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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

The director and one of the owners of facility, the BM Container Depot, did not answer calls to his mobile telephone seeking comment.

From Reuters Jun. 8, 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

“BM struggle never gets open support from abroad it needs unless BM first forms own united front.”

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

“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

Data generation and analysis were performed by B.M.,

From Nature May 8, 2018

For reasons not yet known, other survivors have suffered miscarriages or had stillborn babies, said nurse matron Elizabeth B.M.

From Washington Times Aug. 28, 2015

About 1850 the chief shippers were Joseph Donovan of Baltimore, B.M. and M.L.

From American Negro Slavery A Survey of the Supply, Employment and Control of Negro Labor as Determined by the Plantation Regime by Ulrich Bonnell Phillips

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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