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Mono

Definition: Mono

Mono

Adjective

1. (electronics) designating sound transmission or recording or reproduction over a single channel.

Noun

1. 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.

Source: WordNet 1.7.1 Copyright © 2001 by Princeton University. All rights reserved.
 


Synonyms: Mono

Synonyms: monophonic (adj), single-channel (adj), glandular fever (n), infectious mononucleosis (n), kissing disease (n), mononucleosis (n). (additional references)

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Specialty Definition: Mono

(From Wikipedia, the free Encyclopedia)

Mono is:






Mono (Ximian)

(From Wikipedia, the free Encyclopedia)

Mono is the name of an open source project by Ximian to create a .NET-compatible set of tools, including a C# compiler, a Common Language Runtime, and more, all to run on GNU/Linux or UNIX computer. While Microsoft plans to make a version of .NET available for FreeBSD with Corel, Ximian and others believe their shared source license will accelerate development of a Linux port.

A similar project, called Portable.NET, is part of the dotGNU project.

External Link

Source: adapted by the editor from Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia under a copyleft GNU Free Documentation License (GFDL) from the article "Mono."

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Crosswords: Mono

Specialty definitions using "mono": Huevo de monoMon, Mono, Mono pump. (references)
Etymologies containing "mono": Mona. (references)
Non-English Usage: "Mono" is also a word in the following languages with English translations in parentheses.

Czech (mono), Esperanto (money), French (mono), Portuguese (baboon, monkey, mono-, simian), Sotho (there), Spanish (ape, boiler suit, cute, Dandy, dinky, dungarees, lovely, mimic, monkey, nice, nice-looking, overall, overalls, rompers), Turkish (mono-).

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Modern Usage: Mono

DomainUsage

Screenplays

I once thought I had mono for an entire year, It turned out I was just really bored. (Wayne's World; writing credit: Mike Myers)

Movie/TV Titles

Esena mono agapo (1970)

Zenka mono (1968)

Shinsho: shinobi no mono (1966)

Shin shinobi no mono (1963)

Tin Tan el hombre mono (1963)

Source: compiled by the editor from various references; see credits.

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Commercial Usage: Mono

DomainTitle

Books

  • Adventure Kayaking from the Russian River to Monterey: Includes Lake Tahoe, Mono Lake, & Pyramid Lake (reference)

  • Bodie: "The Mines Are Looking Well...": The History of the Bodie Mining District, Mono County, California (reference)

  • Durham's Place-Names of California's Eastern Sierra: Includes Alpine, Inyo & Mono Counties (Durham, David L., Durham's California Place-Names Series. (reference)

  • Mono Lake: Explorations and Reflections (reference)

  • Statistical Methods for the Information Professional: A Practical, Painless Approach to Understanding, Using, and Interpreting Statistics (Asist mono (reference)

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Periodicals

  

Music

  

High Tech

Source: compiled by the editor from various references; see credits.

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Image Slideshow: Mono

Photos:
Mono

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Photo Album: Mono

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Crossing volcanic sand at Mono Lake White 1 and 1/2 ton truck Astro party of C.V. Hodgson. Credit: Coast & Geodetic Survey Historical Image Collection.

Lake George (Mammoth), Mono County, Calif. (Film No. 3, 1911). Credit: Library of Congress.

El mono azul, hoja semanal. Credit: Library of Congress.

La calaverita y el mono. Credit: Library of Congress.

Source: pictures compiled by the editor from various references; see picture credits.

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Non-Fiction Usage: Mono

SubjectTopicQuote

Business

The packaging industry accounts for about 44.1% of the plastic materials produced in Italy (43.5% world consumption of plastic packaging), much of which is used for wrapping food as well as packaging for pharmaceuticals and mono use hospital equipment. (references)

Economic History

Benin

Subdivisions: Twelve departments: Alibori, Atakora, Atlantique, Borgou, Collines, Couffo, Donga, Littoral, Mono, Oueme, Plateau, and Zou. (references)

Human Rights

Benin

In November Devi's followers killed and partially dismembered two persons at his home in Mono. (references)

Source: compiled by the editor from ICON Group International, Inc.; see credits.

