Initialism vs Tomato - What's the difference?
initialism | tomato |
A term formed from the initial letter or letters of several words or parts of words, but which is itself pronounced letter by letter.
A widely cultivated plant, Solanum lycopersicum , having edible fruit
The savory fruit of this plant, red when ripe, treated as a vegetable in horticulture
* Note: The US Supreme Court in
A shade of red, the colour of a ripe tomato.
(slang) A desirable-looking woman.
(slang) A stupid act or person.
to pelt with tomatoes
to add tomatoes to (a dish)
English nouns with irregular plurals
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As nouns the difference between initialism and tomato
is that 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 while tomato is tomato.initialism
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Noun
(wikipedia initialism) (en noun)- BBC is an initialism for British Broadcasting Corporation.
See also
* abbreviation * acronym * orphan initialism * TLA *tomato
English
(wikipedia tomato)Noun
(en-noun)Nix v. Hedden (1893)ruled that a tomato is a vegetable.
- Lookit the legs on that hot tomato !