mel

Speech parts

1. mel - Noun

2. Mel - Proper noun

Meaning

mel (plural mels)

(psychoacoustics) A unit of pitch on a scale of pitches perceived by listeners to be equally spaced from one another.

mel (uncountable)

Honey, when used as an ingredient in cosmetic products.

Short form of female given names such as Melanie, Melinda, Melissa, Melina, Melody and Carmel.

Short form of the male given names Melvin and Melvyn.

Initialism of minimum/minimal equipment list.. The list of the minimum of operational equipment allowed for continued operation of the device equipping the equipment; by extension, the set of such equipment.

Abbreviation of miscellaneous equipment load.

Synonyms

Examples

Mel [Gibson] will always be Mad Max, and me, I will always be a number. Patrick McGoohan

No, in Lethal Weapon I was a taxi cab driver that Mel jumps in front of the taxi and pulls me out of the car and steals the taxi. Then I did some other indie driving for some of the car sequences. David R. Ellis

Stormtrooper Mel : Don't be stupid, be a smarty Come and join the Nazi Party! Mel Brooks

Nobody thought Mel Gibson could play a Scot but look at him now! An Alcoholic racist! Frankie Boyle

Mel and I genuinely get on. It's like another marriage. He is very straightforward and never loses his rag. I run around in a frenzy most of the time. London cabbies will say to me, 'Your mate Mel's a miserable bastard', but he's far more grounded than me. Griff Rhys Jones

Young people have to stop flattering themselves that they're Nostradamus and would have foreseen, had they been around then, everything that's unacceptable now. And for further context Mel Brooks wrote one of the most successful musicals of all time around the song 'Springtime for Hitler.' Bill Maher

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