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Definition: FOR ME |
FOR ME1. As far as regards me. |
Crosswords: FOR ME |
| English words defined with "FOR ME": assuming, assumptive ♦ hold open ♦ keep, keep open ♦ presumptuous ♦ save ♦ unarguably, undisputedly. (references) |
| Specialty definitions using "FOR ME": alpha/beta pruning, Amaurote ♦ Back and Edge ♦ Can't do nothing ♦ Dee Mills, Dying Sayings ♦ minimax ♦ Right ♦ Scandal-broth. (references) |
| Domain | Usage | |
Screenplays | Please be here for me! (Batman & Robin; writing credit: Akiva Goldsman) It works for me! (Driving Miss Daisy; writing credit: Alfred Uhry) What a lucky break for me. (Interview with the Vampire: The Vampire Chronicles; writing credit: Anne Rice) Remember, Daddy? That beautiful stage that you were gonna build for me. You were gonna light it with nothing but candles (The Sweet Hereafter; writing credit: Atom Egoyan) Look - you should be happy for me. You don't know what he says to me in private (Almost Famous; writing credit: Cameron Crowe) | |
Lyrics | Yeah, you were meant for me (You Were Meant For Me; performing artist: Jewel) Buy for me a sparrow, almost any flying thing (Buy For Me the Rain; performing artist: Nitty Gritty Dirt Band) Oh it's bad for me it's bad for me (It's Bad For Me; performing artist: The Roches) Cause when I wuz low, you was there for me (Dear Mama; performing artist: 2Pac) You stumbled in and bumped your head, if not for me then you would be dead (Kryptonite; performing artist: 3 Doors Down) | |
Clever | I asked Mom if I was a gifted child. She said they certainly wouldn't have paid for me. (references; author: unknown) A sad Texan once prayed, "Lord, I wish you would make it rain--not so much for me, I've seen it--but for my 7-year-old. (references; author: unknown) | |
Movie/TV Titles | Play Misty for Me (1971) Don't Look for Me at Places Where I Can't Be Found (1970) Cry for Me Brother (1970) Looking for Me (1970) What's In It for Me (1969) | |
Song Titles | Save The Last Dance For Me (performing artist: The Drifters) Save Your Heart For Me (performing artist: Gary Lewis and The Playboys) What Have You Done For Me Lately (performing artist: Janet Jackson) You Were Meant For Me (performing artist: Jewel) IT'S NOT FOR ME TO SAY (performing artist: Johnny Mathis ) | |
Source: compiled by the editor from various references; see credits. | ||
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| Thumbnail | Description & Credit | Thumbnail | Description & Credit |
 | Arthur Godfrey, popular entertainer and smoker who later died of lung cancer, touts Chesterfield cigarettes as safe and "best for me." Tobacco, smoking. Credit: CDC. |  | Red Ribbon Week : The Choice For Me Drug Free!!. Credit: National Library of Medicine. |
 | Look here, I want you to buy some stock for me. Credit: Library of Congress. |  | Dottie and Lottie. No pork chops for me dearie ... I had a customer today that looked the image of a fat pig ... Credit: Library of Congress. |
 | If dreams came true. For me der white meat!. Credit: Library of Congress. |  | He's good enough for me!. Credit: Library of Congress. |
 | "You can do a favor for me - rub out any gun control legislation" / Herblock. Credit: Library of Congress. |  | 'Hold it...wait for me!' / Oliphant. Credit: Library of Congress. |
 | Leveling hummocks in dust bowl, thirty miles north of Dalhart, Texas. Farmer: "Every dime I got is tied up right here. If I don't get it out, I've got to drive off and leave it. Where would I go and what would I do? I know what the land did once for me, m. Credit: Library of Congress. |  | Who swept my walk for me again?. Credit: Library of Congress. |
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| Author | Quotation |
Christopher Marlowe | Pray for me! and what noise soever ye hear, come not unto me, for nothing can rescue me. |
Francis Thompson | Look for me in the nurseries of Heaven. |
Katharine Hepburn | As for me, prizes are nothing. My prize is my work. |
Martial | You're obstinate, pliant, merry, morose, all at once. For me there's no living with you, or without you. |