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Usage Frequency: Mono

"Mono" is generally used as a noun (singular) -- approximately 97.04% of the time. "Mono" is used about 135 times out of a sample of 100 million words spoken or written in English. Its rank is based on over 700,000 words used in the English language. Some parts-of-speech are not covered due to the samples used by the British National Corpus. (note: percents less than one-hundredth of one percent have been omitted)
Parts of SpeechPercentUsage per
100 Million Words
Rank in English
Noun (singular)97.04%13127,855
Noun (proper)2.22%3202,518
Unclassified Items0.74%1339,140
                    Total100.00%135N/A

Source: compiled by the editor from several corpora; see credits.

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Expressions: Mono

Expressions using "mono": Mono County Mono Vista. Additional references.

Hyphenated Usage

Beginning with "mono": mono-casual, mono-causal, mono-control, mono-crop, mono-crystalline, mono-cultural, mono-culture, mono-filament, mono-hierarchical, mono-iodinated, mono-iodotyrosine, mono-lingual, Mono-n-chloramine, mono-organizational, Mono-phonetiea, mono-pitch, mono-polies, mono-poly, mono-reproduction, mono-ski, mono-skiing, mono-subject, mono-substituted, mono-unsaturate, mono-unsaturated, mono-unsaturates.

Source: compiled by the editor from various references; see credits.

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Frequency of Internet Keywords: Mono

The following statistics estimate the number of searches per day across the major English-language search engines as identified by various trade publications. Hyperlinks lead to commercial use of the expression at Amazon.com.
 
ExpressionFrequency
per Day
ExpressionFrequency
per Day

mono

1,397

mono stereo

16

mono lake

667

mono sign

15

mono symptom

407

mono titi

15

mario mono

187

mono hull

14

el mario mono

113

el loco mono

14

disease mono

64

mono pump

13

mono virus

58

mono project

13

mono hot springs

35

mono headphones

13

in life mono

32

infectious mono

13

mono county

25

health mono

12

disease kissing mono

25

ca lake mono

12

del mono viruela

24

chronic mono

12

mono village

23

mono adhesive

12

mono hot springs ca

21

art mono print

11

mono amplifier

19

mono vision

11

araña mono

19

mono wind casino

11

illness mono

18

mono treatment

10

mono sickness

17

in life lyrics mono

10

mono lake california

17

mono ringtone

10

mono system

17

mono amp

10
Source: compiled by the editor from various references; see credits.

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Modern Translation: Mono

Language Translations for "mono"; alternative meanings/domain in parentheses.

Albanian

  

mono- (mono-), një- (mono-, one-, single-, uni-). (various references)

   

Arabic 

  

‏واحد (one, undivided, unit), ‏آحادي بادئة. (various references)

   

Bulgarian 

  

моно-, едно-. (various references)

   

Chinese 

  

单音 (Mono-). (various references)

   

Czech

  

mono. (various references)

   

Danish

  

mono- (monophonic). (various references)

   

Dutch

  

monoraal (monophonic), monofonisch (monophonic). (various references)

   

Finnish

  

mono- (monophonic). (various references)

   

French

  

mono (monophonic). (various references)

   

German

  

mono (monophonic), monaural (monophonic). (various references)

   

Greek 

  

μονοωτικός (monophonic), μονοφωνικός (monophonic). (various references)

   

Hungarian

  

monó. (various references)

   

Italian

  

monoaurale (monophonic). (various references)

   

Japanese Kanji 

  

モナド論 (mon ami, mon amie, monadology, monitor, monitor television, monitoring, monitoring post, monument). (various references)

   

Japanese Katakana 

  

モノ . (various references)

   

Korean 

  

단청 (monaural, Mono-). (various references)

   

Pig Latin

  

onomay

   

Portuguese

  

acônito (aconite, monkshood). (various references)

   

Russian 

  

монофонический, моно. (various references)

   

Serbo-Croatian

  

monofoničan (monophonic). (various references)

   

Spanish

  

monofónico (monophonic), monoaural (monophonic). (various references)

   

Swedish

  

mono (monophonic). (various references)

   

Turkish

  

mono (mono-), tek (exclusive, fellow, homeo-, homo-, homoeo-, individual, lone, mono-, odd, one, one and only, only, single, singular, sole, solitary, uneven, uni-, unique), bir (a, i, mono-, one, single, some, Un, uni-). (various references)

   

Ukrainian

  

"дино- (mono-), одно- (homo-, mono-, uni-), моно- (mono-). (various references)

Source: compiled by the editor from various translation references.

