W vs. M

Wnoun

watt

Wnoun

west

Wnoun

witness

Wnoun

work

Wadjective

(cricket) wide

Wadjective

white

Wpreposition

with

W

the twenty-third letter of the English alphabet, is usually a consonant, but sometimes it is a vowel, forming the second element of certain diphthongs, as in few, how. It takes its written form and its name from the repetition of a V, this being the original form of the Roman capital letter which we call U. Etymologically it is most related to v and u. See V, and U. Some of the uneducated classes in England, especially in London, confuse w and v, substituting the one for the other, as weal for veal, and veal for weal; wine for vine, and vine for wine, etc. See Guide to Pronunciation, 266-268.

Wnoun

a heavy gray-white metallic element; the pure form is used mainly in electrical applications; it is found in several ores including wolframite and scheelite

Wnoun

the cardinal compass point that is a 270 degrees

Wnoun

a unit of power equal to 1 joule per second; the power dissipated by a current of 1 ampere flowing across a resistance of 1 ohm

Wnoun

the 23rd letter of the Roman alphabet

W

W, or w, is the twenty-third and fourth-to-last letter of the modern English and ISO basic Latin alphabets. It usually represents a consonant, but in some languages it represents a vowel.

Mnoun

(music) measure

Mnoun

(obsolete) thousand

Mverb

(knitting) make

M

M, the thirteenth letter of the English alphabet, is a vocal consonant, and from the manner of its formation, is called the labio-nasal consonant. See Guide to Pronunciation, 178-180, 242.

M

As a numeral, M stands for one thousand, both in English and Latin.

Mnoun

A quadrat, the face or top of which is a perfect square; also, the size of such a square in any given size of type, used as the unit of measurement for that type: 500 m's of pica would be a piece of matter whose length and breadth in pica m's multiplied together produce that number.

Mnoun

A brand or stigma, having the shape of an M, formerly impressed on one convicted of manslaughter and admitted to the benefit of clergy.

Mnoun

the basic unit of length adopted under the Systeme International d'Unites (approximately 1.094 yards)

Mnoun

concentration measured by the number of moles of solute per liter of solvent

Mnoun

the cardinal number that is the product of 10 and 100

Mnoun

the 13th letter of the Roman alphabet

Madjective

denoting a quantity consisting of 1,000 items or units

M

M, or m, is the thirteenth letter of the modern English alphabet and the ISO basic Latin alphabet. Its name in English is em (pronounced ), plural ems.