(n.) The name of a female fairy, esp. the queen of the fairies; and hence, sometimes, any fairy.
() p. p. of Made.
(superl.) Disordered in intellect; crazy; insane.
(superl.) Excited beyond self-control or the restraint of reason; inflamed by violent or uncontrollable desire, passion, or appetite; as, to be mad with terror, lust, or hatred; mad against political reform.
(superl.) Proceeding from, or indicating, madness; expressing distraction; prompted by infatuation, fury, or extreme rashness.
(superl.) Extravagant; immoderate.
(superl.) Furious with rage, terror, or disease; -- said of the lower animals; as, a mad bull; esp., having hydrophobia; rabid; as, a mad dog.
(superl.) Angry; out of patience; vexed; as, to get mad at a person.
(superl.) Having impaired polarity; -- applied to a compass needle.
(v. t.) To make mad or furious; to madden.
(v. i.) To be mad; to go mad; to rave. See Madding.
(n.) An earthworm.
Example Sentences:
(1) Do [MPs] remember the madness of those advertisements that talked of the cool fresh mountain air of menthol cigarettes?
(2) Right from the beginning, I had been mad about movies.
(3) "This will be not only be a postcode lottery, but a States vs Europe lottery and that would be madness."
(4) It took years of prep work to make this sort of Übermensch thing socially acceptable, let alone hot – lots of “legalize it!” and “you are economic supermen!” appeals to the balled-and-entitled toddler-fists of the sociopathic libertechian madding crowd to really get mechanized mass-death neo-fascism taken mainstream .
(5) Or perhaps the "mad cow"-fuelled beef war in the late 1990s, when France maintained its ban on British beef for three long years after the rest of the EU had lifted it, prompting the Sun to publish a special edition in French portraying then president Jacques Chirac as a worm.
(6) • +33 2 98 50 10 12, hotel-les-sables-blancs.com , doubles from €105 room only Hôtel Ty Mad, Douarnenez Hôtel Ty Mad In the 1920s the little beach and fishing village of Douarnenez was a favourite haunt of the likes of Pablo Picasso and writer and artist Max Jacob.
(7) If you’re against the RFS, you’re going to make Iowans mad, you’re going to [have] some Iowans question you but the beauty of Iowa is you can take your case to the people,” said Kaufmann.
(8) In its more loose, common usage, it's a game in which the rivalry has come to acquire the mad, rancorous intensity of a Celtic-Rangers, a Real Madrid-Barcelona, an Arsenal-Tottenham, a River Plate-Boca Juniors.
(9) Yes, we can assign more or less responsibility – I blame Austria-Hungary and Germany for their mad determination to destroy Serbia knowing that a general war might result – but there is still plenty of room for disagreement.
(10) It’s good to hear a full-throated defence of social security as a basic principle of civilisation, and a reiteration of the madness of renewing Trident; pleasing too to behold how much Burnham and Cooper have had to belatedly frame their arguments in terms of fundamental principle.
(11) The blue skipping rope – that’s the key to this race.” My eight-year-old daughter looked at me like I was mad … but when it came time for the year 3 skipping race, she did as she was told – and duly chalked up a glorious personal best in third place.
(12) The policies of zero tolerance equip local and federal law-enforcement with increasingly autocratic powers of coercion and surveillance (the right to invade anybody's privacy, bend the rules of evidence, search barns, stop motorists, inspect bank records, tap phones) and spread the stain of moral pestilence to ever larger numbers of people assumed to be infected with reefer madness – anarchists and cheap Chinese labour at the turn of the 20th century, known homosexuals and suspected communists in the 1920s, hippies and anti-Vietnam war protesters in the 1960s, nowadays young black men sentenced to long-term imprisonment for possession of a few grams of short-term disembodiment.
(13) Maleic acid dimethylester (MAD) was investigated in acute and subacute dermal toxicity studies, for sensitization potential, and for in vivo and in vitro genotoxicity.
(14) Or maybe it's the other way round - the constant touring is a manifestation of their madness.
(15) And while one may think that the bishops of the Church of England don’t quite have the sex appeal of Russell Brand, we think that we should counter it.” While the bishops stress that their letter is not intended as “a shopping list of policies we would like to see”, they do advocate a number of specific steps, including a re-examination of the need for Trident, a retention of the commitment to funding overseas aid and a reassessment of areas where regulations fuel “the common perception of ‘health and safety gone mad’”.
