Definitions
American Heritage® Dictionary of the English Language, Fourth Edition
- n. The 12th letter of the Greek alphabet. See Table at alphabet.
Century Dictionary and Cyclopedia
- n. The Greek letter
μ , corresponding to the English masculine - n. The Greek letter M.
μ (μῦ , earlierμῶ) , corresponding to the English M, m. See M and mem.
Wiktionary
- n. The 12th letter of the Modern Greek alphabet.
- n. uncountable The name of a mythical floating island.
- interj. hacker Neither yes nor no.
- n. A unit of surface area, currently equivalent to 666 and 2/3 meters squared.
GNU Webster's 1913
- n. The 12th letter of the Greek alphabet (μ, Μ).
WordNet 3.0
- n. the 12th letter of the Greek alphabet
Etymologies
- From Mandarin 畝 (simplified: 亩) (mǔ) (Wiktionary)
- Greek, of Phoenician origin; see my2 in Semitic roots. (American Heritage® Dictionary of the English Language, Fourth Edition)
Examples
“Your example of wordpress+mu is a tough one, since it is WordPressMU so the tag “should” be “wordpressmu”.”
Adding Technorati Tags to WordPressMU Sites « Lorelle on WordPress
“The question I have is if this is the end of politics as we know it, or are we just being fooled by the flash and dash of MoveOn, Meetup, the blogosphere, self publishers, and the thing that got everybody in mu worlds attention, a presidential campaign that broke all sorts of records in raising money from small donors?”
“Goofy cartoons of older men and women looking tacky and dumpy (thinking stereotypical Miami) in mu mu’s and oversized sunglasses”
“She stopped to buy a green mango cut like a flower and the vendor called her muñeca, doll, an endearment for petite women.”
“From the expansive vision gained by dying to his sense of separate selfhood, the man from the country suddenly beholds the blocked gate to the Law as what in truth it has always been, a non-barrier, or what Zen calls a mu-mon-kan or gateless gate.”
“The activation in the brain of chemical receptors, called mu-opioid receptors, appears to be involved in producing what is known as the “placebo effect,” according to a report in The Journal of Neuroscience.”
“Elementary particles known as mu-mesons, found in cosmic-ray showers, disinte - grate spontaneously, their average “proper lifetime””
“Also, he spent a lot of time down on the crick flat looking for a mu, which is the same as a sneeze-duck, except for the parallel stripes.”
“Well, yes, there will be a bit for the lads if they really do begin to play the tune called mu-ti-nee.”
“Chung notices chubby white radishes called mu, something like daikon; slender red and green chili peppers; and unusual varieties of mushrooms.”
Lists
These user-created lists contain the word ‘mu’.
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Chit Chat
Conversations that are shorter than those featured in my conversations list.
props, frass, narwhal, preggers, mu, hype, heterotopia, sans serif, cow orker, snicker-snack, modality road, boolean poetry and 77 more...
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Japanese aesthetic vocabulary
Aldous Huxley said words ". . . are the instruments of thought; they form the channel along which thought flows; they are the moulds in which thought is shaped.â€
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Letters
See also The Phonetic alphabet by oroboros.
aye, bee, cee, dee, e, ef, eff, gee, aitch, eye, jay, kay and 452 more...
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samuraizack's Words
floccinaucinihili..., pneumonoultramicr..., bombastic, existentialistic, velocipede, aglet, anatomical snuffbox, wonk, tang, funambulist, quakebuttock, flews and 390 more...
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spicolli's Words
terrapin, ravenous, fuck, sepulchral, garlic, suss, queer, curmudgeon, foodie, intricate, omphalos, subversion and 534 more...
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some words
phatic, macerate, amanuenses, theophagy, seraglio, gloaming, geophagy, metaphone, anastrophe, neologism, tetragrammaton, bête noire and 568 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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Bigrams
Two-letter words that are common. For a full list of all possible 2-letter words, check out this list.
my, by, ay, ax, ew, aw, ix, it, at, is, as, ox and 39 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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Greek Alphabet
The letters in the Greek alphabet, with a bit of history on each one.
omega, psi, chi, phi, upsilon, tau, sigma, rho, pi, omicron, xi, nu and 12 more...
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Really Cool Two-Letter Words
Tight but full of might.
id, ox, or, am, ho, pi, om, ur, xi, ad, ai, mu and 14 more...
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abc's
alpha, beta, gamma, delta, epsilon, zeta, eta, theta, iota, kappa, lambda, mu and 12 more...
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words to spread
tisane, solregn, mu, philtrum, petrichor, aglet, chad, pescetarian, eszett, pilcrow, preantepenultimate, phosphenes
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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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Buddhism
sunyata, mahayana, theravada, sutra, mantra, mudra, koan, bodhidharma, satori, mu, samsara, nirvana and 5 more...
Tweets
Looking for tweets for mu.
ruzuzu Cf. moo koan. Nov 21, 2011
BWDavid Wikipedia: The word mu is central to the following well-known Zen Buddhist koan, which is also known as the Mu koan1:
A monk asked Zhaozhou Congshen, a Chinese Zen master (known as Jōshū in Japanese), "Has a dog Buddha-nature or not?" Zhaozhou answered, "Wú" (in Japanese, Mu)
—The Gateless Gate, koan 1, translation by Robert Aitken 5
In my family "mu" means "none of the above" or "no answer is the only right answer", for example to the question "have you stopped beating your wife?" "Mu." Nov 21, 2011
gerbert In Japanese aesthetic vocabulary: expressing a spontaneity that suggests the Buddhist ideal of detachment from self Nov 3, 2008
moritherapy and let's not forget it's a greek letter Oct 20, 2007
oroboros The Lost Continent of...
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answer to the Zen koan about "dogginess". Jun 23, 2007
uselessness I have yet to begin being my wife. Unless you count that whole "the two shall become one flesh thing." Even then, I'm still a bachelor: my answer is a resounding mu! May 14, 2007
jennarenn I am so glad you said something, or I wouldn't have scrolled down that far. :) May 14, 2007
seanahan There are a lot of different meanings for this word. I prefer the one used to answer "have you stopped being your wife?". May 13, 2007