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Mi·das M0279200 (mī′dəs)n. The fabled king of Phrygia to whom Dionysus gave the power of turning to gold all that he touched.
[Latin Midās, from Greek.]Midas (ˈmaɪdəs) n1. (Classical Myth & Legend) Greek legend a king of Phrygia given the power by Dionysus of turning everything he touched to gold2. the Midas touch ability to make money
MIDAS (ˈmaɪdəs) n acronym for (Firearms, Gunnery, Ordnance & Artillery) Missile Defence Alarm SystemMi•das (ˈmaɪ dəs)
n. a legendary Phrygian king endowed by Dionysus with the power to turn whatever he touched into gold. Thesaurus| Noun | 1. |  Midas - (Greek legend) the greedy king of Phrygia who Dionysus gave the power to turn everything he touched into goldlegend, fable - a story about mythical or supernatural beings or eventsEllas, Greece, Hellenic Republic - a republic in southeastern Europe on the southern part of the Balkan peninsula; known for grapes and olives and olive oil |
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Midas touch1. The ability to easily turn a large profit. The new sales rep seemed to have the Midas touch, turning every lead she found into a sale.2. The ability to produce successful results. The young football couch had the Midas touch as he led his undefeated team through a perfect season.See also: Midas, touchhave the Midas touch1. To have the ability to easily turn a large profit. (In Greek mythology, King Midas had the power to turn everything he touched to gold.) The new sales rep seemed to have the Midas touch, turning every lead she found into a sale.2. To have the ability to produce successful results. The young football couch had the Midas touch as he led his undefeated team through a perfect season.See also: have, Midas, touchhave the Midas touchFig. to have the ability to be successful, especially the ability to make money easily. (From the name of a legendary king whose touch turned everything to gold.) Bob is a merchant banker and really has the Midas touch. The poverty-stricken boy turned out to have the Midas touch and was a millionaire by the time he was twenty-five.See also: have, Midas, touch*tight as a drum 1. stretched tight. (*Also: as ~.) Julia stretched the upholstery fabric over the seat of the chair until it was as tight as a drum. The skin on his scalp is tight as a drum. 2. sealed tight. (*Also: as ~.) Now that I've caulked all the windows, the house should be tight as a drum. Your butterfly died because the jar is as tight as a drum. 3. and *tight as Midas's fist very stingy. (*Also: as ~.) He won't contribute a cent. He's as tight as a drum. Old Mr. Robinson is tight as Midas's fist. Won't spend money on anything.See also: drum, tighttight as a drumTaut or close-fitting; also, watertight. For example, That baby's eaten so much that the skin on his belly is tight as a drum, or You needn't worry about leaks; this tent is tight as a drum. Originally this expression alluded to the skin of a drumhead, which is tightly stretched, and in the mid-1800s was transferred to other kinds of tautness. Later, however, it sometimes referred to a drum-shaped container, such as an oil drum, which had to be well sealed to prevent leaks, and the expression then signified "watertight." See also: drum, tightthe Midas touch the ability to make money out of anything that you undertake. In classical legend, Midas was a king of Phrygia (in Asia Minor) who had the power to turn everything he touched into gold.See also: Midas, touchthe ˈMidas touch the ability to be very successful in making money: Stephanie has the Midas touch — she makes lots of money whatever she does.In Greek legend, whatever King Midas touched turned to gold.See also: Midas, touchMidas touch, theThe ability to make any undertaking extremely profitable. According to legend, Midas, King of Phrygia, asked the gods that everything he touched would turn into gold. Dionysus granted his request, but when the very food Midas wished to eat turned to gold, he asked the gods to take back their gift. Dionysus then ordered Midas to bathe in the River Pactolus, thereby washing away the gift. By the seventeenth century the idea was applied figuratively to any person with a gift for making money. See also rich as Croesus.See also: Midastight as a drumClose-fitting and taut. The analogy is to the skin of the drumhead, which is tightly stretched so that when it is struck the drum sounds as it should. This term was transferred in the nineteenth century to anything stretched taut; Thomas Hughes (Tom Brown’s School Days, 1857) described his hero as having eaten so much that “his little skin is as tight as a drum.” In succeeding years, however, the analogy itself was sometimes to a drum-shaped container for liquids, such as an oil drum, which of course must be well sealed to prevent leakage. Hence the expression “tight as a drum” also became synonymous with “watertight,” as in “The shelter they rigged up was as tight as a drum.”See also: drum, tightMidasenUK
Midas (mī`dəs), in Greek mythology, king of Phrygia. Because he befriended Silenus, the oldest of the satyrs, Dionysus granted him the power to turn everything into gold by touch. But when even the food that he touched turned to gold, Midas begged to be relieved of his gift. Dionysus allowed him to wash away his power in the Pactolus River, which afterward had gold-bearing sands. In another legend Midas was given ass's ears by Apollo for preferring, in a contest, the music of Pan (in another account Marsyas) to that of Apollo. Midas preserved his shame from all but his barber, who, wishing to tell it, whispered it into a hole in the ground. The reeds that grew out of that hole, however, murmured the secret whenever the wind blew through them. There was also a historical king of Phrygia named Midas in the 8th cent. B.C.Midas king of Phrygia (738–696 B.C.). Assyrian sources of the late eighth century B.C. refer to him as Mita. In 717 he joined a coalition against the Assyrian king Sargon II but was subsequently forced to submit to him (707 B.C.). Greek mythology has many legends about Midas, the son of Gordius. According to one myth, the god Dionysus endowed Midas with the ability to turn anything he touched into gold; since even food turned to gold, Midas had to free himself from this gift by bathing in the Pactolus River, which then became gold-bearing. In another myth, the ignorant and opinionated Midas expressed a preference for the music of Pan over that of Apollo (hence the expression “the judgment of Midas”—the judgment of an ignoramus). Apollo punished him by giving him ass’s ears, which Midas carefully concealed under a Phrygian cap (hence the expression “Midas ears”). Midas[′mīd·əs] (aerospace engineering) A two-object trajectory-measuring system whereby two complete cotar antenna systems and two sets of receivers at each station, with the multiplexing done after phase comparison, are utilized in tracking more than one object at a time. Midasfor judging Pan winner of flute contest, his ears are changed to ass’s ears. [Gk. Myth.: Leach, 83]See: Ass
Midasgreedy king whose touch turned everything to gold. [Classical Myth.: Bulfinch, 42–44]See: Greed
Midaseverything he touched turned to gold. [Gk. Myth.: Zimmerman, 167]See: Transformation
MidasPhrygian king; whatever he touched became gold. [Gk. and Rom. Myth.: Wheeler, 24]See: WealthMIDAS (1)A digital simulation language.
[Sammet 1969, p.627].Midas (2)A Motif-based toolkit for interactive data analysis byT. Johnson, SLAC. The basis for the Midas-WWW browser.MIDAS
MIDAS Cardiology A clinical trial–Multicenter Isradipine Diuretic Atherosclerosis Study which evaluated effects of antihypertensives–eg, isradipine, a CCB in hypertensive Pts. See Calcium channel blockers. MIDAS
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Words related to Midasnoun (Greek legend) the greedy king of Phrygia who Dionysus gave the power to turn everything he touched into goldRelated Words- legend
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