Definition of abbreviates Abbreviates
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What does abbreviates mean?
Part of speech
🔤- abbreviates, verb, present, 3rd person singular of abbreviate (infinitive).
WordNet
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| abbreviate - shorten; "Abbreviate `New York' and write `NY'" | ||
| reduce take off weight | ||
| abbreviate - reduce in scope while retaining essential elements; "The manuscript must be shortened" | ||
| abridge, foreshorten, shorten, cut, contract, reduce | ||
| expatiate, lucubrate, dilate, exposit, expound, flesh out, elaborate, enlarge, expand become wider; "His pupils were dilated" | ||
| minify, decrease, lessen decrease in size, extent, or range; "The amount of homework decreased towards the end of the semester"; "The cabin pressure fell dramatically"; "her weight fell to under a hundred pounds"; "his voice fell to a whisper" | ||
| bowdlerise, bowdlerize, expurgate, castrate, shorten edit by omitting or modifying parts considered indelicate; "bowdlerize a novel" | ||
| edit out, edit, cut prepare for publication or presentation by correcting, revising, or adapting; "Edit a book on lexical semantics"; "she edited the letters of the politician so as to omit the most personal passages" | ||
| condense, concentrate, digest undergo condensation; change from a gaseous to a liquid state and fall in drops; "water condenses"; "The acid distills at a specific temperature" | ||
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Webster DictionaryWebster's Unabridged Dictionary 📘
- abbreviate (v. t.)
To make briefer; to shorten; to abridge; to reduce by contraction or omission, especially of words written or spoken. - abbreviate (v. t.)
To reduce to lower terms, as a fraction. - abbreviate (a.)
Abbreviated; abridged; shortened. - abbreviate (a.)
Having one part relatively shorter than another or than the ordinary type. - abbreviate (n.)
An abridgment.
OmegaWiki DictionaryOmegaWiki Dictionary Ω
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abbreviate
To make shorter. -
abbreviate
To bring information in fewer words; to describe roughly or briefly. -
abbreviate
To shorten a word or phrase by omitting letters.
Chambers DictionaryChamber's 20th Century Dictionary 📕
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abbreviate
ab-brē′vi-āt, v.t. to make brief or short: to abridge.—ns. Abbreviā′tion, Abbrē′viature, a shortening, a part of a word put for the whole; Abbrē′viator, one who abbreviates.—adj. Abbrē′viatory. [L. abbreviāre, -ātum—ab, intensive, and brevis, short. See Brief.]
Part of speech
🔤- abbreviate, verb, present, 1st person singular of abbreviate (infinitive).
- abbreviate, verb (infinitive).