Meister Eckhart | Jesus might have said, ''I became man for you. If you do not become God for me, you wrong me.'' |
Patrick Henry | I know not what course others may take; but as for me, give me liberty, or give me death. |
Seneca | No untroubled day has ever dawned for me. |
William Congreve | If there's delight in love, 'Tis when I see that heart, which others bleed for, bleed for me. |
Woodrow Wilson | I would never read a book if it were possible for me to talk half an hour with the man who wrote it. |
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Emma | Austen, Jane | My uncle has been too good for me to encroach |
Sylvie and Bruno | Carroll, Lewis | I tried to calculate what this would come to, but it was too hard for me. |
Life, the Universe and Everything | Douglas Adams | I said, `I would like to say that it is a very great pleasure, honor and privilege for me to open this bridge, but I can't because my lying circuits are all out of commission |
Scarlet Letter | Hawthorne, Nathaniel | But, as for me, I come to the inquest with other senses than they possess |
Les Miserables | Hugo, Victor | You will weep for me a little, will you not |
Portrait of the Artist as a Young Man | Joyce, James | Pray for me. |
Gulliver's Travels | Swift, Jonathan | It was impossible for me to climb this stile, because every step was six feet high, and the upper stone above twenty |
Walden | Thoreau, Henry David | The gentle rain which waters my beans and keeps me in the house today is not drear and melancholy, but good for me too. |
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| Speaker | Phrase(s) |
Barry Manilow | The best, and the studio singers, the background singers taught me how to do harmonies, how to sound different. It was a great three-year learning experience. It was college for me. |
Dennis Miller | It's hard for me to decide who is more narrow minded in pursuit of their own interest--men or women. |
Earl Charles Spencer | That's my belief. That's how I see it. I mean, it's not for me to say whether those problems were resolvable or not. But the fact is that they were never given a chance to be resolved. |
Jerry Lewis | Yeah. And I'm the only one with a red one in the world. Medtronic had it made specially for me and gave it to me two weeks ago. |
Martha Stewart | Well, Christmas is big, Valentine's is wonderfully big for flowers and chocolates, and for me it's big because I get to send all my men friends little greetings and little presents and stuff. |
Matthew Perry | I also had a strange rule about that. I never mixed them, either. One thing at a time for me. One deathly dangerous thing at a time. |
Priscilla Presley | Very strong. He's his own person. Very secure. Very solid. He's very understanding. And it's been good for me. It's the only relationship that I've had that's really, you know, been that solid. |
Regis Philbin | People by and large, my friends, seemed to be very happy for me. They knew how long I'd been around. |
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| Speaker | Term | Phrase(s) |
John Adams | 1797-1801 | In connection with this unpleasant state of things on our western frontier it is proper for me to mention the attempts of foreign agents to alienate the affections of the Indian nations and to excite them to actual hostilities against the United States. |
Lyndon B. Johnson | 1963-1969 | The answer was waiting for me in the land where I was born. |
Gerald Ford | 1974-1977 | Life will be a little better here for my children than for me. |
Jimmy Carter | 1977-1981 | There were two moments on my recent journey which, for me, confirmed the final aims of our foreign policy and what it always must be. |
Ronald Reagan | 1981-1989 | For me, she has been a staunch ally, my political soulmate, a great visionary and a dear, dear friend. |
Bill Clinton | 1993-2001 | As for me, I'll leave the Presidency more idealistic, more full of hope than the day I arrived, and more confident than ever that America's best days lie ahead. |
Source: compiled by the editor from various references. | ||
