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Ready Mixed Concrete: Concrete mixed at a plant or in trucks en route to a job and delivered ready for placement.

Mixed Precipitation: Any of the following combinations of freezing and frozen precipitation: snow and sleet, snow and freezing rain, or sleet alone. Rain may also be present.

Mixed-Use Developments (MUDS): MUDs combine office space, stores, theaters and apartment units in a single community. MUDs usually contain and offer laundry facilities, restaurants, food stores, valet shops, beauty parlor . . . View Full Definition

Mixed Metaphor: two awkwardly-yoked metaphors, such as 'kicking the spurs of zeal on the road to Abraham's bosom.'

Mixed Media: One or more medium used in the same picture. Thus pastel and ink, pastel and water-colour, tempera and water-colour, etc.

Mixed Layer: It is the upper portion of the boundary layer in which air is thoroughly mixed by convection. In oceanography, it is the layer of the water that is mixed through wave action or thermohaline . . . View Full Definition

Musique Concrète: Music made up of natural sounds and sound effects that are recorded and then manipulated electronically.

Ready Golf: A very effective informal method of play in which the right to play based on 'honor' or 'away' is forsaken and whoever is 'ready to play' plays next, in the interest of speeding up play

Screed, Concrete: To level off concrete to the correct elevation during a concrete pour.

Slab, Concrete: Concrete pavement, i.e. Driveways, garages, and basement floors.