CM
Translingual
Symbol
CM
Anagrams
English
Etymology
Sense "commercial" is a borrowing from Japanese CM (CM, “commercial video ad”), from English commercial + message.
Noun
CM (countable and uncountable, plural CMs)
- (India, Pakistan) Initialism of chief minister.
- Coordinate term: PM (“prime minister”)
- (Canada) A member of the Order of Canada.
- (Japan) Initialism of commercial message (“commercial video ad”).
- (chess) Initialism of Candidate Master.
- (astronautics) Initialism of command module.
- (cryptography) Initialism of cryptographic module.
- (engineering, uncountable) Initialism of configuration management.
- (military) Initialism of cruise missile.
- (ring theory) Initialism of Cohen-Macaulay.
- (music, archaic) Initialism of common meter.
Proper noun
CM (uncountable)
- (medicine) Initialism of College of Medicine.
- (US, astronautics) Initialism of Command Module (“Apollo Command Module”).
See also
- (Command Module): Command Module on Wikipedia.Wikipedia (Apollo)
Anagrams
Japanese
Etymology
Borrowed from English CM, Wasei eigo (和製英語; pseudo-anglicism) initialism of commercial + message as in コマーシャルメッセージ (komāsharu messēji, literally “commercial message”). By surface analysis, コマーシャル (komāsharu) + メッセージ (messēji).
Pronunciation
Noun
CM • (shīemu)
- a commercial; television ad
- 2007 April 23, Kenshi Hirokane, “Step 5: Five O'Clock World 1”, in ヤング島耕作 主任編 [Young Shima Kōsaku: Manager Arc], volume 1 (fiction), Tōkyō: Kōdansha, →ISBN, pages 72–73:
- 僕はこのポスターは好きですね 好きだけど……何のCMかわからないんじゃないですか?
- Boku wa kono posutā wa suki desu ne Suki da kedo…… Nan no shīemu ka wakaranai n ja nai desu ka?
- I like this poster… But we still don’t know what the commercial’s gonna be like, no?
- 実は そこがポイントなんです 商品訴求をあえて隠して初芝AV機器のイメージだけを出したいんです
- Jitsu wa soko ga pointo na n desu Shōhin sokyū o aete kakushite Hatsushiba ēbui kiki no imēji dake o dashitai n desu
- That’s the point, actually. We want to keep the product’s appeal secret and just put out an image of Hatsushiba AV equipment.
- なるほど
- Naruhodo
- I see
- 僕はこのポスターは好きですね 好きだけど……何のCMかわからないんじゃないですか?
Hypernyms
- 広告 (kōkoku, “advertisement”)
Spanish
Proper noun
CM m