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[mok]
–verb (used with object)
| 1. | to attack or treat with ridicule, contempt, or derision. |
| 2. | to ridicule by mimicry of action or speech; mimic derisively. |
| 3. | to mimic, imitate, or counterfeit. |
| 4. | to challenge; defy: His actions mock convention. |
| 5. | to deceive, delude, or disappoint. |
–verb (used without object)
| 6. | to use ridicule or derision; scoff; jeer (often fol. by at). |
–noun
| 7. | a contemptuous or derisive imitative action or speech; mockery or derision. |
| 8. | something mocked or derided; an object of derision. |
| 9. | an imitation; counterfeit; fake. |
| 10. | Shipbuilding.
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–adjective
—Verb phrase| 11. | feigned; not real; sham: a mock battle. |
| 12. | mock up, to build a mock-up of. |
Origin:
1400–50; late ME mokken < MF mocquer
1400–50; late ME mokken < MF mocquer

Related forms:
mock⋅a⋅ble, adjective
mocker, noun
mock⋅ing⋅ly, adverb
bed
[bed]
noun, verb, bed⋅ded, bed⋅ding.–noun
| 1. | a piece of furniture upon which or within which a person sleeps, rests, or stays when not well. |
| 2. | the mattress and bedclothes together with the bedstead of a bed. |
| 3. | the bedstead alone. |
| 4. | the act of or time for sleeping: Now for a cup of cocoa and then bed. |
| 5. | the use of a bed for the night; lodging: I reserved a bed at the old inn. |
| 6. | the marital relationship. |
| 7. | any resting place: making his bed under a tree. |
| 8. | something resembling a bed in form or position. |
| 9. | a piece or area of ground in a garden or lawn in which plants are grown. |
| 10. | an area in a greenhouse in which plants are grown. |
| 11. | the plants in such areas. |
| 12. | the bottom of a lake, river, sea, or other body of water. |
| 13. | a piece or part forming a foundation or base. |
| 14. | a layer of rock; a stratum. |
| 15. | a foundation surface of earth or rock supporting a track, pavement, or the like: a gravel bed for the roadway. |
| 16. | Building Trades.
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| 17. | Furniture. skirt (def. 6b). |
| 18. | the flat surface in a printing press on which the form of type is laid. |
| 19. | Transportation. the body or, sometimes, the floor or bottom of a truck or trailer. |
| 20. | Chemistry. a compact mass of a substance functioning in a reaction as a catalyst or reactant. |
| 21. | Sports.
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| 22. | Zoology. flesh enveloping the base of a claw, esp. the germinative layer beneath the claw. |
| 23. | Also called mock, mock mold. Shipbuilding. a shaped steel pattern upon which furnaced plates for the hull of a vessel are hammered to shape. |
| 24. | bed and board. |
–verb (used with object)
| 25. | to provide with a bed. |
| 26. | to put to bed. |
| 27. | Horticulture. to plant in or as in a bed. |
| 28. | to lay flat. |
| 29. | to place in a bed or layer: to bed oysters. |
| 30. | to embed, as in a substance: bedding the flagstones in concrete. |
| 31. | to take or accompany to bed for purposes of sexual intercourse. |
–verb (used without object)
—Verb phrase| 32. | to have sleeping accommodations: He says we can bed there for the night. |
| 33. | Geology. to form a compact layer or stratum. |
| 34. | (of a metal structural part) to lie flat or close against another part. |
| 35. | Archaic. to go to bed. |
| 36. | bed down,
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| 37. | get up on the wrong side of the bed, to be irritable or bad-tempered from the start of a day: Never try to reason with him when he's gotten up on the wrong side of the bed. |
| 38. | go to bed,
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| 39. | go to bed with, to have sexual intercourse with. |
| 40. | in bed,
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| 41. | jump or get into bed with, to form a close, often temporary, alliance, usually with an unlikely ally: Industry was charged with jumping into bed with labor on the issue. |
| 42. | make a bed, to fit a bed with sheets and blankets. |
| 43. | make one's bed, to be responsible for one's own actions and their results: You've made your bed—now lie in it. |
| 44. | put to bed,
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Origin:
bef. 1000; ME; OE bedd; c. OFris, D bed, OS bed(de), OHG betti (G Bett), Goth badi < Gmc *badjan (neut.); akin to L fodere to dig, OCS bodǫ, Lith bedù I pierce, Welsh bedd a grave; presumably a bed was dug out in the ground
bef. 1000; ME; OE bedd; c. OFris, D bed, OS bed(de), OHG betti (G Bett), Goth badi < Gmc *badjan (neut.); akin to L fodere to dig, OCS bodǫ, Lith bedù I pierce, Welsh bedd a grave; presumably a bed was dug out in the ground

Related forms:
bedless, adjective
bedlike, adjective
Synonyms:
14. band, belt, seam, lode.
