Definitions

from The Century Dictionary.

  • In chem., the symbol for molybdenum.
  • noun An abbreviation
  • noun of Missouri;
  • noun of Monday.
  • An abbreviation of month.
  • More.

from the GNU version of the Collaborative International Dictionary of English.

  • abbreviation for modus operandi, manner of operating; -- often used to refer to the method an habitual criminal uses to perpetrate his crime.

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  • noun moment
  • noun a homosexual
  • adverb obsolete To a greater degree.
  • adverb now dialectal Further, longer.
  • adjective archaic, dialectal Greater in amount, quantity, or number (of discrete objects, as opposed to more, which was applied to subtances)
  • abbreviation month

from WordNet 3.0 Copyright 2006 by Princeton University. All rights reserved.

  • noun an indefinitely short time
  • noun a midwestern state in central United States; a border state during the American Civil War, Missouri was admitted to the Confederacy without actually seceding from the Union
  • noun a polyvalent metallic element that resembles chromium and tungsten in its properties; used to strengthen and harden steel

Etymologies

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Shortening of moment.

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Shortening of homo, itself a short form of homosexual.

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From Middle English, from Old English , from Proto-Germanic *maiz, from a comparative form of Proto-Indo-European *mə-. Cognate with Swedish mer, Danish mer; and with Irish , Albanian . See also more, most.

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Abbreviation of month.

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Examples

  • · Opening of compiled (. gmo/.mo) gettext po files and compressed gettext po files is directly supported (open your gnumeric. mo and edit it to make your individual translation!).

    Softpedia - Windows - All 2010

  • · Opening of compiled (. gmo/.mo) gettext po files and compressed gettext po files is directly supported (open your gnumeric. mo and edit it to make your individual translation!).

    Softpedia - Windows - All Softpedia Linux 2010

  • · Opening of compiled (. gmo/.mo) gettext po files and compressed gettext po files is directly supported (open your gnumeric. mo and edit it to make your individual translation!).

    Softpedia - Windows - All 2010

  • · Opening of compiled (. gmo/.mo) gettext po files and compressed gettext po files is directly supported (open your gnumeric. mo and edit it to make your individual translation!).

    Softpedia - Windows - All Softpedia Linux 2010

  • Homines fxpe membratiin mo - rfuntur, & feniim exfpirant, ideo etiam A - nima fenfim perit, qiiis em'm dicat Ani - mam, vividam, viz. rem & fentientem, in mortuis & {enfus experdbus Corporis membris refidere: Qii6d fi exiiBmes Ani - mam introrfum fe recipere i membris mo* ribundis recedentem, cur in iftis partibus nbi conglomeratur Anima non vividior ap - paret fenfus?

    T. Lucretii Cari De rerum natura libri sex Titus Lucretius Carus , Thomas Creech , George Gordon Byron Byron 1770

  • Roger, I am here to educate, mo is short for homosexual.

    Are you all atwitter with excitement over the Iowa caucuses? Ann Althouse 2008

  • Because of this, most of what I consider moé happens in a short amount of time…10 seconds or less…thus the term moé-moment.

    The Anime Blog Poll: Do You Want Mo’ Moé in Your Anime? | The Anime Blog 2007

  • Also: for those interested about how the term moé was mentioned, Lisa describes it in a way that seems a bit too escapist for me but it serves its purpose for those unfamiliar with it:

    Nigorimasen! Blog 2009

  • As for me, I like what I call moé-moments no, I refuse to call them moe-ments.

    The Anime Blog Poll: Do You Want Mo’ Moé in Your Anime? | The Anime Blog 2007

  • Thar's somethin 'mo' elevatin 'about a parson, an' doubtless it's difficult to come down from a pulpit to common earth when you've once lifted yo 'eyes to it.

    The Miller of Old Church 1911

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  • Mo. Chemical element symbol for Molybdenum.

    December 16, 2007

  • Short for moustache.

    August 29, 2008

  • Money order, Medical Officer, Modus operandi, fictional robot character in film WALL-E, month, Missouri, Magneto Optical, and Chinese ink cake.

    October 4, 2008

  • Maureen.

    October 4, 2008