Associations to the word «Abbreviate»
Noun
- Classification
- Climate
- Abbreviation
- Map
- Constellation
- Continental
- Acronym
- Semi
- Orchid
- Ari
- Biosynthesis
- Cr
- Plural
- Notation
- Internationale
- Initial
- Prefix
- System
- Savanna
- Nucleotide
- Myanmar
- Designation
- Gesellschaft
- Singular
- Mt
- Digit
- Tyrol
- Capacitor
- Formula
- Keyword
- Luxembourg
- Cis
- Or
- Pk
- Paragraph
- Ps
- Highway
- Phrase
- Ng
- Nomenclature
- Sf
- Noun
- Ligand
- Nintendo
- Slang
- Marxist
- Acetate
- Esquire
- Simulator
Adjective
Wiktionary
ABBREVIATE, verb. (obsolete) (transitive) To shorten by omitting parts or details. [Attested from around (1350 to 1470) until the late 17th century.]
ABBREVIATE, verb. (obsolete) (intransitive) To speak or write in a brief manner. [Attested from the late 16th century until the early 17th century.]
ABBREVIATE, verb. (transitive) To make shorter; to shorten; to abridge; to shorten by ending sooner than planned. [First attested from around (1350 to 1470).]
ABBREVIATE, verb. (transitive) To reduce a word or phrase by means of contraction or omission to a shorter recognizable form. [First attested in the late 16th century.]
ABBREVIATE, verb. (transitive) (mathematics) To reduce to lower terms, as a fraction.
ABBREVIATE, adjective. (obsolete) Abbreviated; abridged; shortened. [Attested from around (1350 to 1470) until the late 17th century]
ABBREVIATE, adjective. (biology) Having one part relatively shorter than another or than the ordinary type. [First attested in the mid 19th century.]
ABBREVIATE, noun. (obsolete) An abridgment. [Mid 16th century.]
Dictionary definition
ABBREVIATE, verb. Reduce in scope while retaining essential elements; "The manuscript must be shortened".
ABBREVIATE, verb. Shorten; "Abbreviate `New York' and write `NY'".
Wise words
Words - so innocent and powerless as they are, as standing
in a dictionary, how potent for good and evil they become in
the hands of one who knows how to combine them.