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Im

adj, contraction, name, noun, verb

Definitions

Adjective
  1. 1
    Initialism of intramuscular. abbreviation, alt-of, initialism
  2. 2
    Initialism of intramuscular. abbreviation, alt-of, initialism, not-comparable

    "In the past few years, T patches have also been released for prescription usage. Both scrotally applied and nonscrotally applied vehicles are available. These forms of delivery offer more constant T levels and avoid the inconvenience of im injection."

  3. 3
    Initialism of intramedullary. abbreviation, alt-of, initialism
Contraction
  1. 1
    Misspelling of I'm. alt-of, contraction, misspelling
Proper Noun
  1. 1
    A surname from Korean.
Noun
  1. 1
    irregular galaxy with no coherent structure
  2. 2
    Initialism of information management. abbreviation, alt-of, countable, initialism, uncountable
  3. 3
    Initialism of instant message. Internet, abbreviation, alt-of, countable, initialism, uncountable

    "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."

  4. 4
    Initialism of instant messaging. Internet, abbreviation, alt-of, countable, initialism, uncountable

    "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!"

  5. 5
    Initialism of inner marker. abbreviation, alt-of, countable, initialism, uncountable
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  1. 6
    Initialism of individual medley. abbreviation, alt-of, countable, initialism, uncountable

    ""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.""

  2. 7
    Initialism of information memorandum. abbreviation, alt-of, countable, initialism, uncountable
  3. 8
    Initialism of innovation management. abbreviation, alt-of, countable, initialism, uncountable
  4. 9
    Initialism of idea management. abbreviation, alt-of, countable, initialism, uncountable
  5. 10
    Initialism of International Master. abbreviation, alt-of, countable, initialism
Verb
  1. 1
    Initialism of instant message (verb). abbreviation, alt-of, initialism

    "IM me when you get home."

Etymology

Borrowed from Korean 임(林) (Im) or Korean 임(任) (Im).

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