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IM
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Appendix:Variations of "im" 𒅎
Translingual
Etymology 1
Symbol
1 2 the Isle of Man 2006
mul IMN ISO 3166-1 alpha-3 alpha-3
Etymology 2
Alternative forms
mul CMXCIX cmxcix
Number
mul number
mul proscribed possibly _ nonstandard mul CMXCIX, the Roman numeral representing nine hundred and ninety-nine (999).
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mul Isle of Man
English
Noun
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en computing en w:information management.
en Internet en instant message.
en 2010 Tim Collins A Woman's Guide to Internet Dating, A Male Perspective 49 Have them meet you on your favorite messenger program. IMs provide a means of instant chat without waiting on someone to respond back to you.
en Internet en instant messaging.
en 7 December 2005 Scott & Scott pseudonym; Scott Pomfret; Scott Whittier 8 Nothing Personal Romentics: A Novel Approach to Gay Romance [North Charleston, S.C.] BookSurge 50 https://archive.org/details/nothingpersonalr0000pomf/page/50/mode/1up 1-4196-2079-7 The husband-hunt had been a failure. Carlo had taken at least a dozen potential Misters Right on test runs of longer or shorter duration—perhaps a few lines of IM, perhaps a couple of promising dates, or sexual calisthenics.
en 2007 Bill Daley Computers Are Your Future 70 Another threat to the use of IM is a phenomenon known as spimming. Spimming is to IM as spam is to e-mail. Some aggressive spimmers learned how to take over one IMer's contact list — threatening a company's entire IM system!
en 2008 January–February Chris Rodell Small talk, big results w:Men's Health 23 1 1054-4836 6ccDAAAAMBAJ 80 IM Sure, we may use cellphones and e-mail hundreds of times a week, but we say very little. Most of our talk, even in privileged IM circles, is no deeper than the words we exchange with the pizza guy.
en computing en instance manipulation.
en aviation en inner marker.
en swimming en individual medley.
en 2021-08-11 Joe Randleman Magnificent Meghan: Donald ready to defend state swimming titles for Ames High w:Ames Tribune https://eu.amestrib.com/story/sports/2021/08/11/ameslittle-cyclones-iowa-senior-donald-ready-one-more-run-girls-swimming/5562900001/ "When I first joined ACAC (Ames Cyclones Aquatics Club), we were swimming together in a lane and I ended up going behind her," Hala said. "We were doing IM (individual medley) in warm-up and I was on her feet and I was like I'm an IMer, can I go ahead of you? She told me no." https://web.archive.org/web/20250630185250/https://eu.amestrib.com/story/sports/2021/08/11/ameslittle-cyclones-iowa-senior-donald-ready-one-more-run-girls-swimming/5562900001/ 30 June 2025
en business en information memorandum.
en business en w:innovation management.
en idea management.
en countable chess en International Master.
Verb
en instant message v.
en IM me when you get home.
en 2004 Rocki St. Claire Hit Reply New York, NY w:Pocket Books 1416500022 Rro33wJMO9AC 160 IM You won't pick up, you won't IM, you won't return my six (seven?) phone calls. So I'm resorting to email for this. First of all, don't get mad at Julie. She did the right thing. But, sweetie, why are you hiding this from the people who love you?
en 2010 Jeanne C. Meister; Karie Willyerd The 2020 Workplace: How Innovative Companies Attract, Develop, and Keep Tomorrow's Employees Today https://books.google.com/books?id=VNJusI0czE4C&lpg=PT20&dq=%22WDYT%22&hl=&pg=PT25#v=onepage&q&f=false Harper Collins 9780061992353 “WDYT,” she IM'd Sophie, wondering what her new friend thought of the idea. Sophie, sitting next to her, quickly IM'd back “G4I” to show her support.
Coordinate terms
en DM, en PM
Derived terms
en IMer spim
Adjective
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en medicine en intramuscular.
en im I.M. i.m.
en intramedullary.
Anagrams
en im MI mi mi.
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German
Etymology
unofficial associate, unofficial staff member. The word de Mitarbeiter is literally “with-worker, cooperator”, but has the general sense of “employee, staffer”; therefore the usual English translation “collaborator” is imprecise. The coordinate terms de Offizieller Mitarbeiter or, more commonly, de Hauptamtlicher Mitarbeiter referred to the Stasi’s ordinary civil servants.
Pronunciation
de /iːˈɛm/ [ˌʔiːˈʔɛm] [ʔiˈʔɛm]
de De-IM.ogg <<Germany>> (<<Berlin>>)
Noun
m:f,-:'s[m alternatively]:s,-:'s:s
de historical DDR de w:de:Inoffizieller Mitarbeiter Inoffizieller Mitarbeiter / Inoffizielle Mitarbeiterin unofficial collaborator an informant in the German Democratic Republic who delivered private information to the Stasi.
Declension
m,-:'s:s,-:'s:s
f,-:'s:s
Hyponyms
de IMA IME
See also
de DDR Stasi
de East Germany