With the sounds of wind and the waves, there was a utter stillness even during the middle of the day in Batanes and moreso at night where streets are literally empty around 6PM. Electricity is on for 24 hours on the main island of Batan while Itbayat and Sabtang have electricity from 6AM-12MN.
The prefixes mis- and mal- basically mean the same thing. Mal-, from French, meaning bad, badly, ill and mis-, from Old English, meaning bad, wrong. In some cases, mis- can derive from mes- (F...
Chambers 20th Century Dictionary(0.00 / 0 votes)Rate this definition: 1  Male. mÄl, n. 2  Male. mÄl, adj. masculine: pertaining to the sex that begets (not bears) young: (bot.) bearing stamens.ân. one of the male sex: a he-animal: a stamen-bearing plant.ân. Maleâ²-fern, an elegant fern, with the fronds growing in a crown.âMale order, in architecture, the Doric order; Male rhymes, those in which only the final syllables correspond; Male screw, a