EMS

abbreviation for

1. emergency medical service.
2. Digital Technology. enhanced message service: a system for sending long or formatted text messages, images, music, etc., from one cell phone to another. Compare SMS ( def 1a ).
3. European Monetary System.
4. express mail service: an international service offered by the postal operators of the Universal Postal Union (UPU).

EMS

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abbreviation for

1. European Monetary System
2. enhanced messaging service: a system used for sending text messages containing special text formatting, animations, etc, to and from mobile phones

Ems

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/ ɛmz /

noun

1. a town in W Germany, in the Rhineland-Palatinate: famous for the Ems Telegram (1870), Bismarck's dispatch that led to the outbreak of the Franco-Prussian War. Pop: 9666 (2003 est)
2. a river in W Germany, rising in the Teutoburger Wald and flowing generally north to the North Sea. Length: about 370 km (230 miles)

Example Sentences

EMS officers were called to the scene and pronounced her dead upon arrival.

From The Daily Beast

And even EMS dispatch vets, generally reluctant to second-guess the work of one of their own, have piled on.

From The Daily Beast

I told the EMS, nurses, and doctor that it was an attempted rape.

From The Daily Beast

To be able to repeat great po-ems at will, is to have a treasure you can allus carry with you while your voice lasts.

From Project Gutenberg

His hands seemed to flow back and forth like the tide, and yet he was setting twenty ems eight-point and keeping the machine hung.

From Project Gutenberg

We came to the River Ems four miles from the border of Holland.

From Project Gutenberg

It was from the king at Ems, and described his interview that morning with the French ambassador.

From Project Gutenberg

He could set ten thousand ems a day, and he received pay according to the amount of work done.

From Project Gutenberg