A speeding motorist was caught by radar from a police helicopter in the sky.
An officer pulled him over and began to issue a traffic ticket.
"How did you know I was speeding?" the frustrated driver asked.
The police officer pointed somberly toward the sky.
"You mean," asked the motorist, "that even He is against me?"
n. Communist doctrines of mao zedong. maoist n. & adj. [mao zedong, name of a chinese statesman]
MAQUIS
n. (pl. Same) 1 french resistance movement during the german occupation (1940–45).
- member of this. [french, = brushwood]
MARACA
n. Clublike bean-filled gourd etc., shaken rhythmically in pairs in latin american music. [portuguese]
MARAUD
v. - make a plundering raid (on).
- pilfer systematically. marauder n. [french maraud rogue]
MARBLE
cake n. Mottled cake of light and dark sponge.
- —n. - crystalline limestone capable of taking a polish, used in sculpture and architecture.
- (often attrib.) A anything of marble (marble clock). B anything like marble in hardness, coldness, etc. (her features were marble).
- a small, esp. Glass, ball as a toy. B (in pl.; treated as sing.) Game using these.
- (in pl.) Slang one's mental faculties (he's lost his marbles).
- (in pl.) Collection of sculptures (elgin marbles). —v. (-ling) 1 (esp. As marbled adj.) Stain or colour (paper, soap, etc.) To look like variegated marble.
- (as marbled adj.) (of meat) striped with fat and lean. [latin marmor from greek]
MARGIN
of error n. Allowance for miscalculation etc.
- —n. - edge or border of a surface.
- blank border flanking print etc.
- amount by which a thing exceeds, falls short, etc. (won by a narrow margin).
- lower limit (his effort fell below the margin). —v. (-n-) provide with a margin or marginal notes. [latin margo -ginis]
MARINA
n. Harbour for pleasure-yachts etc. [latin: related to *marine]
MARINE
—adj. - of, found in, or produced by the sea.
- a of shipping or naval matters (marine insurance). B for use at sea. —n. - soldier trained to serve on land or sea.
- country's shipping, fleet, or navy (merchant marine). [latin mare sea]
MARKED
adj. - having a visible mark.
- clearly noticeable (marked difference).
- (of playing-cards) marked on their backs to assist cheating. markedly adv.
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