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US
/ˈmɑdəˌfaɪd/
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[ UK /mˈɒdɪfˌaɪd/ ]
[ UK /mˈɒdɪfˌaɪd/ ]
ADJECTIVE
- mediocre
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changed in form or character
the performance of the modified aircraft was much improved
their modified stand made the issue more acceptable
How To Use modified In A Sentence
- Moreover, Mr Webb's point about what he calls disinterested management -- that is to say, the management of banks by officers whose remuneration bears no relation to the profit made on each piece of business transacted -- is one of the matters in which English banking seems likely at least to be modified. War-Time Financial Problems
- The DOJ thing is pretty strange, and will probably get modified, but all I can say is how nice it is that Dems aren't all on the same page, parroting the same opinions, baaing like conservatives. Frank slams Obama for 'big mistake' on Defense of Marriage Act (updated)
- What can you do with a machine that puts letters and numbers on an ordinary unmodified TV set?
- As if a lentivirus from a genetically modified cocoa plant is going to implant a promoter in out cells that will lead to cancer. A Genetic Quest for Better Chocolate - Bits Blog - NYTimes.com
- The modified expoxies, ie, those with plasticizers added to improve workability, were found to be incompatible with the fluorocarbon flotation fluids.
- These ideas are still used today, though in a slightly modified form.
- The dalmatic and tunicle are modified chasubles worn by the deacon and subdeacon respectively at a high Mass.
- This opportunity to file or publish modified accounts does not limit the requirement to prepare full accounts for the shareholders.
- Try relaxing the value of each bounded constraint one at a time, solve the modified problem, and see what happens to the optimal value of the objective function.
- The fluorite tends to occur only as cubes modified by the dodecahedron, with simple cubes or octahedra uncommon or absent.