Expressions using "FOR ME": a car is a must for me ♦ as for me ♦ it goes against the grain for me ♦ it was a revelation for me ♦ luckily for me ♦ play it back for me ♦ that is too much for me ♦ that will suffice for me ♦ that's too much for me. Additional references. | |
| Source: compiled by the editor from various references; see credits. |
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| Language | Translations for "FOR ME"; alternative meanings/domain in parentheses. | |
Basque | niretzat, niretzako. (various references) | |
Breton | evidon. (various references) | |
Czech | si (each other, for myself, herself, itself, themselves, to me, to myself, to yourself, yourself). (various references) | |
Dutch | voor mý (on my account), terwille van mý (on my account). (various references) | |
Estonian | mulle (me, to me, to me/for me). (various references) | |
Finnish | minulle (to me). (various references) | |
French | me. (various references) | |
German | mir (me, myself, to me, us). (various references) | |
Greek | για μένα. (various references) | |
Hebrew | למע י (for my sake). (various references) | |
Hungarian | számomra, nekem (me, to me). (various references) | |
Irish | dom (to me). (various references) | |
Italian | mi (me, myself, to me), me (I, me, mine, myself, to me). (various references) | |
Japanese Kanji | 我乍ら . (various references) | |
Japanese Katakana | われながら (even if I say so myself). (various references) | |
Manx | er-my-hon. (various references) | |
Pig Latin | orfay emay.(various references) | |
Portuguese | me (me, myself, to me). (various references) | |
Portuguese Brazilian | me (me, myself, to me). (various references) | |
Romanian | pentru mine. (various references) | |
Slovene | zame. (various references) | |
Somali | laygu, ii (to me). (various references) | |
Spanish | me (for myself, from me, I, me, mi, mine, myself, to me). (various references) | |
Swahili | kwangu. (various references) | |
Turkish | yapıma aykırı (it goes against the grain for me, it goes against the grain with me), ters geliyor (it goes against the grain for me, it goes against the grain with me), bence (according to me, all I know, as for me, in my estimation, in my opinion, in my view, to my thinking, to my way of thinking). (various references) | |
| Source: compiled by the editor from various translation references. | ||
| Language | Period | Translations |
| Avestan | 200-600 | me. (various references) |
| Source: compiled by the editor from various references. | ||
| Language | Date | Source | Romans Chapter 11, Verse 3 |
| Greek (transliterated) | 250 BC | Septuagint | Kurie touV profhtaV sou apekteinan kai ta qusiasthria sou kateskayan kagw upeleifqhn monoV kai zhtousin thn yuchn mou |
| Latin | 405 | Vulgate | Domine prophetas tuos occiderunt altaria tua suffoderunt et ego relictus sum solus et quaerunt animam meam |
| Old English | 990 | West Saxon | "Drihten, hi acweldon þine witegan and þine weofodas fordydon; ic eom ana to lafe and hi fandiað gif hi magon me acwellan." |
| Middle English | 1395 | Wyclif | Lord, thei han slayn thi prophetis, thei han vndurdoluun thin auteris, and Y am lefte aloone, and thei seken my lijf. |
| Renaissance English | 1526 | Tyndale | Lorde they have kylled thy prophetes and dygged doune thyn alters: and I am lefte only and they seke my lyfe. |
| Jacobean English | 1611 | King James | Lord, they have killed thy prophets, and digged down thine altars; and I am left alone, and they seek my life. |
| Victorian English | 1833 | Webster | Lord, they have killed thy prophets, and digged down thy altars; and I am left alone, and they seek my life. |
| Basic English | 1964 | Ogden | Lord, they have put your prophets to death, and made waste your altars, and now I am the last, and they are searching for me to take away my life. |
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| Language | Romans Chapter 11, Verse 3 |
| Cebuano | "Ginoo, gipamatay nila ang imong mga profeta, gipangguba nila ang imong mga halaran, ug ako na lang usa ra ang nahibilin, ug ginapangita nila ang akong kinabuhi." |
