im

noun

1. irregular galaxy with no coherent structure
2. (abbreviation, alt-of, countable, initialism, uncountable)Initialism of information management.
3. (Internet, abbreviation, alt-of, countable, initialism, uncountable)Initialism of instant message.

   “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.”

4. (Internet, abbreviation, alt-of, countable, initialism, uncountable)Initialism of instant messaging.

   “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.”

5. (abbreviation, alt-of, countable, initialism, uncountable)Initialism of instance manipulation.
6. (abbreviation, alt-of, countable, initialism, uncountable)Initialism of inner marker.
7. (abbreviation, alt-of, countable, initialism, uncountable)Initialism of individual medley.

   “"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."”

8. (abbreviation, alt-of, countable, initialism, uncountable)Initialism of information memorandum.
9. (abbreviation, alt-of, countable, initialism, uncountable)Initialism of innovation management.
10. (abbreviation, alt-of, countable, initialism, uncountable)Initialism of idea management.
11. (abbreviation, alt-of, countable, initialism)Initialism of International Master.

name

1. A surname from Korean.

verb

1. (abbreviation, alt-of, initialism)Initialism of instant message (verb).

   “IM me when you get home.”

   “You won't pick up, you won't IM, you won't return my six (seven?) phone calls. So I'm resorting to email for this. First of all, don't get mad at Julie. She did the right thing. But, sweetie, why are you hiding this from the people who love you?”

   ““WDYT,” she IM'd Sophie, wondering what her new friend thought of the idea. Sophie, sitting next to her, quickly IM'd back “G4I” to show her support.”

adj

1. (abbreviation, alt-of, initialism)Initialism of intramuscular.
2. (abbreviation, alt-of, initialism)Initialism of intramedullary.
3. (abbreviation, alt-of, initialism, not-comparable)Initialism of intramuscular.

   “In the past few years, T patches have also been released for prescription usage. Both scrotally applied and nonscrotally applied vehicles are available. These forms of delivery offer more constant T levels and avoid the inconvenience of im injection.”

contraction

1. (alt-of, contraction, misspelling)Misspelling of I'm.