'm /m/ a short form of am; a contraction of madam

m’ /m or mə/ a short form of my as in m'lud (see under lud).

m or m.

1. Male
2. Mark or marks (former German currency)
3. Married
4. Masculine
5. Mass
6. Medium
7. Meridiem (Latin), noon
8. Metre(s)
9. Mile(s)
10. Mille-
11. Milli-
12. Million(s)
13. (m) mobile, esp referring to services delivered to mobile phones, as in m-banking, m-ticket
14. Month(s)

m

Metre (SI unit)

M

1. (as a Roman numeral) 1000
2. Followed by a number, used to designate the seven categories of money supply in the UK (see M0, M1, etc, below; economics)
3. Meta- or meso- (chem)

M0 noun

All notes and coins in current general circulation plus banks' till money and balances with the Bank of England

M1 noun

All notes and coins in current general circulation plus all instantly-withdrawable bank deposits

M2 noun

All notes and coins in current general circulation plus non-interest-bearing bank deposits, building society deposits, and National Savings accounts

M3 noun

M1 plus all privately-held bank deposits and certificates of deposit

M3c noun

M3 plus all foreign currency bank deposits

M4 noun

M1 plus most privately-held bank deposits and holdings of money market instruments

M5 noun

M4 plus building society deposits

M or M.

1. Maiden over(s) (cricket)
2. Malta (IVR)
3. Master
4. Mega-
5. Member (of)
6. Mille (Latin), a thousand
7. Million(s)
8. Money
9. Monsieur (French), Mr (pl MM)
10. Motorway (followed by a number)

Mˈ-way noun

A written contraction of motorway (see under motor)

M or m /em/

1. The thirteenth letter in the modern English alphabet, twelfth in the Roman, its sound a bilabial nasal
2. A unit of measurement (em) (printing)
3. Anything shaped like the letter M

M1 noun

A Garand rifle (qv)

Mˈ-roof noun

A roof formed by the junction of two simple roofs, resembling the letter M in cross-section

Mˈ-theory noun (physics)

A variation of string theory (qv under string) that posits an eleven-dimensional universe

M̄

(Roman numeral) 1000000

Mac¹, also written Mc and M’ /mak, mək/

A Gaelic prefix in names, meaning son (of)

• overkesting
• overkests
• overkill
• overkills
• overkind
• overkindness
• overkindnesses
• overking
• overkings
• overknee
• overlabour
• overlaboured
• overlabouring
• overlabours
• overlade
• overladed
• overladen
• overlades
• overlading
• overlaid
• overlain
• overland
• overlanded
• overlander
• overlanders