Abbreviated

4 definitions found

From The Collaborative International Dictionary of English v.0.48 [gcide]:

  Abbreviate \Ab*bre"vi*ate\ ([a^]b*br[=e]"v[i^]*[=a]t), v. t.
     [imp. & p. p. {Abbreviated}; p. pr. & vb. n. {Abbreviating}.]
     [L. abbreviatus, p. p. of abbreviare; ad + breviare to
     shorten, fr. brevis short. See {Abridge}.]
     1. To make briefer; to shorten; to abridge; to reduce by
        contraction or omission, especially of words written or


        spoken.
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              It is one thing to abbreviate by contracting,
              another by cutting off.               --Bacon.
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     2. (Math.) To reduce to lower terms, as a fraction.
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From The Collaborative International Dictionary of English v.0.48 [gcide]:

  Abbreviated \Ab*bre"vi*a`ted\ ([a^]b*br[=e]"v[i^]*[=a]`t[e^]d),
     a.
     Shortened; relatively short; abbreviate.
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From WordNet (r) 2.0 [wn]:

  abbreviated
       adj 1: (of clothing) very short; "an abbreviated swimsuit"; "a
              brief bikini" [syn: {brief}]
       2: cut short in duration; "the abbreviated speech"; "a
          curtailed visit"; "her shortened life was clearly the
          result of smoking"; "an unsatisfactory truncated
          conversation" [syn: {shortened}, {truncated}]

From Moby Thesaurus II by Grady Ward, 1.0 [moby-thes]:

  58 Moby Thesaurus words for "abbreviated":
     Spartan, abridged, abstracted, aposiopestic, bobbed, brief,
     brusque, capsule, capsulized, clipped, close, compact, compendious,
     compressed, concise, condensed, contracted, crisp, cropped, curt,
     curtailed, cut, cut short, digested, docked, elided, elliptic,
     epigrammatic, gnomic, laconic, mowed, mown, nipped, pithy, pointed,
     pollard, polled, pruned, reaped, reserved, sententious, shaved,
     sheared, short, short and sweet, short-cut, shortened, snub,
     snubbed, succinct, summary, synopsized, taciturn, terse, tight,
     to the point, trimmed, truncated