malm

American  

[mahm] / mɑm /

noun

1. an artificial mixture of chalk and clay for making into bricks.

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malm British  

/ mɑːm /

noun

1. a soft greyish limestone that crumbles easily

2. a chalky soil formed from this limestone

3. an artificial mixture of clay and chalk used to make bricks

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Etymology

Origin of malm

before 900; Middle English malme sand, malm, Old English mealm- (in mealmiht sandy, mealmstān sandstone); cognate with Old Norse mālmr metal (in granular form), Gothic malma sand; akin to Old Saxon, Old High German melm dust. See meal ²

Example Sentences

Swedish Academy permanent secretary Mats Malm said at the ceremony that "she wasn't really prepared" to win the prize.

From BBC

Three years ago, Swedish academic Andreas Malm published an incendiary paperback that insisted that strategic nonviolence is unlikely to do much to save the planet.

From Los Angeles Times

One part manifesto, one part micro-budget “MacGyver,” this screenplay puts Malm’s arguments into the mouths of eight young activists who’ve convened in West Texas to pull off the film’s title.

From Los Angeles Times

Steam power made it easier for factory owners to control labor and nature than an economy based on water power, for example, because they could be set up anywhere and weren’t vulnerable to floods or droughts said Andreas Malm, an associate professor of human ecology at Lund University in Sweden.

From Seattle Times

The British then “forcibly exported this model and integrated other countries such as India or Egypt or what became Nigeria into a kind of an economy that was dependent on fossil fuel,” said Malm.

From Seattle Times