Antonym vs Acronym - What's the difference?
antonym | acronym |
(semantics) A word which has the opposite meaning of another, although not necessarily in all its senses.
An abbreviation formed by (usually initial) letters taken from a word or series of words, that is itself pronounced as a word, such as RAM'', ''radar'', or ''scuba ; sometimes contrasted with initialism.
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A pronounceable word formed from the beginnings (letter or syllable) of other words and thus representing the phrase so formed, e.g. Benelux = the countries Belgium, Netherlands and Luxembourg considered as a political or economic whole.
Any abbreviation so formed, regardless of pronunciation, such as TNT, BBC, IBM'', or ''XML (see usage notes).
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As nouns the difference between antonym and acronym
is that antonym is a word which has the opposite meaning of another, although not necessarily in all its senses while acronym is an abbreviation formed by (usually initial) letters taken from a word or series of words, that is itself pronounced as a word, such as RAM, radar, or scuba; sometimes contrasted with initialism.antonym
English
(wikipedia antonym)Noun
(en noun)- "rich" is an antonym''' of "poor"; "full" is an '''antonym of "empty" .
Antonyms
* synonymDerived terms
* autoantonym * antonymic * antonymous * antonymy * binary antonym * complementary antonym * gradable antonym * polar antonym * relational antonymSee also
* thesaurus *External links
* (wikipedia) ----acronym
English
(wikipedia acronym)Noun
(en noun)Choosing a primary school: a teacher's guide for parents", The Guardian , 23 September 2014:
- Some teachers festoon every spare inch of wall with vocabulary choices or maths techniques to use, which look great at first, but to some children might appear quite daunting. You'll probably see unfamiliar acronyms such as Walt (We Are Learning To). Be sure to ask what they stand for and how they are used in practice.
Where Dr Pangloss meets Machiavelli, passage=Hidden behind thickets of acronyms and gorse bushes of detail, a new great game is under way across the globe. Some call it geoeconomics, but it's geopolitics too. The current power play consists of an extraordinary range of countries simultaneously sitting down to negotiate big free trade and investment agreements.}}