u2019 most profitable venture, its work there produced virtually nothing\u2014a metonymy , perhaps, for the entirety of U.S. involvement in Southeast Asia. \u2014 J.c. Pan, The New Republic , 8 Sep. 2020",
"Another is described only as bucktoothed, a flat, one-dimensional metonymy . \u2014 Yvette Benavides, ExpressNews.com , 4 June 2020",
"The human is reduced to a price or, in the environmental metonymy , a footprint. \u2014 Aaron Timms, The New Republic , 18 May 2020",
"The general connection, then, is that in both watchmaking and gunmaking the term has a history of being used to denote diameter and in both cases, to some extent, has come to refer to a thing whose diameter was specified (maybe by metonymy ). \u2014 Jack Forster, Bloomberg.com , 8 May 2017",
"Beyond the day\u2019s stories, however, artists have often used (print) newspapers as metonymies for the flow and acceleration of information. \u2014 Jason Farago, New York Times , 5 Jan. 2017"
],
"history_and_etymology":{
"Latin metonymia , from Greek met\u014dnymia , from meta- + -\u014dnymon -onym":""
},
"first_known_use":{
"1573, in the meaning defined above":""
},
"time_of_retrieval":"20220709-072511"
},
"metropolitanize":{
"type":[
"transitive verb"
],
"definitions":{
": to make metropolitan":[]
},
"pronounciation":[
"-\u02cc\u012bz"
],
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"synonym_discussion":"",
"examples":[],
"history_and_etymology":{},
"first_known_use":{},
"time_of_retrieval":"20220709-072908"
},
"metal detector":{
"type":[
"noun"
],
"definitions":{
": a device that detects the presence of hidden metal: such as":[],
": a security device that scans individuals for dangerous objects (such as weapons)":[
"I boarded the plane armed with several frying thermometers, which set off the metal detector \u2026",
"\u2014 Jeffrey Steingarten",
"Once inside the theater, the crowd had to pass through an airport-style metal detector as a security precaution.",
"\u2014 Richard Zoglin"
],
": a handheld apparatus that uses electrical induction (see induction sense 4c ) to detect the presence of metallic objects (such as coins or jewelry) buried a short distance underground":[
"A local man using a metal detector stumbled upon the site last March. He found two copper brooches, or pins, measuring four inches across.",
"\u2014 Time for Kids"
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},
"pronounciation":[],
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"synonym_discussion":"",
"examples":[],
"history_and_etymology":{},
"first_known_use":{
"1880, in the meaning defined above":""
},
"time_of_retrieval":"20220709-074910"
},
"metabolic syndrome":{
"type":[
"noun"
],
"definitions":{
": a syndrome marked by the presence of usually three or more of a group of factors (such as high blood pressure, abdominal obesity, high triglyceride levels, low HDL levels, and high fasting levels of blood sugar) that are linked to increased risk of cardiovascular disease and type 2 diabetes":[]
},
"pronounciation":[],
"synonyms":[],
"antonyms":[],
"synonym_discussion":"",
"examples":[
"Recent Examples on the Web",
"Too much body fat and too little exercise is the perfect formula for promoting prediabetes (also called metabolic syndrome ). \u2014 Bryant Stamford, The Courier-Journal , 7 Apr. 2022",
"These conditions include inflammatory bowel disease, metabolic syndrome (a cluster of risk factors and conditions that up your heart disease, stroke, and type 2 diabetes risk), severe acne, arthritis, and diabetes. \u2014 Sara Gaynes Levy, SELF , 17 Feb. 2022",
"This is another murky area, but researchers speculate this may occur because Black people have higher rates of metabolic syndrome \u2014one of the aforementioned risk factors for hidradenitis suppurativa12. \u2014 Sara Gaynes Levy, SELF , 17 Feb. 2022",
"For a period of 16 weeks, 56 men and 63 women with metabolic syndrome completed three HIIT sessions per week. \u2014 Matt Fitzgerald, Outside Online , 10 Feb. 2020",
"The researchers used a statistical tool known as the MetS Z-score, which incorporates measurements of all five components of metabolic syndrome , to assess the results\u2014which were impressive. \u2014 Matt Fitzgerald, Outside Online , 10 Feb. 2020",
"More than a third of Americans have what's called metabolic syndrome , and that number increases to nearly half of those age 60 and over. \u2014 Dr. Sanjay Gupta, CNN , 5 Oct. 2021",
"The team, which published their findings in the journal Psychology & Health in 2019, found those who took more vacation days had fewer metabolic syndrome incidences or symptoms than those who did not. \u2014 Stacey Leasca, Travel + Leisure , 29 Aug. 2021",
"Shift workers of all varieties frequently suffer from circadian rhythm disorders, putting them at greater risk of metabolic syndrome and cardiovascular diseases. \u2014 Dieynaba Young, Smithsonian Magazine , 18 June 2021"
],
"history_and_etymology":{},
"first_known_use":{
"1991, in the meaning defined above":""
},
"time_of_retrieval":"20220709-075837"
},
"methodizing":{
"type":[
"verb"
],
"definitions":{
": to reduce to method : systematize":[]
},
"pronounciation":[
"\u02c8me-th\u0259-\u02ccd\u012bz"
],
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"synonym_discussion":"Choose the Right Synonym for methodize order , arrange , marshal , organize , systematize , methodize mean to put persons or things into their proper places in relation to each other. order suggests a straightening out so as to eliminate confusion. ordered her business affairs arrange implies a setting in sequence, relationship, or adjustment. arranged the files numerically marshal suggests gathering and arranging in preparation for a particular operation or effective use. marshaling the facts for argument organize implies arranging so that the whole aggregate works as a unit with each element having a proper function. organized the volunteers into teams systematize implies arranging according to a predetermined scheme. systematized billing procedures methodize suggests imposing an orderly procedure rather than a fixed scheme. methodizes every aspect of daily living",
