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Masques
- noun - a party of guests wearing costumes and masks
Matches
- noun -
- a burning piece of wood or cardboard; "if you drop a match in there the whole place will explode"
- a formal contest in which two or more persons or teams compete
- a pair of people who live together; "a married couple from Chicago"
- a person regarded as a good matrimonial prospect
- a person who is of equal standing with another in a group
- an exact duplicate; "when a match is found an entry is made in the notebook"
- be equal or harmonize; "The two pieces match"
- be equal to in quality or ability; "Nothing can rival cotton for durability"; "Your performance doesn't even touch that of your colleagues"; "Her persistence and ambition only matches that of her parents"
- bring two objects, ideas, or people together; "This fact is coupled to the other one"; "Matchmaker, can you match my daughter with a nice young man?"; "The student was paired with a partner for collaboration on the project"
- game
Matures
- verb - become due for repayment; "These bonds mature in 2005"
- cause to ripen and discharge pus; "The oil suppurates the pustules"
- cause to ripen or develop fully; "The sun ripens the fruit"; "Age matures a good wine"
- develop and reach maturity; undergo maturation; "He matured fast";
- develop and work out fully in one's mind; "I need to mature my thoughts"
- grow old or older; "She aged gracefully"; "we age every day--what a depressing thought!"; "Young men senesce"
Meanies
- noun - a person of mean disposition
- United States labor leader who was the first president of the AFL-CIO (1894-1980)
Measles
- noun - an acute and highly contagious viral disease marked by distinct red spots followed by a rash; occurs primarily in children
Meddles
- verb - interfere
- intrude in other people's affairs or business; interfere unwantedly; "Don't meddle in my affairs!"
Meioses
- noun - (genetics) cell division that produces reproductive cells in sexually reproducing organisms; the nucleus divides into four nuclei each containing half the chromosome number (leading to gametes in animals and spores in plants)
- understatement for rhetorical effect (especially when expressing an affirmative by negating its contrary); "saying `I was not a little upset' when you mean `I was very upset' is an example of litotes"
Menaces
- noun - a threat or the act of threatening; "he spoke with desperate menace"
- act in a threatening manner; "A menacing person"
- express a threat either by an utterance or a gesture; "he menaced the bank manager with a stick"
- pose a threat to; present a danger to; "The pollution is endangering the crops"
- something that is a source of danger; "earthquakes are a constant threat in Japan"
Menages
- noun - a social unit living together; "he moved his family to Virginia"; "It was a good Christian household"; "I waited until the whole house was asleep"; "the teacher asked how many people made up his home"