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meat • ball / ' mitbol / noun [ count ]

a small round ball of meat spaghetti and meatballs

meat • loaf / ' mitlouf / noun [ count, noncount ]

meat that has been cut into very small pieces and mixed with eggs, onions, etc. It is then formed into a long shape and baked a slice of meatloaf

me • chan • ic / ma 'krenik / noun [ count ]

a person whose job is to repair or work with machines a car mechanic

me • chan • i • cal / ma krenikl / adjective

moved, done, or made by a machine a mechanical toy

► me • chan • i • cal • ly / ma' krenikli / adverb The pump is operated mechanically.

me • chan • ics / ma 'kreniks / noun [ noncount ]

( general science ) the study of how machines work

mech • a • nism AWL / ' mekanizam / noun

[ count ]

a set of moving parts in a machine that does a particular job a car with an automatic locking mechanism

med • al / ' medl / noun [ count ]

a piece of metal with words and pictures on it that you get for doing something very good

She won a gold medal in the Olympic Games.

me • di • aAWL / ' midia / noun [ plural ]

television, radio, and newspapers

These events were widely reported in the media .

med i .cal © / medikl / adjective

( health ) connected with medicine, hospitals, or doctors a medical student medical treatment

med • i • ca • tion / medi ' keijn / noun

[ count, noncount ]

( health ) medicine that you take to treat an illness flu medications

Have you been remembering to take your medication ?

med .i .cine © / 'medisn/ noun

( health )

[ noncount ] the science of understanding illnesses and making sick people well again

He's studying medicine.

[ count, noncount ] a special chemical substance that helps you to get better when you are sick

Take this medicine every morning.

me • di • e • val / |mid' ivl /

( history ) connected with the years between about 1100 and 1500 in Europe a medieval castle

— Look at the Middle Ages .

me • di • o • cre / |midi' oukar / adjective

not very good

The restaurant looks great, but I thought the food was pretty mediocre.

me • di . Um © / midiom / adjective

not big and not small

Would you like a small, medium, or large Coke? He is of medium height.

meet © / mit / verb

( meets , meet - ing , met / met / has met )

1 to come together by chance or because you have planned it

met Kate in the library today.

Let's meet outside the restaurant at seven o'clock.

to see and speak to someone for the first time Have you met Anne?

to go to a place and wait for someone to arrive Can you meet me at the airport?

to join together with something The two rivers meet in St. Louis.

meet with someone to have a meeting with someone,

usually to talk about something

I'm meeting with my son's teacher today.

meet .ing © / mitin/ noun

[count]

a time when people come together for a special reason, usually to talk about something

We had a meeting to talk about the plans for a new pool.

a time when two or more people come together

Do you remember your first meeting with your husband?

meg • a • byte / ' megabait / ( abbreviation MB ) noun [ count ]

( computers ) a unit of computer memory, equal to about one million bytes (= small units of information ) —Look at gigabyte , kilobyte .

mel • o • dy / ' meladi / noun [count]

( plural mel - o . dies )

( music ) a group of musical notes that make a nice sound when you play or sing them together This song has a lovely melody.

—SYNONYM tune

mel • on

/ ' mebn / noun [count]

a big, round, yellow or green fruit with a lot of seeds inside