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Longman Dictionary of Contemporary English
abbreviated
adjective
COLLOCATIONS FROM CORPUS
■ NOUN
form
▪ Now, the term compadre, or its abbreviated form pare, is normally used in address to indicate intimacy and equality.
▪ Where appropriate, the abbreviated form is shown to the right of the statement.
▪ When citing cases the reference should always be given; and it should be pronounced in full, not in abbreviated form.
EXAMPLES FROM OTHER ENTRIES
▪ Charro gave the speech again in an abbreviated form.
EXAMPLES FROM CORPUS
▪ He gave much happiness to his family and friends during his abbreviated time on this earth.
▪ If this abbreviated plan is convincing, then it can be refined to a more nearly faithful one.
▪ Such abbreviated language is standard practice and will be widely adopted in the remainder of this book.
▪ The pace bowlers capitalised during the abbreviated first day, even if the close catchers didn't.
The Collaborative International Dictionary
Abbreviated

Abbreviated \Ab*bre"vi*a`ted\, a. Shortened; relatively short; abbreviate.

Abbreviated

Abbreviate \Ab*bre"vi*ate\, 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.

    It is one thing to abbreviate by contracting, another by cutting off.
    --Bacon.

  2. (Math.) To reduce to lower terms, as a fraction.

Wiktionary
abbreviated
  1. 1 shorten; made briefer. 2 Relatively short; shorter than normal, or compared to others. 3 scanty, as in clothing.(R:RHCD: page=1) v

  2. (en-past of: abbreviate)

WordNet
abbreviated
  1. adj: (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]

Usage examples of "abbreviated".

The hormone has been isolated and has been labeled the thyroid-stimulating hormone, a name usually abbreviated as TSH.

XT-Operations agreed to use his good offices to convince the people at the auberge to let Richard take abbreviated tests right there at the starport, then proceed directly to Go.

Miri was formally introduced to Edger, Handler, Selector, and Sheather, each by his abbreviated, visa name.

Alpha hooked her handheld on her belt, and the two formas stood together, staring at the shoe, neither speaking, though they made abbreviated gestures as if they were conversing.

Without too much trouble, I could have fleshed it out into a complete linear narrative, but I liked the abbreviated format better: the last, hurried testament of a tragic heroine, doomed to die on Muta or be consumed by parasitic spores.

When he looked at that portion of the mural, Dotson touched the side of his flattened, chinless muzzle in an abbreviated version of the Rac greeting gesture.

In accordance with this abbreviated development, the caudal membranous crest does not exist, and the branchial aperture closes as soon as the external gills disappear.

The morphology database includes abbreviated music and mathematics tables.

Should have bandaged them, he muttered to himself, and swung off when the mosso came to its abbreviated stop.

Epicheirema, then, is an abbreviated chain of reasoning, or Polysyllogism, comprising an Episyllogism with one or two enthymematic Prosyllogisms.

It was no fist at all, more like a meat ball, two little meat balls, two rosy pompons swinging from abbreviated arms.

Before Corunna stood Lieutenant Strope, though Marvin was able to see nothing of him save a pair of thin shanks protruding from abbreviated duck trousers.

There being no sidings at Lake Louise, the abbreviated train that had brought us there had been returned to Banff for the two mountain days, with George Burley going with it, in charge.

Lake Louise, the abbreviated train that had brought us there had been returned to Banff for the two mountain days, with George Burley going with it, in charge.

Alpha hooked her handheld on her belt, and the two formas stood together, staring at the shoe, neither speaking, though they made abbreviated gestures as if they were conversing.