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look after phrasal verb to take care of someone or something look back phrasal verb to turn your looked back and saw a police car was following him.. look for phrasal verb to search for

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living 187 long

er pâté He looked at the menu and

or-dered liver and bacon.

living

living / lvŋ/ adjective having the signs

such as breathing or growing of not

rel-atives? 쐽 noun money that you need for

earns his living by selling postcards to

tourists.

living room

living room /

house or flat) a comfortable room for

sitting in

lizard

lizard / lzəd/ noun a small animal with a

long tail and rough skin

load

ob-jects which are carried in a vehicle such

bricks 쐽 verb 1 to put something,

espe-cially something heavy, into or on to a

loaded the furniture into the van 2 to

put bullets into a gun, or a film into a

hid behind the wall 3 to put a program

word-processing program before you start

keyboarding.

loaf

round shape, which you can cut into

loaf of bread at the baker’s We eat

about 10 loaves of bread per week.

loan

house with a £100,000 loan from the

bank 2 the act of lending something to

three weeks.

local

local / ləυk(ə)l/ adjective relating to a

place or district near where you are or

in the local hospital The local paper

comes out on Fridays She was

for-merly the headmistress of the local

school.

locate

locate /ləυ ket/ verb to find the position

lo-cate the Spanish galleon.

location

location /ləυ keʃ(ə)n/ noun a place or

location.

lock

con-tainer such as a box, used for fastening

it so that you can only open it with a key

She left the key in the lock, so the bur-glars got in easily We changed the locks on the doors after a set of keys were stolen 쐽 verb 1 to close a door or

I forgot to lock the safe We always lock the front door before we go to bed.

sudden-ly locked as he went round the corner.

lock up phrasal verb 1 to close a

al-ways locks up before he goes home

She was locking up the shop when a

man walked in 2 to put someone in

loft

their loft into a bedroom.

log

brought in a load of logs for the fire.

loneliness

loneliness / ləυnlinəs/ noun 1 a

feel-ing of sadness you can get from befeel-ing

long time to get over his feelings of

lone-liness 2 the state of being alone He was attracted by the loneliness of the hotel, all by itself on the top of the cliff.

lonely

lonely / ləυnli/ adjective 1 feeling sad

lonely you can be in a big city full of

people 2 (of a place) with few or no

place at night We spent the weekend

in a lonely cottage in the Welsh hills.

long

a long piece of string The Nile is the longest river in the world My hair

needs cutting – it’s getting too long 2.

pro-gramme – it lasted almost three hours.

They’ve been waiting for the bus for a long time We don’t approve of long

holidays in this job 3 used for asking

it before your holiday starts? 쐽 adverb

long? I didn’t want to wait any longer.

Long ago, before the war, this was a

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long-term 188 lot

wealthy farming area 쐽 noun a long

She’ll be boss of the company before

long for long for a long time He

wasn’t out of a job for long 쐽 verb to

long-ing for a cup of tea Everyone was

longing to be back home as long as,

so long as provided that, on the

long as it doesn’t rain no longer not

long-term

long-term /

planned to last for a long time

loo

loo /

there is a toilet (informal)

look

look at this photograph and tell me if

you recognise anyone in it We only

had time for a quick look round the

town 쐽 verb 1 to turn your eyes to see

at this photograph Look in the

res-taurant and see if there are any tables

free If you look out of the office

win-dow you can see our house He

opened the lid of the box and looked

in-side 2 to appear to be I went to see

her in hospital and she looks worse

Those pies look good It looks as if it

may snow He looks much older than

forty.

look after phrasal verb to take care of

someone or something

look back phrasal verb to turn your

looked back and saw a police car was

following him.

look for phrasal verb to search for

something, to try to find something

look into phrasal verb to try to find out

about a matter or problem

look out phrasal verb to be careful 쑗

Look out! – the car is going backwards!

look out for phrasal verb to try to see

looking out for new offices because ours

are too small I’ll look out for his

sis-ter at the party.

