--- title: M — The English dictionary with trees and pragmatics · page 28 description: The 1043 words of the English dictionary under M, every meaning for a pupil and every example with its dependency tree and pragmatics. --- [Mova](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/) · [this page in HTML](https://mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/english/M/page/28/) [home](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/) / [corpora](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/) / [dictionaries](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/) / [English dictionary](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/english/) / M # M — The English dictionary · page 28 [A](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/english/A/) · [B](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/english/B/) · [C](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/english/C/) · [D](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/english/D/) · 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*Everyday, meaning 1:* A state in the north of the United States, made of two peninsulas and surrounded by the Great Lakes.[↗](../../michigan/#m1 "tree and pragmatics") *Everyday, meaning 2:* (Lake Michigan) One of the five Great Lakes of North America, the only one completely inside the USA.[↗](../../michigan/#m2 "tree and pragmatics") *Example:* Michigan is shaped like a mitten.[↗](../../michigan/#x1 "tree and pragmatics") · We went camping in Michigan last summer.[↗](../../michigan/#x2 "tree and pragmatics") · Detroit is the biggest city in Michigan.[↗](../../michigan/#x3 "tree and pragmatics") · Lake Michigan is one of the Great Lakes.[↗](../../michigan/#x4 "tree and pragmatics") · Michigan has very cold winters with lots of snow.[↗](../../michigan/#x5 "tree and pragmatics") · My cousin lives in Michigan and goes ice fishing.[↗](../../michigan/#x6 "tree and pragmatics") **mick** — *Everyday, meaning 1:* Mick is a short form of the name Michael.[↗](../../mick/#m1 "tree and pragmatics") *Everyday, meaning 2:* (UK/Ireland/Australia, informal) To take the mick (or mickey) out of someone means to tease or make fun of them.[↗](../../mick/#m2 "tree and pragmatics") *Everyday, meaning 3:* (offensive) Mick is a rude word for an Irish person; never use it this way.[↗](../../mick/#m3 "tree and pragmatics") *Example:* Uncle Mick drives a lorry.[↗](../../mick/#x1 "tree and pragmatics") · Are you taking the mick?[↗](../../mick/#x2 "tree and pragmatics") · Stop taking the mick out of my haircut\![↗](../../mick/#x3 "tree and pragmatics") · They were only taking the mick — it was a joke.[↗](../../mick/#x4 "tree and pragmatics") · Mick has 12 stickers and gives half away.[↗](../../mick/#x5 "tree and pragmatics") · Don't take the mick when someone makes a mistake.[↗](../../mick/#x6 "tree and pragmatics") **mickey** — *Everyday, meaning 1:* (a name) Mickey is a first name, short for Michael, and the name of Mickey Mouse, the famous cartoon mouse from Disney.[↗](../../mickey/#m1 "tree and pragmatics") *Everyday, meaning 2:* (UK, informal) To take the mickey (out of someone) means to tease them or make fun of them.[↗](../../mickey/#m2 "tree and pragmatics") *Everyday, meaning 3:* (informal) Mickey Mouse (as an adjective) means silly, small or not serious: a Mickey Mouse job.[↗](../../mickey/#m3 "tree and pragmatics") *Example:* (a name) Mickey Mouse has big round ears.[↗](../../mickey/#x1 "tree and pragmatics") · (a name) My uncle Mickey is a builder.[↗](../../mickey/#x2 "tree and pragmatics") · (UK, informal) Stop taking the mickey out of my haircut\![↗](../../mickey/#x3 "tree and pragmatics") · (UK, informal) Are you taking the mickey?[↗](../../mickey/#x4 "tree and pragmatics") That's a terrible joke.[↗](../../mickey/#x4 "tree and pragmatics") · (informal) It was a Mickey Mouse competition with only three teams.[↗](../../mickey/#x5 "tree and pragmatics") · We met Mickey at Disneyland.