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Meaning of Im | Babel Free

Noun CEFR A2

Definitions

  1. irregular galaxy with no coherent structure
  2. A surname from Korean.
  3. Initialism of information management.
    abbreviation, alt-of, countable, initialism, uncountable
  4. Initialism of instant message.
    Internet, abbreviation, alt-of, countable, initialism, uncountable
  5. Initialism of instant messaging.
    Internet, abbreviation, alt-of, countable, initialism, uncountable
  6. Initialism of inner marker.
    abbreviation, alt-of, countable, initialism, uncountable
  7. Initialism of individual medley.
    abbreviation, alt-of, countable, initialism, uncountable
  8. Initialism of information memorandum.
    abbreviation, alt-of, countable, initialism, uncountable
  9. Initialism of innovation management.
    abbreviation, alt-of, countable, initialism, uncountable
  10. Initialism of idea management.
    abbreviation, alt-of, countable, initialism, uncountable
  11. Initialism of International Master.
    abbreviation, alt-of, countable, initialism

Examples

“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.”
“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."”

CEFR level

A2
Elementary
This word is part of the CEFR A2 vocabulary — elementary level.

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