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my

[mahy]

pronoun

(a form of the possessive case of I used as an attributive adjective): My soup is cold.

interjection

Also, my-my. (used as an exclamation of mild surprise or dismay): My, what a big house this is! My-my, how old he looks!

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My is always a great word to know.

So is doohickey. Does it mean:

a gadget; dingus; thingumbob.

a calculus or concretion found in the stomach or intestines of certain animals, esp. ruminants, formerly reputed to be an effective remedy for poison.

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Origin:
1125–75; Middle English mī, variant of mīn, Old English mīn; see mine¹

Usage note
See me.

Example Sentences

My younger kids perform poorly on tests of family harmony after fewer than nine hours of sleep.

While that's hardly unusual in academe, what is unusual is that it was my fourth attempt.

My roof area should provide more than enough total energy for both my home and my cars.

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My younger kids perform poorly on tests of family harmony after fewer than nine hours of sleep.

While that's hardly unusual in academe, what is unusual is that it was my fourth attempt.

My roof area should provide more than enough total energy for both my home and my cars.

My need to understand the city is perhaps inescapable.

Thankfully my daughter was a veterinary nurse, and knew right away to get the pup to the vet.

My ankles also felt stronger from maintaining my balance on the supple jumping surface.

In my mind, there is no doubt that an important part of my job is to make sure my graduate students get their own jobs.

My symptoms have greatly improved since eliminating gluten.

These are some of the unique memories of my hometown and the truth that there are many advantages to wealth.

My frozen-yogurt habit is getting totally out of hand.

My legs itch the worse and its usually at night and it really disturbs my sleep patterns.

My ancestors cussed their lives away in that soil, following a one-crop mule.

My skin structure collapsed early, before menopause, probably due to the low-fat diet.

Two funerals, two days apart, two grandfathers of my two sons.

My parents were suffering physically due to the stress of years of caring for both of my grandparents.

My breath was held as my mind imagined me actually being there.

Recently my team proposed a possible physiological mechanism underlying sleepwalking.

Towns can be said to be alive or dead, but in the case of my town, it's so alive you can eat it.

Some of my physicist colleagues find the multiverse theory alarming.

My mother was, she was so scared and there was no way that my dad was going to be able to live there anymore.

The data are the data, as my graduate advisor always says.

The friend of my co-worker states that he looked it over, ran some tests, and indeed it is a fossil.

My countrymen was the standard opening of a presidential address for generations.

Part of my property taxes go towards our county public library.

My hypothesis would be that the role of glaciers is not so much in their day to day contribution but rather stabilizing the flow.

My relatives know my camera is always nearby, usually tucked.

It's hard for me to picture my father without a cigarette in.

It knows its own name, and it keeps shouting it at me to get my attention.

Taped to the door of my office is a cartoon that features a cat explaining to.

Julesburg still pulls at my heart-strings because it was truly a time of.

My literary hero and role model is a fictional serial killer.

We're in my office, despite the fact that it's a gorgeous summer day.

Reluctantly my mother and father decided to put my grandmother.

The area surrounding my crossroad was devoted to agriculture.

I've always had a bit of trouble with the extended version of my first name.

Back at home, my son makes his violin sing before washing the dishes and the dog.

It was my childhood universe, where the rising sun found.

That's the number of bullets a police guard fired into my father before surrendering himself with a sinister smile to.

My experience over the last decade is that there are significant.

My friend who believes in ghosts sees faces of ancestors in photographs.

Kevin had a story similar to those of many young men from my old neighborhood.

My friends think i wear contacts but i don't and if my eyes are in the sunlight they go fully green.

The crisp mountain air and the colors in fall make my heart yern to go home.

As a child, my brother would frequently challenge me to a game he called punch-for-punch.

My fondest memories of growing up in this town involve.

So my point is, world views about television advertising are skewed in all directions.

My day to day activities are getting harder and harder for me due to fatigue.

My spa was a space that stretched nearly underneath the desk in an unused windowless office.

My first meal alone in a new city was delayed due to an unexpected test of survival skills.

After seven years in a sugar-free household, my mission was to sample as much candy as my stomach and allowance allowed.

My fondest memory is checking the smoke house for smoked salmon with my.

One winter evening long ago, my mom's oven gave out an oily whoosh and started spitting flames.

My first epiphany was that gardening has a lot more to do with encouraging death than life.

He told me always to be honest to my self and the formula.

When school was out, the summer bookmobile was my lifeline.

Yet it was still my kitchen and therefore within the boundaries of my cherished personal space.

It added little to my existing knowledge and did not provide a cultural awakening.

Nor did it appeal to my sense of adventure and exploration.

My chest reverberates with the thumping of a huge wooden drum as two robed holy men shuffle across tatami mats.

My reasons are patriotic, political and personal, and the three are intertwined.

That's me, making fairy princess wands at my daughter's birthday party.

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Dictionary.com Unabridged

variant of myo- before some vowels: myalgia.

pronoun

the nominative singular pronoun, used by a speaker in referring to himself or herself.

noun

(used to denote the narrator of a literary work written in the first person singular).

Metaphysics. the ego.

Origin:
before 900; Middle English ik, ich, i; Old English ic, ih; cognate with German ich, Old Norse ek, Latin ego, Greek egṓ, OCS azŭ, Lithuanian aš, Sanskrit ahám

Usage note
See me.

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World English Dictionary

my¹ (maɪ)

—*determiner*
1.	of, belonging to, or associated with the speaker or writer (me): my own ideas; do you mind my smoking?
2.	used in various forms of address: my lord; my dear boy
3.	used in various exclamations: my goodness!

—*interj*
4.	an exclamation of surprise, awe, etc: my, how you've grown!

[C12 mī, variant of Old English mīn when preceding a word beginning with a consonant]

my²

—*the internet domain name for*
	Malaysia

MY

—*abbreviation for*
	motor yacht

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Etymonline

Word Origin & History

12c. shortening of O.E. ic, first person sing. nom. pronoun, from P.Gmc. *ekan (cf. O.Fris. ik, O.N. ek, Norw. eg, Dan. jeg, O.H.G. ih, Ger. ich, Goth. ik), from PIE *ego(m) (cf. Skt. aham, Hitt. uk, L. ego, Gk. ego, Rus. ja). Reduced to i by 1137 in northern England, it began to be capitalized c.1250

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to mark it as a distinct word and avoid misreading in handwritten manuscripts.

"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.

developed c.1200 as mi, reduced form of mine used before words beginning in consonants except h- (my father, but mine enemy), and before all nouns beginning 14c. As interjection, 18c., probably a shortened form of my God!

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American Heritage

Medical Dictionary

The symbol for the element iodine.
iThe symbol for current.

My abbr.
myopia

my- pref.
Variant of myo-.

American Heritage

Science Dictionary

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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Computing Dictionary

my definition

networking
The country code for Malaysia.
(1999-01-27)

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Abbreviations & Acronyms

Burmese
million years

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