[↗](../../mickey/#x6 "tree and pragmatics") **micro** — *Everyday, meaning 1:* Micro means very small: «a micro farm», «micro plastics».[↗](../../micro/#m1 "tree and pragmatics") *Everyday, meaning 2:* As a prefix, micro- makes words about tiny things: microscope, microchip, microphone, microwave.[↗](../../micro/#m2 "tree and pragmatics") *Everyday, meaning 3:* (science) In measurement, micro- means one millionth, as in micrometre or microgram.[↗](../../micro/#m3 "tree and pragmatics") *Everyday, meaning 4:* (informal) A micro is a short name for a small computer, a microwave oven, or the BBC micro:bit used in schools.[↗](../../micro/#m4 "tree and pragmatics") *Example:* We programmed the micro:bit to show a heart.[↗](../../micro/#x1 "tree and pragmatics") · A microscope helps you see micro-organisms.[↗](../../micro/#x2 "tree and pragmatics") · My little brother has a micro scooter.[↗](../../micro/#x3 "tree and pragmatics") · Micro means very small.[↗](../../micro/#x4 "tree and pragmatics") · Microplastics are tiny bits of plastic in the sea.[↗](../../micro/#x5 "tree and pragmatics") · A micrometre is one millionth of a metre.[↗](../../micro/#x6 "tree and pragmatics") · (informal) Put the soup in the micro for two minutes.[↗](../../micro/#x7 "tree and pragmatics") · The micro-chip in the dog's neck has its owner's details.[↗](../../micro/#x8 "tree and pragmatics") **microbe** — *Everyday, meaning 1:* A microbe is a living thing too small to see without a microscope, such as a bacterium, a virus or some fungi like yeast.[↗](../../microbe/#m1 "tree and pragmatics") *Everyday, meaning 2:* Some microbes cause diseases, but most are harmless and many are useful, helping us digest food, making bread rise and breaking down dead things.[↗](../../microbe/#m2 "tree and pragmatics") *Example:* Microbes are too small to see with your eyes.[↗](../../microbe/#x1 "tree and pragmatics") · Wash your hands to get rid of harmful microbes.[↗](../../microbe/#x2 "tree and pragmatics") · Yeast is a microbe that makes bread rise.[↗](../../microbe/#x3 "tree and pragmatics") · Microbes in the soil break down dead leaves.[↗](../../microbe/#x4 "tree and pragmatics") · Some microbes make us ill, but many help us.[↗](../../microbe/#x5 "tree and pragmatics") · Your stomach is full of helpful microbes.[↗](../../microbe/#x6 "tree and pragmatics") · Louis Pasteur showed that microbes spoil food.[↗](../../microbe/#x7 "tree and pragmatics") **microbial** — *Everyday, meaning 1:* (science) To do with microbes: tiny living things like bacteria, fungi and some algae that can only be seen with a microscope.[↗](../../microbial/#m1 "tree and pragmatics") *Everyday, meaning 2:* Caused by microbes: «a microbial infection».[↗](../../microbial/#m2 "tree and pragmatics") *Example:* Microbial life is found almost everywhere on Earth.[↗](../../microbial/#x1 "tree and pragmatics") · Mould on bread is a kind of microbial growth.[↗](../../microbial/#x2 "tree and pragmatics") · Yogurt is made by microbial action on milk.[↗](../../microbial/#x3 "tree and pragmatics") · Antimicrobial soap helps kill germs.[↗](../../microbial/#x4 "tree and pragmatics") · Scientists look for signs of microbial life on Mars.[↗](../../microbial/#x5 "tree and pragmatics") · Compost heaps are full of microbial activity.[↗](../../microbial/#x6 "tree and pragmatics") · Our gut has trillions of helpful microbial cells.[↗](../../microbial/#x7 "tree and pragmatics") · Cooking food properly kills most harmful microbial life.[↗](../../microbial/#x8 "tree and pragmatics") **microchip** — *Everyday, meaning 1:* A microchip is a very small piece of material, usually silicon, carrying tiny electronic circuits that store information or do calculations inside computers, phones and other machines.[↗](../../microchip/#m1 "tree and pragmatics") *Everyday, meaning 2:* A microchip is also a tiny chip, the size of a grain of rice, put under a pet's skin by a vet so a lost pet can be identified.