Word Book M-1 (1/4)
machine - mathematics →
machine [a device with moving parts used to do work]
Our copy machine always seems to stop working when I have a lot of documents to copy.
magazine [a publication of news, stories, pictures or other information]
mail [letters, papers and other things sent through an official system, such as a post office]
E-mail is so much faster than sending mail through the post office.
main [the most important or largest]
major [great in size, importance or amount]
majority [(1) the greater number; (2) more than half]
The President's party won a majority of seats in the House of Representatives. (1)
A bill passes only if a majority of the members approve. (2)
make [(1) to produce; (2) to create; (3) to build; (4) to do something or to carry out an action; (5) to cause to be or to become]
Many products sold in America are made in China. (1)
The same company makes many of the houses here. (3)
male [(1) a man or boy; (2) the sex that is the father of children; (3) of or about men]
Police described him as a male in his early twenties. (1)
man [an adult male human]
manufacture [to make goods in large amounts]
many [a large number or amount of]
map [a picture of the earth's surface or a part of it]
march [(1) to walk in a group like soldiers; (2) to walk together in a large group to protest about something]
mark [to make a sign or cut on something]
market [(1) a place or area where goods are sold, bought or traded; (2) an economic system in which the prices of things are decided by how many there are and how much money people are willing to pay for them]
She sells her vegetables at the farmers' market. (1)
The President spoke about the successful growth of market economies around the world. (2)
marry [(1) to join a man and woman together as husband and wife; (2) to become husband and wife (usually in a religious or civil ceremony)]
mass [an amount of matter having no special form and usually of a large size]
mate [to bring together a male and a female to create another creature]
Their dogs mated last week so they should have puppies soon.
material [(1) the substance, substances or matter of which something is made or from which something can be made, such as wood, cloth or stone; (2) anything that can be made into something else]
Which materials are used to build houses in your country? (1)
Scientists are using genetic material to create plants and animals different from those in nature. (2)
mathematics [the science dealing with amounts, sizes and shapes, as explained by numbers and signs]
Their mathematics test had questions on algebra and geometry.