"examples":[],
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"first_known_use":{
"circa 1586, in the meaning defined above":""
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"time_of_retrieval":"20220709-080037"
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"metrical":{
"type":[
"adjective"
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": of, relating to, or composed in meter":[],
": of or relating to measurement":[]
},
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"\u02c8me-tri-k\u0259l",
"-tri-k\u0259l"
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"cadenced",
"cadent",
"measured",
"rhythmic",
"rhythmical"
],
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"arrhythmic",
"nonmetrical",
"unmeasured",
"unrhythmic"
],
"synonym_discussion":"",
"examples":[
"the metrical chugging of the machinery had a hypnotic effect",
"Recent Examples on the Web",
"Somewhere in the unconscious of the song, beneath the metrical grid, the band has located a deep, deep shuffle-like vibration: extremely heavy. \u2014 James Parker, The Atlantic , 1 Jan. 2022",
"The medieval poem Sir Gawain and the Green Knight relates this eerily playful tale in 2,530 lines of alliterative verse, a springy and musical metrical form, relishing the gory details. \u2014 Jordan Michael Smith, The New Republic , 12 Aug. 2021",
"The medieval poem Sir Gawain and the Green Knight relates this eerily playful tale in 2,530 lines of alliterative verse, a springy and musical metrical form, relishing the gory details. \u2014 Jordan Michael Smith, The New Republic , 12 Aug. 2021",
"The medieval poem Sir Gawain and the Green Knight relates this eerily playful tale in 2,530 lines of alliterative verse, a springy and musical metrical form, relishing the gory details. \u2014 Jordan Michael Smith, The New Republic , 12 Aug. 2021",
"The medieval poem Sir Gawain and the Green Knight relates this eerily playful tale in 2,530 lines of alliterative verse, a springy and musical metrical form, relishing the gory details. \u2014 Jordan Michael Smith, The New Republic , 12 Aug. 2021",
"The medieval poem Sir Gawain and the Green Knight relates this eerily playful tale in 2,530 lines of alliterative verse, a springy and musical metrical form, relishing the gory details. \u2014 Jordan Michael Smith, The New Republic , 12 Aug. 2021",
"The medieval poem Sir Gawain and the Green Knight relates this eerily playful tale in 2,530 lines of alliterative verse, a springy and musical metrical form, relishing the gory details. \u2014 Jordan Michael Smith, The New Republic , 12 Aug. 2021",
"The medieval poem Sir Gawain and the Green Knight relates this eerily playful tale in 2,530 lines of alliterative verse, a springy and musical metrical form, relishing the gory details. \u2014 Jordan Michael Smith, The New Republic , 12 Aug. 2021"
],
"history_and_etymology":{
"metrical going back to Middle English metricalle, from Latin metricus \"relating to or composed in meter\" + Middle English -alle -al entry 1 ; metric borrowed from Latin metricus \"relating to or composed in meter, rhythmic (of the pulse),\" borrowed from Greek metrik\u00f3s \"by measurement, relating to meter in verse,\" from m\u00e9tron \"measure, space measure, poetic meter\" + -ikos -ic entry 1 \u2014 more at meter entry 1":""
},
"first_known_use":{
"15th century, in the meaning defined at sense 1":""
},
"time_of_retrieval":"20220709-080519"
},
"methylene green":{
"type":[
"noun"
],
"definitions":{
": a basic dye obtained by nitrating methylene blue":[]
},
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"examples":[],
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"time_of_retrieval":"20220709-081013"
},
"metameres":{
"type":[
"noun"
],
"definitions":{
": any of a linear series of primitively similar segments into which the body of a higher invertebrate or vertebrate is divisible":[]
},
"pronounciation":[
"\u02c8met-\u0259-\u02ccmi(\u0259)r",
"\u02c8me-t\u0259-\u02ccmir"
],
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"synonym_discussion":"",
"examples":[],
"history_and_etymology":{
"International Scientific Vocabulary":""
},
"first_known_use":{
"1876, in the meaning defined above":""
},
"time_of_retrieval":"20220709-081736"
},
"metencephalon":{
"type":[
"adjective",
"noun"
],
"definitions":{
": the anterior segment of the developing vertebrate hindbrain or the corresponding part of the adult brain composed of the cerebellum and pons":[]
"synonym_discussion":"Choose the Right Synonym for methodize order , arrange , marshal , organize , systematize , methodize mean to put persons or things into their proper places in relation to each other. order suggests a straightening out so as to eliminate confusion. ordered her business affairs arrange implies a setting in sequence, relationship, or adjustment. arranged the files numerically marshal suggests gathering and arranging in preparation for a particular operation or effective use. marshaling the facts for argument organize implies arranging so that the whole aggregate works as a unit with each element having a proper function. organized the volunteers into teams systematize implies arranging according to a predetermined scheme. systematized billing procedures methodize suggests imposing an orderly procedure rather than a fixed scheme. methodizes every aspect of daily living",
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"first_known_use":{
"circa 1586, in the meaning defined above":""
},
"time_of_retrieval":"20220709-084531"
},
"metepisternum":{
"type":[
"noun"
],
"definitions":{
": the episternum of the metathorax of an insect":[]
},
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"examples":[],
"history_and_etymology":{
"New Latin, from meta- + episternum":""
},
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"time_of_retrieval":"20220709-085744"
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"metaldehyde":{
"type":[
"noun"
],
"definitions":{
