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mien
English
Etymology
From French mine (whence also Danish mine and German Miene), appearance, perhaps from Breton min (“face of an animal”), or from Latin minio (“to redden”).
Pronunciation
- IPA(key): /mi?n/
- Rhymes: -i?n
- Homophone: mean
Noun
mien (countable and uncountable, plural miens)
- (countable, uncountable) Demeanor; facial expression or attitude, especially one which is intended by its bearer.
- 1856, Joseph Turnley, The Language of the Eye, p. 111:
- Beauty, like all divine gifts, is everywhere to be seen by the eye of the faithful admirer of nature; and, like all spirits, she is scarcely to be described by words. Her countenance and mien, her path, her hue and carriage, often surpass expression, and soothe the enthusiast into reverie and silence.
- 2015, Siobhan Roberts, John Horton Conway: the world’s most charismatic mathematician, in: The Guardian, July 23rd 2015
- Although still young at heart and head, he looks more and more like his old friend Archimedes, increasingly bearded and increasingly grey, with an otherworldly mien – a look that should earn him a spot in the online quiz featuring portraits of frumpy old men under the rubric “Prof or Hobo?”
- 1856, Joseph Turnley, The Language of the Eye, p. 111:
- (countable) A specific facial expression.
Translations
References
Anagrams
- Emin, Mine, mine
French
Etymology
From Middle French mien, from Old French meon, from Latin meum, the neuter of meus.
Pronunciation
- IPA(key): /mj??/
Adjective
mien (feminine singular mienne, masculine plural miens, feminine plural miennes)
- (archaic) my
Derived terms
- le mien (“mine”)
See also
- mon, ma, mes
Further reading
- “mien” in Trésor de la langue française informatisé (The Digitized Treasury of the French Language).
Anagrams
- mine, miné
Old French
Etymology
Latin meum.
Adjective
mien
- (stressed) my; mine
Usage notes
- chiefly used after an article (un, le, etc.) and before a noun. The noun may be omitted if clear from the context
Descendants
- French: mien
Pitcairn-Norfolk
Etymology
From English main.
Adjective
mien
- main
Plautdietsch
Pronoun
mien
- my
See also
- dien (your, thy)
- sien (his)
- mie (me)
- ons (our)
- onsa (us)
Further reading
- Plautdietsch Lexicon of 17,000 words
Saterland Frisian
Etymology
See the etymology of the main entry.
Pronunciation
- IPA(key): /min/
Determiner
mien
- feminine of min
- neuter of min
- plural of min
References
- “mien” in Saterfriesisches Wörterbuch
Slovak
Pronunciation
- IPA(key): /?mi??n/
Noun
mien
- genitive plural of mena
Noun
mien
- genitive plural of meno
Vilamovian
Pronunciation
Noun
mien f
- carrot
West Frisian
Etymology
From Old Frisian gem?ne, from Proto-West Germanic *gamain?, from Proto-Germanic *gamainiz, from Proto-Indo-European *?om-moynis. Cognate with German gemein, English mean, Gothic ???????????????????????????? (gamains) and Latin comm?nis.
Adjective
mien
- common, communal
- common, everyday
- general
Inflection
Derived terms
- mienskip
Further reading
- “mien”, in Wurdboek fan de Fryske taal (in Dutch), 2011
mien From the web:
- mien meaning
- what mienai meaning in japanese
- mientras meaning in spanish
- what niente means in spanish
- what miente means in english
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- what miedo mean
- what miento mean
method
English
Pronunciation
- IPA(key): /?m???d/
- Hyphenation: meth?od
Etymology 1
From Middle French methode, from Latin methodus, from Ancient Greek ??????? (méthodos).
Noun
method (countable and uncountable, plural methods)
- A process by which a task is completed; a way of doing something (followed by the adposition of, to or for before the purpose of the process):
- (acting, often "the method") A technique for acting based on the ideas articulated by Konstantin Stanislavski and focusing on authentically experiencing the inner life of the character being portrayed.
- Synonym: method acting
- (object-oriented programming) A subroutine or function belonging to a class or object.
- Synonym: member function
- (slang) Marijuana.
- Synonyms: see Thesaurus:marijuana
- (dated) An instruction book systematically arranged.
Hyponyms
Translations
Verb
method (third-person singular simple present methods, present participle methoding, simple past and past participle methoded)
- (transitive) to apply a method
- 1809, Rachel Russell (baroness.), Letters. To which is prefixed, an intr. vindicating the character of lord ...
- "Says he, there is above ten thousand brisk boys are ready to follow me, whenever I hold up my finger : — Says I, how have you methoded this, that they shall not be crushed, for there will be a great force to oppose you?"
- 1809, Rachel Russell (baroness.), Letters. To which is prefixed, an intr. vindicating the character of lord ...
- (casting, by extension, transitive) to apply particular treatment methods to a mold
- The company employs extensive use of 3D modelling combined with solidification simulation to ensure that critical castings are properly methoded.
Translations
Etymology 2
Abbreviation.
Noun
method (plural methods)
- (skateboarding, snowboarding) Ellipsis of method air.
Anagrams
- mothed
method From the web:
- what method of communication exists in argentina
- what method characterizes propaganda
- what methods were they employing
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