| Chinese | 『 主 阿 、 他 們 殺 了 的 先 知 、 拆 了 的 祭 壇 、 只 剩 下 我 一 個 人 、 他 們 還 要 尋 索 我 的 命 。 』 |
| Croatian | Gospode, proroke tvoje pobiše, žrtvenike tvoje porušiše; ja ostadoh sam i još mi o glavi rade. |
| Danish | "Herre! dine Profeter have de ihjelslået, dine Altre have de nedbrudt, og jeg er den eneste, der er levnet, og de efterstræbe mit Liv." |
| Dutch | Heere! zij hebben Uw profeten gedood, en Uw altaren omgeworpen; en ik ben alleen overgebleven en zij zoeken mijn ziel. |
| Finnish | "Herra, he ovat tappaneet sinun profeettasi ja hajottaneet sinun alttarisi, ja minä yksin olen jäänyt jäljelle, ja he väijyvät minun henkeäni"? |
| French | Seigneur, ils ont tué tes prophètes, ils ont renversé tes autels; je suis resté moi seul, et ils cherchent m`ôter la vie? |
| German | "HERR, sie haben deine Propheten getötet und deine Altäre zerbrochen; und ich bin allein übriggeblieben, und sie stehen mir nach meinem Leben"? |
| Haitian Creole | Bondye, yo touye pwofèt yo, yo kraze lotèl ou yo; se mwen menm sèl ki rete. Men y'ap chache wete lavi m' tou? |
| Indonesian-Bahasa Sehari-hari | "Tuhan, orang-orang sudah membunuh nabi-nabi-Mu dan menghancurkan tempat-tempat mempersembahkan kurban untuk-Mu. Tinggal saya seorang diri dan mereka mau membunuh saya." |
| Indonesian-Terjemahan Lama | Ya Tuhan, nabi-nabi-Mu sudah dibunuh oleh mereka itu, dan segala tempat korban-Mu sudah dibongkarnya; maka aku tinggal seorang diri sahaja, dan mereka itu menuntut nyawaku. |
| Italian | Signore, hanno ucciso i tuoi profeti, hanno rovesciato i tuoi altari e io sono rimasto solo e ora vogliono la mia vita. |
| Maori | E te Ariki, kua patua e ratou au poropiti, kua whakahoroa au aata; ko ahau anake hoki kua mahue nei, a e whai ana ratou kia patua ahau. |
| Norwegian | Herre! dine profeter drepte de, dine alter rev de ned, og jeg blev alene tilbake, og de står mig efter livet. |
| Rumanian | ,,Doamne, pe proorocii Tqi i-au omorkt, altarele Tale le-au surpat; am rqmas eu singur, wi cautq sq-mi ia viaya?`` |
| Russian | зПУ П"Й! ТПТПЛПЧ фЧПЙИ Х'ЙМЙ, ЦЕТФЧЕООЙЛЙ фЧПЙ ТБЪТХЫЙМЙ; ПУФБМУС С П"ЙО, Й НПЕК "ХЫЙ ЙЭХФ. |
| Shuar | "Uuntrú, naman awasar Yus Sútaincha mash saakiarai. Aminiun etserniuncha mash Máawarai. Tura wiki juakjai. Tura winiasha "mantuatai" turutainiawai." Tu áujsamiayi. |
| Spanish | Señor, han matado a tus profetas y han derribado tus altares; y yo he quedado solo, y procuran quitarme la vida. |
| Swahili | "Bwana, wamewaua manabii wako na kubomoa madhabahu yako. Ni mimi tu peke yangu niliyebaki, nao wanataka kuniua?" |
| Swedish | "Herre, de hava dräpt dina profeter och rivit ned dina altaren; jag allena är kvar, och de stå efter mitt liv"? |
| Uma | "Pue', rapatehi-ramo nabi-nu, pai' rakero wo'o-mi watu pontunua pepue' -kai hi Iko. Muntu' hadua-ku-damo to tuwu', aga rapali' wo'o-ama doko' rapatehi!" |
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Scrabble® Enable2K-Verified Anagrams | |
Direct Anagrams: forme. | |
| Words within the letters "e-f-m-o-r" | |
-1 letter: fore, form, froe, from, more, omer. | |
-2 letters: emf, fem, fer, foe, for, fro, mor, ore, ref, rem, roe, rom. | |
-3 letters: ef, em, er, me, mo, oe, of, om, or, re. | |
| Words containing the letters "e-f-m-o-r" | |
+1 letter: deform, femora, foamer, formed, formee, former, formes, reform. | |
+2 letters: comfier, comfrey, deforms, deiform, femoral, fermion, foamers, foamier, foramen, forearm, foreman, foremen, formate, formers, freedom, frogmen, fromage, perform, pomfret, preform, reforms, serfdom. | |
+3 letters: aeriform, biformed, comfreys, defoamer, deformed, deformer, ensiform, fearsome, fermions, filmgoer, firebomb, fireroom, fireworm, fomenter, foramens, forearms, foreboom, foredoom, forelimb, foremast, foremilk, foremost, forename, foretime, formable, formates, formerly, formless, formulae, foursome, freedoms, freeform, fretsome, fromages, fromenty, fumarole, informed, informer, leafworm, modifier, pediform, performs, pomfrets, preforms, reformat, reformed, reformer, reinform, remodify, reniform, retiform, serfdoms, setiform, unformed, waveform. | |
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