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BM

1 American  

abbreviation

  1. basal metabolism.

  2. Surveying. bench mark.

  3. Black male.

  4. Informal. bowel movement.


B.M. 2 American  

abbreviation

  1. Bachelor of Medicine.

  2. Bachelor of Music.

  3. British Museum.


BM 1 British  

abbreviation

  1. Bachelor of Medicine

  2. surveying benchmark

  3. British Museum

"Collins English Dictionary — Complete & Unabridged" 2012 Digital Edition © William Collins Sons & Co. Ltd. 1979, 1986 © HarperCollins Publishers 1998, 2000, 2003, 2005, 2006, 2007, 2009, 2012

bm 2 British  

abbreviation

  1. board measure

  2. bowel movement

"Collins English Dictionary — Complete & Unabridged" 2012 Digital Edition © William Collins Sons & Co. Ltd. 1979, 1986 © HarperCollins Publishers 1998, 2000, 2003, 2005, 2006, 2007, 2009, 2012

bm 3 British  

abbreviation

  1. Bermuda

"Collins English Dictionary — Complete & Unabridged" 2012 Digital Edition © William Collins Sons & Co. Ltd. 1979, 1986 © HarperCollins Publishers 1998, 2000, 2003, 2005, 2006, 2007, 2009, 2012

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The write-up described "laughter and lively conversation" with members reminiscing "about the good times while planning their future BM escapades".

From BBC ● May 7, 2025

BM: I really do focus on not trying to shoot too many people that are really Instagram-famous.

From Los Angeles Times ● Dec. 6, 2023

At the depot were about 800 containers filled with exportable items, about 500 with imported items and about 3,000 that were empty, Sikder added, quoting officials of the shipping facility, BM Container Depot.

From Reuters ● Jun. 6, 2022

The inferno at the BM Inland Container Depot, a Dutch-Bangladeshi venture, broke out around midnight Saturday after explosions in a container full of chemicals.

From Washington Post ● Jun. 5, 2022

“Would be shocking to reveal names of the BM leaders who have secretly met with THEM.”

From "The Autobiography of Malcolm X" by Alex Malcolm X;Hailey

If McKinley had abandoned the archipelago to the Germans or Japanese, said Gen. Samuel B.M.

From The Wall Street Journal ● Nov. 5, 2025

For more than 48 hours after the fire began, pungent, noxious smoke streamed from the B.M.

From New York Times ● Jun. 7, 2022

“There was a feeling that the vast economic gains to be derived from this project should not be endangered by consideration of the fish,” wrote B.M.

From Seattle Times ● Jul. 21, 2019

B.M. and T.C.J. screened and analysed data, and created display items.

From Nature ● May 8, 2018

The Myrrour and Dyscrypcyon of the Worlde, with many Mervaylles, wood-cuts, B.M. g.l.

From Bibliomania; or Book-Madness A Bibliographical Romance by Thomas Frognall Dibdin

Compound: bm, ch, dh, dn, gw, gh, ng, qw, sh, th, wh, zh, gwl, gwr, qwr, wl, wr.

From A Handbook of the Cornish Language chiefly in its latest stages with some account of its history and literature by Henry Jenner

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