Abbreviate vs Abbreviative - What's the difference?
abbreviate | abbreviative |
(obsolete) To shorten by omitting parts or details.
* (rfdate) :
(obsolete) To speak or write in a brief manner.
To make shorter; to shorten; to abridge; to shorten by ending sooner than planned.
To reduce a word or phrase by means of contraction or omission to a shorter recognizable form.
(mathematics) To reduce to lower terms, as a fraction.
(obsolete) Abbreviated; abridged; shortened.
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(biology) Having one part relatively shorter than another or than the ordinary type.
As adjectives the difference between abbreviate and abbreviative
is that abbreviate is (obsolete) abbreviated; abridged; shortened while abbreviative is tending to abbreviate; condensed.As a verb abbreviate
is (obsolete|transitive) to shorten by omitting parts or details .As a noun abbreviate
is (obsolete) an abridgment .abbreviate
English
Etymology 1
* Either' from (etyl) abbreviaten, from (etyl) . * See abridge.Verb
(abbreviat)- It is one thing to abbreviate by contracting, another by cutting off.