look up phrasal verb to try to find

up his address in the telephone book

Look up the word in the dictionary if you don’t know what it means.

loop

loop / piece of something such as string, which

start by making a loop.

loose

loose /

teeshirt for the dance class (NOTE:

looser – loosest) 2. not attached to

needs tightening Once he was let loose, the dog ran across the park.

loosen

loosen /

shoe-laces and relaxed.

lord

lord /

Powerful lords forced King John to sign

the Magna Carta 2 an expression of

realise it was so late!

lorry

lorry / lɒri/ noun a large motor vehicle for carrying goods

lose

lose / thing somewhere and not to know where

lost it on the train If you lose your

ticket you’ll have to buy another one 2.

lost money on the lottery 3 not to win

We lost the match 10 – 0 Did you win? – No, we lost (NOTE: loses –

los-ing – lost /lɒst/) 앳 to lose your way

to not know where you are or which

the fog on the mountain.

loss

un-happy at the loss of his house The loss of a child is almost unbearable to a

parent 2 money which you have spent

and have not got back through earnings

Companies often make losses in their first year of operations.

lost

lose

lot

lots of time before the train leaves

What a lot of cars there are in the car park! I’ve been to the cinema quite a

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lottery 189 lung

lot recently She’s feeling a lot better

now Lots of people are looking for

jobs the lot everything That’s the

lot – there’s nothing left There were

old pots and books and newspapers –

we sold the lot for £50 We picked 2

ki-los of beans and ate the lot for dinner.

lottery

lottery / lɒtəri/ noun a game of chance in

which tickets with numbers on are sold

with prizes given for certain numbers

loud

Can’t you stop your watch making such

a loud noise? Turn down the radio –

it’s too loud 쐽 adverb loudly 쑗 I can’t

sing any louder She laughed out loud

in church.

loudly

loudly / laυdli/ adverb in a way which is

easy to hear

loudness

loudness / laυdnəs/ noun the state of

being loud, being noisy

lounge

lounge /laυnd"/ noun a comfortable

TV in the lounge.

love

his love for his children I had never

felt true love like this before to be in

love to love someone or to love each

love I told her I was in love with her.

to feel very strong affection for

some-one They fell in love at first sight 2.

(in games such as tennis) a score of

love (6–0) 쐽 verb 1 to have strong

feel-ings of affection for someone or

loves little children The children love

their teacher 2 to like something very

seaside I’d love to come with you, but

I’ve got too much work to do.

lovely

lovely / lvli/ adjective 1 very pleasant

dress There’s a lovely garden behind

the house 2 pleasant or enjoyable I

had a lovely time on holiday It was

lovely to have all those visitors when I

was in hospital (NOTE: lovelier –

love-liest)

low

head on the low branch The town is surrounded by low hills We shop around to find the lowest prices The engine works best at low speeds The temperature here is too low for oranges

to grow Sales were lower in Decem-ber than in NovemDecem-ber 쐽 adverb

plane was flying too low – it hit the trees.

lower

lower / laυə/ adjective not as high

They booked a cabin on the lower deck.

They lowered the boat into the water.

loyal

loyal / lɔəl/ adjective who supports someone or something for along time

to their owners.

loyalty

loyalty / lɔəlti/ noun the quality of be-ing loyal

luck

emp-ty – that’s a bit of luck! bad luck used

for telling someone that you feel sorry

hope they will be successful

luckily

luckily / lkli/ adverb used for showing that you think an event was lucky

lucky

lucky / lki/ adjective 1 having good

things happening to you, especially if

have been sent to prison How lucky

you are to be going to Spain! 2 bringing

luggage

luggage / l'd"/ noun suitcases or bags for carrying your clothes and other things when travelling

lump

of coal a lump of sugar

lunch

lunch /lntʃ/ noun the meal eaten in the

will be ready soon We always have lunch at 12.30 We are having fish and chips for lunch I’m not hungry so I don’t want a big lunch The restaurant serves 150 lunches a day.

