Abbreviated vs Shortened - What's the difference?
abbreviated | shortened | Related terms |
Shortened; made briefer.
Relatively short; shorter than normal, or compared to others.
Scanty, as in clothing.
(abbreviate)
(shorten)
To make shorter; to abbreviate.
* 1877 , (Anna Sewell), (Black Beauty) Chapter 22[http://en.wikisource.org/wiki/Black_Beauty/22]
To become shorter.
To make deficient (as to); to deprive (of).
* Dryden
To make short or friable, as pastry, with butter, lard, etc.
To reduce or diminish in amount, quantity, or extent; to lessen.
* Dryden
(nautical) To take in the slack of (a rope).
(nautical) To reduce (sail) by taking it in.
As verbs the difference between abbreviated and shortened
is that abbreviated is past tense of abbreviate while shortened is past tense of shorten.As an adjective abbreviated
is shortened; made briefer.abbreviated
English
Adjective
(en adjective)- The abbreviated lesson only took fifteen minutes as opposed to an hour and a half.
Verb
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shortened
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Verb
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*shorten
English
Verb
(en verb)- York came round to our heads and shortened the rein himself, one hole I think; every little makes a difference, be it for better or worse, and that day we had a steep hill to go up.
- Spoiled of his nose, and shortened of his ears.
- to shorten an allowance of food
- Here, where the subject is so fruitful, I am shortened by my chain.
