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Slang | Noun. Source: This has always been a huge part of the Air Force because if the soldiers aren't physically fit then they won't be able to perform to the best of their ability. Definition: Fitness Assessment Monitor: This is someone who makes sure the squadrant meets the fitness standards. Context: This is usually only used when talking about someone's fitness level or when talking about excercise. Social Source: US Air Force Jargon. Source: Compiled by The University of Oregon. (additional references) |
| Noun. Source: Comes from the word family. Definition: The groups of families inside the sorority. Composed of big and little sisters. Context: Refering to girls that you are "related" to inside the sorority. Social Source: Sigma Kappa Sorority. Source: Compiled by The University of Oregon. (additional references) | |
Source: compiled by the editor from various references; see credits. | |
| The following table is compiled from various sources, across various languages. When English abbreviations or acronyms come from a non-English source, this is noted. | |||
| Entry | Source | Expression | Field |
FAM | English | Foyer Asset Management | N/A |
FAM | French | Station fédérale de recherches laitières de Liebefeld-Berne | Public Administration, Food & Agriculture |
FAM | Italian | Stazione federale di ricerche lattiere di Liebefeld-Berna | Public Administration, Food & Agriculture |
FAM | Latin | RM:Institut federal da perscrutaziun per economia da latgiras a Liebefeld-Berna | Public Administration, Food & Agriculture |
Source: compiled by the editor, based on several corpora (additional references). | |||
Crosswords: FAM |
| Specialty definitions using "FAM": FAM LAY. (references) |
| Non-English Usage: "FAM" is also a word in the following languages with English translations in parentheses. Catalan (fame, hearsay, renown, repute, rumor, rumour), Latin (Swiss Federal Dairy Research Station of Liebefeld-Bern), Manx (appendage, tangle), Papiamen (surname), Romanian (Arty). |
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Source: compiled by the editor from various references; see credits. | |||
| Thumbnail | Description & Credit |  | Kim Vossmer (right), the Ramstein Air Base, Germany, crisis hotline program manager, conducts training with some of the members of the crisis hotline team. Volunteers Staff Sgt. Norm Leo, 623rd Air Mobility Support Squdron; Teresa McBride, Ramstein AB Fam. |
Source: pictures compiled by the editor from various references; see picture credits. | |||
| Subject | Topic | Quote |
Health | Stine AR. Is amoxicillin more effective than placebo in treating acute otitis media in children younger than 2 years? J Fam Pract. (references) | |
Business | FAM trips for the industry are also a good way to reach the market. (references) | |
The Visit USA Committee of Norway plans 5-6 FAM trips a year, with 10-15 travel professionals on each trip. Another way of penetrating the market is to appoint a sales agent. (references) | ||
Source: compiled by the editor from ICON Group International, Inc.; see credits. | ||
| "FAM" is generally used as an unclassified items -- approximately 58.82% of the time. "FAM" is used about 17 times out of a sample of 100 million words spoken or written in English. Its rank is based on over 700,000 words used in the English language. Some parts-of-speech are not covered due to the samples used by the British National Corpus. (note: percents less than one-hundredth of one percent have been omitted) |
| Parts of Speech | Percent | Usage per 100 Million Words | Rank in English |
| Unclassified Items | 58.82% | 10 | 111,207 |
| Noun (singular) | 23.53% | 4 | 175,879 |
| Lexical Verb (base form) | 17.65% | 3 | 202,518 |
| Total | 100.00% | 17 | N/A |
Source: compiled by the editor from several corpora; see credits.
