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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- adjective colloquial abbreviation for
monaural ormonophonic ; having only a single audio channel - noun slang (UK, Australia) A bicycle or motorcycle trick where the front wheel is lifted off the ground while riding
- noun Short name for the disease
mononucleosis
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.
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