": a crystalline compound (CH 3 CHO) 4 that is a polymer of acetaldehyde and is used as a lure and poison for snails and slugs":[]
},
"pronounciation":[
"\u02ccmet-\u02c8al-d\u0259-\u02cch\u012bd"
],
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"synonym_discussion":"",
"examples":[
"Recent Examples on the Web",
"According to Chitty, FDACS plans to spend three years eradicating the population in Pasco County, using the pesticide metaldehyde to treat the soil. \u2014 Zoe Sottile, CNN , 3 July 2022"
],
"history_and_etymology":{
"probably from meta- + aldehyde":""
},
"first_known_use":{
"1841, in the meaning defined above":""
},
"time_of_retrieval":"20220709-090117"
},
"Metal Age":{
"type":[
"noun"
],
"definitions":{
": the period of the Bronze Age and the Iron Age":[]
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"time_of_retrieval":"20220709-092750"
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"metazoea":{
"type":[
"noun"
],
"definitions":{
": a larva of various higher crustaceans intermediate between the zoea and the megalops":[]
},
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"history_and_etymology":{
"New Latin, from meta- + zoea or zoaea":""
},
"first_known_use":{},
"time_of_retrieval":"20220709-095816"
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"metalanguage":{
"type":[
"noun"
],
"definitions":{
": a language used to talk about language":[]
},
"pronounciation":[
"\u02c8me-t\u0259-\u02ccla\u014b-gwij"
],
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"history_and_etymology":{},
"first_known_use":{
"1936, in the meaning defined above":""
},
"time_of_retrieval":"20220709-095838"
},
"metanephridium":{
"type":[
"noun"
],
"definitions":{
": a nephridium that originates in a ciliated coelomic funnel \u2014 compare protonephridium":[]
},
"pronounciation":[
"\"+"
],
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"synonym_discussion":"",
"examples":[],
"history_and_etymology":{
"New Latin, from meta- + nephridium":""
},
"first_known_use":{},
"time_of_retrieval":"20220709-100722"
},
"methamphetamine":{
"type":[
"noun"
],
"definitions":{
": a synthetic or semisynthetic compound C 10 H 15 N that stimulates the central nervous system, is used medically in the form of its crystalline hydrochloride C 10 H 15 N\u00b7HCl especially to treat attention deficit disorder and obesity, and that is often abused illicitly for its stimulant properties":[
"\u2026 methamphetamine is a powerful addictive stimulant whose longtime consumers tend to suffer from paranoia, depression, hallucinations, and violent rages.",
"Zambada Imperial pleaded guilty in April 2021 to two charges: conspiracy to import methamphetamine , cocaine and marijuana, and conspiracy to distribute those same drugs. \u2014 Kristina Davis, San Diego Union-Tribune , 28 June 2022",
"The officers said methamphetamine , ammunition, and drug paraphernalia were found during the search, prompting the arrests. \u2014 Lawrence Richard, Fox News , 20 June 2022",
"The chief said officers seized methamphetamine , fentanyl, marijuana and prescription narcotics. \u2014 Carol Robinson | Crobinson@al.com, al , 16 June 2022",
"Arrested in 2020 and charged with possessing methamphetamine , a handgun and ammunition, Flores pleaded no contest in February 2021 to possessing a firearm as a felon, records show. \u2014 Los Angeles Times , 15 June 2022",
"Other drugs involved in overdose deaths included methamphetamine , oxycodone and heroin, the report said. \u2014 Deborah Yetter, The Courier-Journal , 14 June 2022",
"Deaths involving synthetic opioids \u2014 largely fentanyl \u2014 rose to 71,000 from 58,000, while those associated with stimulants like methamphetamine , which has grown cheaper and more lethal in recent years, increased to 33,000 from 25,000. \u2014 BostonGlobe.com , 11 May 2022",
"Deaths involving synthetic opioids \u2014 largely fentanyl \u2014 rose to 71,000 from 58,000, while those associated with stimulants like methamphetamine , which has grown cheaper and more lethal in recent years, increased to 33,000 from 25,000. \u2014 New York Times , 11 May 2022",
"It also can be mixed into cocaine, methamphetamine , and counterfeit street pills sold as opioid medications \u2014 substances that many buyers are not expecting to contain fentanyl. \u2014 Andy Miller, ajc , 6 May 2022"
],
"history_and_etymology":{},
"first_known_use":{
"1949, in the meaning defined above":""
},
"time_of_retrieval":"20220709-103303"
},
"metatarsal":{
"type":[
"adjective",
"noun"
],
"definitions":{
": of, relating to, or being the part of the human foot or of the hind foot in quadrupeds between the tarsus and the phalanges that in humans comprises five elongated bones which form the front of the instep and ball of the foot":[],
": a metatarsal bone":[]
},
"pronounciation":[
"\u02ccme-t\u0259-\u02c8t\u00e4r-s\u0259l",
"\u02ccmet-\u0259-\u02c8t\u00e4r-s\u0259l"
],
"synonyms":[],
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"synonym_discussion":"",
"examples":[
"Recent Examples on the Web: Adjective",
"Warner had suffered a lisfranc injury, where one or more of the metatarsal bones were displaced from the tarsus. \u2014 John Maffei, San Diego Union-Tribune , 20 Nov. 2020",
"Enter: the EnergyRods, which are intended to line up with your metatarsal bones, those thin bones that run through from your toes to your ankles. \u2014 Mirel Zaman, refinery29.com , 7 Oct. 2020",
"The metatarsal bones are one to five, middle joints numbered from big toe on out. \u2014 Marc Bona, cleveland , 18 Aug. 2020",
"In the fourth toe, the metatarsal head was domed just like a modern human\u2019s, but other aspects of the shape of the bone looked more ape-like. \u2014 Kiona N. Smith, Ars Technica , 15 Aug. 2018",
"The metatarsal bones run between the midfoot and the toes. \u2014 Mark Inabinett, AL.com , 29 Apr. 2018",
"The metatarsal bones run between the midfoot and the toes. \u2014 Mark Inabinett, AL.com , 29 Apr. 2018",
"The metatarsal bones run between the midfoot and the toes. \u2014 Mark Inabinett, AL.com , 29 Apr. 2018",
