mono-, mon-

1. Able to speak only one language.
2. Written, spoken, or produced in only one language.

1. A tall block of solid stone standing by itself, whether a natural rock feature or a stone column shaped and erected by somebody; such as, as a monument.
2. A large uniform block of a single building material; such as, concrete pieced together with others to form a building or other stone-like structure.
3. Symbolically, something massive and unchanging; especially, a large and long-established organization that is slow to change, uniform in character, and difficult to deal with on a human level.

1. Consisting of or formed into a tall block of solid stone.
2. Constructed using massive stones or large seamless blocks of material.
3. A reference to something which is massive, uniform in character, and slow to change.

The fanatical concern that a writer has of using the same word more than once in three lines.

The fanatical concern that a writer has of using the same word more than once in three lines.

A “single-crested lizard” from Middle (or Late) Jurassic North West China. From Greek monos, “one” plus lophos, “crest”; referring to the single crest on the midline of the skull roof of a medium-sized carnivorous dinosaur. Formerly referred to as Jiangjunmiaosaurus. Named by Chinese paleontologist Xijin Zhao and Canadian paleontologist Philip J. Currie in 1994.

1. A single combat.
2. A contest between two; such as, a duel.

1. A form of insanity in which the patient is irrational on only one subject (one topic, one idea, etc.).
2. A psychosis marked by the limitation of the symptoms rather strictly to a certain group, as the delusion in paranoia.

A reference to a lake having a single period of free circulation or overturn per year, with consequent disruption of the thermocline; it may be either cold monomictic or warm monomictic.

Melancholia; a condition characterized by severe depression as manifested by loss of pleasure in all activities; including early morning awakening, marked agitation or retardation, severe anorexia with weight loss, and excessive or inappropriate guilt feelings.