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Definition: Mem |
MemNoun1. The 13th letter of the Hebrew alphabet. Source: WordNet 1.7.1 Copyright © 2001 by Princeton University. All rights reserved. |
Date "mem" was first used in popular English literature: sometime before 1637. (references) |
| 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 |
MEM | English | Memphis | N/A |
MEM | French | Mémoire morte | Computing, Post & Telecom |
Source: compiled by the editor, based on several corpora (additional references). | |||
Crosswords: Mem |
| English words defined with "mem": Memorandum check. (references) |
| Specialty definitions using "mem": Novell DOS ♦ SCL ♦ Total.. (references) |
| Non-English Usage: "Mem" is also a word in the following languages with English translations in parentheses. Esperanto (herself, himself, itself, self), Frisian (mother), Latin (mem). |
| Domain | Usage | |
Movie/TV Titles | Mem Sahib (1956) English Babu Desi Mem (1997) Papashka i mem (1990) | |
Source: compiled by the editor from various references; see credits. | ||
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Consumer Goods | |||
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Black and white drawing of N.Y. Cancer hospital, Mem. Sloan Kettering.Credit: unknown artist. | ![]() | Figs.1 and 2, Agaricia agaricites Milne-Edw. and Haime. Fig. 3, cirrhiped covered with coral. Figs. 4-6, Porites clavaria Lamarck. Fig. 7, Porites furcata Lamarck. Figures 9-12, Astrangia solitaria Verrill. Figs. 13-15, Colangia immersa Pourtales. In: "Report on the Florida Reefs", 1880, by Louis Agassiz. Mem. of Museum of Comp. Zoo. at Harvard, Vol. VII, No. 1. Plate XII.Credit: The Coral Kingdom. | |
![]() | Self-help cooperative, Burbank, California. Organized August 1934. Now has seventy-six active members and is fairly successful. Have applied to the Resettlement Administration for a loan. Have farm of one hundred eighty acres, and supply vegetables to mem.Credit: Library of Congress. | ||
Source: compiled by the editor from various references; see credits. | |||
| Subject | Topic | Quote |
Economic History | Venezuela | The MEM can request the royalty in cash or in kind. (references) |
Venezuela | It will be managed by a board of directors composed of five members, all of which will be nominated by the MEM. (references) | |
Venezuela | The MEM adopted specific measures to encourage participation of national capital in gas activities, and the use of national contractors. (references) | |
Source: compiled by the editor from ICON Group International, Inc.; see credits. | ||
| "Mem" is generally used as a noun (singular) -- approximately 47.22% of the time. "Mem" is used about 36 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 |
| Noun (singular) | 47.22% | 17 | 85,106 |
| Unclassified Items | 41.67% | 15 | 90,616 |
| Lexical Verb (base form) | 5.56% | 2 | 245,945 |
| Noun (proper) | 5.56% | 2 | 245,945 |
| Total | 100.00% | 36 | N/A |
Source: compiled by the editor from several corpora; see credits.
| Hyphenated Usage | |
Beginning with "mem": mem-sahib. | |
Containing "mem": re-mem-ber. | |
| 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 |
mem | 286 | free mem pro | 6 |
mem turbo | 164 | mem perfume | 5 |
mem max | 51 | mem airport | 5 |
mem fox | 45 | mem speed | 5 |
free mem | 36 | defrag mem | 5 |
mem test | 34 | 48u mem memorex | 5 |
doc mem | 29 | mem tester | 5 |
mem monster | 23 | mem c6k flc16m | 4 |
x mem | 20 | mem shannon | 4 |
mem pro | 19 | 2 mem x | 4 |
mem pro speed | 10 | mem 32f as53 | 4 |
ins.com mem | 10 | mem 16m 52 | 4 |
mem up | 8 | man mem | 4 |
boost mem | 8 | co mem | 4 |
mem maker | 7 | mem 16s 52 | 3 |
2.1 mem pro speed | 7 | net mem | 3 |
86 mem test | 6 | mem rsp flc20m | 3 |
booster mem | 6 | bad mem pointer | 3 |
mem phan | 6 | check mem | 3 |
de escola martins mem secundaria | 6 | gay mem | 3 |
mem number paypal.com | 6 | iinnocent.com mem | 3 |
manager mem | 6 | mem pro turbo | 3 |
ram mem | 3 | ||
| Source: compiled by the editor from various references; see credits. | |||
| Language | Translations for "mem"; alternative meanings/domain in parentheses. | |
Russian | of madam (ma'am). (various references) | |
Spanish | mujer casada (mem-sahib). (various references) | |
Swedish | minne (keepsake, memento, memory, mind, recall, recollection, relic, remembrance, reminiscence, souvenir, storage, token). (various references) | |
Ukranian | мемсаіб (mem-sahib). (various references) | |
| Source: compiled by the editor from various translation references. | ||
| Language | Period | Translations |
| Latin | 500 BCE-Modern | mem. (various references) |
| Source: compiled by the editor from various references. | ||
| Language | Date | Source | Proverbs Chapter 31, Verse 22 |
| Greek (transliterated) | 250 BC | Septuagint | DissaV clainaV epoihsen tw andri authV ek de bussou kai porfuraV eauth endumata |
| Latin | 405 | Vulgate | Mem stragulam vestem fecit sibi byssus et purpura indumentum eius |
| Middle English | 1395 | Wyclif | Men. A rai cloth she made to hir; bijs and purpre the clothing of hir. |
