prom
IPA: prˈɑm
noun
- (Britain) A promenade concert.
- (Britain, abbreviation) A promenade.
- (US) A formal ball held at a high school or college on special occasions; e.g,. near the end of the academic year.
- (electronics) Programmable read-only memory: A PROM chip can be programmed one or more times (depending on the type) and generally cannot be re-programmed without special equipment (if at all). Once programmed and installed in a device, it functions as a read-only chip (as if it had been hard-wired to function that way.)
- A surname.
- (medicine) Initialism of prelabor rupture of membranes.
- Alternative form of Prome (“the city of Pyay”) [Former name of Pyay, Myanmar.]
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Examples of "prom" in Sentences
- In many ways, it is a fall prom.
- It is going to be fun at the prom.
- In the movie she is late at the prom.
- Sage is chose prom queen for the junior prom.
- And then it got to May and that meant the prom.
- Dateless for the prom, Zoey stubbornly refuses to attend.
- He also played the violin at the Proms with the BBC Philharmonic.
- He gave the solo organ concert in the centenary season of the Proms in 1994.
- A second private prom was organized and represented to be the official prom.
- On the night of the masquerade party and prom, Alex is trying to get Nat ready.