[{"Bold_text": "adjective", "List Items": ["pertaining to or noting a story, conversation, character, etc., that consciously references or comments upon its own subject or features, often in the form of parody:A movie about making a movie is just so meta—especially when the actors criticize the acting.", "pertaining to or noting an abstract, high-level analysis or commentary, especially one that consciously references something of its own type."]}, {"Bold_text": "noun", "List Items": ["a consciously and playfully self-referential story, conversation, etc.:That dialogue was an example of meta at its best.", "an abstract, high-level analysis or commentary:writing a meta to explain the character’s motivation."]}, {"Bold_text": "verb (used without object)", "List Items": ["to analyze or comment on something in a meta way:I spend more time metaing about the show than actually watching it."]}, {"Bold_text": "noun", "List Items": ["(in ancient Rome) a column or post, or a group of columns or posts, placed at each end of a racetrack to mark the turning places."]}, {"Bold_text": "adjective", "List Items": ["pertaining to or occupying two positions (1, 3) in the benzene ring that are separated by one carbon atom."]}, {"Bold_text": "noun", "List Items": ["a shortened form of metamour ."]}, {"Bold_text": "noun", "List Items": ["a female given name."]}, {"Bold_text": null, "List Items": ["a prefix appearing in loanwords from Greek, with the meanings “after,” “along with,” “beyond,” “among,” “behind,” and productive in English on the Greek model:metacarpus; metagenesis.", "a prefix added to the name of a subject and designating another subject that analyzes the original one but at a more abstract, higher level:metaphilosophy; metalinguistics.", "a prefix added to the name of something that consciously references or comments upon its own subject or features:a meta-painting of an artist painting a canvas.", "Chemistry.(of acids, salts, or their organic derivatives) a prefix denoting the least hydrated of a series:Compare ortho- , pyro- .meta-antimonic, HSb O3;meta-antimonous, HSb O2.a prefix designating the meta position in the benzene ring.:m-.Compare ortho- , para-1 .", "(of acids, salts, or their organic derivatives) a prefix denoting the least hydrated of a series:Compare ortho- , pyro- .meta-antimonic, HSb O3;meta-antimonous, HSb O2.", "a prefix designating the meta position in the benzene ring.:m-.Compare ortho- , para-1 ."]}]