(16) He still thinks Labour was mad to get him of all people to work inside the system.
(17) That has changed over the past few years as wallpaper has made a comeback and women have remembered that they like wearing madly patterned dresses – particularly leopard-print ones, or ones with huge flowers.
(18) Seeing the performance later in Edinburgh, I was impressed by Briers' ability to encompass the hero's rage and madness.
(19) It would be hard to allow working from home if I thought that they were all watching box sets of Mad Men.
(20) People thought she'd gone mad, but in retrospect it's clear that this was precisely what she needed in order to move forward.
Maud
Definition:
(n.) A gray plaid; -- used by shepherds in Scotland.
Example Sentences:
(1) Statistical evaluation of 41 occurrences of lesion among 1,517 mice of the various strains indicated that significant differences in the frequency of MAUD were associated with differences in genetic background and in the H-2 type.
(2) Cameron will be accused of attempting to pack the Lords with reliable supporters including Kate Fall, his deputy chief of staff, James O’Shaughnessy, a former head of policy at No 10, and Simone Finn, Francis Maude’s former special adviser.
(3) Francis Maude, the Cabinet Office minister, said he would be astonished if the coalition had not enacted a lobbyists' register and a power to recall errant MPs by 2015.
(4) Information issued by the Cabinet Office suggests that some consultants have been costing the taxpayer more than £600,000 a year, though the Cabinet Office minister, Francis Maude, admitted that the figures "were a bit rough and ready".
(5) "The problem is that, in the US and UK, most people who want to sign up for Facebook have already done it," said new media specialist Ian Maude at Enders Analysis.
(6) But Maude will claim that his strategy of intensifying pressure on the Unite union, which is threatening to hold a fuel tanker strike by 23 April, will have paid off if industrial action is averted.
(7) Francis Maude has written to every acute hospital in England, inviting them to explore leaving the NHS to become just such a “mutual”.
(8) • A new "efficiency and reform" group, to be co-chaired by Laws and the cabinet minister Francis Maude, to scrutinise departments and ensure they are implementing the cuts announced today.
(9) Maude and Cable's statement says: "The government has a keen interest in the resilience of critical industrial infrastructure.
(10) Balfe's role has now been usurped by key ministers – including Francis Maude and Oliver Letwin in the Cabinet Office, and Danny Alexander in the Treasury – and finishes after the Conservative party conference next month, when he will deliver a memo to Cameron on his recommendations for the future.
(11) In a single month the company meets with five ministers: the home secretary, Theresa May, holds bilateral talks; Francis Maude, the minister of state for trade and investment, joins Google at a Tech City event; Lucy Neville-Rolfe, the intellectual property minister, discusses copyright; the international development minister, Grant Shapps, meets with Google Foundation, the firm’s charitable arm, to talk about “innovation in the not-for-profit sector”; and Justin Tomlinson, minister for disabled people, agrees to an introductory meeting.
(12) Facebook scams are also used to gain access into organisations – this is where the big money is and these targeted ‘watering-hole attacks’ appear to be on the rise,” says James Maude, senior security engineer at Avecto.
(13) In 2011 cabinet office minister Francis Maude set out some high hopes for the future of public service delivery – by 2015 he wanted as many as one million public sector workers to be co-owners of their organisations.
(14) Indeed, UK Sport, now the subject of so much ministerial genuflection, was among the agencies earmarked for Francis Maude's "bonfire of the quangos" less than two years ago.
(15) It is the first time since the publication of the government civil service reform white paper earlier this summer that Maude has acted in his commitment to seek policy insights from outside the civil service.
(16) The Cabinet Office minister, Francis Maude , said: "Allegations about trade union industrial intimidation tactics, including attempts to sabotage businesses supply chains and harass employers' families are deeply concerning.
(17) Maude said the incident raised questions about the way in which the internet was accessed from government and its use recorded, and about social media policies in departments.
(18) The Daily Mail's unattractive attack on Ed Miliband's late father has damaged the paper and revolted many people, the senior Conservative minister Francis Maude has said.
(19) In a fresh sign of the coalition's frustration at the civil service, the Cabinet Office minister Francis Maude will announce today that he is commissioning research into how foreign governments make civil servants personally contractually accountable to deliver ministerial objectives.
(20) "He said: 'Maude, I dreamed last night I died and nobody came to my funeral.'