med

1. abbreviationclippinginformalnot comparableClipping of medical.

   I'm in med school.

2. abbreviationclippingnot comparableClipping of median.

plural meds

1. countablein pluralinformaluncountableA medication, especially a prescribed psychoactive medication.

   He's been very strange. I wonder if he's not been taking his meds.

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   Shepard: What's wrong with your assistant? Dr. Warren: Manuel has a brilliant mind, but he's always been a bit... unstable. Genius and madness are two sides of the same coin. Dr. Manuel: Is it madness to see the future? To see the destruction rushing towards us? To understand there is no escape? No hope? No, I am not mad. I'm the only sane one left! Dr. Warren: I gave him an extra dose of his meds after the attack.

   2008, BioWare, Mass Effect, Redwood City: Electronic Arts, →ISBN, →OCLC, PC, scene: Eden Prime

   Take a med. […] BECAUSE you took a med you did not have a full-blown panic attack and faint.

   2015, Jennifer Shannon, The Anxiety Survival Guide for Teens: CBT Skills to Overcome Fear, Worry & Panic, Oakland, Calif.: Instant Help Books, New Harbinger Publications, Inc., →ISBN, page 98

   “What meds?” “It's a long story.” “What meds?” “He's bipolar, Mark. Diagnosed a few years back.”

   2018, John Grisham, The Reckoning, Anchor, →ISBN

   “I'd been trying to get my anti-depressants right and taking the meds,” he said. “That was my feeling at the time — of worrying if this was the right choice,” he added.

   2023 January 16, Emma Bowman, quoting KC Green, “A decade on, the ‘This is fine’ creator wants to put the famous dog to rest”, in NPR

2. abbreviationclippinginformaluncountableClipping of medicine, as an academic subject.

   My brother studied med at Cambridge.

3. countableinformalA medic; a doctor.

   A stray dachshund the meds are keeping as a mascot.

   2012, Elizabeth Waterston, Blitzkrieg and Jitterbugs: College Life in Wartime, 1939-1942, page 41

present singular third person meds · participle present medding · participle past medded · past medded

1. abbreviationclippingClipping of medicate.

1. UKdialectalpronunciation spellingPronunciation spelling of might.

   You med be religious, or you med not, but you can't help striking in your homely note with the rest.

   1894 December – 1895 November, Thomas Hardy, chapter III, in Jude the Obscure, 1st American edition, New York, N.Y.: Harper & Brothers, […], published 1896, →OCLC, part I (At Marygreen), pages 21–22

1. abbreviationclippinginformalwith definite articleClipping of Mediterranean.

   We're going to the Med for four weeks this summer.

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   They used to go wild for villas by the Med and ski chalets in the Alps; now they are forking out for views of the Channel and hilly walks in Shropshire.

   2023 July 22, Donna Ferguson, “Post-Brexit fall in English ownership of European second homes, figures show”, in The Guardian, →ISSN

1. abbreviationlawAbbreviation of medical.
2. abbreviationlawAbbreviation of medicine.

plural MEds

1. abbreviationinitialismeducationInitialism of Master of Education.

1. abbreviationinitialismInitialism of Middle English Dictionary.

   Make a list of the lexical (that is open-class words) in the passage, and use the OED and/or MED online to find other citations elsewhere in ME texts.

   2002, Simon Horobin, Jeremy Smith, An Introduction to Middle English, Oxford University Press, →ISBN, page 85

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   As frequent users of the MED well know, of course, the MED history of ‘misledinge’ only appears inverted if we look at dates of composition, since it is in fact manuscript date that dictates the order of quotation under any of the semantic subdivisions in any MED entry.

   2001, Christopher Cannon, “The Unchangeable Word: The Dating of Manuscripts and the History of English”, in A. J. Minnis, editor, Middle English Poetry: Texts and Traditions: Essays in Honour of Derek Pearsall (York Manuscripts Conferences: Proceedings Series), York Medieval Press, →ISBN, page 2

   The MED evidence gives the impression that non-impersonal verbs of Pleasure/enjoyment other than lŏven cannot be strictly distinguished from the impersonal counterparts, apart from the presence or absence of impersonal use.

   2015, Ayumi Miura, Middle English Verbs of Emotion and Impersonal Constructions: Verb Meaning and Syntax in Diachrony (Oxford Studies in the History of English), Oxford University Press, →ISBN, page 194