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Abbreviation vs Contribs - What's the difference?

abbreviation | contribs |

As a noun abbreviation

is the result of shortening or reducing; abridgment .

As an abbreviation contribs is

contributions.

abbreviation

English

(wikipedia abbreviation)

Alternative forms

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Noun

(en noun)
  • The result of shortening or reducing; abridgment.
  • (linguistics) A shortened or contracted form of a word or phrase, used to represent the whole, utilizing omission of letters, and sometimes substitution of letters, or duplication of initial letters to signify plurality, including signs such as, +, =, @.
  • The process of abbreviating.
  • (music) A notation used in music score to denote a direction, as pp or mf.
  • (music) One or more dashes through the stem of a note, dividing it respectively into quavers, semiquavers, demisemiquavers, or hemidemisemiquavers.
  • Any convenient short form used as a substitution for an understood or inferred whole.
    • the phrase "civil rights" is an abbreviation for a whole complex of relationships. - Pres. Truman's comittee on Civil Rights
  • (biology) Loss during evolution of the final stages of the ancestral ontogenetic pattern.
  • (mathematics) Reduction to lower terms, as a fraction.

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    References

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    contribs

    English

    Abbreviation

    (Abbreviation) (head)
  • contributions
  • * Elizabeth Sleeman, The International Who's Who of Women 2002 (2001) p. 150:
    • Publications include: Physical Properties of Fullerenes; numerous contribs to professional journals.
  • * Trevor Sykes, The Money Miners: The Great Australia Mining Boom (1995) p. 124:
    • The fully paid shares closed at $8.30 and the 10 cent contribs at $6, leaving a gap of $2.30 between the two classes of stock although the theoretical difference was only 15 cents.
  • *:...
    • But it is also possible that the contribs are overvalued by $5 and the fully paids are overvalued by $7.15.
  • * Francis Samuel Drake, Dictionary of American Biography (1879) p. 980:
    • In 1840 Mr. Whittier took up his residence at Amesbury, where he has since resided, and whence he forwarded his contribs. to the ''National Era'', Washington.
  • contributors
  • * Charles Washburn, Come Into My Parlor: A Biography of the Aristocratic Everleigh Sisters of Chicago (1934) p. 130:
    • ''While Eastman was in charge, one of his contribs was FPA. His identity was not known.
  • * '' (1925) p. 24:
    • S. Jay Kaufman of the New York Telegram-Mail recently invited his contribs to write him what, in their minds, is the finest building in New York City...
  • * James Russell Lowell, The Bookman (1915) p. 373:
    • Taylor ran a department on the "Journal" which was called "A Little About Everything," and one of his "contribs " was a young insurance man, Franklin P. Adams.