lung

chest with which you breathe

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luxury 190 lying

luxury

luxury / lkʃəri/ noun 1 great comfort

He lived a life of great luxury A hot

bath is a real luxury after two weeks

camping in the mountains 2. a thing

which is pleasant to have, but not

dessert on Friday nights (NOTE: The

plural in this sense is luxuries)

lying

lying / laŋ/ present participle of lie

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m

alphabet, between L and N

machine

machine /mə

bought a machine for putting leaflets in

envelopes There is a message on my

answering machine She made her

dress on her sewing machine The

washing machine has broken and

flood-ed the kitchen.

machinery

machinery /mə

lot of old machinery (NOTE: no plural:

some machinery, a piece of

machin-ery)

mad

medical condition which affects the

Eve-ryone thought he was mad to try to cross

the Atlantic in a rowing boat 3 very

him for borrowing her car He was

hopping mad when they told him his car

had been stolen (NOTE: madder –

maddest) to drive someone mad

noise is driving her mad.

madam

madam / mdəm/ noun 1 a polite way

of addressing a woman, often used by

people who are providing a service such

madam Can I help you, madam? 2.

used when writing a letter to a woman

made

partici-ple of make

magazine

magazine /m'ə

thin book with a paper cover, which is

magazine comes out on Fridays.

magic

magic / md"k/ noun 1 tricks such as

making things appear and disappear,

performed by an entertainer called a

rab-bit appear in his hat 2 a power that

some people believe they have, which makes them able to make impossible

witch and able to perform magic.

magician

magician /mə d"ʃ(ə)n/ noun 1 a

wiz-ard Merlin was the great magician in

medieval legends 2. a conjuror They hired a magician to entertain the chil-dren at the party.

magnet

magnet / m'nt/ noun a piece of metal

Mickey Mouse which sticks to the fridge door with a magnet.

magnetic

magnetic /m' netk/ adjective which attracts metal

magnificent

magnificent /m' nfs(ə)nt/ adjec-tive very impressive or beautiful

mail

hasn’t come yet The receipt was in

this morning’s mail 2 a service

par-cel by sea mail It’s cheaper to send the order by surface mail than by air.

main

The main thing is to get to work on time.

Their main factory is in Scotland

January is the main month for skiing holidays A car will meet you at the main entrance.

mainly

mainly / menli/ adverb most often We sell mainly to businesses People mainly go on holiday in the summer.

maintain

maintain /men ten/ verb 1 to make

maintain good relations with our

cus-tomers 2 to keep something in good

regularly maintained 3 to continue to

the trial he maintained that the car was not his.

major

major / med"ə/ adjective important

Smoking is a major cause of lung can-cer Computers are a major influence

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majority 192 mane

on modern industrial society Many

small roads are blocked by snow, but the

major roads are open 쐽 noun a rank of

major came up in a truck with six

sol-diers (NOTE: also used as a title before

a surname: Major Smith)

majority

majority /mə d"ɒrti/ noun 1 the larger

members of the club don’t want to

change the rules 2 a number of voters

elected with a majority of 10,000 3 the

age when you become legally adult

make

boat out of old pieces of wood These

knives are made of steel 2 to get

Christ-mas cake Do you want me to make

some tea? 3 to add up to a total Six

and four make ten 4 to give someone a

hungry The rough sea made him feel

sick Looking at old photographs

made her sad He made himself

com-fortable in the armchair 5 to force

made him clean his room The teacher

made us all stay in after school I

can’t make the car go any faster What

on earth made you do that? (NOTE:

makes – making – made /med/) 앳 to

make sense 1. to be understood The

message doesn’t make sense 2 to be a

money into your savings account every

week.

make for phrasal verb to go towards a

capital As soon as the film started,

she made straight for the exit.

make out phrasal verb 1 to be able to

house in the dark? 2 to claim

English weather isn’t really as bad as it

is made out to be She tries to make

out that she’s very poor.

