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abbreviated 音標拼音: [əbr'ivi ,etəd] [əbr'ivi ,etɪd] 縮短的,小型的 縮短的,小型的 abbreviated adj 1: ( of clothing) very short; " an abbreviated swimsuit"; " a brief bikini" [ synonym: { abbreviated}, { brief}] 2: cut short in duration; " the abbreviated speech"; " her shortened life was clearly the result of smoking"; " an unsatisfactory truncated conversation" [ synonym: { abbreviated}, { shortened}, { truncated}] 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. [ 1913 Webster] It is one thing to abbreviate by contracting, another by cutting off. -- Bacon. [ 1913 Webster] 2. ( Math.) To reduce to lower terms, as a fraction. [ 1913 Webster]
Abbreviated \ Ab* bre" vi* a` ted\ ([ a^] b* br[= e]" v[ i^]*[= a]` t[ e^] d), a. Shortened; relatively short; abbreviate. [ 1913 Webster] 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 |
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