Definitions
from The Century Dictionary.
- noun A prefix in many words of Greek origin or formation, meaning ‘single,’ ‘one.’
- noun The black howler or howling monkey, Mycetes villosus.
from the GNU version of the Collaborative International Dictionary of English.
- noun (Zoöl.) The
black howler (Mycetes villosus ), a monkey of Central America.
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- noun Short name for the disease
mononucleosis - noun slang (UK, Australia) A bicycle or motorcycle trick where the front wheel is lifted off the ground while riding
- adjective colloquial abbreviation for
monaural ormonophonic ; having only a single audio channel
from WordNet 3.0 Copyright 2006 by Princeton University. All rights reserved.
- noun an acute disease characterized by fever and swollen lymph nodes and an abnormal increase of mononuclear leucocytes or monocytes in the bloodstream; not highly contagious; some believe it can be transmitted by kissing
- adjective designating sound transmission or recording or reproduction over a single channel
Etymologies
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Examples
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*** Update *** I was thinking of the term mono no aware.
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The thin mono is easy to control and sinks fast, getting my lure down to where the fish are.
Spinning at Large 1999
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The thin mono is easy to control and sinks fast, getting my lure down to where the fish are.
Spinning at Large 1999
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Again, your cognitive disconnect — all the same things that can happen with ‘open’ homosexuals can happen with ‘closeted’ ones or even without any at all — most sexual harassment in mono-gender barracks is between heterosexual males (again do you have no locker room experience at all?)
The Volokh Conspiracy » Light at the End of the DADT Tunnel 2010
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Looking back at it today, she says, the album now viewed as a lost soul music classic faced obstacles that thwarted its release: recorded in mono, LaVette was also overshadowed by Atlantic's R&B star, Aretha Franklin, and, she surmises, "my voice was too hard to accept."
Art Levine: Amid Dreary Concert Season, Bettye LaVette's Triumphant Return Art Levine 2010
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Also mono is cheap and I change line frequently. 1/4lb spools of ANDE mono can be had for what 100 yards of superline costs.
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Also mono is cheap and I change line frequently. 1/4lb spools of ANDE mono can be had for what 100 yards of superline costs.
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Again, your cognitive disconnect — all the same things that can happen with ‘open’ homosexuals can happen with ‘closeted’ ones or even without any at all — most sexual harassment in mono-gender barracks is between heterosexual males (again do you have no locker room experience at all?)
The Volokh Conspiracy » Light at the End of the DADT Tunnel 2010
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So, with one mic in mono, it's absolutely in phase, and that's part of what's so attractive about it.
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So, with one mic in mono, it's absolutely in phase, and that's part of what's so attractive about it.
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Vegans can be as strict or lax as they want to be in their food choices: the International Vegetarian Union’s websiteincludes vegan-friendly reminders about baking pans greased with animal fat, grain cereals that include animal-based glycerin, and sugar refined with bone charcoal. Then there’s raw veganism, which is an offshoot of veganism in which none of the food can be cooked. Take that a step further and you get “mono meals,” the idea that the stomach should only digest one type of food at a time.
A Brief History of Veganism Claire Suddath 2008
john commented on the word mono
Spanish for monkey.
October 24, 2008
qroqqa commented on the word mono
Usually when a word has many meanings in English, they are the result of a centuries-long process, many of them washed up on the banks of oblivion by our time. In the case of mono, however, they're all new:
(1) 1851: Mono, a Californian tribe
(2) 1924: a picador's assistant, a monosabio
(3) 1937: a boiler suit, especially those worn by Republican militia in the Spanish Civil War (literally "monkey")
(4) 1959: monophonic recording
(5) 1964: the disease mononucleosis
(6) 1970: monochrome, black and white
(7) 1977: a single-hulled boat, a monohull
(8) 1979: a single-stranded fibre, a monofilament
And it's perhaps a little surprising that no use of Japanese mono has come into English as a separate word. (The OED of course lists mono no aware under that phrase.)
June 3, 2009