[↗](../../microchip/#m2 "tree and pragmatics") *Everyday, meaning 3:* To microchip a pet means to put this chip in.[↗](../../microchip/#m3 "tree and pragmatics") *Example:* A phone contains many microchips.[↗](../../microchip/#x1 "tree and pragmatics") · The vet microchipped our new puppy.[↗](../../microchip/#x2 "tree and pragmatics") · The lost cat was returned home because of her microchip.[↗](../../microchip/#x3 "tree and pragmatics") · Microchips are made from silicon, which comes from sand.[↗](../../microchip/#x4 "tree and pragmatics") · One microchip can hold billions of tiny switches.[↗](../../microchip/#x5 "tree and pragmatics") · My bank card has a microchip in it.[↗](../../microchip/#x6 "tree and pragmatics") · Making microchips needs super-clean factories.[↗](../../microchip/#x7 "tree and pragmatics") **microcosm** — *In Jewish tradition, meaning 1:* A "small world"; a small thing that is a model of the whole universe, such as a human being.[↗](../../microcosm/#m1 "tree and pragmatics") *Example:* The "Sepher Yetzirah," on the other hand is mainly concerned with our universe and with the Microcosm.[↗](../../microcosm/#x1 "tree and pragmatics") (Sefer Yetzirah, Westcott 1893)[↗](../../microcosm/#x1 "tree and pragmatics") · 26) Here is meant: ethereal air, ethereal water, ethereal fire, the macrocosm, the courses of time and microcosm.[↗](../../microcosm/#x2 "tree and pragmatics") (Sefer Yetzirah, Kalisch 1877)[↗](../../microcosm/#x2 "tree and pragmatics") · The '' Sepher Yetzirah," on the other hand is mainly concerned with our universe and with the Microcosm.[↗](../../microcosm/#x3 "tree and pragmatics") (Sefer Yetzirah, Westcott 1893)[↗](../../microcosm/#x3 "tree and pragmatics") **microgram** — *Everyday, meaning 1:* A unit of mass equal to one millionth of a gram; its symbol is µg (sometimes mcg on medicine labels).[↗](../../microgram/#m1 "tree and pragmatics") *Example:* The vitamin tablet has 10 micrograms of vitamin D.[↗](../../microgram/#x1 "tree and pragmatics") · One milligram equals one thousand micrograms.[↗](../../microgram/#x2 "tree and pragmatics") · A grain of sand weighs much more than a microgram.[↗](../../microgram/#x3 "tree and pragmatics") · The label says «400 µg of folic acid».[↗](../../microgram/#x4 "tree and pragmatics") · Scientists measure tiny amounts of poison in micrograms.[↗](../../microgram/#x5 "tree and pragmatics") · How many micrograms are in half a milligram?[↗](../../microgram/#x6 "tree and pragmatics") Five hundred.[↗](../../microgram/#x6 "tree and pragmatics") · Medicine doses in micrograms must be measured very carefully.[↗](../../microgram/#x7 "tree and pragmatics") **microorganism** — *Everyday, meaning 1:* A living thing so tiny that you can only see it with a microscope, such as a bacterium, a virus (usually counted with them), some fungi like yeast, or algae.[↗](../../microorganism/#m1 "tree and pragmatics") *Example:* Yeast is a microorganism that makes bread dough rise.[↗](../../microorganism/#x1 "tree and pragmatics") · Some microorganisms cause food to go mouldy.[↗](../../microorganism/#x2 "tree and pragmatics") · Washing your hands with soap removes many harmful microorganisms.[↗](../../microorganism/#x3 "tree and pragmatics") · We looked at pond water and saw microorganisms swimming under the microscope.[↗](../../microorganism/#x4 "tree and pragmatics") · Bacteria in yogurt are helpful microorganisms.[↗](../../microorganism/#x5 "tree and pragmatics") · Microorganisms in the compost heap break down leaves and peel.[↗](../../microorganism/#x6 "tree and pragmatics") · Fridges slow down the growth of microorganisms.[↗](../../microorganism/#x7 "tree and pragmatics") **microphone** — *Everyday, meaning 1:* A device that picks up sound and turns it into an electrical signal so it can be made louder, recorded or sent.[↗](../../microphone/#m1 "tree and pragmatics") *Example:* Please speak into the microphone so everyone can hear.[↗](../../microphone/#x1 "tree and pragmatics") · The singer held the microphone close.