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Abbreviated   /əbrˈiviˌeɪtəd/  /əbrˈiviˌeɪtɪd/   Listen
verb
Abbreviate  v. t.  (past & past part. abbreviated; pres. part. abbreviating)  
1.
To make briefer; to shorten; to abridge; to reduce by contraction or omission, especially of words written or spoken. "It is one thing to abbreviate by contracting, another by cutting off."
2.
(Math.) To reduce to lower terms, as a fraction.


adjective
Abbreviated  adj.  Shortened; relatively short; abbreviate.





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"Abbreviated" Quotes from Famous Books



... has never departed from her and never will so long as her great cathedral stands intact, guarding its age-long line of proud traditions. The exterior is not altogether pleasing—the length exceeding that of any cathedral in Europe, together with the abbreviated tower, impresses one with a painful sense of lack of completeness and a failure of proper proportion. It has not the splendid site of Durham or Lincoln, the majesty of the massive tower of Canterbury, or the grace of the great spire of Salisbury. ...
— British Highways And Byways From A Motor Car - Being A Record Of A Five Thousand Mile Tour In England, - Wales And Scotland • Thomas D. Murphy
... MS. both Lord and Le were probably abbreviated into L., and hence the misprint, as well as ...
— A Select Collection of Old English Plays, Vol. VIII (4th edition) • Various
... his youngest son Walter predeceasing him by two days from the same complaint—the grief of any knowledge of it, however, being happily spared the father. He was buried in Highgate Cemetery, and the inscription engraved upon the tombstone was reproduced in an abbreviated and modified form from the touching obituary notice in which his brother-workers, through Jerrold's pen, testified to his merits and to their affection: "Endowed with a genial, manly spirit; gifted with ...
— The History of "Punch" • M. H. Spielmann
... make it clearer how that man stood in the matter of awareness of himself. He was, indeed, aware of himself whenever, during his contemplation of that landscape, the thought arose, "well, I must be going away, and perhaps I shan't see this place again"—or some infinitely abbreviated form, perhaps a mere sketched out gesture of turning away, accompanied by a slight feeling of clinging, he couldn't for the life of him say in what part of his body. He was at that moment acutely aware that he did not want to do something which it was optional to do. Or, if he ...
— The Beautiful - An Introduction to Psychological Aesthetics • Vernon Lee
... abbreviated account of the carved works which during the last generation have been discovered to have been produced by black folk on the West Coast of Africa in ...
— The Journal of Negro History, Volume 6, 1921 • Various


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