"The metatarsal bones run between the midfoot and the toes. \u2014 Mark Inabinett, AL.com , 29 Apr. 2018",
"Recent Examples on the Web: Noun",
"My full weight landed on that foot, on the edge of the step, and the little fifth metatarsal bone fractured. \u2014 Pam Peirce, San Francisco Chronicle , 15 Apr. 2022",
"The footbed is polyurethane but features the same arch and metatarsal support as the classic design. \u2014 Outside Online , 14 Mar. 2022",
"Shai Gilgeous-Alexander (right ankle; sprain), Vit Krejci (right ankle; sprain), Jeremiah Robinson-Earl (right foot; third metatarsal fracture), Isaiah Roby (right ankle; sprain) and Aaron Wiggins (right ankle; sprain) are out. \u2014 oregonlive , 4 Feb. 2022",
"As a junior in September of 2019, the 6-foot-11 Williams first broke the fifth metatarsal in his right foot. \u2014 Brett Dawson, The Courier-Journal , 23 Nov. 2021",
"In September, Pelicans vice president David Griffin said Williamson broke his fifth metatarsal in his right foot prior to summer league play. \u2014 Cydney Henderson, USA TODAY , 3 Dec. 2021",
"In the early waves of media reports about this foot injury, Fox\u2019s Jay Glazer said Henry broke the fifth metatarsal in his foot. \u2014 Gentry Estes, USA TODAY , 1 Nov. 2021",
"Lawrence fractured his fifth metatarsal in a 1-on-1 rush drill Wednesday. \u2014 Michael Gehlken, Dallas News , 17 Sep. 2021",
"According to the reports, the fear was that Henry sustained a Jones fracture, which is a break between the base and the middle part of the fifth metatarsal of the foot. \u2014 Ben Arthur, USA TODAY , 1 Nov. 2021"
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"first_known_use":{
"1703, in the meaning defined above":"Adjective",
"1702, in the meaning defined above":"Noun"
},
"time_of_retrieval":"20220709-103637"
},
"metaphase":{
"type":[
"noun"
],
"definitions":{
": the stage of mitosis and meiosis in which the chromosomes become arranged in the equatorial plane of the spindle":[]
},
"pronounciation":[
"\u02c8met-\u0259-\u02ccf\u0101z",
"\u02c8me-t\u0259-\u02ccf\u0101z"
],
"synonyms":[],
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"examples":[],
"history_and_etymology":{
"International Scientific Vocabulary":""
},
"first_known_use":{
"1887, in the meaning defined above":""
},
"time_of_retrieval":"20220709-105106"
},
"mettle":{
"type":[
"adjective",
"noun"
],
"definitions":{
": vigor and strength of spirit or temperament (see temperament sense 1a )":[
"a girl of \u2026 mettle who lost a baby brother to leukemia",
"\u2014 Bill Zehme"
],
": staying quality : stamina":[
"equipment that proved its mettle",
"proved his mettle in battle"
],
": quality of temperament or disposition":[
"gentlemen of brave mettle",
"\u2014 William Shakespeare"
],
": aroused to do one's best":[]
},
"pronounciation":[
"\u02c8me-t\u1d4al"
],
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"synonym_discussion":"Choose the Right Synonym for mettle courage , mettle , spirit , resolution , tenacity mean mental or moral strength to resist opposition, danger, or hardship. courage implies firmness of mind and will in the face of danger or extreme difficulty. the courage to support unpopular causes mettle suggests an ingrained capacity for meeting strain or difficulty with fortitude and resilience. a challenge that will test your mettle spirit also suggests a quality of temperament enabling one to hold one's own or keep up one's morale when opposed or threatened. her spirit was unbroken by failure resolution stresses firm determination to achieve one's ends. the resolution of pioneer women tenacity adds to resolution implications of stubborn persistence and unwillingness to admit defeat. held to their beliefs with great tenacity",
"examples":[
"The competition will test her mettle .",
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"It\u2019s tied into their arcs to prove their mettle while perfecting their metal, but these themes fail to come together in their execution. \u2014 Courtney Howard, Variety , 7 Apr. 2022",
"Al-Kadhimi has managed to prove his mettle in one arena: That of regional mediator. \u2014 Star Tribune , 26 July 2021",
"Vitali Klitschko\u2019s mettle already earned him his world\u2019s heavyweight boxing champion title. \u2014 Lance Pugmire, USA TODAY , 14 June 2022",
"Meanwhile, the Warriors used their championship mettle to hit clutch shots, snatching the game away from their less experienced opponents and taking back home-court advantage. \u2014 Globe Staff, BostonGlobe.com , 11 June 2022",
"While several recent conflicts have demonstrated the efficacy of various air- and land-power doctrines and technologies, there have been relatively few recent opportunities for naval forces to test their equipment and their mettle . \u2014 Mike Watson, WSJ , 3 June 2022",
"But the extension also represents insurance for Noseda\u2019s primary goals with the NSO: to raise the orchestra to the level of a national ambassador and to test that mettle through a resumption of recording and touring activities. \u2014 Michael Andor Brodeur, Washington Post , 2 June 2022",
"The Friends of United Hatzalah of Israel\u2019s third annual gala came a year after COVID-19 nearly took the life of Hatzalah\u2019s founder, and in the wake of crisis after crisis that tested the organization\u2019s mettle and stretched its resources. \u2014 Mike Wagenheim, Sun Sentinel , 1 June 2022",
"Lewis/Louis Buis was a mechanic or mechanician \u2014 a job that in the first part of the 20th century involved muscles, grease, mettle and risk. \u2014 Celia Storey, Arkansas Online , 30 May 2022"
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"time_of_retrieval":"20220709-115138"
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"noun"
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"time_of_retrieval":"20220709-130254"
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"noun"
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": a divalent hydrocarbon group CH 2 derived from methane":[]
