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| 1. | the objective case of I, used as a direct or indirect object: They asked me to the party. Give me your hand. |
| 2. | Informal. (used instead of the pronoun I in the predicate after the verb to be): It's me. |
| 3. | Informal. (used instead of the pronoun my before a gerund): Did you hear about me getting promoted? |
| 4. | of or involving an obsessive interest in one's own satisfaction: the me decade. |
| 1. | Maine (approved esp. for use with zip code). |
| 2. | Middle East. |
| 3. | Middle English. |
| methyl. |
| 1. | (often lowercase) managing editor. |
| 2. | Master of Education. |
| 3. | Master of Engineering. |
| 4. | Mechanical Engineer. |
| 5. | Medical Examiner. |
| 6. | Methodist Episcopal. |
| 7. | Middle English. |
| 8. | Mining Engineer. |
[ahy] pronoun, nominative I, possessive my or mine, objective me; plural nominative we, possessive our or ours, objective us; noun, plural I's.| 1. | the nominative singular pronoun, used by a speaker in referring to himself or herself. |
| 2. | (used to denote the narrator of a literary work written in the first person singular). |
| 3. | Metaphysics. the ego. |
, OCS azŭ, Lith aš, Skt ahám [meyn] | 1. | a state in the NE United States, on the Atlantic coast. 1,124,660; 33,215 sq. mi. (86,027 sq. km). Capital: Augusta. Abbreviation: ME (for use with zip code), Me. |
| 2. | a historical region and former province in NW France. |
| 3. | (italics) a U.S. battleship blown up in the harbor of Havana, Cuba, on February 15, 1898: this incident stimulated popular support in the U.S. for the Spanish-American War. |
| an editor assigned to the supervision and coordination of certain editorial activities of a newspaper, magazine, book publishing company, or the like. Abbreviation: M.E., m.e. |
| the English language of the period c1150–c1475. Abbreviation: ME |
Maine (mān)
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| me (mē) pron. The objective case of I1.
[Middle English, from Old English mē; see me-1 in Indo-European roots.] Our Living Language : Speakers of vernacular varieties of English, especially in the South, will commonly utter sentences like I bought me some new clothes or She got her a good job, in which the objective form of the pronoun (me, her) rather than the reflexive pronoun (myself, herself) is used to refer back to the subject of the sentence (I, her). However, the reflexive pronoun of Standard English cannot always be replaced by the vernacular objective pronoun. For example, Jane baked her and John some cookies doesn't mean "Jane baked herself and John some cookies." In this sentence, her must refer to someone other than Jane, just as it does in Standard English. In addition, forms like me and her cannot be used in place of myself or herself unless the noun in the phrase following the pronoun is preceded by a modifier such as some, a, or a bunch of. Thus, sentences such as I cooked me some dinner and We bought us a bunch of candy are commonplace; sentences such as I cooked me dinner and We bought us candy do not occur at all. Sometimes objective pronouns can occur where reflexive pronouns cannot. For example, some Southerners might say I'm gonna write me a letter to the President; nobody, no matter what variety he or she speaks, would say I'm gonna write myself a letter to the President. |
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The English language from about 1150 to about 1500. During this time, following the Norman Conquest of England, the native language of England — Old English — borrowed great numbers of words from the Norman French of the conquerors. Middle English eventually developed into modern English.
Note: Many of the writings in Middle English that have survived have word forms very different from those in modern English; today's readers of English cannot understand the language of these works without training. Some dialects of Middle English, however, resemble modern English, and a good reader of today can catch the drift of something written in them. Geoffrey Chaucer wrote The Canterbury Tales in one of these dialects.
State in the northeastern United States; northernmost of the New England states. Bordered by Quebec, Canada, to the northwest; New Brunswick, Canada, to the northeast; the Atlantic Ocean to the southeast; and New Hampshire to the west. Its capital is Augusta, and Portland is its largest city.
"The reason for writing I is ... the orthographic habit in the middle ages of using a 'long i' (that is, j or I) whenever the letter was isolated or formed the last letter of a group; the numeral 'one' was written j or I (and three iij, etc.), just as much as the pronoun." [Otto Jespersen, "Growth and Structure of the English Language," p.233]The form ich or ik, especially before vowels, lingered in northern England until c.1400 and survived in southern dialects until 18c. The dot on the "small" letter -i- began to appear in 11c. L. manuscripts, to distinguish the letter from the stroke of another letter (such as -m- or -n-). Originally a diacritic, it was reduced to a dot with the introduction of Roman type fonts. The basic word for "I" in Japanese is watakushi, but it is not much used. Words that boys usually use are boku (polite) or ore (OH-ray), a rougher word, which can be rude depending on the situation. Girls usually use atashi (a feminine-sounding word) or the neutral watashi, but a tomboy might use boku like boys do.
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The symbol for the element iodine.
iThe symbol for current.
ME abbr.
medical examiner
| iodine (ī'ə-dīn') Pronunciation Key
Symbol I A shiny, grayish-black element of the halogen group. It is corrosive and poisonous and occurs in very small amounts in nature except for seaweed, in which it is abundant. Iodine compounds are used in medicine, antiseptics, and dyes. Atomic number 53; atomic weight 126.9045; melting point 113.5°C; boiling point 184.35°C; specific gravity (solid, at 20°C) 4.93; valence 1, 3, 5, 7. See Periodic Table. |
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