| Jacobean English | 1611 | King James | She maketh herself coverings of tapestry; her clothing is silk and purple. |
| Victorian English | 1833 | Webster | She maketh herself coverings of tapestry; her clothing is silk and purple. |
| Basic English | 1964 | Ogden | She makes for herself cushions of needlework; her clothing is fair linen and purple. |
Source: compiled by the editor from various references; see credits. | |||
| Language | Proverbs Chapter 31, Verse 22 |
| Cebuano | Siya nagabuhat alang sa iyang kaugalingon ug mga alfombra; Ang iyang saput lino nga manipis ug purpura. |
| Croatian | Sama sebi šije pokrivaèe, odijeva se lanom i purpurom. |
| Danish | Tæpper laver hun sig, hun er klædt i Byssus og Purpur. |
| Dutch | Mem. Zij maakt voor zich tapijtsieraad; haar kleding is fijn linnen en purper. |
| Finnish | Hän valmistaa itsellensä peitteitä; hienoa pellavaa ja punapurppuraa on hänen pukunsa. |
| French | Elle se fait des couvertures, Elle a des vêtements de fin lin et de pourpre. |
| German | Sie macht sich selbst Decken; feine Leinwand und Purpur ist ihr Kleid. |
| Haitian Creole | Li fè kouvèti lenn pou kabann yo. Tout rad li yo fèt ak twal wouj tise byen sere. |
| Hungarian | Szõnyegeket csinál magának; patyolat és bíbor az õ öltözete. |
| Indonesian-Bahasa Sehari-hari | Ia sendiri yang membuat permadaninya; pakaiannya dari kain lenan ungu yang mewah. |
| Indonesian-Terjemahan Lama | Maka diperbuatnya bagi dirinya perhiasan permadani, dan pakaiannya dari pada kain halus yang ungu warnanya. |
| Italian | Si fa delle coperte, di lino e di porpora sono le sue vesti. |
| Korean | 그 는 자 기 를 위 하 여 아 름 다 운 방 석 을 지 으 며 세 마 포 와 자 색 옷 을 입 으 며 |
| Maori | Oti ake i a ia te whatuwhatu he whariki mona; he rinena pai, he papura ona kakahu. |
| Norwegian | Hun gjør sig tepper; fint lin og purpur er hennes klædning. |
| Portuguese | Meme. Faz para si cobertas; de linho fino e de púrpura é o seu vestido. |
| Rumanian | Ea kwi face knvelitori, are haine de in supyire wi purpurq. |
| Russian | пОБ ДЕМБЕФ УЕВЕ ЛПЧТЩ; ЧЙУУПО Й РХТРХТ--ПДЕЦДБ ЕЕ. |
| Spanish | Tapices hace para sí, y se viste de lino fino y púrpura. |
| Swedish | Sköna täcken gör hon åt sig, hon har kläder av finaste linne och purpur. |
Source: compiled by the editor from various references; see credits. | |
Derivations | |
Words beginning with "mem": member, membered, members, membership, memberships, membrane, membraned, membranes, membranous, membranously, meme, memento, mementoes, mementos, memes, memo, memoir, memoirist, memoirists, memoirs, memorabilia, memorabilities, memorability, memorable, memorableness, memorablenesses, memorably, memoranda, memorandum, memorandums, memorial, memorialise, memorialised, memorialises, memorialising, memorialist, memorialists, memorialize, memorialized, memorializes, memorializing, memorially, memorials, memories, memorise, memorised, memorises, memorising, memoriter, memorizable, memorization. (additional references) | |
Words containing "mem": almemar, almemars, comember, comembers, commemorate, commemorated, commemorates, commemorating, commemoration, commemorations, commemorative, commemoratively, commemoratives, commemorator, commemorators, countermemo, countermemos, cytomembrane, cytomembranes, dismember, dismembered, dismembering, dismemberment, dismemberments, dismembers, disremember, disremembered, disremembering, disremembers, enframement, enframements, enthymeme, enthymemes, homemade, homemaker, homemakers, homemaking, homemakings, immemorial, immemorially, intermembrane, misremember, misremembered, misremembering, misremembers, multimember, nonmember, nonmembers, nonmembership, nonmemberships, remember. (additional references) | |
| Source: compiled by the editor, based on several corpora (additional references). | |
Scrabble® Enable2K-Verified Anagrams | |
| Words within the letters "e-m-m" | |
-1 letter: em, me, mm. | |
| Words containing the letters "e-m-m" | |
+1 letter: meme, memo, mems, mime, mome. | |
+2 letters: emmer, emmet, femme, gemma, gemmy, gimme, jemmy, lemma, mamey, mamie, memes, memos, mimed, mimeo, mimer, mimes, modem, momes. | |
+3 letters: ammine, bammed, bummed, bummer, commie, cummer, dammed, dammer, dimmed, dimmer, embalm, emblem, emmers, emmets, femmes, gammed, gammer, gemmae, gemmed, gimmes, gimmie, gramme, gremmy, gummed, gummer, hammed, hammer, hemmed, hemmer, hummed, hummer, immane, immesh, immies, immune, immure, jammed, jammer, kummel, lammed, lemmas, limmer, madame, madmen, maihem, maimed, maimer, mameys, mamies, mammae, mammee, mammer, mammet, mammey, mammie, maumet, mayhem, medium, megohm, megrim, member, memoir, memory, mentum, merman, mermen, metump, mimeos, mimers, mismet, modems, moment, momser, momzer, mumble, mummed, mummer, mumped, mumper, museum, nimmed, pommee, pommel, pommie, pummel, rammed, rammer, rimmed, rimmer, rummer, sememe, simmer, smegma, stemma, stemmy, summae, summed, summer, tammie, tommed, yammer. | |
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Hexadecimal (or equivalents, 770AD-1900s) (references)4D 65 6D |
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