[↗](../../microphone/#x2 "tree and pragmatics") · My laptop has a tiny built-in microphone.[↗](../../microphone/#x3 "tree and pragmatics") · The microphone squealed when it was too close to the speaker.[↗](../../microphone/#x4 "tree and pragmatics") · Is the mic on?[↗](../../microphone/#x5 "tree and pragmatics") · The head teacher tested the microphone before assembly.[↗](../../microphone/#x6 "tree and pragmatics") **microscope** — *Everyday, meaning 1:* A scientific instrument with lenses that makes very small things look much bigger, so you can see things too small for your eyes alone, like cells and germs.[↗](../../microscope/#m1 "tree and pragmatics") *Example:* We looked at a drop of pond water under the microscope.[↗](../../microscope/#x1 "tree and pragmatics") · The microscope makes the cells look 100 times bigger.[↗](../../microscope/#x2 "tree and pragmatics") · Turn the knob slowly to focus the microscope.[↗](../../microscope/#x3 "tree and pragmatics") · Germs are too small to see without a microscope.[↗](../../microscope/#x4 "tree and pragmatics") · Carry the microscope with two hands.[↗](../../microscope/#x5 "tree and pragmatics") · Her work was put under the microscope by the judges.[↗](../../microscope/#x6 "tree and pragmatics") **microscopic** — *Everyday, meaning 1:* So small that it can only be seen through a microscope.[↗](../../microscopic/#m1 "tree and pragmatics") *Everyday, meaning 2:* (informal) Very, very small.[↗](../../microscopic/#m2 "tree and pragmatics") *Example:* Bacteria are microscopic living things.[↗](../../microscopic/#x1 "tree and pragmatics") · The pond water is full of microscopic creatures.[↗](../../microscopic/#x2 "tree and pragmatics") · Germs are microscopic, so wash your hands even when they look clean.[↗](../../microscopic/#x3 "tree and pragmatics") · Your body is made of microscopic cells.[↗](../../microscopic/#x4 "tree and pragmatics") · My brother gave me a microscopic piece of chocolate.[↗](../../microscopic/#x5 "tree and pragmatics") · Under the lens, we saw microscopic hairs on the leaf.[↗](../../microscopic/#x6 "tree and pragmatics") **microwave** — *Everyday, meaning 1:* A microwave (oven) is a kitchen machine that heats or cooks food very quickly using invisible waves.[↗](../../microwave/#m1 "tree and pragmatics") *Everyday, meaning 2:* Microwaves are a kind of invisible wave, like light and radio waves.[↗](../../microwave/#m2 "tree and pragmatics") *Everyday, meaning 3:* To microwave food means to heat it in a microwave.[↗](../../microwave/#m3 "tree and pragmatics") *Example:* Heat the soup in the microwave for two minutes.[↗](../../microwave/#x1 "tree and pragmatics") · Never put metal in the microwave.[↗](../../microwave/#x2 "tree and pragmatics") · Stir the food and check it's not too hot.[↗](../../microwave/#x3 "tree and pragmatics") · Can I microwave my popcorn?[↗](../../microwave/#x4 "tree and pragmatics") · The microwave beeped when the food was ready.[↗](../../microwave/#x5 "tree and pragmatics") · Mobile phones and ovens both use microwaves.[↗](../../microwave/#x6 "tree and pragmatics") · Let the bowl cool before you take it out of the microwave.[↗](../../microwave/#x7 "tree and pragmatics") **mid** — *Everyday, meaning 1:* Mid means in the middle of something, often in a word with a hyphen: mid-morning, mid-air, mid-sentence.[↗](../../mid/#m1 "tree and pragmatics") *Everyday, meaning 2:* (adjective) Mid shows a position in the middle: the mid point, mid range.[↗](../../mid/#m2 "tree and pragmatics") *Everyday, meaning 3:* (slang, US) Mid means just average or not very good: «That film was mid.».[↗](../../mid/#m3 "tree and pragmatics") *Everyday, meaning 4:* (poetic) Mid is a short form of amid, meaning among.[↗](../../mid/#m4 "tree and pragmatics") *Example:* The ball stopped in mid-air and fell back down.[↗](../../mid/#x1 "tree and pragmatics") · We have a snack at mid-morning break.