"Covestro also manufacturers the more technically-challenging methylene diphenyl diisocyanate, or MDI, used to make polyurethanes for insulation. \u2014 Andrew Marc Noel, Bloomberg.com , 17 Sep. 2020"
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"French m\u00e9thyl\u00e8ne , from Greek methy wine + hyl\u0113 wood \u2014 more at mead":""
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"1835, in the meaning defined above":""
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"time_of_retrieval":"20220709-130309"
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"noun"
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"Recent Examples on the Web",
"As the Rhode Island and Pennsylvania cases show, the Justice Department is trying to use the ADA to expand access to medications in the criminal justice system, where only select facilities have embraced methadone and buprenorphine. \u2014 Andrew Joseph, STAT , 22 June 2022",
"Under the terms of the agreement, Wyatt will provide methadone or buprenorphine for detainees with opioid use disorder who have been prescribed that medication, and the new policy must be implemented by June 30. \u2014 Globe Staff, BostonGlobe.com , 23 May 2022",
"Unlike in Canada or Britain, methadone cannot be prescribed at a typical clinic in the United States. \u2014 Emily Alpert Reyesstaff Writer, Los Angeles Times , 11 May 2022",
"Within 10 days of its annexation of Crimea in 2014, Russia shuttered all of the methadone delivery centers, resulting in deaths from overdoses and suicides. \u2014 New York Times , 26 Mar. 2022",
"Medications like methadone and buprenorphine decrease withdrawal symptoms and cravings. \u2014 Taylyn Washington-harmon, Men's Health , 14 Apr. 2022",
"Most of the pregnant people who have been prosecuted are those who used opioids like buprenorphine and methadone to treat substance use disorders. \u2014 ELLE , 6 Apr. 2022",
"Antiretroviral drugs are used to treat HIV, and medicines such as buprenorphine and methadone are used for opioid addiction. \u2014 Ricardo Alonso-zaldivar, chicagotribune.com , 27 Mar. 2022",
"Yet when people want to try to wrench free from opioid addiction, the closest options for getting daily doses of methadone may be miles away in Boyle Heights, Westlake and South Park. \u2014 Los Angeles Times , 11 May 2022"
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"meth yl + a mino + d iphenyl + -one":""
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"time_of_retrieval":"20220709-150955"
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"noun"
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"\u02c8met-\u0259-\u02ccmi(\u0259)r",
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"1876, in the meaning defined above":""
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": a mineral HgS that consists of a native black mercuric sulfide and is polymorphous with cinnabar":[]
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"\u2014 Karissa Bell et al.",
"A new comedy about fantasy football, which follows a group of armchair quarterbacks as they try to tackle life. How meta would it be if people started betting on what was going to happen on the show",
"\u2014 TV Guide",
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"\u2014 Dan Snierson"
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"\u2014 Rick Marin et al.",
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"meta -xylene"
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"1988, in the meaning defined at sense 1":"Adjective"
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": a quantitative statistical analysis of several separate but similar experiments or studies in order to test the pooled data for statistical significance":[]
": a basic thiazine dye C 16 H 18 ClN 3 S\u00b73H 2 O used especially as a biological stain, an antidote in cyanide poisoning, and an oxidation-reduction indicator":[]
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"Recent Examples on the Web",
"Currently, only three dyes with fluorescent properties used as optical imaging contrast agents\u2014 methylene blue , indocyanine green and fluorescein\u2014are approved for human use by the U.S. Food and Drug Administration (FDA). \u2014 Courtney Sexton, Smithsonian Magazine , 18 Sep. 2020",
"Warren\u2019s patient recovered after two doses of methylene blue and an overnight stay at the hospital. \u2014 Cnn.com Wire Service, The Mercury News , 19 Sep. 2019",
"The first-line treatment for the condition is a drug called methylene blue , which can spur the enzymatic reduction of the iron back to its normal state. \u2014 Beth Mole, Ars Technica , 23 Sep. 2019",
"The woman in this case made a full recovery after intravenous treatment of methylene blue , her doctors reported in The New England Journal of Medicine. \u2014 Beth Mole, Ars Technica , 23 Sep. 2019",
"Methemoglobinemia is easily treatable, using a medication that, perhaps ironically, is called methylene blue . \u2014 NBC News , 18 Sep. 2019",
"Dutch, American and Malian scientists working in Ou\u00e9less\u00e9bougou, Mali, found that adding methylene blue to a typical treatment regimen cleared gametocytes from the bloodstream within two days. \u2014 Donald G. Mcneil Jr., New York Times , 9 Feb. 2018"
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"1882, in the meaning defined above":""
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"\u2014 Raymond Sokolov",
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"\u2014 Phil Vettel"
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"written in metrically regular verse",
"There's little doubt that a number of lines are metrically incomplete, a fact that dovetails with what we know about the poet's working method \u2026",
"\u2014 Daniel Mendelsohn",
"They want to liberate themselves from the 4/4 uniformity of the metrically conventional, constant jazz beat \u2026",
"\u2014 Joachim E. Berendt"
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"The dental characters differ morphologically and metrically from those of the recent great apes \u2026",
"\u2014 L. de Bonis et al."
