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ME¹
proper noun
- Abbreviation of Maine: a state of the United States.Maine
- Abbreviation of Middle East: a geographic region of West Asia, additionally including Turkey, as well as Egypt in North Africa.Middle East
- Initialism of Middle English.Middle English
- Alternative letter-case form of Me (“Windows Me (Millennium Edition)”).Me
- Initialism of Montreal Exchange, a futures and derivatives exchange (formerly also a stock exchange).Montreal Exchange
- Initialism of Mass Effect.Mass Effect In ME technophobia (or perhaps more accurately, "cyborg-phobia") reaches its zenith with the design of the Reapers' techno-zombies, as they are mutated, abject monstrosities that exist to be fought and killed by the player. Humans who are infected by the Reapers mutate into "Husks," which look like
symbol M_E
- Earth mass: a unit of measurement, equal to the mass of planet Earth, which is 6×10²⁴ kg or 3×10⁻⁶ M_☉.
- The mass of the Earth specifically.
noun MEs
- Initialism of master of engineering.master of engineering
- Initialism of managing editor.managing editor
- Initialism of medical examiner.medical examiner The little M.E.’s man nodded, picked his bag off the deck and went back up the steps to the pier.
- Initialism of myalgic encephalomyelitis.myalgic encephalomyelitis
- Initialism of marriage encounter.marriage encounter
- Initialism of main engine.main engine
me²
- /miː/ Canada, UK
- /mi/ US
- /mɪ/
- /meɪ/
- /me/ Early Modern
Sounds like Me, mee, may (some accents) · Rhymes with -iː, -eɪ, -ɪ
Where it comes from
From Middle English me, from Old English mē (“me”, originally dative, but later also accusative, supplanting accusative mec), from Proto-West Germanic *miʀ, from Proto-Germanic *miz (“me”), from Proto-Indo-European *h₁me- (“me”).
Cognate with Scots me, North Frisian me, Saterland Frisian mie, Dutch me, mij, Low German mi, German mir (dative only), Icelandic mér (also still dative), Latin mē, Ancient Greek μέ (mé), ἐμέ (emé), Sanskrit मा (mā), all meaning “me”.
pronoun
- As the object (direct or indirect) of a verb. Can you hear me?
- Myself; as a reflexive direct object of a verb. And I awoke, and found me here.
- Myself; as a reflexive indirect object of a verb; the ethical dative. When I get to college, I'm gonna get me a white Nissan Sentra.
- As the object of a preposition. Come with me.
- Used in isolation or apposition, or (sometimes proscribed) as the complement of the copula (be). Who's there? —Me. (or:) It's only me.
- As the subject of a verb. Me and my friends played a game.
- As the subject of a verb. Sometimes used to indicate or imitate limited English fluency. One of them, whose sobriquet was Big-headed Blackboy, was stretched out before the fire, and no answer could be obtained from him, but a drawling repetition, in grunts of displeasure, of "Bel (not) me want to go.
- Would be the subject of a copula in standard English, though the copula is omitted; used to indicate or imitate limited English fluency. “I should stick to Tarzan,” he [Johnny Weissmuller] explains. “You see, I’m no actor. Well, I didn’t have to act in ‘Tarzan, the Ape Man’—just said, ‘Me Tarzan, you Jane.’ I'll never be able to act.”
noun mes
- The self or personality of the speaker, especially their authentic self. “Quite easily. Here you are taking care of a poor little boy with one arm, and there you are sinking a ship with the other. It can’t be like you.” “Ah, but which is me? I can’t be two mes, you know.” “No. Nobody can be two mes.” “Well, which me is me?” “Now I must think. There looks to be two.” “Yes
me³
- /miː/ UK
Where it comes from
A spelling representing the pronunciation (/miː/), which is the older pronunciation (see Middle English mi (“my”); Middle English me (“me”) was pronounced /meː/, similar to modern May); the Great Vowel Shift in the Middle Ages changed /iː/ to /aɪ/, but some dialects retained or reinnovated /iː/ in this word.
determiner
- Alternative form of my.my There don't seem much to say just now. / (Yer what? Then don't, yer ruddy cow! / And give us back me cigarette!)
me⁴
Where it comes from
From mi (“third note of a major scale”) + -e (“flat”), from Glover's solmization, Italian mi in the solmization of Guido of Arezzo, from the first syllable of Latin mīra in the lyrics of the scale-ascending hymn Ut queant laxis by Paulus Deacon.
noun
- The solfeggio syllable used to indicate the flat of the third note of a major scale.
me⁵
Where it comes from
From Middle English me, an unstressed phonetic reduction of men, man (pronouns; q. v.). Compare German man (“one, you”, indefinite pronoun).
pronoun me's self · me's · mes
- Indefinite pronoun (usually singular); one; you; they; someone.
Me⁶
- /miː/ Canada, UK
- /mi/ US
Sounds like me, mee, may (some accents)
noun
- Abbreviation of methyl.methyl
proper noun
- Windows Me (Millennium Edition).
pronoun
- Alternative letter-case form of me often used when speaking as God or another important figure who is understood from context.me often used when speaking as God or another important figure who is understood from context