M vs Emma - What's the difference?
m | emma |
The thirteenth letter of the .
meter (metre), the unit of length in the International System of Units
milli-
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mass
month or months
cardinal number one thousand (1000)
Image:Latin M.png, Capital and lowercase versions of M , in normal and italic type
Image:Fraktur letter M.png, Uppercase and lowercase M in Fraktur
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* 1854 Matthew Hall: The Queens Before the Conquest : page 259-260:
* 1917 Carl Van Vechten: Interpreters and Interpretations. A.A.Knopf,1917. page 92:
* 1980 Barbara Pym: A Few Green Leaves ISBN 0060805498 page 8:
As a letter m
is the thirteenth letter of the.As a symbol m
is mega- or m can be the roman numeral m (1,000).As a noun emma is
(british|dated|wwi|signalese) m in.m
Translingual
{{Basic Latin character info, previous=l, next=n, image= (wikipedia m)Etymology 1
Modification of capital letter M, from (etyl) letter .Letter
See also
(Latn-script) * (other scripts) * Turned:Etymology 2
Various abbreviations.Symbol
(Bilabial nasal) (head)Etymology 3
From upper case roman numeral M (1000), an alteration of ?, from ?, an alteration of ?, an alteration of ?, from encircling X (the roman numeral for ten) to indicate the hundredth ten.Alternative forms
* M,Numeral
Synonyms
*See also
{{Letter , page=M , NATO=Mike , Morse=–– , Character=M , Braille=? }}emma
English
Proper noun
(en proper noun)- Both Saxon and Norman chroniclers unite in representing the youthful Queen Emma as in a peculiar degree gifted with elegance and beauty; so that many flattering epithets had been bestowed on her - as "the Pearl," "the Flower," or "the Fair Maid" of Normandy.
- Emma' Calvé...since ''Madame Bovary'' the name '''Emma''' suggests a solid ''bourgeois'' foundation, a country family...' Emma Eames, a chilly name...a wind from the East.
- The cottage now belonged to Emma''s mother Beatrix, who was a tutor in English literature at a women's college, specialising in eighteenth- and nineteenth-century novel. This may have accounted for '''Emma''''s Christian name, for it had seemed to Beatrix unfair to call her daughter Emily, a name associated with her grandmother's servants rather than the author of ''The Wuthering Heights'', so ' Emma had been chosen, perhaps with the hope that some of the qualities possessed by the heroine of the novel might be perpetuated.