Definitions
from The American Heritage® Dictionary of the English Language, 5th Edition.
- noun The letter m.
- noun The width of a square or nearly square piece of type, used as a unit of measure for matter set in that size of type.
- noun Such a measure for 12-point type; a pica.
from The Century Dictionary.
- In colloquial speech, the objective plural of he, she, it: equivalent to them.
- Assimilated form of
en- before labials. - noun The name of the thirteenth letter of the alphabet, usually written simply m or M.
- noun In printing, the square of any size of type.
- Assimilated form of
en- before labials.
from the GNU version of the Collaborative International Dictionary of English.
- noun (Print.) The portion of a line formerly occupied by the letter
m , then a square type, used as a unit by which to measure the amount of printed matter on a page; the square of the body of a type.
from Wiktionary, Creative Commons Attribution/Share-Alike License.
- pronoun neologism
them (singular).Gender-neutral third-person singular object pronoun, coordinate withhim andher . - noun The name of the
Latin script letterM /m . - noun typography A
unit ofmeasurement equal to theheight of the type in use.
from WordNet 3.0 Copyright 2006 by Princeton University. All rights reserved.
- noun a quad with a square body
- noun a linear unit (1/6 inch) used in printing
Etymologies
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Examples
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Now the Internet pioneer is following an old mantra: If you can't beat 'em, join 'em.
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Historically low interest rates — banks love 'em and hate 'em.
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Did you ever hear Reagan say, "We got social conservatives here, we got to make sure, yeah, we'll listen to 'em but then we're not gonna pay much attention to 'em."
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Creed was a gumsucker of about sixty made famous during the war for ripping out Yankees' intestines and force-feeding 'em back to 'em.
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Bentley College in Massachusetts was the first in the nation to require all its students to have a laptop, but it wasnt long at all before professors started to complain they couldnt live with 'em as much as they couldnt live without 'em.
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Ms. MAUREEN MAHONEY: They call 'em like they see 'em.
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As Master of the Foxhounds, Ms. Brown blew her horn; the hounds were let out of a nearby truck and bounded up a hill, Ms. Brown close behind yelling "Get 'em, get 'em, get 'em."
Writing With the Hounds Nancy Keates 2010
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If you can't beat 'em, perhaps you should join 'em.
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As Master of the Foxhounds, Ms. Brown blew her horn; the hounds were let out of a nearby truck and bounded up a hill, Ms. Brown close behind yelling "Get 'em, get 'em, get 'em."
Writing With the Hounds Nancy Keates 2010
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As Master of the Foxhounds, Ms. Brown blew her horn; the hounds were let out of a nearby truck and bounded up a hill, Ms. Brown close behind yelling "Get 'em, get 'em, get 'em."
Writing With the Hounds Nancy Keates 2010
misterpolly commented on the word em
A small space in typography, just a bit longer than an "en".
February 5, 2008
bilby commented on the word em
What's WeirdNet on about?
March 29, 2009
vanishedone commented on the word em
The dictionary.reference.com version is longer, nd indicates that WordNet is referring to the printing sense: 'a quad with a square body; "since 'em quad' is hard to distinguish from 'en quad', printers sometimes called it a 'mutton quad'",' i.e. quad as in quadrat.
March 29, 2009