mono — ozdic

Collocations

5

ADJ.

acceptable, binary

The old computer system used a mono binary code that was difficult to update.

VERB + MONO

catch, display, get, got

I caught mono during my first year of university and missed all my exams.

MONO + NOUN

bi, condor, solutions

The company decided to abandon its mono solutions approach and start offering more diverse services.

PREP.

from, in, on, versus, with

My doctor said I had mono, and I was exhausted for weeks.

ADV.

anyway, poly, rather

I'd rather go mono than deal with all those stereo cables.

Definitions

noun

1

A bicycle or motorcycle trick where the front wheel is lifted off the ground while riding.

2

A diet where someone eats only one type of food.

plum mono

3

Clipping of monomorphism.

4

Clipping of mononucleosis.

5

Any fish of the family Monodactylidae.

adj

1

Clipping of monochrome.

The excellent on-screen display of italics, superscripts and subscripts, and other niceties available on the color screen now display on mono monitors, but with the inherently superior text font of the mono mode.

2

Clipping of monosexual.

People who do wish to be recognizable as trans or bi are often coercively passed off as cis or mono anyway.

That is, establishing as it does a replacement binary (mono versus bi, rather than hetero versus homo) it functions to erase lesbian and gay specificity. In turn, this fails to consider, and even elides, important structural inequities between the hetero- and homosexual categories. The difficulty of establishing bisexual legitimacy in a discursive context of oppositional categories was acknowledged by a number of participants. For some, invoking the mono/bi dichotomy affords bisexuality [...]

adj

1

Monaural or monophonic; having only a single audio channel.

Because many in the audience were very close to one of the speakers, the DJ decided to play the music in mono.

Thesaurus

Synonyms

noun — an acute disease characterized by fever and swollen lymph no

mononucleosis

adjective — designating sound transmission or recording or reproduction

monophonic
single-channel

Antonyms

Idioms & Phrases

Example Bank

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01

plum mono

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02

The excellent on-screen display of italics, superscripts and subscripts, and other niceties available on the color screen now display on mono monitors, but with the inherently superior text font of th

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03

People who do wish to be recognizable as trans or bi are often coercively passed off as cis or mono anyway.

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04

That is, establishing as it does a replacement binary (mono versus bi, rather than hetero versus homo) it functions to erase lesbian and gay specificity. In turn, this fails to consider, and even elid

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05

Because many in the audience were very close to one of the speakers, the DJ decided to play the music in mono.

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06

For some monos, there are no acceptable mono—poly solutions as far as they are concerned.

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Usage Notes

i Register

In some senses, mono is marked as slang, informal, UK. Watch for register when choosing this word.