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"metric entry 2 + -ally":"Adverb",
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": an acid HBO 2 or (HBO 2 ) n formed as a glassy amorphous solid by heating orthoboric acid but usually obtained in the form of its salts":[]
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": a poisonous crystalline compound CH 3 NHC 6 H 4 OH used chiefly in the form of its sulfate as a photographic developer":[]
": the space between two triglyphs of a Doric frieze often adorned with carved work":[]
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"Greek metop\u0113 , from meta- + op\u0113 opening; akin to Greek \u014dps eye, face \u2014 more at eye":""
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"first_known_use":{
"1563, in the meaning defined above":""
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"time_of_retrieval":"20220709-194046"
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"type":[
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": having or characterized by only a slight margin of stability":[
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"\u02ccme-t\u0259-\u02c8st\u0101-b\u0259l",
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"Recent Examples on the Web",
"In 2000, astronomers predicted that metastable helium should show up in certain planetary atmospheres, but a search for it\u2014reported in 2003,\u2014on the planet HD 209458b, came up empty. \u2014 Alexandra Witze, Scientific American , 4 May 2018",
"Guth wondered what would have happened if such a metastable phase transition occurred in the early universe. \u2014 Adam Davidson, The New Yorker , 23 Mar. 2017"
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"1897, in the meaning defined above":""
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"One night when the orchestra was playing the 1812 Overture there was a meteor streaking above the Bowl stage. \u2014 Los Angeles Times , 3 June 2022",
"The Tau Herculids meteor shower will be visible during the late-night hours of Monday, May 30 into the early morning hours of Tuesday, May 31st. \u2014 Leada Gore | Lgore@al.com, al , 30 May 2022",
"Tau Herculid meteor shower could dazzle with thousands of shooting stars Monday night. \u2014 Editors, USA TODAY , 30 May 2022",
"The best views of the Eta Aquarid meteor shower will come in the hours before dawn. \u2014 Joshua Hawkins, BGR , 4 May 2022",
"The very early hours of today are the best time to see the peak of the Eta Aquarid meteor shower. \u2014 Jamie Carter, Forbes , 1 May 2022",
"The meteor , known as CNEOS 2014-01-08, crash-landed on Jan. 8, 2014. \u2014 Minyvonne Burke, NBC News , 14 Apr. 2022",
"Streep was getting ready to shoot a scene in which her character appears on a Jumbotron during a rally regarding the extinction-level meteor headed toward the planet, when Matheson received an urgent phone call. \u2014 Scott Huver, PEOPLE.com , 11 Mar. 2022",
"In Don\u2019t Look Up, two scientists struggle to convince the public and the government to take action to avoid an apocalyptic event\u2014in this case, an extinction-level meteor on a collision course with Earth. \u2014 Eamon Barrett, Fortune , 5 Jan. 2022"
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"Middle English metheour , from Middle French meteore , from Medieval Latin meteorum , from Greek mete\u014dron , from neuter of mete\u014dros high in air, from meta- + -e\u014dros , from aeirein to lift":""
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": the distance of the metacenter above the center of gravity of a floating body":[]
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"type":[
"noun"
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"definitions":{
": a drug C 10 H 13 NO 4 used to lower blood pressure":[]
},
"pronounciation":[
"\u02ccme-th\u0259l-\u02c8d\u014d-p\u0259",
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"first_known_use":{
"1954, in the meaning defined above":""
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"time_of_retrieval":"20220709-211328"
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": any of various anaerobic archaea (as of the families Methanobacteriaceae and Methanosarcinaceae of the taxon Euryarchaeota) that produce methane as a by-product of energy metabolism, are found in various chiefly anoxic environments (such as aquatic sediments, rice paddies, landfills, hydrothermal vents, and the digestive tract of ruminants, humans, and termites), and typically utilize hydrogen and carbon dioxide as a substrate for energy production but may use other substrates (such as acetate or methylamine)":[
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"\u2014 Charles Petit",
"\u2026 these reactions are part of the pathway that reduces CO 2 to methane, the central pathway for energy metabolism in methanogens .",
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"Recent Examples on the Web",
"Subsequent lab testing showed a metabolite that is only found in the ointment in the horse\u2019s urine. \u2014 John Cherwaspecial Contributor, Los Angeles Times , 3 Apr. 2022",
"Dalmane is seldom used anymore for sleep, because it is converted by the liver a metabolite , which can last for days. \u2014 Dr. Keith Roach, oregonlive , 6 Aug. 2021",
"International anti-doping authorities recently raised the allowable threshold from 15 to 150 nanograms of THC metabolite per milliliter of blood, a change meant to differentiate the use of marijuana during competition from off-hours consumption. \u2014 BostonGlobe.com , 4 July 2021",
"Two drugs\u2014Remdesivir metabolite GS-441524 and combination Hepatitis-C antivirals\u2014both of which target NSP3 hold immediate promise for prevention and treatment of infection by SARS-CoV-2. \u2014 William A. Haseltine, Forbes , 4 June 2021",
"Monoethylglycinexylidide is the active metabolite of lidocaine. \u2014 Katherine Rosenberg-douglas, chicagotribune.com , 2 June 2021",
"Bob Baffert was fined $2,500 after his horse Merneith tested positive for a metabolite of Dextromethorphan, a therapeutic often found in cough medicine, on July 25. \u2014 John Cherwa, Los Angeles Times , 7 Dec. 2020",
"Baffert, the most recognizable figure in the sport, was fined $2,500 after Merneith tested positive for Dextrorphan, a metabolite often found in cough remedies. \u2014 John Cherwa, Los Angeles Times , 30 Nov. 2020",
"Collectively, and somewhat inaccurately, these molecules are referred to as metabolites . \u2014 The Economist , 13 Feb. 2020"
