W vs. M

Wnoun

watt

Mnoun

(music) measure

Wnoun

west

Mnoun

(obsolete) thousand

Wnoun

witness

Mverb

(knitting) make

Wnoun

work

M

M, the thirteenth letter of the English alphabet, is a vocal consonant, and from the manner of its formation, is called the labio-nasal consonant. See Guide to Pronunciation, 178-180, 242.

Wadjective

(cricket) wide

M

As a numeral, M stands for one thousand, both in English and Latin.

Wadjective

white

Mnoun

A quadrat, the face or top of which is a perfect square; also, the size of such a square in any given size of type, used as the unit of measurement for that type: 500 m's of pica would be a piece of matter whose length and breadth in pica m's multiplied together produce that number.

Wpreposition

with

Mnoun

A brand or stigma, having the shape of an M, formerly impressed on one convicted of manslaughter and admitted to the benefit of clergy.

W

the twenty-third letter of the English alphabet, is usually a consonant, but sometimes it is a vowel, forming the second element of certain diphthongs, as in few, how. It takes its written form and its name from the repetition of a V, this being the original form of the Roman capital letter which we call U. Etymologically it is most related to v and u. See V, and U. Some of the uneducated classes in England, especially in London, confuse w and v, substituting the one for the other, as weal for veal, and veal for weal; wine for vine, and vine for wine, etc. See Guide to Pronunciation, 266-268.

Mnoun

the basic unit of length adopted under the Systeme International d'Unites (approximately 1.094 yards)

Wnoun

a heavy gray-white metallic element; the pure form is used mainly in electrical applications; it is found in several ores including wolframite and scheelite

Mnoun

concentration measured by the number of moles of solute per liter of solvent

Wnoun

the cardinal compass point that is a 270 degrees

Mnoun

the cardinal number that is the product of 10 and 100

Wnoun

a unit of power equal to 1 joule per second; the power dissipated by a current of 1 ampere flowing across a resistance of 1 ohm

Mnoun

the 13th letter of the Roman alphabet

Wnoun

the 23rd letter of the Roman alphabet

Madjective

denoting a quantity consisting of 1,000 items or units

W

W, or w, is the twenty-third and fourth-to-last letter of the modern English and ISO basic Latin alphabets. It usually represents a consonant, but in some languages it represents a vowel.

M

M, or m, is the thirteenth letter of the modern English alphabet and the ISO basic Latin alphabet. Its name in English is em (pronounced ), plural ems.