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millefleur
Having a pattern of small flowers and plants all over.
🌱She was painstakingly embroidering a millefleur pattern on a pillow casing. 🌳Millefleur came into French from the Latin mille florae （"a thousand flowers"）, and from French directly into English. You may have seen the famed Unicorn Tapestries, in which the unicorn is seen frolicking, relaxing, being hunted, and being caught, all against a beautiful millefleur background. Italian has given us the similar word millefiori; though fiori, like fleurs, means "flowers," millefiori actually refers to a type of multicolored ornamental glass. And the borrowed French word mille-feuille （feuille meaning "leaf"） is the name of a dish made with puff pastry, the kind of pastry whose flakes resemble thin dry leaves. millenarianism 1、 Belief in the 1,000-year era of holiness foretold in the Book of Revelation.
2、 Belief in an ideal society to come, especially one brought about by revolution.
🌱Millenarianism is one of the future-oriented beliefs common in the New Age movement. 🌳Originally the millennium was not simply any thousand-year period, but instead the thousand years prophesied in the biblical Book of Revelation, when holiness will prevail on earth and Jesus Christ will preside over all. Later, millennium was extended to mean any period—always in the future—marked by universal happiness and human perfection. On several occasions over the centuries, members of Christian sects have become convinced that the biblical millennium was arriving and gathered together to await it. But nonreligious millenarians have also believed in a future society marked by human perfection. Even if they regard this future as certain, they've generally been willing to help it along by working for a political, social, or economic revolution. The millennium always seems to be approaching; to date, it hasn't arrived. millipede Any of a class of many-footed arthropods that have a cylindrical, segmented body with two pairs of legs on each segment, and, unlike centipedes, no poison fangs.
🌱As they turned over rocks and bricks in their search for the lost bracelet, millipedes of various sizes went scurrying off. 🌳The earth is home to about 10,000 species of millipedes. Though they have no poison fangs, many of them can, when threatened, emit a liquid or gas poisonous to their enemies. If their structure were true to their name, millipedes would have a thousand legs, but in fact they have far fewer. Even so, a millipede in motion is a sight to ponder: How can it possibly coordinate all those legs so that it doesn't trip over itself? Like some tiny conga line or bunny hop, it scuttles away to a rhythm only it can hear. millisecond One thousandth of a second.
🌱A lightning bolt lasts only about 20 milliseconds, though the image may stay in one's eye for much longer. 🌳A millisecond isn't long enough for the blink of an eye, but a few milliseconds may determine the winner of a swim race or a hundred-yard dash. With the ever-increasing speed of modern technology, even a millisecond has started to seem a little sluggish; computer operations are now measured in nanoseconds—that is, billionths of a second.
🌱She was painstakingly embroidering a millefleur pattern on a pillow casing. 🌳Millefleur came into French from the Latin mille florae （"a thousand flowers"）, and from French directly into English. You may have seen the famed Unicorn Tapestries, in which the unicorn is seen frolicking, relaxing, being hunted, and being caught, all against a beautiful millefleur background. Italian has given us the similar word millefiori; though fiori, like fleurs, means "flowers," millefiori actually refers to a type of multicolored ornamental glass. And the borrowed French word mille-feuille （feuille meaning "leaf"） is the name of a dish made with puff pastry, the kind of pastry whose flakes resemble thin dry leaves. millenarianism 1、 Belief in the 1,000-year era of holiness foretold in the Book of Revelation.
2、 Belief in an ideal society to come, especially one brought about by revolution.
🌱Millenarianism is one of the future-oriented beliefs common in the New Age movement. 🌳Originally the millennium was not simply any thousand-year period, but instead the thousand years prophesied in the biblical Book of Revelation, when holiness will prevail on earth and Jesus Christ will preside over all. Later, millennium was extended to mean any period—always in the future—marked by universal happiness and human perfection. On several occasions over the centuries, members of Christian sects have become convinced that the biblical millennium was arriving and gathered together to await it. But nonreligious millenarians have also believed in a future society marked by human perfection. Even if they regard this future as certain, they've generally been willing to help it along by working for a political, social, or economic revolution. The millennium always seems to be approaching; to date, it hasn't arrived. millipede Any of a class of many-footed arthropods that have a cylindrical, segmented body with two pairs of legs on each segment, and, unlike centipedes, no poison fangs.
🌱As they turned over rocks and bricks in their search for the lost bracelet, millipedes of various sizes went scurrying off. 🌳The earth is home to about 10,000 species of millipedes. Though they have no poison fangs, many of them can, when threatened, emit a liquid or gas poisonous to their enemies. If their structure were true to their name, millipedes would have a thousand legs, but in fact they have far fewer. Even so, a millipede in motion is a sight to ponder: How can it possibly coordinate all those legs so that it doesn't trip over itself? Like some tiny conga line or bunny hop, it scuttles away to a rhythm only it can hear. millisecond One thousandth of a second.
🌱A lightning bolt lasts only about 20 milliseconds, though the image may stay in one's eye for much longer. 🌳A millisecond isn't long enough for the blink of an eye, but a few milliseconds may determine the winner of a swim race or a hundred-yard dash. With the ever-increasing speed of modern technology, even a millisecond has started to seem a little sluggish; computer operations are now measured in nanoseconds—that is, billionths of a second.
MILL means either "a thousand" or "a thousandth." A millennium is a thousand years, and a million is a thousand thousands. But a milligram is a thousandth of a gram, a milliliter a thousandth of a liter, and a millimeter a thousandth of a meter.🌸