Definitions

from The American Heritage® Dictionary of the English Language, 5th Edition.

  • abbreviation African Methodist Episcopal

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  • initialism Alternate Mission Equipment.
  • initialism Aviation Medical Examiner.
  • initialism Amplitude Modulation Equivalent.

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Examples

  • Together, they spelled out AME, the French word for "soul"—a term that the avowed rationalist Perec doesn't use anywhere else in his novel.

    Trial by Letter for a Translator David Bellos 2011

  • The second building, known as the AME building, consists of 87,487 sq.ft. and houses processing, maintenance, warehousing, laboratories, and office space.

    Marketwire - Breaking News Releases 2010

  • "The best thing we can do is to engage with our own groups such as AME, the Australian Coalition for Equality, the NSW Gay and Lesbian Rights Lobby, ACON, and New Mardi Gras," he said.

    Fight dem back! 2008

  • Hussein stinks, but I've seen video from local stations today of church busses ( "AME" churches) hauling ex-felons and homeless people to the polls.

    Latest Articles 2008

  • AOpen has just introduced its 2.5 "SATA hard drive external enclosure known as the AME-100.

    Original Signal - Transmitting Gadgets 2008

  • As the example of Bethel AME shows see Chapter 7, politics blends easily with worship in the Black Church, but fewer than half of Black Protestants report hearing a politically tinged sermon at least once a month, while just shy of 60 percent report that their congregation ever has voter registration drives or distributes voter guides.

    American Grace Robert D. Putnam 2010

  • Drawing on its history of political activity, social striving, racial solidarity, and liberation theology, the modern AME Church is organized under the motto “God Our Father, Christ Our Redeemer, Man Our Brother,” and takes as its mandate service to the needy as well as the saving of souls.

    American Grace Robert D. Putnam 2010

  • Bethel AME occupies an imposing, Gothic-style white stone building with a towering steeple that stands out amid the surrounding boarded-up brownstones, low-rise public housing, and crumbling, mostly vacant row houses.

    American Grace Robert D. Putnam 2010

  • Bethel African Methodist Episcopal AME Church, 35, 180, 195–211

    American Grace Robert D. Putnam 2010

  • Reid is a fifth-generation AME minister who holds degrees from Yale, Harvard, and United Theological Seminary, is the author of several books and pamphlets, and has traveled all over the world preaching and teaching.

    American Grace Robert D. Putnam 2010

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