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Princeton University - WordNet - a lexical database for the English language Category: General Date & country: 27/01/2008, USA Words: 85192

Marianne Moore
Marianne Craig Moore noun United States poet noted for irony and wit (1887-1872)

Maricopa
noun the Yuman language spoken by the Maricopa and the Halchidhoma

Marie Antoinette
noun queen of France (as wife of Louis XVI) who was unpopular; her extravagance and opposition to reform contributed to the overthrow of the monarchy; she was guillotined along with her husband (1755-1793)

Mariehamn
Maarianhamina noun a town that is the chief port of the Aland islands

marigold
noun any of various tropical American plants of the genus Tagetes widely cultivated for their showy yellow or orange flowers

marijuana
marihuana noun a strong-smelling plant from whose dried leaves a number of euphoriant and hallucinogenic drugs are prepared

marimba
xylophone noun a percussion instrument with wooden bars tuned to produce a chromatic scale and with resonators; played with small mallets

marina
noun a fancy dock for small yachts and cabin cruisers

marinade
noun mixtures of vinegar or wine and oil with various spices and seasonings; used for soaking foods before cooking

marinara
noun sauce for pasta; contains tomatoes and garlic and herbs

marine
adjective native to or inhabiting the sea; `marine plants and animals such as seaweed and whales`

marine animal
marine creature noun any of numerous animals inhabiting the sea including e.g. fishes and molluscs and many mammals

marine archeology
marine archaeology noun the archeology of underwater sites

Marine Corps Intelligence Activity
MCIA noun an agency of the United States Marine Corps that provides responsive and broad intelligence support for the worldwide Marine Corps organization

marine engineer
naval engineer noun a naval officer responsible for the operation and maintenance of the ship`s engines

marine glue
noun glue that is not water soluble

marine iguana
Amblyrhynchus cristatus noun shore-dwelling seaweed-eating lizard of the Galapagos Islands

marine mussel
mytilid noun marine bivalve mollusk having a dark elongated shell; live attached to solid objects especially in intertidal zones

Marineland
noun a commercial aquarium featuring trained dolphins

mariner
seaman noun a man who serves as a sailor

Marini
Giambattista Marini noun Italian poet (1569-1625)

marionette
noun a small figure of a person operated from above with strings by a puppeteer

mariposa
mariposa tulip noun any of several plants of the genus Calochortus having tulip-shaped flowers with 3 sepals and 3 petals; southwestern United States and Mexico

Mariposan
Yokuts noun a Penutian language spoken by the Yokuts in the San Joaquin Valley

marital
matrimonial adjective of or relating to the state of marriage; `marital status`; `marital fidelity`; `married bliss`

marital communications privilege
husband-wife privilege noun neither spouse can divulge confidential communications from the other while they were married

marital relationship
marital bed noun the relationship between wife and husband

marital status
noun the condition of being married or unmarried

mariticide
noun the murder of a husband by his wife

maritime
adjective bordering on or living or characteristic of those near the sea; `a maritime province`; `maritime farmers`; `maritime cultures`

maritime
adjective relating to or involving ships or shipping or navigation or seamen; `nautical charts`; `maritime law`; `marine insurance`

maritime law
marine law noun the branch of international law that deals with territorial and international waters or with shipping or with ocean fishery etc.

Maritime Provinces
Maritimes noun the collective name for the Canadian provinces of New Brunswick and Nova Scotia and Prince Edward Island

marjoram
oregano noun pungent leaves used as seasoning with meats and fowl and in stews and soups and omelets

mark
noun a written or printed symbol (as for punctuation); `his answer was just a punctuation mark`

mark
score noun a number or letter indicating quality (especially of a student`s performance); `she made good marks in algebra`; `grade A milk`; `what was your score on your homework?`

Mark Clark
Mark Wayne Clark noun United States general who was Allied commander in Africa and Italy in World War II and was commander of the United Nations forces in Korea (1896-1984)

Mark Hopkins
noun United States educator and theologian (1802-1887)

mark of Cain
noun the mark that God set upon Cain now refers to a person`s sinful nature