[↗](../../mid/#x2 "tree and pragmatics") · She stopped mid-sentence when the teacher came in.[↗](../../mid/#x3 "tree and pragmatics") · Mark the midpoint of the line AB.[↗](../../mid/#x4 "tree and pragmatics") · The temperature was in the mid-twenties.[↗](../../mid/#x5 "tree and pragmatics") · Our holiday is in mid-summer.[↗](../../mid/#x6 "tree and pragmatics") · (slang) Honestly, that new game is kinda mid.[↗](../../mid/#x7 "tree and pragmatics") · He caught the frisbee mid-jump.[↗](../../mid/#x8 "tree and pragmatics") · About mid-day he reached a sandy plain, scorching in the sun.[↗](../../mid/#x9 "tree and pragmatics") · And it came to pass, when she was in hard labour, that the mid-wife said unto her: 'Fear not; for this also is a son for thee.'[↗](../../mid/#x10 "tree and pragmatics") (Torah GEN.35.17, JPS 1917)[↗](../../mid/#x10 "tree and pragmatics") **midday** — *Everyday, meaning 1:* Midday is twelve o'clock in the middle of the day; noon.[↗](../../midday/#m1 "tree and pragmatics") *Everyday, meaning 2:* Midday can also mean around the middle of the day.[↗](../../midday/#m2 "tree and pragmatics") *Example:* We eat lunch at midday.[↗](../../midday/#x1 "tree and pragmatics") · The Sun is highest in the sky around midday.[↗](../../midday/#x2 "tree and pragmatics") · Stay out of the strong sun at midday.[↗](../../midday/#x3 "tree and pragmatics") · Midday is 12 o'clock.[↗](../../midday/#x4 "tree and pragmatics") · The shop closes at midday on Saturdays.[↗](../../midday/#x5 "tree and pragmatics") · Shadows are shortest at midday.[↗](../../midday/#x6 "tree and pragmatics") · From 9 am to midday is three hours.[↗](../../midday/#x7 "tree and pragmatics") · And it was so, when midday was past, that they prophesied until the time of the offering of the evening offering; but their was neither voice, nor any to answer, nor any that regarded.[↗](../../midday/#x8 "tree and pragmatics") (Prophets 1KI.18.29, JPS 1917)[↗](../../midday/#x8 "tree and pragmatics") **middle** — *Everyday, meaning 1:* The middle is the part that is halfway between the two ends or sides.[↗](../../middle/#m1 "tree and pragmatics") In a row of three, the middle one is the second.[↗](../../middle/#m1 "tree and pragmatics") *Everyday, meaning 2:* The middle of a time is the part between its start and end: the middle of the night.[↗](../../middle/#m2 "tree and pragmatics") *Everyday, meaning 3:* Middle as an adjective means in the centre: the middle finger, the middle child.[↗](../../middle/#m3 "tree and pragmatics") *Everyday, meaning 4:* «In the middle of doing something» means busy doing it now.[↗](../../middle/#m4 "tree and pragmatics") *Everyday, meaning 5:* Middle can also mean medium, neither loud nor quiet, as in a middle voice.[↗](../../middle/#m5 "tree and pragmatics") *Example:* Tom stands in the middle of the line.[↗](../../middle/#x1 "tree and pragmatics") · Cut the ribbon in the middle.[↗](../../middle/#x2 "tree and pragmatics") · There are 4 people on each side of the one in the middle.[↗](../../middle/#x3 "tree and pragmatics") · What is the middle number of 3, 7 and 9?[↗](../../middle/#x4 "tree and pragmatics") · I woke up in the middle of the night.[↗](../../middle/#x5 "tree and pragmatics") · She is the middle child of three.[↗](../../middle/#x6 "tree and pragmatics") · My middle name is James.[↗](../../middle/#x7 "tree and pragmatics") · Sorry, I'm in the middle of my homework.[↗](../../middle/#x8 "tree and pragmatics") · said the Middle Bear in his middle voice.[↗](../../middle/#x9 "tree and pragmatics") · and the middle bar in the midst of the boards, which shall pass through from end to end.[↗](../../middle/#x10 "tree and pragmatics") (Torah EXO.26.28, JPS 1917)[↗](../../middle/#x10 "tree and pragmatics") · And he made the middle bar to pass through in the midst of the boards from the one end to the other.