Random Image

You are here: Random Image > Words beginning with m > Random Image for maynea

Possible definitions for maynea

Macready
English actor-manager. He made his debut in 1810, and by 1820 he was famous for his performances as Hamlet, Lear, and Macbeth. As theater manager of London's Covent Garden (1837-39) and Drury Lane (1841-43), he introduced such reforms as full rehearsals, historically accurate costumes and sets, and a reversion to the original Shakespeare texts. He toured the U.S. in 1826, 1843, and 1848-49; his last tour ended with the Astor Place riot, caused by partisans of E. Forrest. He retired from the stage in 1851. His diary provides a view of 19th-cent. theatrical life.


Magnes
U.S.-Israeli educator and religious leader. Born in San Francisco, he was ordained as a rabbi in 1900 and earned a doctorate at the Univ. of Heidelberg in 1902. Serving as rabbi for three congregations in New York, he moved from Reform to Orthodox Judaism and became a Zionist. He drifted away from Zionism during World War I, preferring relief efforts for Jews in Palestine over political activism. After the war he became the principal founder and first president (1935-48) of the Hebrew Univ. of Jerusalem, working to advance Arab-Jewish reconciliation and advocating a binational Arab-Jewish state.


magnet
Any material capable of attracting iron and producing a magnetic field outside itself. By the end of the 19th cent., all known elements and many compounds had been tested for magnetism, and all were found to have some magnetic property. However, only three elements--iron, nickel, and cobalt--exhibit ferromagnetism. See also compass, electromagnet.


magneto
Permanent-magnet alternating generator used mainly to produce electrical current for the ignition system in various types of internal-combustion engines, such as aircraft, marine, tractor, and motorcycle engines. The main parts of a magneto are a permanent-magnet rotor, a primary winding of a small number of turns of coarse wire, a secondary winding with a large number of turns of fine wire, a cam-type circuit breaker, and a capacitor. As the rotor turns, it produces a current in the primary winding, charging the capacitor. The cam breaks the circuit, and the magnetic field around the primary winding collapses. The capacitor releases its stored current into the primary winding, causing a reversed magnetic field. The collapse and reversal of the magnetic field produce a current in the secondary winding that is sent to the spark plugs.


Maine
State (pop., 1997 est.: 1,242,000), NE U.S. One of the New England states, it covers 33,265 sq mi (86,156 sq km); its capital is Augusta. The Appalachian Mtns. cross the state, rising to 5,268 ft (1,606 m) at Mt. Katahdin; Maine's upland region has many lakes and valleys, and its Atlantic coast is rocky and scenic. Algonquian Indians were the earliest-known inhabitants of the area. European settlers found the Penobscot and Passamaquoddy tribes living along the river valleys and coasts. The French ...

Top words beginning with M: menacme, microphotometric, maximon, micromanipulator, mendez, mollified, microperthitic, musicophysical, mesonotum, mecism, maha, molelcule, momulv, metovom, mixobarbaric, mmr, mews, microplankton, mycetogenic, maremma

More words beginning with M.

Browse the alphabet: A | B | C | D | E | F | G | H | I | J | K | L | M | N | O | P | Q | R | S | T | U | V | W | X | Y | Z