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"Middle English metre, borrowed from Anglo-French & Latin; Anglo-French, borrowed from Latin metrum, borrowed from Greek m\u00e9tron \"measure, space measured, (in plural) proportions, poetic meter,\" perhaps going back to Indo-European *mh 1- tro-, zero-grade derivative of a verbal base *meh 1 - \"measure\" \u2014 more at measure entry 1":"Noun",
"Middle English, from meten \"to mete entry 1 \" + -er -er entry 2":"Noun",
"borrowed from French m\u00e8tre, borrowed from Greek m\u00e9tron \"measure\" \u2014 more at meter entry 1":"Noun",
"probably originally, as short for gas-meter \"instrument for measuring the quantity of gas passing through an outlet,\" to be identified with meter entry 2 ; later uses appear to be extracted from compounds with -meter , generalized to refer to any measuring device":"Noun",
"derivative of meter entry 4":"Verb",
"borrowed from French & New Latin; French -m\u00e8tre, borrowed from New Latin -meter, borrowed from Greek -metron (as in hod\u00f3metron \"instrument for measuring distance, odometer \"), from m\u00e9tron \"measure, instrument for measuring\" \u2014 more at meter entry 1":"Noun combining form"
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"before the 12th century, in the meaning defined at sense 1a":"Noun",
"14th century, in the meaning defined above":"Noun",
"1797, in the meaning defined above":"Noun",
"1815, in the meaning defined at sense 1":"Noun",
"1878, in the meaning defined at sense 1":"Verb"
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"1919, in the meaning defined above":""
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"\"+"
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"time_of_retrieval":"20220709-232921"
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": one of the radial digestive chambers of an anthozoan \u2014 compare mesenteron":[]
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"New Latin, from meta- + enteron":""
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"time_of_retrieval":"20220709-235604"
},
"Metternichian":{
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"adjective"
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": of, relating to, or suggestive of Metternich or his political ideas or diplomatic policies":[]
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"\u00a6met\u0259(r)\u00a6nik\u0113\u0259n"
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"Prince Klemens W. N. L. von Metternich \u20201859 Austrian statesman and diplomatist + English -ian":""
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": a period of 19 years after the lapse of which the phases of the moon return to a particular date in the calendar year:":[],
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": one of the 19-year periods reckoning from 1 b.c. that are used in determining the date of Easter in the Gregorian calendar":[]
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"metered mail":{
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"noun"
],
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": prepaid mail requiring no postage stamps but marked by an electrical machine that is set and controlled by the post office":[]
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"from metered , past participle of meter entry 6":""
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"time_of_retrieval":"20220710-001335"
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"noun"
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": a method of scientific induction devised by J. S. Mill according to which if an instance in which the phenomenon under investigation occurs and an instance in which it does not occur have each circumstance except one in common, that one occurring only in the former, the circumstance in which the two instances differ is the effect or cause or necessary part of the cause of the phenomenon \u2014 compare indirect method of difference":[]
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"metabolize":{
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"adjective",
"noun",
"verb"
],
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": to subject to metabolism":[],
": to perform metabolism":[]
},
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"m\u0259-\u02c8ta-b\u0259-\u02ccl\u012bz"
],
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"synonym_discussion":"",
"examples":[
"Food is metabolized by the body.",
"Recent Examples on the Web",
"Hormones like estrogen and progesterone ebb and flow throughout the month, influencing everything from how women respond to training, metabolize nutrients, and regulate body temperature and hydration levels. \u2014 Christine Yu, Outside Online , 6 Sep. 2020",
"These bubbles of carbon dioxide, caught and held by the stretchy matrix of flour proteins, are the by-product of respiration as the yeasts and bacteria metabolize the starches. \u2014 Benjamin, Longreads , 20 May 2022",
"That\u2019s a key element of this fascinating drama: the ability of people to metabolize change under massive pressure. \u2014 Daniel D'addario, Variety , 4 May 2022",
"Plant roots need oxygen to metabolize and pay the oxygen back to us through their leaf function. \u2014 oregonlive , 27 Mar. 2022",
"This is because eating lots of fat dampens the activity of key enzymes needed to metabolize carbohydrate into useable energy during exercise. \u2014 Patrick Wilson, Outside Online , 24 July 2020",
"Plant engineers demonstrated that alteration of tobacco genes can eliminate crop-yield losses\u2014as high as 50 percent in the Southern United States\u2014that occur when temperatures rise and plants mistakenly metabolize oxygen instead of carbon dioxide. \u2014 Rafil Kroll-zaidi, Harper\u2019s Magazine , 16 Feb. 2022",
"Different people metabolize the same dosage at different rates, which posed a problem. \u2014 Paul R. Michel, STAT , 8 Feb. 2022",
"The active ingredients metabolize within 15 minutes. \u2014 Miriam Marini, Detroit Free Press , 31 Jan. 2022"
],
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"metabol(ic) or metabol(ism) + -ize":""
},
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"1877, in the meaning defined at transitive sense":""
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"time_of_retrieval":"20220710-021437"
},
"metate":{
"type":[
"noun"
],
"definitions":{
