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ABBREVIATURE

Definitions: ABBREVIATURE

ABBREVIATURE

Noun

1. An abridgment; a compendium or abstract.

2. An abbreviation; an abbreviated state or form.

Source: Webster's Revised Unabridged Dictionary (1913)
 

Synonym: ABBREVIATURE

Synonym: Epitome. (additional references)

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Synonyms within Context: ABBREVIATURE

ContextSynonyms within Context (source: adapted from Roget's Thesaurus).

Compendium

Abbreviation, abbreviature; contraction; shortening; compression.

Shortness

Shortening; Verb: abbreviation, abbreviature; abridgment, concision, retrenchment, curtailment, decurtation; reduction; (contraction); epitome; (compendium).

Source: adapted from Roget's Thesaurus.

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Crosswords: ABBREVIATURE

English words defined with "ABBREVIATURE": Breviature. (references)
Etymologies containing "ABBREVIATURE": Breviature. (references)

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Modern Translations: ABBREVIATURE

Language Translations for "ABBREVIATURE"; alternative meanings/domain in parentheses.

Dutch

  

afkortingsteken, verkortingsteken. (various references)

   

Pig Latin

  

abbreviatureay.(various references)

Source: compiled by the editor from various translation references.

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Rhyming with "ABBREVIATURE"

Words rhyming with "ABBREVIATURE" (pronounced 'Ab*bre"vi*a*ture'): Abature, Acclimature, Acture, Adjudicature, Admixture, Affixture, Agriculture, Alcoholature, Anfracture, Aperture, Apiculture, Aquapuncture, Arboriculture, architecture, Attainture, Aventure, Aviculture, Batture, Belecture, Breviature, Candidature, Capillature, Ceinture, Celature, Celsiture, Cincture, Climature, Colature, Colorature, Comfiture, Commixture, Compacture, Composture, Concreture, Confecture, Confiture, Conjuncture, Connature, Consignature, Constructure, Contemperature, Contexture, Contracture, Corporature, Coverture, Creature, Crenature, Crispature, Cubature, Curvature, Decerniture, Declinature, Decocture, Decumbiture, Defeature, Dejecture, Delineature, Denature, Denture, Departure, Depasture, Depicture, Deporture, Depositure, Dictature, Digesture, Disadventure, Disarmature, Disaventure, Discomfiture, Discoverture, Disfeature, Disinvestiture, Disjuncture, Disrupture, Distasture, Distemperature, Distincture, Disventure, Divestiture, Divesture, Domiculture, Ducture, Duplicature, Electro-puncture, Enacture, Encincture, Enrapture, Entablature, Esture, Exhausture, Expenditure, Exploiture, Exposture, Facture, feature, Fellow-creature, Fermeture, filature, fixture, floriculture, Foliature, Forfalture, forfeiture, Fructure, furniture, Gallature, Galvanopuncture, Garmenture, Garniture, Geniture, Gladiature, Habiture, horticulture, Illiterature, Imbosture, immature, Immixture, Impasture, imposture, Incommixture, Incubiture, Inculture, Insculpture, Insisture, Intemperature, intermixture, Intertexture, investiture, judicature, juncture, Lavature, Legature, Limature, Lineature, literature, Loture, Maculature, Magistrature, Mercature, Metallifacture, misadventure, Misaventure, misfeature, Misnurture, mixture, moisture, Multure, Musculature, Nomenclature, Nouriture, Nunciature, Nutriture, Offerture, Ornature, Ostreaculture, Overmoisture, Overpicture, Painture, Paraventure, Parture, Photosculpture, Piscicapture, Pisciculture, Plasmature, Plicature, Politure, Pomiculture, Positure, Postgeniture, Postremogeniture, Prefecture, Premature, Prepositure, Pretexture, Pretorture, Primogeniture, Progeniture, Projecture, Prompture, Purpresture, Quadrature, Quitture, Recomforture, Redempture, Repasture, Retexture, Revestture, Ricture, Roture, Rudenture, Scripture, Secundo-geniture, Self-culture, Self-imposture, self-torture, sepulture, sericulture, Serrature, Serviture, silviculture, Stirpiculture, Striature, stricture, structure, substructure, Superinvestiture, superstructure, suture, Sylviculture, tablature, Tainture, Teinture, Terraculture, Transnature, Treature, Tubulature, Unculture, Unigeniture, Usurpature, Vecture, Verditure, Vestiture, Vesture, Viatecture, Vincture, Viniculture, Viticulture, Vitrifacture, Voiture, Vulture, Wafture. (additional references)

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Anagrams: ABBREVIATURE

Scrabble® Enable2K-Verified Anagrams

Words within the letters "a-a-b-b-e-e-i-r-r-t-u-v"

-1 letter: rebarbative.

-2 letters: abbreviate.

-4 letters: aubretia, aubrieta, rabbiter, veratria, vertebra.

-5 letters: arbiter, aureate, barbate, bravura, bravure, brevier, bruiter, rarebit, rebater, riveter, tearier, tubbier, variate, vibrate.

Source: compiled by the editor from various references; see credits.

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Alternative Orthography: ABBREVIATURE


Hexadecimal (or equivalents, 770AD-1900s) (references)

41 42 42 52 45 56 49 41 54 55 52 45

Leonardo da Vinci (1452-1519; backwards) (references)

American Sign Language (origins from 1620-1817 in Italy and, especially, France) (references)

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Semaphore (1791, in France) (references)

Braille (1829, in France) (references)

Morse Code (1836) (references)

.-    -...    -...    .-.    .    ...-    ..    .-    -    ..-    .-.    .

Dancing Men (Sir Arthur Conan Doyle, 1903) (references)

Binary Code (1918-1938, probably earlier) (references)

01000001 01000010 01000010 01010010 01000101 01010110 01001001 01000001 01010100 01010101 01010010 01000101

HTML Code (1990) (references)

&#65 &#66 &#66 &#82 &#69 &#86 &#73 &#65 &#84 &#85 &#82 &#69

ISO 10646 (1991-1993) (references)

0041 0042 0042 0052 0045 0056 0049 0041 0054 0055 0052 0045

British Sign Language (Fingerspelling, BSL; 1992, British Deaf Association Dictionary of British Sign Language) (references)

Encryption (beginner's substitution cypher): (references)

353636523956433554555239

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INDEX

1. Definition
2. Synonyms
3. Crosswords
4. Translations: Modern
5. Rhymes
6. Anagrams
7. Orthography
8. Bibliography


  

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