make up phrasal verb to invent a story

He said he had seen a man climbing

into the house, but in fact he made the

whole story up.

makeup

makeup / mekp/ noun substances, e.g face powder and lipstick, which people put on their face to make it more beautiful or change their appearance in

from a little eye shadow He spent hours over his makeup for the part of the monster.

making

making / mekŋ/ present participle of

make

male

male deer is called a stag (NOTE: Do

not confuse with mail.)

mammal

mammal / mm(ə)l/ noun a type of an-imal which gives birth to live young and feeds them with milk

man

That tall man is my brother There’s a young man at reception asking for Mr Smith (NOTE: The plural is men

manned all day She sometimes mans the front desk when the receptionist is ill (NOTE: mans – manning –

manned)

manage

manage / mnd"/ verb to be in charge

of-fices in Europe We want to appoint someone to manage the new shop.

management

management / mnd"mənt/ noun 1.

The management has decided to move to

new offices 2. the practice of directing

course in management If anything goes wrong now it’s just a case of bad management.

manager

manager / mnd"ə/ noun 1 the

per-son in charge of a department in a shop

wants to talk about your account The sales manager organised a publicity campaign She’s the manager of the

shoe department 2 a person in charge

sacked their manager.

mane

confuse with main.)

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manner 193 marry

manner

manner / mnə/ noun a way of

behav-ing She has a very unpleasant

man-ner The staff don’t like the new

man-ager’s manner.

manufacture

manufacture /mnjυ fktʃə/ verb to

manufacture tractors here.

manufacturer

manufacturer /mnjυ fktʃərə/

noun a person or company producing

industrial products

many

live on the south coast So many

peo-ple wanted rooms that the hotel was

booked up She ate twice as many

cakes as her sister did 2. asking a

to France? How many passengers

were there on the plane? 쐽pronoun a

students knew the lecturer when he was

a student himself Many would say

that smoking should be banned in all

public places.

map

a place, e.g a town, a country or the

Here’s a map of Europe The village

where they live is so small I can’t find it

on the map Show me on the map

where the mountains are They lost

their way because they’d forgotten to

take a map.

marathon

marathon / mrəθ(ə)n/ noun a race,

often run on roads in a city, covering a

train-ing for the New York marathon.

marble

marble /

type of stone which can be polished so

marble floor The table top is made

from a single slab of green marble.

march

march /

so that your legs move at exactly the

same times as everyone else’s,

after their long march through the

mountains 쐽 verb 1 to walk in this way

The guards marched after the band

We were just in time to see the soldiers

march past 2 to walk in a protest march

Thousands of workers marched to the

parliament building.

March

March / the year, between February and April

‘March the sixth’ or ‘the sixth of March’

or in US English: ‘March sixth’.)

margarine

margarine /

stance made from animal or vegetable oil which is used instead of butter

margin

margin /

your comments in the margin We left

a wide margin so that you can write notes in it.

marine

marine /mə

mark

mark /

made a mark on the tablecloth She has a mark on her forehead where she

hit her head 2 the points given to a

What sort of mark did you get for your homework? No one got full marks – the top mark was 8 out of 10 쐽 verb 1

to make a mark on something 2 to

teacher hasn’t finished marking our homework Has the English exam been marked yet?

market

market / products, e.g fruit and vegetables, are sold from small tables, often in the open

air We buy all our vegetables and fish

at the market Market day is Saturday,

so parking will be difficult.

marketing

marketing / ods used by a company to encourage people buy a product

marriage

marriage / mrd"/ noun 1 the state of

being legally joined as husband and

in divorce She has two sons by her

first marriage 2 a wedding, the

simple marriage, with just ten guests.

married

married / mrid/ adjective joined as

single? Married life must suit him – he’s put on weight.

marry

marry / mri/ verb 1 to make two

mar-ried in church 2 to become the

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hus-marsh 194 may

the boy next door (NOTE: marries –

marrying – married) to get

mar-ried to someone to be joined as

getting married next Saturday.

