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Mew vs Med - What's the difference?

mew | med |

As nouns the difference between mew and med

is that mew is a gull, seagull while med is medications, especially prescribed psychoactive medications.

As verbs the difference between mew and med

is that mew is to shut away, confine, lock up while med is may; might.

As an interjection mew

is a cat's cry.

As an adjective med is

medical.

As a proper noun Med is

mediterranean: We're going to the Med for four weeks this summer.

As an abbreviation MEd is

(degree) Master of Education.

mew

English

Etymology 1

From (etyl) mewe, from (etyl) 'to roar', Old Church Slavonic (myjati) 'to mew'.

Noun

(en noun)
  • (obsolete) A gull, seagull.
  • * , II.xii:
    • A daungerous and detestable place, / To which nor fish nor fowle did once approch, / But yelling Meawes , with Seagulles hoarse and bace [...].

    Etymology 2

    From (etyl) mue, (muwe), and (etyl) .

    Noun

    (en noun)
  • (obsolete) A prison, or other place of confinement.
  • (obsolete) A hiding place; a secret store or den.
  • * 1590 , Edmund Spenser, The Faerie Queene , II.vii:
    • Ne toung did tell, ne hand these handled not, / But safe I haue them kept in secret mew , / From heauens sight, and powre of all which them pursew.
  • (falconry) A cage for hawks, especially while moulting.
  • *, vol.I, New York, 2001, p.243:
    • A horse in a stable that never travels, a hawk in a mew that seldom flies, are both subject to diseases; which, left unto themselves, are most free from any such encumbrances.
  • (falconry, in the plural) A building or set of buildings where moulting birds are kept.

    • Verb

    (en verb)
  • (obsolete) To shut away, confine, lock up.
  • * c. 1669 , John Donne, "Loves Warre":
    • To mew me in a Ship, is to inthrall / Mee in a prison, that weare like to fall [...].
  • * Shakespeare
    • More pity that the eagle should be mewed .
  • * Dryden
    • Close mewed in their sedans, for fear of air.
  • (of a bird) To moult.
    • The hawk mewed his feathers.
  • * Dryden
    • Nine times the moon had mewed her horns.

    Etymology 3

    Onomatopoeic

    Noun

    (en noun)
  • The crying sound of a cat; a meow.

    • Verb

    (en verb)
  • (of a cat) To meow.

    • Interjection

    (en interjection)
  • A cat's cry.

    • Anagrams

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    med

    English

    Etymology 1

    Shortened from medical.

    Adjective

    (-)
  • (informal) Medical.
    • I'm in med school.

    Noun

    (en noun)
  • (informal, chiefly, in the plural) medications, especially prescribed psychoactive medications.
    • He's been very strange. I wonder if he's not been taking his meds .
    English clippings

    Etymology 2

    Verb

    (head)
  • (UK, dialect) may; might
  • * Thomas Hardy, Jude the Obscure
    • You med be religious, or you med not, but you can't help striking in your homely note with the rest.

    Anagrams

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