14. band, belt, seam, lode.
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mock (mŏk) v. mocked, mock·ing, mocks v. tr.
To express scorn or ridicule; jeer: They mocked at the idea. n.
adv. In an insincere or pretending manner: mock sorrowful. [Middle English mokken, from Old French mocquer.] mock'er n., mock'ing·ly adv. |
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Mock
Mock\, v. t. [imp. & p. p. Mocked; p. pr. & vb. n. Mocking.] [F. moquer, of uncertain origin; cf. OD. mocken to mumble, G. mucken, OSw. mucka.]1. To imitate; to mimic; esp., to mimic in sport, contempt, or derision; to deride by mimicry. To see the life as lively mocked as ever Still sleep mocked death. --Shak. Mocking marriage with a dame of France. --Shak. 2. To treat with scorn or contempt; to deride. Elijah mocked them, and said, Cry aloud. --1 Kings xviii. 27. Let not ambition mock their useful toil. --Gray. 3. To disappoint the hopes of; to deceive; to tantalize; as, to mock expectation. Thou hast mocked me, and told me lies. --Judg. xvi. 13. He will not . . . Mock us with his blest sight, then snatch him hence. --Milton. Syn: To deride; ridicule; taunt; jeer; tantalize; disappoint. See Deride.Mock
Mock\, v. i. To make sport contempt or in jest; to speak in a scornful or jeering manner. When thou mockest, shall no man make thee ashamed? --Job xi. 3. She had mocked at his proposal. --Froude.Mock
Mock\, n. 1. An act of ridicule or derision; a scornful or contemptuous act or speech; a sneer; a jibe; a jeer. Fools make a mock at sin. --Prov. xiv. 9. 2. Imitation; mimicry. [R.] --Crashaw.Mock
Mock\, a. Imitating reality, but not real; false; counterfeit; assumed; sham. That superior greatness and mock majesty. --Spectator. Mock bishop's weed (Bot.), a genus of slender umbelliferous herbs (Discopleura) growing in wet places. Mock heroic, burlesquing the heroic; as, a mock heroic poem. Mock lead. See Blende ( a ). Mock nightingale (Zo["o]l.), the European blackcap. Mock orange (Bot.), a genus of American and Asiatic shrubs (Philadelphus), with showy white flowers in panicled cymes. P. coronarius, from Asia, has fragrant flowers; the American kinds are nearly scentless. Mock sun. See Parhelion. Mock turtle soup, a soup made of calf's head, veal, or other meat, and condiments, in imitation of green turtle soup. Mock velvet, a fabric made in imitation of velvet. See Mockado.
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Language Translation for : mock
Spanish:
burlarse,
German:
verspotten,
Japanese:
あざける
mock (v)
c.1440, from M.Fr. mocquer "deride, jeer," from O.Fr., perhaps from V.L. *muccare "to blow the nose" (as a derisive gesture), from L. mucus; or possibly from M.Du. mocken "to mumble" or M.L.G. mucken "grumble." Replaced O.E. bysmerian. Sense of "imitating," as in mocking-bird (1676) and mock turtle (1763), is from notion of derisive imitation. The adj. is 1548, from the noun. Mockery is attested from 1426. Mock-up "model, simulation" is from 1920.
Online Etymology Dictionary, © 2001 Douglas Harper
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