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noun

1
Of or pertaining to the male gender; manly.
2
Of or pertaining to the male sex; biologically male, not female.
3
Belonging to males; typically used by males.
““John”, “Paul” and “Jake” are masculine names.”
4
Having the qualities stereotypically associated with men: virile, aggressive, not effeminate.
5
(grammar) Of, pertaining or belonging to the male grammatical gender, in languages that have gender distinctions.

1
(always meter) A device that measures things.
2
(always meter) A parking meter or similar device for collecting payment.
3
(always meter) One who metes or measures.
“a labouring coal-meter”
4
(elsewhere metre) The base unit of length in the International System of Units (SI), conceived of as 1/10000000 of the distance from the North Pole to the Equator, and now defined as the distance light will travel in a vacuum in 1/299792458 second.
5
(elsewhere metre) An increment of music; the overall rhythm; particularly, the number of beats in a measure.
6
(elsewhere metre) The rhythm pattern in a poem.
7
(elsewhere metre) A line above or below a hanging net, to which the net is attached in order to strengthen it.
8
A poem.

1
The international mile: a unit of length precisely equal to 1.609344 kilometers established by treaty among Anglophone nations in 1959, divided into 5,280 feet or 1,760 yards.
2
Any of several customary units of length derived from the 1593 English statute mile of 8 furlongs, equivalent to 5,280 feet or 1,760 yards of various precise values.
3
Any of many customary units of length derived from the Roman mile (mille passus) of 8 stades or 5,000 Roman feet.
4
The Scandinavian mile: a unit of length precisely equal to 10 kilometers defined in 1889.
5
Any of many customary units of length from other measurement systems of roughly similar values, as the Chinese (里) or Arabic mile (al-mīl).
6
(travel) An airline mile in a frequent flier program.
7
Any similarly large distance.
“The shot missed by a mile.”
8
A race of 1 mile's length; a race of around 1 mile's length (usually 1500 or 1600 meters)
“The runners competed in the mile.”
9
One mile per hour, as a measure of speed.
“five miles over the speed limit”

1
A half note, drawn as a semibreve with a stem.
2
A unit of volume, in the Imperial and U.S. customary systems, 1/60 fluid drachm. Approximately equal to 1 drop, 62 μL or 0.9 grain (weight) of water.
3
A short vertical stroke used in handwriting.
4
Anything very minute; applied to animalcula and the like.
“the minims of existence”
5
The smallest kind of worker in a leaf-cutter ant colony.
6
A little man or being; a dwarf.
7
A small fish; a minnow.
8
A short poetical encomium.

1
A unit of time equal to sixty seconds (one-sixtieth of an hour).
“You have twenty minutes to complete the test.”
2
A short but unspecified time period.
“Wait a minute, I’m not ready yet!”
3
A unit of angle equal to one-sixtieth of a degree.
“We need to be sure these maps are accurate to within one minute of arc.”
4
(chiefly in the plural, minutes) A (usually formal) written record of a meeting or a part of a meeting.
“Let’s look at the minutes of last week’s meeting.”
5
A unit of purchase on a telephone or other network, especially a cell phone network, roughly equivalent in gross form to sixty seconds' use of the network.
“If you buy this phone, you’ll get 100 free minutes.”
6
A point in time; a moment.
7
A nautical or a geographic mile.
8
An old coin, a half farthing.
9
A very small part of anything, or anything very small; a jot; a whit.
10
A fixed part of a module.
11
A while or a long unspecified period of time
“Oh, I ain't heard that song in a minute!”

1
A period into which a year is divided, historically based on the phases of the moon.
“July is my favourite month.”
2
A period of 30 days, 31 days, or some alternation thereof.
“We went on holiday for two months.”
3
(in the plural) A woman's period; menstrual discharge.

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