| The following table summarizes the usage of "FAM" based on a population census conducted in the United States. Ranks and frequencies are based on all names reported and classified. |
| Name | Usage/Gender | Usage per 100 million Persons | Rank in USA |
| Fam | Last name | 100 | 85,294 |
| Source: compiled by the editor from several corpora; see credits. | |||
Expression using "FAM": fam trip. Additional references. | |
| Source: compiled by the editor from various references; see credits. |
| The following statistics estimate the number of searches per day across the major English-language search engines as identified by various trade publications. Hyperlinks lead to commercial use of the expression at Amazon.com. |
| Expression | Frequency per Day | Expression | Frequency per Day |
fam | 168 | fam if see tell this | 4 |
fam trip | 64 | fam lesb | 4 |
travel agent fam trip | 22 | 4 ep fam | 3 |
fam lay | 13 | fam jam | 3 |
travel agent fam | 7 | fam ranma super | 3 |
fam pact | 7 | fam sex | 3 |
fam malaysia | 6 | fam news | 3 |
fam royal | 6 | 4 ep fam twiztid | 3 |
fam mart | 5 | fam cruise | 3 |
fam funds | 5 | fam sgi | 3 |
fam wu | 5 | camp fam | 3 |
fam tour | 5 | fam record | 3 |
4 da fam | 5 | c fam | 3 |
fam u | 4 | fam lay n rock roll | 3 |
4 fam twiztid | 4 | download fam prodoc.com tx update | 3 |
fam university | 4 | fam connection | 2 |
fam van | 4 | fam network | 2 |
fam rate | 4 | fam mexico trip | 2 |
fam fun | 4 | fam jam.ca | 2 |
fam fund value | 4 | fam family.ca jam | 2 |
| Source: compiled by the editor from various references; see credits. | |||
| Language | Translations for "FAM"; alternative meanings/domain in parentheses. | ||||||||||||||||
Danish | introduktionstur (fam trip, familiarization trip). (various references) | ||||||||||||||||
Dutch | kennismakingsbezoek (fam trip, familiarization trip). (various references) | ||||||||||||||||
French | visite de familiarisation (fam trip, familiarization trip). (various references) | ||||||||||||||||
German | Erkundigungsbesuch (fam trip, familiarization trip). (various references) | ||||||||||||||||
Greek | επίσκεψη γνωριμίας (fam trip, familiarization trip). (various references) | ||||||||||||||||
Italian | familiarization trip (fam trip, familiarization trip), tour informativo (fam trip, familiarization trip). (various references) | ||||||||||||||||
Pig Latin | amfay visita de familiarização (fam trip, familiarization trip). (various references) visita de familiarización (fam trip, familiarization trip). (various references) | ||||||||||||||||
Derivations | |
Words beginning with "FAM": fame, famed, fameless, fames, familial, familiar, familiarise, familiarised, familiarises, familiarising, familiarities, familiarity, familiarization, familiarizations, familiarize, familiarized, familiarizes, familiarizing, familiarly, familiarness, familiarnesses, familiars, families, familism, familisms, familistic, family, famine, famines, faming, famish, famished, famishes, famishing, famishment, famishments, famous, famously, famousness, famousnesses, famuli, famulus. (additional references) | |
Words containing "FAM": antidefamation, antifamily, defamation, defamations, defamatory, defame, defamed, defamer, defamers, defames, defaming, infamies, infamous, infamously, infamy, interfamilial, interfamily, materfamilias, materfamiliases, multifamily, nonfamilial, nonfamilies, nonfamily, overfamiliar, overfamiliarities, overfamiliarity, paterfamilias, patresfamilias, rifampicin, rifampicins, rifampin, rifampins, stepfamilies, stepfamily, subfamilies, subfamily, superfamilies, superfamily, ultrafamiliar, unfamiliar, unfamiliarities, unfamiliarity, unfamiliarly, unfamous. (additional references) | |
| Source: compiled by the editor, based on several corpora (additional references). | |
Scrabble® Enable2K-Verified Anagrams | |
| Words within the letters "a-f-m" | |
-1 letter: am, fa, ma. | |
| Words containing the letters "a-f-m" | |
+1 letter: fame, farm, flam, foam. | |
+2 letters: famed, fames, fanum, farms, flame, flams, flamy, fleam, foams, foamy, foram, frame, mafia, mafic. | |
+3 letters: affirm, aflame, aimful, armful, defame, defoam, family, famine, faming, famish, famous, famuli, fandom, fantom, fanums, farmed, farmer, fathom, favism, female, femora, ferbam, firman, flambe, flamed, flamen, flamer, flames, fleams, flyman, foamed, foamer, foeman, forams, formal, format, framed, framer, frames, fulham, fullam, fulmar, infamy, maffia, mafias, maftir, malfed, manful, massif, mayfly, ramify. | |
| Source: compiled by the editor from various references; see credits. SCRABBLE® is a registered trademark. All intellectual property rights in and to the game are owned in the U.S.A and Canada by Hasbro Inc., and throughout the rest of the world by J.W. Spear & Sons Limited of Maidenhead, Berkshire, England, a subsidiary of Mattel Inc. Mattel and Spear are not affiliated with Hasbro. | |
Hexadecimal (or equivalents, 770AD-1900s) (references)46 41 4D |
| Leonardo da Vinci (1452-1519; backwards) (references)
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| American Sign Language (origins from 1620-1817 in Italy and, especially, France) (references)
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| Semaphore (1791, in France) (references)
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| Braille (1829, in France) (references)
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Morse Code (1836) (references)..-. .- -- |
| Dancing Men (Sir Arthur Conan Doyle, 1903) (references)
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Binary Code (1918-1938, probably earlier) (references)01000110 01000001 01001101 |
HTML Code (1990) (references)F A M |
ISO 10646 (1991-1993) (references)0046 0041 004D |
| British Sign Language (Fingerspelling, BSL; 1992, British Deaf Association Dictionary of British Sign Language) (references)
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Encryption (beginner's substitution cypher): (references)403547 |
| 1. Definition 2. Crosswords 3. Usage: Commercial 4. Images: Photo Album | 5. Quotations: Non-fiction 6. Usage Frequency 7. Names: Frequency 8. Expressions | 9. Expressions: Internet 10. Translations: Modern 11. Abbreviations 12. Acronyms | 13. Derivations 14. Anagrams 15. Orthography 16. Bibliography |
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