mono

plural monos

1. AustraliaUKcountableslanguncountableA bicycle or motorcycle trick where the front wheel is lifted off the ground while riding.

   Synonyms: wheelie

2. countableuncountableeating disordersA diet where someone eats only one type of food.

   plum mono

   plums-only diet (typically for a day)

3. abbreviationclippingcountableuncountablecategory theoryClipping of monomorphism.
4. abbreviationclippinginformaluncountablemedicineClipping of mononucleosis.
5. countableinformalAny fish of the family Monodactylidae.

1. abbreviationclippinginformalnot comparableClipping of monochrome.

   The excellent on-screen display of italics, superscripts and subscripts, and other niceties available on the color screen now display on mono monitors, but with the inherently superior text font of the mono mode.

   1985, PC Mag, volume 4, number 4, page 125

2. abbreviationclippinginformalnot comparableClipping of monosexual.

   People who do wish to be recognizable as trans or bi are often coercively passed off as cis or mono anyway.

   2013, Shiri Eisner, Bi: Notes for a Bisexual Revolution, →ISBN

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   That is, establishing as it does a replacement binary (mono versus bi, rather than hetero versus homo) it functions to erase lesbian and gay specificity. In turn, this fails to consider, and even elides, important structural inequities between the hetero- and homosexual categories. The difficulty of establishing bisexual legitimacy in a discursive context of oppositional categories was acknowledged by a number of participants. For some, invoking the mono/bi dichotomy affords bisexuality [...]

   2013, Dawn Atkins, Bisexual Women in the Twenty-First Century, →ISBN, page 37

1. informalnot comparableMonaural or monophonic; having only a single audio channel.

   Because many in the audience were very close to one of the speakers, the DJ decided to play the music in mono.

comparative more mono · superlative most mono

1. informalMonoamorous, monogamous.

plural monos

1. informalA monogamous person.

   For some monos, there are no acceptable mono—poly solutions as far as they are concerned.

   2010, Leonie Linssen, Love Unlimited: The Joys and Challenges of Open Relationships

plural Monos

1. A member of a Native American people who traditionally live in the central and eastern Sierra Nevada, the Mono Basin, and adjacent areas of the Great Basin in California.

   The Mono believe that Condor seized humans, cut off their heads and drained their blood in order to flood the home of Ground Squirrel.

   2012, Caspar Henderson, The Book of Barely Imagined Beings, page 249

2. A Mono wind.

   […]SANTA ANAS, MONOS, AND NORTHERS.

   1937, United States. Forest Service. California Region, Fire Control Handbook: Region 5, page 10

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   Much of the cool weather was accompanied by dry winds and the occurrence of Monos and Santa Anas was above normal.

   1961, California Fire Control Notes

   […]Santa Anas of southern California, the Monos of northern California, and the dry winds in Oregon and Washington. In Morocco, Algeria, and Tunisia, the hot, desiccating winds, called "Siroccos", blow from the desert (south)[…]

   1975, Western Forestry and Conservation Association, Permanent Association Committees Proceedings

   […]the Monos blow from the east. If the ambient northeast Santa Ana winds are of low to moderate intensity and are blowing aloft but not along the ground, upcanyon south or southwest daytime winds may be measured at a burn site when official[…]

   1981, Lisle R. Green, Burning by Prescription in Chaparral

1. The Numic language of the Mono people of California.
2. A county in California, United States, see Mono County.
3. An alkaline desert lake (Mono Lake) in this county, having a unique ecosystem.

plural Monos

1. A member of an ethnic group from the Congo.

1. The language of the Mono people of the Congo.
2. A town in Ontario.
3. An island of the Solomon Islands.
4. A river in Togo.