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abbreviate::verb | Spocien Dictionary
| Type | Words |
|---|---|
| Synonyms | abridge, contract, cut, foreshorten, reduce, shorten |
| Type of | decrease, minify, lessen |
| Has types | concentrate, condense, digest, shorten, bowdlerize, castrate, expurgate, bowdlerise |
| Verb group | edit, cut, edit out |
| Derivation | abbreviator |
| Type | Words |
|---|---|
| Type of | reduce |
| Derivation | abbreviation, abbreviator |
Examples of abbreviate
abbreviate
Southeast High School officials decided to abbreviate the commencement ceremony.
From the kansas.com
So a new set of initials-GNH-is now used to abbreviate a small academic industry.
From the economist.com
She adds many packages and cups abbreviate teaspoons and tablespoons incorrectly.
From the tennessean.com
In this case either abbreviate or fully spelt out he name of the month as desired.
From the en.wikipedia.org
By the way, in Wikipedia, you don't abbreviate the main topic of the article.
From the en.wikipedia.org
I hope my classicist friends will forgive me if I abbreviate mimeme to meme.
From the en.wikipedia.org
What if thousands of people spell her name wrong or somehow abbreviate it?
From the nytimes.com
Europeans abbreviate dates in reverse, and doing it wrong could invalidate your card.
From the usatoday.com
To abbreviate Alexander's long lament, the past decade was not a good one.
From the post-gazette.com
- Abridge: reduce in scope while retaining essential elements; "The manuscript must be shortened"
- Shorten; "Abbreviate `New York' and write `NY'"
- (abbreviated) (of clothing) very short; "an abbreviated swimsuit"; "a brief bikini"
- (abbreviated) cut short in duration; "the abbreviated speech"; "her shortened life was clearly the result of smoking"; "an unsatisfactory truncated conversation"
- (abbreviation) a shortened form of a word or phrase
- (abbreviation) shortening something by omitting parts of it
- An abridgment; To make shorter; to shorten; to abridge; to reduce by means of contraction or omission, especially of words written or spoken; To reduce to lower terms, as a fraction; Abbreviated; abridged; shortened; Having one part relatively shorter than another or than the ordinary type
- (abbreviation) A shortened or contracted form of a word or phrase, used to represent the whole: Dr; The act or result of shortening or reducing; One or more dashes through the stem of a note, dividing it respectively into quavers, semiquavers, demi-semiquavers, or hemi-demi-semiquavers; ...
- (Abbreviated) A category for CTRP registration, trials in this category are Industrial trials. The design and implementation of these studies is controlled by the pharmaceutical company. A protocol document is not required for registration of trials in this category.