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Derivations: Mono

Derivations

Words beginning with "mono": monoacid, monoacidic, monoacids, monoamine, monoaminergic, monoamines, monobasic, monocarboxylic, monocarp, monocarpic, monocarps, monochasia, monochasial, monochasium, monochord, monochords, monochromat, monochromatic, monochromatically, monochromaticities, monochromaticity, monochromatism, monochromatisms, monochromator, monochromators, monochromats, monochrome, monochromes, monochromic, monochromist, monochromists, monocle, monocled, monocles, monocline, monoclines, monoclinic, monoclonal, monoclonals, monocoque, monocoques, monocot, monocots, monocotyledon, monocotyledonous, monocotyledons, monocracies, monocracy, monocrat, monocratic, monocrats. (additional references)

Words ending with "mono": ammono, avgolemono, kakemono, kimono, makimono. (additional references)

Words containing "mono": ammonoid, ammonoids, antimonopolist, antimonopolists, antimonopoly, avgolemonos, comonomer, comonomers, demonological, demonologies, demonologist, demonologists, demonology, kakemonos, kimonoed, kimonos, makimonos, nonmonogamous, phosphomonoesterase, phosphomonoesterases, salmonoid, salmonoids. (additional references)

Source: compiled by the editor, based on several corpora (additional references).

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Anagrams: Mono

Scrabble® Enable2K-Verified Anagrams

Direct Anagrams: moon.

Words within the letters "m-n-o-o"

-1 letter: mon, moo, nom, noo.

-2 letters: mo, no, om, on.

 Words containing the letters "m-n-o-o"
 

+1 letter: mondo, mongo, monos, moons, moony, moron, nomoi, nomos.

 

+2 letters: ammono, common, condom, domino, dromon, gnomon, kimono, maroon, mondos, mongoe, mongol, mongos, monody, mooing, mooned, morion, morons, motion, mouton, noncom, pompon, romano, simoon, unmoor.

 

+3 letters: amorino, amotion, bionomy, bookman, bookmen, booming, boomkin, commons, compone, compony, condoms, conform, dominos, dooming, doorman, doormen, dromond, dromons, economy, emotion, footman, footmen, gnomons, goodman, goodmen, gunroom, homonym, hormone, ionomer, isonomy, kimonos, lampoon, looming, madrono, madzoon, manhood, maroons, matzoon, metopon, midnoon, momento, monaxon, mongoes, mongols, monitor, monocle, monocot, monodic, monoecy, monofil, monolog, monomer, monsoon, montero, monuron, moonbow, mooneye, moonier, moonily, mooning, moonish, moonlet, moonlit, moonset, moorhen, mooring, mooting, morions, moronic, morrion, motions, mouflon, moutons, noisome, noncoms, nonhome, oenomel, oinomel, omicron, omikron, ominous, ottoman, pompano, pompons, romanos, rooming, simoons, someone, sunroom, tompion, toponym, towmond, towmont, unbosom, unmoors, woodman, woodmen, woolman, woolmen, zooming.

Source: compiled by the editor from various references; see credits.

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Alternative Orthography: Mono


Hexadecimal (or equivalents, 770AD-1900s) (references)

4D 6F 6E 6F

Leonardo da Vinci (1452-1519; backwards) (references)

American Sign Language (origins from 1620-1817 in Italy and, especially, France) (references)

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Semaphore (1791, in France) (references)

Braille (1829, in France) (references)

Morse Code (1836) (references)

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Dancing Men (Sir Arthur Conan Doyle, 1903) (references)

Binary Code (1918-1938, probably earlier) (references)

01001101 01101111 01101110 01101111

HTML Code (1990) (references)

&#77 &#111 &#110 &#111

ISO 10646 (1991-1993) (references)

004D 006F 006E 006F

British Sign Language (Fingerspelling, BSL; 1992, British Deaf Association Dictionary of British Sign Language) (references)

Encryption (beginner's substitution cypher): (references)

47818081

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INDEX

1. Definition
2. Synonyms
3. Crosswords
4. Usage: Modern
5. Usage: Commercial
6. Images: Slideshow
7. Images: Photo Album
8. Quotations: Non-fiction
9. Usage Frequency
10. Expressions
11. Expressions: Internet
12. Translations: Modern
13. Derivations
14. Anagrams
15. Orthography
16. Bibliography


  

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