Abbreviation vs Trimming - What's the difference?
abbreviation | trimming |
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.
(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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The act of someone who trims.
Material that is removed by someone trimming something, as a piece of steak.
:He gave the trimmings to the dog under the kitchen table.
An accompaniment to a meal.
:Christmas dinner with all the trimmings
(colloquial, dated) A reprimand or chastisting.
:I am helping my elderly neighbour by trimming his hedge.
As nouns the difference between abbreviation and trimming
is that abbreviation is the result of shortening or reducing; abridgment while trimming is the act of someone who trims.As a verb trimming is
.abbreviation
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(wikipedia abbreviation)Alternative forms
*Noun
(en noun)- the phrase "civil rights" is an abbreviation for a whole complex of relationships. - Pres. Truman's comittee on Civil Rights
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trimming
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(en noun)- I gave a good trimming to my elderly neighbour's hedges.
- to give a boy a trimming