marsh

marsh /

masculine

masculine / mskjυln/ adjective

very masculine hair style.

mask

mask /

bur-glars wore black masks He wore a

mask to go diving.

mass

people went to the exhibition A mass

of leaves blew onto the pavement I

have a mass of letters or masses of

let-ters to write 2 a Catholic church

serv-ice She’s a strict Catholic and goes to

mass every week 쐽 adjective involving

a mass grave on the hillside The

group is organising a mass protest to

parliament.

massive

massive / msv/ adjective very large

He had a massive heart attack The

company has massive losses A

mas-sive rock came hurtling down the

moun-tainside towards them.

mast

mast /

so strong that it snapped the ship’s mast.

They have put up a television mast on

top of the hill.

master

master /

of TV newscasting Although he

passed his driving test some time ago,

he still hasn’t mastered the art of

motor-way driving.

mat

some-thing such as carpet, used as a floor

be-fore you come in.

match

match /mtʃ/ noun 1 a single occasion

when two teams or players compete

the football match on TV He won the last two table tennis matches he played.

which catches fire when you rub it

packet of cigarettes and a box of

match-es She struck a match and lit a can-dle 쐽 verb to fit or to go with something

The yellow wallpaper doesn’t match the bright green carpet.

mate

pub with his mates 2 one of a pair of

people or animals, especially where

the result of a donkey mating with a horse.

material

material /mə təriəl/ noun 1 something

You can buy all the materials you need

in the DIY shop (NOTE: The plural is

materials.) 2. cloth I bought three metres of material to make curtains

What material is your coat made of?

She’s gathering material for a TV programme on drugs (NOTE: no plural)

mathematics

mathematics /mθə mtks/, maths

and measurements

matter

matter / mtə/ noun 1 a problem or

matter for the police 2 a concern or

doesn’t matter if you’re late His job matters a lot to him Does it matter if

we sit by the window?

mattress

mattress / mtrəs/ noun a thick pad forming the part of a bed that you lie on

maximum

maximum / mksməm/ adjective the

maxi-mum number of guests the hotel can take? 쐽 noun the greatest possible

are allowed to charge per person is £10.

maxima.) at the maximum not more

may

If you don’t hurry you may miss the train Take your umbrella, they say it may rain Here we are sitting in the

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May 195 meat

bar, and he may be waiting for us

out-side 2. it is allowed Guests may park

in the hotel car park free of charge

You may sit down if you wish 3 asking

question? May we have breakfast

ear-ly tomorrow as we need to leave the

ho-tel before 8 o’clock?

May

birthday’s in May Today is May 15th.

She was born on May 15 We went

on holiday last May (NOTE: May 15th

or May 15: say ‘the fifteenth of May’ or

‘May the fifteenth’ or in US English:

‘May fifteenth’.)

maybe

maybe / mebi/ adverb possibly,

one we want Maybe you should ask a

policeman Maybe the weather

fore-cast was right after all maybe not

May-be not.

mayor

mayor /meə/ noun a person who is

cho-sen as the official head of a town, city or

local council

me

me /

is speaking to talk about himself or

give me that book, please? I’m

shout-ing as loud as I can – can’t you hear

me? She’s much taller than me

Who is it? – It’s me! Can you hear

me? She’s taller than me.

meadow

meadow / medəυ/ noun a large field of

grass

meal

meal /

Most people have three meals a day –

breakfast, lunch and dinner You sleep

better if you only eat a light meal in the

evening When they had finished their

evening meal they watched TV You

can have your meals in your room at a

small extra charge.

mean

mean /

Don’t be mean – let me borrow your car.

She’s very mean with her money 2.

trick on his mother That was a mean

thing to say verb 1 used when you

he mean me when he was talking about fat old men? What do you mean when

you say she’s old-fashioned? 2 to show

means a lot to him When a red light comes on it means that you have to stop.

