Definitions
American Heritage® Dictionary of the English Language, Fourth Edition
- n. Music The third tone of the diatonic scale in solfeggio.
Century Dictionary and Cyclopedia
- n. In solmization, the syllable used for the third tone of the scale. In the scale of C this tone is E, which is therefore sometimes called mi in France, Italy, etc.
- n. An abbreviation
- n. of mile;
- n. of mill or mills;
- n. of milliampere.
Wiktionary
- n. A Roman numeral representing one thousand and one (1001).
- n. music A syllable used in sol-fa (solfège) to represent the third note of a major scale.
- abbr. Alternative form of mi..
GNU Webster's 1913
- n. (Mus.) A syllable applied to the third tone of the scale of C, i. e., to E, in European solmization, but to the third tone of any scale in the American system.
WordNet 3.0
- n. the government agency in the United Kingdom that is responsible for internal security and counterintelligence on British territory
- n. a unit of length used in navigation; exactly 1,852 meters; historically based on the distance spanned by one minute of arc in latitude
- n. a unit of length equal to 1,760 yards or 5,280 feet; exactly 1609.344 meters
- n. the syllable naming the third (mediant) note of any major scale in solmization
- n. a former British unit of length equivalent to 6,080 feet (1,853.184 meters); 800 feet longer than a statute mile
- n. the government agency in the United Kingdom that is responsible for internal security and counterintelligence overseas
- n. a midwestern state in north central United States in the Great Lakes region
- n. destruction of heart tissue resulting from obstruction of the blood supply to the heart muscle
Etymologies
- Middle English, from Medieval Latin; see gamut. (American Heritage® Dictionary of the English Language, Fourth Edition)
Examples
“October 3, 2009 at 7:36 pm mi fa mi re ~do~ re ~~mi so fa mi re~ fa~~~~♪”
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“You'll be the prince, and I'll be the princess mi butt hurts owowowowowowowowowowowowow. .mi butt hurts!! eek!! can't run, can't walk properly and can't sit properly wifout feeling paaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaiiiiin!!! eek. .-blehz-~lalala ... saw louis and his head ..”
“The augmented fourths formed by the notes fa and mi, marked with x, are the _mi contra fa_, which _diabolus est_, or 'is the _divider_,' see p. 36.”
Shakespeare and Music With Illustrations from the Music of the 16th and 17th centuries
“Smaddy hole mi han an help mi up. .mi hafi si dis wid mi own yeye ..”
“This Tenfc is often pronounced 'bcil' after the particle * am '; as * am bcil t i is ttf In the North Highlands, the pret.ncg. often takes the common verbal particle' do 'before it; as' cha do robh mi ', or' cha d'rohh mi%/was not.”
“June 02, 2009 at 3: 34 PM ppl the way sp2 recover the space is just by deleting restore points!!!. i clean that like every week and is always up to 15-30 gbs. after i install the sp2 i didnt notice any gb increase in mi HDspace it was 222gb left before and after”
Installing Vista SP2 Might Free Up Hard Drive Space | Lifehacker Australia
“A father of three, Villa sleeps with a rifle and a .44 caliber pistol he calls "mi negrita" -- "my little black one.”
“My all time fav bahn mi is the Spicy Pork from Ba Xuyen in Sunset Park, too delicious for words.”
Downtown Lunch: Banh Mi Battle Royale | Midtown Lunch: Downtown NYC
“While there are some historical and racist issues with Thanksgiving, it is a tradition in mi familia.”
“For mi is Wikipedia still good source for useful info.”
Lists
These user-created lists contain the word ‘mi’.
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WWF WTF?
Ever play "Words With Friends" with someone and they throw down some strange, unlikely group of letters that makes even the most mild and squeaky clean tongued person say "whiskey tango foxtrot"? ...
oorie, sangar, merl, cwm, doum, weir, jura, invar, lawine, tapa, waw, shog and 376 more...
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rastafari
dem woodz assoseeated wit da reegae mon..
( Reggae, Rastafari, Rasta, Jamaica, Zion, Haile Selassie, Africa, Caribbean )
( slang, randomness )Rastafari, puff, Jah, reggae, Haile Selassie, Jamaica, Kingston, Caribbean, Dominican, Zion, Africa, cannabis and 81 more...
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Words Made Of Roman Numerals
dividivi, cimicic, civic, civil, idic, dill, livid, mild, ilicic, vivid, clim, imidic and 43 more...
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cross words
the good ole boys of the nyt crossword puzzle
oleo, oreo, stlo, amie, ares, eros, erato, sloe, ogee, apse, enola, ecru and 94 more...
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Jamaican Glossary
The liner notes that accompany Papa San's dancehall album God & i include this thoughtful list of Jamaican-to-American translations, to aid in understanding what the heck he's saying in each song.
yah, yeh, yuy, woulda, wort, wid, wi, wes', wen, whey, wau, wanda and 151 more...
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The braggadocio recipe
A selection of English* words ending with a vowel (except "y", "ea", ie", "ee", "oo", "ea", "ou") that is REALLY pronounced.
My favorite English words, by the way.
The good twin of The ...braggadocio, recipe, encyclopedia, solo, gnu, flu, maybe, apocope, mini, arrhythmia, folio, stereo and 197 more...
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Jamaican patois
"I and I plant the corn..."
i and i, rudeboy, ragamuffin, youth, dem, jamrock, jamden, fat 'matic, likkle, tuff, whe, inna and 132 more...
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Acceptable two-letter Scrabble words
aa, ab, ad, ae, ag, ah, ai, al, am, an, ar, as and 89 more...
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I Live a (SOWPODS) Hardscrabble Life
aa, ad, ae, ah, ai, am, an, ar, as, at, aw, ax and 168 more...
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Me
me, mine, myself, i, my, meg, eg, jeg, mein, meine, ich, �? and 140 more...
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2 Letter Scrabble Words
All playable 2 letter Scrabble words from OSPD4
aa, ab, ad, ae, ag, ah, ai, al, am, an, ar, as and 87 more...
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en chantant la gamme
the gamut of solfege and the Indian sargam
do, re, mi, fa, so, la, ti, sa, ga, ma, pa, dha and 14 more...
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OSPD4 two-letter words
za, ye, ya, xu, xi, wo, we, ut, us, up, un, um and 88 more...
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