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Meaning of Im | Babel Free

Noun CEFR C2

Definitions

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

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

C2
Mastery
This word is part of the CEFR C2 vocabulary — mastery level.
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