What is the difference between omission and abbreviate?
omission | abbreviate |
The act of omitting.
The act of neglecting to perform an action one has an obligation to do.
Something deleted or left out.
Something not done or neglected.
(grammar) The shortening of a word or phrase, using an apostrophe ( ' ) to replace the missing letters, often used to approximate the sound of speech or a specific dialect.
(obsolete) To shorten by omitting parts or details.
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(obsolete) To speak or write in a brief manner.
To make shorter; to shorten; to abridge; to shorten by ending sooner than planned.
To reduce a word or phrase by means of contraction or omission to a shorter recognizable form.
(mathematics) To reduce to lower terms, as a fraction.
(obsolete) Abbreviated; abridged; shortened.
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(biology) Having one part relatively shorter than another or than the ordinary type.
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As nouns the difference between omission and abbreviate
is that omission is the act of omitting while abbreviate is {{context|obsolete|lang=en}} an abridgment {{defdate|mid 16th century}}.As a verb abbreviate is
{{context|obsolete|transitive|lang=en}} to shorten by omitting parts or details {{defdate|attested from around (1350 to 1470) until the late 17th century}}{{reference-book | last =| first = | authorlink = | coauthors = | editor =brown, lesley | others = | title = the shorter oxford english dictionary | origdate = | origyear = 1933| origmonth = | url = | format = | accessdate = | accessyear = | accessmonth = | edition = 5th | date = | year =2003| month = | publisher =oxford university press | location =oxford, uk | language = | id = | doi = | isbn =978-0-19-860575-7 | lccn = | ol = | pages =3| chapter = | chapterurl = | quote =}}.As a adjective abbreviate is
{{context|obsolete|lang=en}} abbreviated; abridged; shortened {{defdate|attested from around (1350 to 1470) until the late 17th century}}.omission
English
Noun
(en noun)Usage notes
Following are common examples of omission using an apostrophe: : six o’clock (shortening of “six of the clock”) : The high school class of ’69 (shortening of “1969”) : O’er there (shortening of “over there”) * From Mark Twain, The Adventures of Huckleberry Finn : *: S’pose people left money laying around where he was—what did he do? He collared it. S’pose he contracted to do a thing; and you paid him, and didn’t set down there and see that he done it—what did he do? He always done the other thing. S’pose he opened his mouth—what then? If he didn't shut it up powerful quick, he'd lose a lie, every time. That’s the kind of a bug Henry was; and if we’d ’a’ had him along ’stead of our kings, he’d ’a’ fooled that town a heap worse than ourn done.See also
* contraction ----abbreviate
English
Etymology 1
* Either' from (etyl) abbreviaten, from (etyl) . * See abridge.Verb
(abbreviat)- It is one thing to abbreviate by contracting, another by cutting off.