‘Zimmer’ means ‘room’ in German.

meaning

meaning /

meaning of the word, look it up in a dic-tionary The meaning of a red light is pretty clear to me.

means

means /

means of sending the message to Lon-don this afternoon? Do we have any means of copying all these documents quickly? The bus is the cheapest means of getting round the town by

means of by using something He got

her money by means of a trick 2 money

They don’t have the means to buy a flat in London.

meanwhile

meanwhile /

meanwhile, the footsteps were coming nearer.

measure

measure / me"ə/ noun a piece of equip-ment which shows the size or quantity

measures or a package measuring 10cm

by 25cm How much do you measure round your waist? The table measures

four foot long by three foot wide 2 to

find out the length or quantity of

curtains He measured the size of the garden.

measurement

measurement / me"əmənt/ noun a

He took the measurements of the room.

The piano won’t go through the door – are you sure you took the right meas-urements? The measurements of the box are 25cm x 20cm x 5cm.

meat

meat /

please? Would you like meat or fish for your main course? I like my meat very well cooked.

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mechanical 196 mess

mechanical

mechanical /m knk(ə)l/ adjective

trying to fix a mechanical fault.

medal

medal / med(ə)l/ noun a round metal

ob-ject, made to represent an important

oc-casion or battle, and given to people

who have performed well

medical

medical / medk(ə)l/ adjective relating

The Red Cross provided medical help.

medicine

medicine / med(ə)s(ə)n/ noun 1 a drug

cough you should take some cough

med-icine The chemist told me to take the

medicine four times a day Some

cough medicines make you feel sleepy.

to study medicine (NOTE: no plural in

this sense)

medium

medium /

meet

meet /

station We’ll meet for lunch before

we go to the cinema 2 to come together

Several streets meet at the Arc de

Tri-omphe If you draw a diagonal line

from each corner of a square to the

op-posite corner, the two lines will meet in

the centre 3 to get to know someone

I’ve never met your sister – Come and

meet her then! Have you met our sales

manager? – Yes, we have already met.

meeting

meeting /

which people come together, especially

meeting of the club will be on Tuesday.

There were only four people at the

committee meeting.

melon

melon / melən/ noun a large round fruit

which grows on a plant which grows

near the ground

melt

a liquid by heating, or to cause a solid to

snowman will melt The heat of the

sun melted the road Glass will melt at

very high temperatures.

member

member / membə/ noun a person who

swimming while the other members of the family sat on the beach Three members of staff are away sick.

membership

membership / membəʃp/ noun 1 the

remember to renew my membership

Membership costs £50 a year 2 the

membership of five hundred The membership voted to go on strike.

memorise

memorise / meməraz/, memorize

verb to learn something thoroughly so that you know and can repeat all of it

memory

memory / mem(ə)ri/ noun 1 (in

recit-ed the poem from memory 2 an event

happy memories of our time in France.

much larger memory than the old one.

men

mend

mend the washing machine.

mental

mental / ment(ə)l/ adjective relating to

how’s your mental arithmetic?

mentally

mentally / ment(ə)li/ adverb

mention

mention / menʃən/ verb to refer to

men-tioned the accident Can you mention

to everyone that the date of the next meeting has been changed?

menu

menu /

menu changes every week Some

dish-es are not on the menu, but are written

on a blackboard 2 a list of choices

available on a computer program

merely

merely / məli/ adverb simply, only

I’m not criticising you – I merely said I would have done it differently.

mess

had to clear up the mess after the party.

The milk bottle broke and made a mess on the floor.

mess up phrasal verb to spoil

hope it doesn’t mess up your

...

up his address in the telephone book

Look up the word in the dictionary if you don’t know what it means.

loop

loop /... out phrasal verb to be able to

house in the dark? to claim

English weather isn’t really as bad as it

is made out to be ... year, between February and April

‘March the sixth’ or ‘the sixth of March’

or in US English: ‘March sixth’.)

margarine

margarine /

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