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name
The London Underground Metropolitan line.
Definition source: English Wiktionary via Wiktextract
Usage: London
Topics: rail-transport, railways, transport
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Synonyms: Metropolitan
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name
The Metropolitan Railway.
Definition source: English Wiktionary via Wiktextract
Usage: London, historical
Topics: rail-transport, railways, transport
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Synonyms: Metropolitan
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name
The Metropolitan Police Service of London (MPS).
Definition source: English Wiktionary via Wiktextract
Usage: London
Topics: government, law-enforcement
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Synonyms: Metropol
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name
The Metropolitan Museum of Art in New York City.
Definition source: English Wiktionary via Wiktextract
Usage: US
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name
The current or historical Metropolitan Opera House or its opera company.
Definition source: English Wiktionary via Wiktextract
Usage: New-York
Topics: art, arts
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noun
A Metropolitan line train.
Definition source: English Wiktionary via Wiktextract
Usage: London, informal
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noun
A player for the New York Mets.
Definition source: English Wiktionary via Wiktextract
Topics: ball-games, baseball, games, hobbies, lifestyle, sports
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noun
Initialism of metabolic equivalent of task, a measure of the intensity of aerobic exercise.
Definition source: English Wiktionary via Wiktextract
Usage: abbreviation, alt-of, countable, initialism
Topics: medicine, physiology, sciences
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Synonyms: metabolic equivalent
Antonyms: none provided
noun
Abbreviation of methylethyltryptamine, a hallucinogenic tryptamine.
Definition source: English Wiktionary via Wiktextract
Usage: abbreviation, alt-of, countable, uncountable
Topics: biochemistry, biology, chemistry, microbiology, natural-sciences, physical-sciences
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noun
Abbreviation of methionine, an essential nonpolar amino acid.
Definition source: English Wiktionary via Wiktextract
Usage: abbreviation, alt-of, countable, uncountable
Topics: biochemistry, biology, chemistry, microbiology, natural-sciences, physical-sciences
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noun
The gene symbol for C-Met, a proto-oncogene in human biology.
Definition source: English Wiktionary via Wiktextract
Usage: countable, uncountable
Topics: biology, natural-sciences
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noun
Initialism of mesenchymal–epithelial transition.
Definition source: English Wiktionary via Wiktextract
Usage: abbreviation, alt-of, countable, initialism, uncountable
Topics: medicine, oncology, sciences
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noun
Initialism of motivational enhancement therapy, used in treatment of drug abuse and mental illness to help people in denial accept treatment.
Definition source: English Wiktionary via Wiktextract
Usage: abbreviation, alt-of, countable, initialism, uncountable
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noun
Initialism of muscle energy technique, a neuromuscular protocol used in osteopathy, physical therapy, and massage therapy.
Definition source: English Wiktionary via Wiktextract
Usage: abbreviation, alt-of, countable, initialism, uncountable
Topics: medicine, sciences
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noun
Initialism of Mission Elapsed Time.
Definition source: English Wiktionary via Wiktextract
Usage: abbreviation, alt-of, countable, initialism, uncountable
Qualifier: space flight
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noun
Initialism of Modular Equipment Transporter, a two-wheeled handcart used on the Apollo 14 manned mission to the Moon.
Definition source: English Wiktionary via Wiktextract
Usage: abbreviation, alt-of, countable, initialism, uncountable
Topics: aeronautics, aerospace, business, engineering, natural-sciences, physical-sciences
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verb
simple past and past participle of meet
Definition source: English Wiktionary via Wiktextract
Usage: form-of, participle, past
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verb
simple past and past participle of mete (to measure)
Definition source: English Wiktionary via Wiktextract
Usage: form-of, obsolete, participle, past
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verb
To dream; to occur (to one) in a dream.
Definition source: English Wiktionary via Wiktextract
Usage: impersonal, no-past-participle, no-present-participle, obsolete
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History
Clipping of metropolitan.
From Middle English meten (“to dream”), from Old English mætan (“to dream”).
