Abbreviation vs Weekend - What's the difference?
abbreviation | weekend |
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.
The break in the working week, usually two days including the traditional holy or sabbath day. Thus in western countries, Saturday and Sunday. Occasionally abbreviated to w/e.
* {{quote-book
, year=1903
, author=Francis Markham
, coauthors=Sir Clements Robert Markham
, title=Recollections of a town boy at Westminster, 1849-1855
, page=34
, passage=... often took a few boys down there for what we North Country folk call the weekend — Saturday and Sunday; it was also used as a sanatorium if required.}}
Of, relating to or for the weekend.
Occurring at the weekend.
As nouns the difference between abbreviation and weekend
is that abbreviation is the result of shortening or reducing; abridgment while weekend is the break in the working week, usually two days including the traditional holy or sabbath day thus in western countries, saturday and sunday occasionally abbreviated to w/e.As a verb weekend is
to spend the weekend.As an adjective weekend is
of, relating to or for the weekend.abbreviation
English
(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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weekend
English
(wikipedia weekend)Noun
(en noun)Usage notes
Historically in North America and parts of Europe, people would often work on Saturday as well, or at least until noon on Saturday. Thus the "weekend" might begin at noon or later on Saturday in older texts. To describe the soonest upcoming weekend: * (UK, New Zealand) "at the weekend", "on the weekend", "this weekend", "for the weekend" ** {{quote-journal, **, , year=1886 , author=New Zealand Parliament , title=Parliamentary debates , volume=324 , page=2371 , passage=Let them work at their ordinary jobs during the week, and then take them out of circulation at the weekend , which is usually the time when the trouble is ... ** {{quote-news, indent2=**: , year=2009 , author=Great Britain House of Commons: Business and Enterprise Committee , title=Pre-appointment Hearing with the Chairman-elect of Ofcom, Dr. Colette Bowe , page=16 , passage=Whether it is on the BBC, ITV or commercial radio does not really matter. ...can give you a radio example of two things I was listening to at the weekend .}} * (US, Canada) "on the weekend", "this weekend", "for the weekend" ("at the weekend" is not used) }} ** {{quote-book, indent2=**: , year=2002 , author=United States Senate: Committee on Armed Services , title=Department of Defense authorization for appropriations for fiscal year 2002 , page=722 , passage=I am going to Moscow on the weekend to participate in the discussion, ...}}Alternative forms
* week-endAdjective
(-)- I'm wearing my weekend shoes
- a weekend break