Meaning of Med | Babel Free

Definitions

1. Initialism of Master of Education.
   abbreviation, alt-of, initialism
2. Clipping of Mediterranean.
   abbreviation, alt-of, clipping, informal, with-definite-article
3. Abbreviation of medical.
   abbreviation, alt-of
4. Medications, especially prescribed psychoactive medications.
   countable, in-plural, informal, uncountable
5. Initialism of Middle English Dictionary.
   abbreviation, alt-of, initialism
6. Abbreviation of medicine.
   abbreviation, alt-of
7. Clipping of medicine, as an academic subject.
   abbreviation, alt-of, clipping, informal, uncountable
8. A medic; a doctor.
   countable, informal

Equivalents

Examples

“He's been very strange. I wonder if he's not been taking his meds.”

“Shepard: What's wrong with your assistant? Dr. Warren: Manuel has a brilliant mind, but he's always been a bit... unstable. Genius and madness are two sides of the same coin. Dr. Manuel: Is it madness to see the future? To see the destruction rushing towards us? To understand there is no escape? No hope? No, I am not mad. I'm the only sane one left! Dr. Warren: I gave him an extra dose of his meds after the attack.”

“Take a med. […] BECAUSE you took a med you did not have a full-blown panic attack and faint.”

““What meds?” “It's a long story.” “What meds?” “He's bipolar, Mark. Diagnosed a few years back.””

““I'd been trying to get my anti-depressants right and taking the meds,” he said. “That was my feeling at the time — of worrying if this was the right choice,” he added.”

“My brother studied med at Cambridge.”

“A stray dachshund the meds are keeping as a mascot.”

“We're going to the Med for four weeks this summer.”

“They used to go wild for villas by the Med and ski chalets in the Alps; now they are forking out for views of the Channel and hilly walks in Shropshire.”

“As frequent users of the MED well know, of course, the MED history of ‘misledinge’ only appears inverted if we look at dates of composition, since it is in fact manuscript date that dictates the order of quotation under any of the semantic subdivisions in any MED entry.”

“Make a list of the lexical (that is open-class words) in the passage, and use the OED and/or MED online to find other citations elsewhere in ME texts.”

“The MED evidence gives the impression that non-impersonal verbs of Pleasure/enjoyment other than lŏven cannot be strictly distinguished from the impersonal counterparts, apart from the presence or absence of impersonal use.”

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