": a stone with a concave upper surface used as the lower millstone for grinding grains and especially corn":[]
},
"pronounciation":[
"m\u0259-\u02c8t\u00e4-t\u0113"
],
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"examples":[
"Recent Examples on the Web",
"Highlights include a statute of a Zapotec god of corn; a molcajete, or traditional Mexican mortar made from volcanic stone; a metate , or stone tool used for processing corn; and a pichancha, or clay strainer, according to a statement. \u2014 Emily Williams, Smithsonian Magazine , 24 Mar. 2022",
"The raspadas take shape on a metate , a Mesoamerican tool used to mill corn. \u2014 Cesar Hernandez, San Francisco Chronicle , 11 Mar. 2022",
"The chocolate de metate dessert is inspired by the round Ibarra-brand chocolate powder tablets that Mexicans have dissolve in milk or water to make hot cocoa for generations. \u2014 San Diego Union-Tribune , 18 Mar. 2022",
"Her aunt places a par-cooked tortilla on the slanted stone and scrapes it with a cylindrical milling stone, spreading the masa to the end of the metate . \u2014 Cesar Hernandez, San Francisco Chronicle , 11 Mar. 2022",
"Each of the seating areas has a bench shaped like a metate and a brand that marks the cattle of that region. \u2014 Los Angeles Times , 2 Dec. 2021",
"In a shaded courtyard overgrown with succulents, Margarita, with her graying pigtails and brightly embroidered apron, had crushed rice, which had been soaking for an hour or so, on a metate , a hollowed, mortarlike stone. \u2014 New York Times , 11 Nov. 2021",
"An image from an Aztec-era codex that Ram\u00edrez-Oropeza showed me depicts the goddess Quilaztli or Cihuacoatl pulverizing the bones on a metate , a slanted stone grinding tool found in Mexico to this day, usually used for breaking down corn. \u2014 Steve Padilla, Los Angeles Times , 28 Oct. 2021",
"Their molino and its grinding stones are on display, along with a metate , the traditional flat grinding stone used for thousands of years in Mesoamerica. \u2014 Leslie Brenner, Bon App\u00e9tit , 29 Sep. 2021"
],
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"Spanish, from Nahuatl metatl":""
},
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"1625, in the meaning defined above":""
},
"time_of_retrieval":"20220710-024235"
},
"metapneustic":{
"type":[
"adjective"
],
"definitions":{
": breathing through a single pair of posterior or anal spiracles":[]
},
"pronounciation":[
"\u00a6me\u02cctap\u00a6n(y)\u00fcstik"
],
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"meta- + Greek pneustikos of or for breathing, from (assumed) Greek pneustos (verbal of Greek pnein to breathe) + Greek -ikos -ic":""
},
"first_known_use":{},
"time_of_retrieval":"20220710-024417"
},
"metakamacite":{
"type":[
"noun"
],
"definitions":{
": a mineral \u03b1 2 -(Fe,Ni) consisting of an unstable distorted body-centered cubic alloy of iron and about six percent nickel occurring in meteorites":[]
},
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"\"+"
],
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"history_and_etymology":{
"meta- + kamacite":""
},
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"time_of_retrieval":"20220710-024627"
},
"metatarsophalangeal":{
"type":[
"adjective"
],
"definitions":{
": of, relating to, or involving both the metatarsus and the phalanges":[]
},
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"examples":[],
"history_and_etymology":{
"metatarso- (from New Latin metatarsus ) + phalangeal":""
"International Scientific Vocabulary metabor- (in metaboric acid ) + -ate":""
},
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"time_of_retrieval":"20220710-043957"
},
"metamict":{
"type":[
"adjective"
],
"definitions":{
": amorphous because of the disruption of the crystal structure by radiation from contained or nearby radioactive atoms":[]
},
"pronounciation":[
"\u02c8met\u0259\u02ccmikt"
],
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"history_and_etymology":{
"meta- + Greek miktos mixed, compounded, verbal of mignynai, meignynai to mix":""
},
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"time_of_retrieval":"20220710-044505"
},
"metaboly":{
"type":[
"noun"
],
"definitions":{
": metamorphosis":[]
},
"pronounciation":[
"-l\u0113"
],
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"history_and_etymology":{
"Greek metabol\u0113, metabolia change, from metaballein to change":""
},
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"time_of_retrieval":"20220710-045534"
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"methyl acetate":{
"type":[
"noun"
],
"definitions":{
": a flammable fragrant liquid C 3 H 6 O 2 used as a solvent and paint remover and in organic synthesis":[]
},
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"Recent Examples on the Web",
"Among the chemicals being used in the plant were hydrogen iodide and methyl acetate , Christensen told reporters, which could be toxic if inhaled and could cause severe burns. \u2014 Arkansas Online , 29 July 2021",
"Among the chemicals being used in the plant were hydrogen iodide and methyl acetate , Christensen told reporters, which could be toxic if inhaled and could cause severe burns. \u2014 Arkansas Online , 29 July 2021",
"Among the chemicals being used in the plant were hydrogen iodide and methyl acetate , Christensen told reporters, which could be toxic if inhaled and could cause severe burns. \u2014 Arkansas Online , 29 July 2021",
"Among the chemicals being used in the plant were hydrogen iodide and methyl acetate , Christensen told reporters, which could be toxic if inhaled and could cause severe burns. \u2014 Arkansas Online , 29 July 2021",
"Among the chemicals being used in the plant were hydrogen iodide and methyl acetate , Christensen told reporters, which could be toxic if inhaled and could cause severe burns. \u2014 Arkansas Online , 29 July 2021",
"Among the chemicals being used in the plant were hydrogen iodide and methyl acetate , Christensen told reporters, which could be toxic if inhaled and could cause severe burns. \u2014 Arkansas Online , 29 July 2021",
"Among the chemicals being used in the plant were hydrogen iodide and methyl acetate , Christensen told reporters, which could be toxic if inhaled and could cause severe burns. \u2014 Arkansas Online , 29 July 2021",
"Among the chemicals being used in the plant were hydrogen iodide and methyl acetate , Christensen told reporters, which could be toxic if inhaled and could cause severe burns. \u2014 Arkansas Online , 29 July 2021"
