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Initialism vs United - What's the difference?

initialism | united |

As a noun 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 proper noun united is

(chiefly|british) any of many football teams formed by the amalgamation of smaller ones.

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 *

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    united

    English

    Verb

    (head)
  • (unite)

    • Adjective

    (-)
  • Joined into a single entity.
  • Involving the joint activity of multiple agents.

    • Anagrams

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