Definitions
from The American Heritage® Dictionary of the English Language, 5th Edition.
- noun The 12th letter of the Greek alphabet.
from The Century Dictionary.
- noun The Greek letter
μ , corresponding to the English masculine - noun The Greek letter M.
μ (μῦ , earlierμῶ) , corresponding to the English M, m. SeeM andmem .
from the GNU version of the Collaborative International Dictionary of English.
- noun The 12th letter of the Greek alphabet (μ, Μ).
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- noun The 12th letter of the
Modern Greek alphabet . - noun uncountable The name of a mythical floating island.
- noun A unit of surface area, currently equivalent to 666 and 2/3 meters squared.
- interjection hacker Neither yes nor no.
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- noun the 12th letter of the Greek alphabet
Etymologies
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Examples
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Your example of wordpress+mu is a tough one, since it is WordPressMU so the tag “should” be “wordpressmu”.
Adding Technorati Tags to WordPressMU Sites « Lorelle on WordPress 2005
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The question I have is if this is the end of politics as we know it, or are we just being fooled by the flash and dash of MoveOn, Meetup, the blogosphere, self publishers, and the thing that got everybody in mu worlds attention, a presidential campaign that broke all sorts of records in raising money from small donors?
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Goofy cartoons of older men and women looking tacky and dumpy (thinking stereotypical Miami) in mu mu’s and oversized sunglasses
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She stopped to buy a green mango cut like a flower and the vendor called her muñeca, doll, an endearment for petite women.
Watching Pablo Sleep 2008
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She stopped to buy a green mango cut like a flower and the vendor called her muñeca, doll, an endearment for petite women.
Watching Pablo Sleep 2008
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From the expansive vision gained by dying to his sense of separate selfhood, the man from the country suddenly beholds the blocked gate to the Law as what in truth it has always been, a non-barrier, or what Zen calls a mu-mon-kan or gateless gate.
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The activation in the brain of chemical receptors, called mu-opioid receptors, appears to be involved in producing what is known as the “placebo effect,” according to a report in The Journal of Neuroscience.
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Elementary particles known as mu-mesons, found in cosmic-ray showers, disinte - grate spontaneously, their average “proper lifetime”
TIME AND MEASUREMENT G. J. WHITROW 1968
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Also, he spent a lot of time down on the crick flat looking for a mu, which is the same as a sneeze-duck, except for the parallel stripes.
Ma Pettengill Harry Leon Wilson 1903
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Well, yes, there will be a bit for the lads if they really do begin to play the tune called mu-ti-nee.
Old Gold The Cruise of the "Jason" Brig George Manville Fenn 1870
seanahan commented on the word mu
There are a lot of different meanings for this word. I prefer the one used to answer "have you stopped being your wife?".
May 13, 2007
jennarenn commented on the word mu
I am so glad you said something, or I wouldn't have scrolled down that far. :)
May 14, 2007
uselessness commented on the word mu
I have yet to begin being my wife. Unless you count that whole "the two shall become one flesh thing." Even then, I'm still a bachelor: my answer is a resounding mu!
May 14, 2007
oroboros commented on the word mu
The Lost Continent of...
and,
answer to the Zen koan about "dogginess".
June 23, 2007
moritherapy commented on the word mu
and let's not forget it's a greek letter
October 20, 2007
gerbert commented on the word mu
In Japanese aesthetic vocabulary: expressing a spontaneity that suggests the Buddhist ideal of detachment from self
November 3, 2008
BWDavid commented on the word mu
Wikipedia: The word mu is central to the following well-known Zen Buddhist koan, which is also known as the Mu koan1:
A monk asked Zhaozhou Congshen, a Chinese Zen master (known as Jōshū in Japanese), "Has a dog Buddha-nature or not?" Zhaozhou answered, "Wú" (in Japanese, Mu)
—The Gateless Gate, koan 1, translation by Robert Aitken 5
In my family "mu" means "none of the above" or "no answer is the only right answer", for example to the question "have you stopped beating your wife?" "Mu."
November 21, 2011
ruzuzu commented on the word mu
Cf. moo koan.
November 21, 2011