Definitions
from The American Heritage® Dictionary of the English Language, 5th Edition.
- noun The 13th letter of the Hebrew alphabet.
from The Century Dictionary.
- noun An abbreviation of
memorandum , placed before a note of something to be remembered. - noun The thirteenth letter () in the Hebrew alphabet, corresponding to the English masculine Its numerical value is XL.
- noun An abbreviation of member;
- noun of the Latin memento, remember;
- noun of memoir.
from the GNU version of the Collaborative International Dictionary of English.
- noun the 13th letter of the Hebrew alphabet.
from Wiktionary, Creative Commons Attribution/Share-Alike License.
- noun The thirteenth letter of many Semitic alphabets/abjads (
Phoenician ,Aramaic ,Hebrew ,Syriac ,Arabic and others).
from WordNet 3.0 Copyright 2006 by Princeton University. All rights reserved.
- noun the 13th letter of the Hebrew alphabet
Etymologies
from The American Heritage® Dictionary of the English Language, 4th Edition
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Examples
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They burn out because people stop writing about them … if you think a mem is worth spending time on and don’t write about, you’re part of the problem.
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Besides, the presence of the yodh may well be due to the formative ending mem, which is generally the sign of abstract nouns.
The Catholic Encyclopedia, Volume 9: Laprade-Mass Liturgy 1840-1916 1913
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Those devices that allow the user to to set the memory base use a global variable called mem, and then set the mem_end address appropriately themselves.
Linux Journal - The Original Magazine of the Linux Community 2009
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Those devices that allow the user to to set the memory base use a global variable called mem, and then set the mem_end address appropriately themselves.
Linux Journal - The Original Magazine of the Linux Community 2009
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This may sound like a small thing for every hacker out there, but it also seems like the new release will bring along official support for virtual mem, which is a pretty nice thing to have on such a low mem device.
OSNews 2009
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* Mélbən, cf Mílburn, BrE * Mílbən méltdown noun one word meménto remember cf.
Citizendium, the Citizens' Compendium - Recent changes [en] 2009
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For testing, I set up a new Rails project called mem: rails mem
townx - Comments tvinod 2009
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Just for some clarification it's pronounced the same way "mem" would be such as in the word "memory".
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I subscribe to the tech'mem'd world of quality sources, not quantity.
"Baby I like you just the size you are." Ben Barren 2006
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I subscribe to the tech'mem'd world of quality sources, not quantity.
Archive 2006-06-01 Ben Barren 2006
lampbane commented on the word mem
Memphis International Airport.
October 21, 2008