Abbreviation vs. Masculine

Abbreviationnoun

The result of shortening or reducing; abridgment.

Abbreviationnoun

(linguistics) A shortened or contracted form of a word or phrase, used to represent the whole, utilizing omission of letters, and sometimes substitution of letters, or duplication of initial letters to signify plurality, including signs such as +, =, @.

Abbreviationnoun

The process of abbreviating.

Abbreviationnoun

(music) A notation used in music score to denote a direction, as pp or mf.

Abbreviationnoun

(music) One or more dashes through the stem of a note, dividing it respectively into quavers, semiquavers, demisemiquavers, or hemidemisemiquavers.

Abbreviationnoun

Any convenient short form used as a substitution for an understood or inferred whole.

Abbreviationnoun

(biology) Loss during evolution of the final stages of the ancestral ontogenetic pattern.

Abbreviationnoun

(mathematics) Reduction to lower terms, as a fraction.

Abbreviationnoun

The act of shortening, or reducing.

Abbreviationnoun

The result of abbreviating; an abridgment.

Abbreviationnoun

The form to which a word or phrase is reduced by contraction and omission; a letter or letters, standing for a word or phrase of which they are a part; as, Gen. for Genesis; U.S.A. for United States of America.

Abbreviationnoun

One dash, or more, through the stem of a note, dividing it respectively into quavers, semiquavers, or demi-semiquavers.

Abbreviationnoun

a shortened form of a word or phrase

Abbreviationnoun

shortening something by omitting parts of it

Abbreviation

An abbreviation (from Latin brevis, meaning short) is a shortened form of a word or phrase, by any method. It may consist of a group of letters or words taken from the full version of the word or phrase; for example, the word abbreviation can itself be represented by the abbreviation abbr., abbrv., or abbrev.; NPO, for nil (or nothing) per (by) os (mouth) is an abbreviated medical instruction.

Masculineadjective

Of or pertaining to the male gender; manly.

Masculineadjective

Of or pertaining to the male sex; biologically male, not female.

Masculineadjective

Belonging to males; typically used by males.

Masculineadjective

Having the qualities stereotypically associated with men: virile, aggressive, not effeminate.

Masculineadjective

(grammar) Of, pertaining or belonging to the male grammatical gender, in languages that have gender distinctions.

Masculineadjective

(of a noun) Being of the masculine class, or grammatical gender, and inflected in that manner.

Masculineadjective

(of some other parts of speech) Being inflected in agreement with the masculine noun.

Masculinenoun

(grammar) The masculine gender.

Masculinenoun

(grammar) A word of the masculine gender.

Masculinenoun

That which is masculine.

Masculinenoun

A man.

Masculineadjective

Of the male sex; not female.

Masculineadjective

Having the qualities of a man; suitable to, or characteristic of, a man; virile; not feminine or effeminate; strong; robust.

Masculineadjective

Belonging to males; appropriated to, or used by, males.

Masculineadjective

Having the inflections of, or construed with, words pertaining especially to male beings, as distinguished from feminine and neuter. See Gender.

Masculinenoun

a gender that refers chiefly (but not exclusively) to males or to objects classified as male

Masculineadjective

of grammatical gender;

Masculineadjective

associated with men and not with women

Masculineadjective

(music or poetry) ending on an accented beat or syllable;

Masculineadjective

having qualities or appearance traditionally associated with men

Masculineadjective

relating to men; male

Masculineadjective

of or denoting a gender of nouns and adjectives, conventionally regarded as male

Masculinenoun

the male sex or gender

Masculinenoun

a masculine word or form.