Markaz-ud-Dawa-wal-Irshad
MDI noun a Sunni organization formed in 1989 and based in Pakistan; opposes missionary groups from the United States; has Lashkar-e-Tayyiba as its armed wing

marked
pronounced adjective strongly marked; easily noticeable; `walked with a marked limp`; `a pronounced flavor of cinnamon`

markedly
adverb in a clearly noticeable manner; `sales of luxury cars dropped markedly`

marker
marking noun a distinguishing symbol; `the owner`s mark was on all the sheep`

market
marketplace noun the world of commercial activity where goods and services are bought and sold; `without competition there would be no market`; `they were driven from the marketplace`

market
noun the securities markets in the aggregate; `the market always frustrates the small investor`

market analysis
noun marketing research that yields information about the marketplace

market analyst
noun an analyst of conditions affecting a market (especially the stock market)

market capitalization
market capitalisation noun an estimation of the value of a business that is obtained by multiplying the number of shares outstanding by the current price of a share

market cross
noun a cross-shaped monument set up in the marketplace of a town where public business is often conducted

market day
noun a fixed day for holding a public market

market economy
free enterprise noun an economy that relies chiefly on market forces to allocate goods and resources and to determine prices

market forces
noun the interaction of supply and demand that shapes a market economy

market garden
noun a garden where fruit and vegetables are grown for marketing

market gardening
noun the growing of vegetables or flowers for market

market order
noun an order to a broker to sell or buy stocks or commodities at the prevailing market price

market penetration
noun the extent to which a product is recognized and bought by customers in a particular market

market strategist
noun someone skilled in planning marketing campaigns

market town
noun a (usually small) town where a public market is held at stated times

market value
market price noun the price at which buyers and sellers trade the item in an open marketplace

marketable
adjective capable of being marketed; `the marketable surplus`

marketable
sellable adjective fit to be offered for sale; `marketable produce`

marketing cost
noun the cost of marketing (e.g., the cost of transferring title and moving goods to the customer)

marketing research
market research noun research that gathers and analyzes information about the moving of good or services from producer to consumer

marketplace
mart noun an area in a town where a public mercantile establishment is set up

markhor
markhoor noun large Himalayan goat with large spiraled horns

marking
grading 1 scoring noun evaluation of performance by assigning a grade or score; `what he disliked about teaching was all the grading he had to do`

marking ink
noun an indelible ink for marking clothes or linens etc.

markka
Finnish mark noun formerly the basic unit of money in Finland

Markov
Andrei Markov noun Russian mathematician (1856-1922)

Markov chain
Markoff chain noun a Markov process for which the parameter is discrete time values

Markov process
Markoff process noun a simple stochastic process in which the distribution of future states depends only on the present state and not on how it arrived in the present state

Markovian
adjective relating to or generated by a Markov process

Marks
Simon Marks noun English businessman who created a retail chain (1888-1964)

marksman
sharpshooter noun someone skilled in shooting

marksmanship
noun skill in shooting

markup
noun detailed stylistic instructions for typesetting something that is to be printed; manual markup is usually written on the copy (e.g. underlining words that are to be set in italics)

markup language
noun a set of symbols and rules for their use when doing a markup of a document

marl
noun a loose and crumbling earthy deposit consisting mainly of calcite or dolomite; used as a fertilizer for soils deficient in lime

marlberry
Ardisia escallonoides noun tropical American shrub or small tree with brown wood and dark berries

Marley
Robert Nesta Marley noun Jamaican singer who popularized reggae (1945-1981)

marlin
noun large long-jawed oceanic sport fishes; related to sailfishes and spearfishes; not completely cold-blooded i.e. able to warm their brains and eyes

marline
noun a small usually tarred line of 2 strands

marlinespike
marlinspike noun a pointed iron hand tool that is used to separate strands of a rope or cable (as in splicing)

marlite
marlstone noun metamorphic rock with approximately the same composition as marl

Marlowe
Christopher Marlowe noun English poet and playwright who introduced blank verse as a form of dramatic expression; was stabbed to death in a tavern brawl (1564-1593)

Marlowe
noun tough cynical detective (one of the early detective heroes in American fiction) created by Raymond Chandler

marly
adjective of or relating to or resembling or abounding in marl

marmalade
noun a preserve made of the pulp and rind of citrus fruits

marmalade bush
fire bush 2 fire-bush 2 Streptosolen jamesonii noun evergreen South American shrub having showy trumpet-shaped orange flowers; grown as an ornamental or houseplant

marmalade tree
mammee 2 sapote noun tropical American tree having wood like mahogany and sweet edible egg-shaped fruit; in some classifications placed in the genus Calocarpum

Marmara
Sea of Marmara noun an inland sea in northwestern Turkey; linked to the Black Sea by the Bosporus and linked to the Aegean by the Dardanelles

marmite
noun a large pot especially one with legs used e.g. for cooking soup

marmorean
marmoreal adjective of or relating to or characteristic of marble

marmoset
noun small soft-furred South American and Central American monkey with claws instead of nails

marmot
noun stocky coarse-furred burrowing rodent with a short bushy tail found throughout the northern hemisphere; hibernates in winter

Marmota
genus Marmota noun marmots

marocain
crepe marocain noun a dress crepe; similar to Canton crepe

maroon
brownish-red adjective of dark brownish to purplish red

maroon-purple
adjective of purple tinged with maroon

maroon-spotted
adjective having maroon spots