DM

Initialism of Daily Mail, a national newspaper.

Proper noun

  1. Initialism of Daily Mail, a national newspaper.
  2. Initialism of Distributed Morphology.

Noun

  1. Initialism of dimensional modeling.
  2. Initialism of De Morgan’s law.
    • Let ‘F’ stand for the state of affairs that consists in finite persons possessing and exercising free will. Let ‘p’ stand for ‘God exists’; ‘q’ for ‘F obtains’; ‘r’ for ‘F poses a serious risk of evil’; and ‘s’ for...
  3. Initialism of Deutsche Mark.

    Synonyms: DEM

  4. Initialism of dry matter.
  5. Initialism of diabetes mellitus.
  6. Initialism of dermatomyositis.
  7. adamsite, diphenylaminechlorarsine
  8. Abbreviation of dark matter.
  9. Abbreviation of dextromethorphan; also DXM.
  10. driving motor car
  11. Initialism of dungeon master or dungeon mistress.
    • DQ: "DM" stands for "Dungeon Master"--or I guess in my case Dungeon Mistress. *blinks* _That's_ got all kindsa wrong connotations, doesn't it? #o_o# - 2004 March 22, Death Quaker, “[STATS] Postings for alt.fan.utena...

    Synonyms: GM ST

  12. Initialism of direct message (type of message on social media platforms).
    • He later sent me a DM mentioning that he would send me what he wears because he does a lot of walking. This is where the relationships online can get a wee bit weird. - 2012, Scott Stratten, Alison Kramer, UnMarketing:...

    Synonyms: PM

    Coordinate Terms: PM IM

Forms

DMs

Derived

slide into the DMs slide into someone's DMs

Verb

  1. To communicate by direct message, usually on a social media website.
    • Rio [Ferdinand] DM’d me after the tournament. He’d said I was the weak link, and that Croatia should be targeting me. - 2021 August 2, Tyrone Mings, quotee, “Tyrone Mings Opens Up over Mental Health Struggles ahead of...
  2. To dungeon master; to perform as a dungeon master; to run a tabletop role-playing game.

    Synonyms: GM

Forms

DMs DMing DMed DM'd