Doctor: What seems to be the trouble?
Patient: Doctor, I keep getting the feeling that nobody can hear what I say.
Doctor: What seems to be the trouble?
point n. Tennis etc. - position when one side needs only one more point to win the match.
- this point.
- —n. - contest or game in which players or teams compete.
- a person as an equal contender (meet one's match). B person or thing exactly like or corresponding to another.
- marriage.
- person viewed as a marriage prospect. —v. - correspond (to); be like or alike; harmonize (with) (his socks do not match; curtains match the wallpaper).
- equal.
- (foll. By against, with) place in conflict or competition with.
- find material etc. That matches (another) (can you match this silk?).
- n. - short thin piece of wood etc. With a combustible tip.
- wick or cord etc. For firing a cannon etc. [french mesche]
MATER
n. Slang mother. [latin]
MATEY
(also maty) —adj. (-tier, -tiest) sociable; familiar, friendly. —n. (pl. -s) colloq. (as a form of address) mate. mateyness n. (also matiness). Matily adv.
MATHS
n. Colloq. Mathematics. [abbreviation]
MAUVE
—adj. Pale purple. —n. This colour. mauvish adj. [latin: related to *mallow]
MAXIM
n. General truth or rule of conduct briefly expressed. [french or medieval latin: related to *maximum]
MAYBE
adv. Perhaps. [from it may be]
MAYNT
contr. May not.
MAYOR
n. - head of the corporation of a city or borough.
- head of a district council with the status of a borough. mayoral adj. [latin: related to *major]
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