Meanings
p. m.1
- alternativeAlternative form of p.m..
At 2:28 p. m. on Monday, exactly a week after an 8.O-magnitude earthquake jolted Wenchuan, the 1.3-billion Chinese people stopped to observe three minutes in silence for the victims.
China Invites The World To Listen
2011, 听听中国怎么说 [China Invites The World To Listen], Beijing, →ISBN, →OCLC, →OL, page 2712 more examples
At 10 p. m., two miles west of Brownsville, in a resaca, found these frogs in small bushes, in weedy clumps, and even grassy tangles in overflowed tomato field adjoining the overflowed resaca.
1933, Anna Allen Wright, Albert Hazen Wright, Handbook of Frogs and Toads: The Frogs and Toads of the United States and Canada (Handbooks of American Natural History; 1), Ithaca, NY: Comstock Publ., page 110Tommy Riggs and his housekeeper, Mrs. McIntyre, will have harsh words over the size of the grocery bills, with the result that Tommy and Betty Lou will find themselves housekeeperless, on the “Tommy Riggs and Betty Lou” program Tuesday, over WHP and the Columbia network at 9 p. m.
1942 August 22, “Housekeeper Wanted by Tommy Riggss”, in Harrisburg Telegraph, volume CXII, number 199, Harrisburg, Pa.
P. M.2
- alternativeuncountableAlternative form of PM.
- alternativenot comparableAlternative form of p.m..
That ſeven Sail chaſed him in particular, from Day-light to Five P. M. when they gave over Chace:[…]
1754 December 30, The Caledonian Mercury, number 5158, Edinburgh2 more examples
At 2 P. M. They unmaſked another Battery of — Pieces of Cannon, three of which were 18 Pounders, the others 12 and 6. They began with a briſk Fire, which continued two Hours, then ſlackened. About Five P. M. we ſaw a Barge go over to Belle Famille, on the other Side of the River, and ſome Motions made there:[…]
1759 August 30, The Maryland Gazette, Containing the Freshest Advices Foreign and Domestic, number 747[…]; the last time he was seen on that Friday, was while he was entering the Medical College in Grove street, and although many persons had at first declared that they had seen him at or after five o’clock, P. M. on the day of his disappearance, yet when these statements had been examined, it was proved that they were all mistaken as to the day or the hour of the day in question.
1850 March 27, Lancaster Examiner and Herald, volume XXIV; new series, volume XII, number 17, Lancaster, Pa.
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