Abbreviation vs Uptake - What's the difference?
abbreviation | uptake |
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.
understanding, comprehension
absorption, especially of food or nutrient by an organism
(dated) a chimney
(archaic) To take up, to lift.
*1590 , Edmund Spenser, The Faerie Queene , II.ii:
*:He hearkned to his reason, and the childe / Vptaking , to the Palmer gaue to beare [...].
As nouns the difference between abbreviation and uptake
is that abbreviation is the result of shortening or reducing; abridgment while uptake is understanding, comprehension.As a verb uptake is
(archaic) to take up, to lift.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