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Calendar vs Initialism - What's the difference?

calendar | initialism |

As nouns the difference between calendar and initialism

is that calendar is any system by which time is divided into days, weeks, months, and years while initialism is a term formed from the initial letter or letters of several words or parts of words, but which is itself pronounced letter by letter.

As a verb calendar

is (legal) to set a date for a proceeding in court, usually done by a judge at a calendar call.

calendar

English

(wikipedia calendar)

Noun

(en noun)
  • Any system by which time is divided into days, weeks, months, and years.
  • A means to determine the date consisting of a document containing dates and other temporal information.
  • A list of planned events.
  • An orderly list or enumeration of persons, things, or events; a schedule.
  • * (Francis Bacon)
    • Shepherds of people had need know the calendars of tempests of state.
  • * {{quote-book, year=1963, author=(Margery Allingham), title=(The China Governess)
    • , chapter=20, url=http://openlibrary.org/works/OL2004261W , passage=The story struck the depressingly familiar note with which true stories ring in the tried ears of experienced policemen.

    Usage notes

    * Do not confuse calendar' with ' calender .

    Synonyms

    * (list of planned events) agenda, schedule, docket

    Derived terms

    * calendar day * calendric * calendrical * Chinese calendar * French Republican Calendar * Gregorian calendar * Hebrew calendar * Jewish calendar * Julian calendar * lunar calendar * lunisolar calendar * solar calendar * desktop calendar

    Verb

    (en verb)
  • (legal) To set a date for a proceeding in court, usually done by a judge at a calendar call.
    • The judge agreed to calendar''' a hearing for pretrial motions for the week of May 15, but did not agree to '''calendar the trial itself on a specific date.
  • To enter or write in a calendar; to register.
    • (Waterhouse)

    Anagrams

    * ----

    initialism

    English

    Noun

    (wikipedia initialism) (en noun)
  • A term formed from the initial letter or letters of several words or parts of words, but which is itself pronounced letter by letter.
    • BBC is an initialism for British Broadcasting Corporation.

    See also

    * abbreviation * acronym * orphan initialism * TLA *

    External links

    * Acronyms selected for your enjoyment * English words suffixed with -ism