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mock

  [mok]
Use mock in a Sentence
–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.
a. a hard pattern representing the surface of a plate with a warped form, upon which the plate is beaten to shape after furnacing.
b. bed (def. 23).
–adjective
11. feigned; not real; sham: a mock battle.
—Verb phrase
12. mock up, to build a mock-up of.
Origin:
1400–50; late ME mokken < MF mocquer

Related forms:
mock⋅a⋅ble, adjective
mocker, noun
mock⋅ing⋅ly, adverb

Synonyms:
1. deride; taunt, flout, gibe; chaff, tease. See ridicule. 5. cheat, dupe, fool, mislead.

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.
a. the underside of a stone, brick, slate, tile, etc., laid in position.
b. the upper side of a stone laid in position.
c. the layer of mortar in which a brick, stone, etc., is laid.
d. the natural stratification of a stone: a stone laid on bed.
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.
a. the canvas surface of a trampoline.
b. the smooth, wooden floor of a bowling alley.
c. the slate surface of a billiard table to which the cloth is fastened.
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)
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.
—Verb phrase
36. bed down,
a. to make a bed for (a person, animal, etc.).
b. to retire to bed: They put out the fire and decided to bed down for the night.
—Idioms
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,
a. to retire, esp. for the night.
b. to engage in sexual relations.
39. go to bed with, to have sexual intercourse with.
40. in bed,
a. beneath the covers of a bed.
b. engaged in sexual intercourse.
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,
a. to help (a child, invalid, etc.) go to bed.
b. Printing. to lock up (forms) in a press in preparation for printing.
c. to work on the preparation of (an edition of a newspaper, periodical, etc.) up to the time of going to press.
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

Related forms:
bedless, adjective
bedlike, adjective

Synonyms:
14. band, belt, seam, lode.
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mock   (mŏk)   
v.   mocked, mock·ing, mocks

v.   tr.
  1. To treat with ridicule or contempt; deride.
    1. To mimic, as in sport or derision. See Synonyms at ridicule.
    2. To imitate; counterfeit.
  3. To frustrate the hopes of; disappoint.
v.   intr.
To express scorn or ridicule; jeer: They mocked at the idea.
n.  
    1. The act of mocking.
    2. Mockery; derision: said it merely in mock.
  2. An object of scorn or derision.
  3. An imitation or a counterfeit.
adj.  Simulated; false; sham: a mock battle.
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.
Webster's Revised Unabridged Dictionary, © 1996, 1998 MICRA, Inc.
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Language Translation for : mock
Spanish: burlarse,
German: verspotten,
Japanese: あざける
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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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