mo
IPA: mˈoʊ
Root Word: Mo
noun
- A diminutive of the male given names Mohammed, Moses, Maurice, Morris, or Mortimer.
- A diminutive of the female given names Marjorie, Maureen, or Monica.
- A surname from Chinese.
- (slang) A homosexual.
- (Australia, New Zealand, colloquial) A moustache.
- (prison slang) A molester.
- (slang) A moron.
- Abbreviation of Missouri, a state of the United States of America. [A state in the Midwestern region of the United States. Capital: Jefferson City. Largest city: Kansas City.]
- (stock ticker symbol) Abbreviation of Philip Morris Companies (now Altria Group).
- (Judaism) Initialism of Modern Orthodox.
- Initialism of modus operandi. [(colloquial) A person or thing's normal mode of operation.]
- (banking) Initialism of money order. [(finance) A directive to pay a prespecified amount of money from prepaid funds, making it a more trusted method of payment than a check.]
- (military, UK) Initialism of medical officer.
- (chemistry) Initialism of molecular orbital. [(quantum mechanics, chemistry) The quantum mechanical behaviour of an electron in a molecule describing the probability of the electron's particular position and energy; approximated by a linear combination of atomic orbitals.]
- (slang) Clipping of Moët.
- Abbreviation of month. [A period into which a year is divided, historically based on the phases of the moon.]
- (colloquial) Clipping of moment. [A brief, unspecified amount of time.]
adjective
- (archaic, dialectal) Greater in amount, quantity, or number (of discrete objects, as opposed to more, which was applied to substances)
- (dentistry) Initialism of mesio-occlusal. [(dentistry) Of or relating to the mesial and the occlusal surfaces of a tooth.]
- (computing) Initialism of magnetooptical. [Having both magnetic and optical elements.]
- (dialectal, African-American Vernacular) Alternative form of mo' (“more”)
adverb
- (obsolete) To a greater degree.
- (now dialectal) Further, longer.
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Examples of "mo" in Sentences
- Roger, I am here to educate, mo is short for homosexual.
- As for me, I like what I call moé-moments no, I refuse to call them moe-ments.
- 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.
- 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.
- · 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!).
- 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:
- 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?
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