[↗](../../middle/#x11 "tree and pragmatics") (Torah EXO.36.33, JPS 1917)[↗](../../middle/#x11 "tree and pragmatics") · And unto the Reubenites and unto the Gadites I gave from Gilead even unto the valley of Arnon, the middle of the valley for a border; even unto the river Jabbok, which is the border of the children of Ammon; (Torah DEU.3.16, JPS 1917)[↗](../../middle/#x12 "tree and pragmatics") · So Hanun took David's servants, and shaved them, and cut off their garments in the middle, even to their hips, and sent them away.[↗](../../middle/#x13 "tree and pragmatics") (Writings 1CH.19.4, JPS 1917)[↗](../../middle/#x13 "tree and pragmatics") · And Gaal spoke again and said: 'See, there come people down by the middle of the land, and one company cometh by the way of Elon-meonenim.'[↗](../../middle/#x14 "tree and pragmatics") (Prophets JDG.9.37, JPS 1917)[↗](../../middle/#x14 "tree and pragmatics") · So Hanun took David's servants, and shaved off the one half of their beards, and cut off their garments in the middle, even to their buttocks, and sent them away.[↗](../../middle/#x15 "tree and pragmatics") (Prophets 2SA.10.4, JPS 1917)[↗](../../middle/#x15 "tree and pragmatics") **middlemost** — *In Jewish tradition, meaning 1:* The one in the middle of three; the middle one.[↗](../../middlemost/#m1 "tree and pragmatics") *Example:* Now the upper chambers were shorter; for the galleries took away from these, more than from the lower and the middlemost, in the building.[↗](../../middlemost/#x1 "tree and pragmatics") (Prophets EZK.42.5, JPS 1917)[↗](../../middlemost/#x1 "tree and pragmatics") · For they were in three stories, and they had not pillars as the pillars of the courts; therefore room was taken away from the lowest and the middlemost, in comparison with the ground.[↗](../../middlemost/#x2 "tree and pragmatics") (Prophets EZK.42.6, JPS 1917)[↗](../../middlemost/#x2 "tree and pragmatics") **midge** — *Everyday, meaning 1:* A midge is a tiny flying insect, a bit like a very small fly or mosquito, that often flies in clouds near water.[↗](../../midge/#m1 "tree and pragmatics") *Everyday, meaning 2:* Some midges bite, and in Scotland the Highland midge is famous for biting people on summer evenings.[↗](../../midge/#m2 "tree and pragmatics") *Example:* A cloud of midges hovered over the lake.[↗](../../midge/#x1 "tree and pragmatics") · The midges in Scotland were biting us all evening.[↗](../../midge/#x2 "tree and pragmatics") · Swallows swooped to catch midges.[↗](../../midge/#x3 "tree and pragmatics") · Put on midge spray before we go camping.[↗](../../midge/#x4 "tree and pragmatics") · I've got midge bites all over my arms.[↗](../../midge/#x5 "tree and pragmatics") · Midges are so small they can get through some mosquito nets.[↗](../../midge/#x6 "tree and pragmatics") · In the evening, when the sun is getting low, and all the midges are beginning to bite, Peter saw a wide heath stretching before him.[↗](../../midge/#x7 "tree and pragmatics") **midget** — *Everyday, meaning 1:* (offensive) An old word for a very short person; today it is considered hurtful and should not be used — say «a person of short stature» or «a person with dwarfism».[↗](../../midget/#m1 "tree and pragmatics") *Everyday, meaning 2:* (adjective) Very small for its kind: a midget submarine.[↗](../../midget/#m2 "tree and pragmatics") *Everyday, meaning 3:* (sport, Canada, US) An age group in youth sports, for older teenagers.[↗](../../midget/#m3 "tree and pragmatics") *Example:* The old story used the word «midget», but today we say «person of short stature».[↗](../../midget/#x1 "tree and pragmatics") · Calling someone a midget is hurtful.[↗](../../midget/#x2 "tree and pragmatics") · A midget submarine is a very small submarine.[↗](../../midget/#x3 "tree and pragmatics") · My cousin plays in the midget hockey league in Canada.[↗](../../midget/#x4 "tree and pragmatics") · They watched midget car racing at the track.[↗](../../midget/#x5 "tree and pragmatics") · The plant grew a midget tomato the size of a pea.[↗](../../midget/#x6 "tree and pragmatics") 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