im
/ˈɪm/
Word Rarity
Uncommon
Frequency: 4.69 in modern English
4
Scrabble Score
2
Letters
1
Syllables
2
Unique Chars
Meaning
noun
irregular galaxy with no coherent structure
Example Sentences
- "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."
- "The husband-hunt had been a failure. Carlo had taken at least a dozen potential Misters Right on test runs of longer or shorter duration—perhaps a few lines of IM, perhaps a couple of promising dates, or sexual calisthenics."
- "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!"
- "Sure, we may use cellphones and e-mail hundreds of times a week, but we say very little. […] Most of our talk, even in privileged IM circles, is no deeper than the words we exchange with the pizza guy."
- ""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.""
- "IM me when you get home."
Etymology
Origin
Word Breakdown
- Root: ^임(任)