HM

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Translingual

Symbol

HM

  1. (international standards) ISO 3166-1 alpha-2 country code for Heard Island and McDonald Islands.
    Synonym: HMD (alpha-3)

English

Alternative forms

Etymology

(Pokémon): Phono-semantic matching of Japanese ひでんマシン (Hiden Mashin, “Secret Machine”).

Pronoun

HM

  1. Initialism of His Majesty (the title of a king).
  2. Initialism of Her Majesty (the title of a queen).

Usage notes

  • Similarly, when HMG is used in the possessive (to mean "His/Her Majesty's Government's"), it is written HMG, not HMG's.
  • 2018 June 11, HM Government, “HMG personnel security controls”, in www.gov.uk‎, London, archived from the original on 26 October 2021:
    HMG personnel security controls... This booklet describes the government's personnel security...
  • HM is used both to save space and—especially in uses difficult to change, like signage—to avoid having to change it in the event of the death of a monarch changing His Majesty's to Her Majesty's or vice versa.
  • 2021 October 30 (last accessed), HM Passport Office, “HM Passport Office”, in www.gov.uk‎, London, archived from the original on 27 October 2021:
    HM Passport Office is the sole issuer of UK passports and responsible for civil registration services through the General Register Office.

Noun

HM (plural HMs)

  1. (India, government) Initialism of Home Minister.
  2. (military, US) Abbreviation of hospital corpsman.
  3. (music) Initialism of heavy metal.
    • 1982 April 24, “Women of Iron”, in Gay Community News, page 10:
      When girls appropriate a male-dominated form like HM, can they discard its sexist content without replacing it with something else?
  4. (Pokémon) Initialism of hidden machine
    • 2023 March 12, Quinton O'Connor, “Pokemon Emerald: The 16 Best Hoenn HM Mules”, in TheGamer‎:
      For any obstacle in the way, HMs such as Cut and Strength must be taught to one of the six Pokémon in the trainer's party. Relicanth is a relatively unsurprising inclusion. It fulfills the ideal requirements for an HM mule in that it can learn four HMs: Surf, Waterfall, Dive, and Rock Smash. That last one is what edges it out over other Water-types such as Luvdisc.

Derived terms

Proper noun

HM

  1. (computing theory) Initialism of Hindley-Milner.
  2. Initialism of Hannah Montana, an American teen sitcom that aired from 2006 to 2011.
    • 2022 May 15, Kayleigh Roberts, “Millie Bobby Brown Does a Spot-On Anna Delvey Impression That You *Must* Hear”, in Cosmopolitan‎:
      She then demonstrated how she eventually started slipping in and out of an American accent as a by-product of her HM marathons (and fair warning, it’s so seamless that it’s a little jarring).

References

  1. ^ HM Passport Office (30 October 2021 (last accessed)) “HM Passport Office”, in www.gov.uk‎, London, archived from the original on 27 October 2021, top-of-page banner logotype: “HM Passport Office”

Anagrams

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Alternative forms

Pronoun

HM

  1. (title of a queen) initialism of Hare Majesteit
  • ZM (masculine)
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