英文英文字典
英文英文字典
古腾堡计划中的在线英语-英语词典
字典
Abbreviate
(n.)
An abridgment.
Abbreviated
(imp. & p. p.)
of Abbreviate
Abbreviated
(a.)
Shortened; relatively short; abbreviate.
Abbreviating
(p. pr. & vb. n.)
of Abbreviate
Abbreviation
(n.)
The act of shortening, or reducing.
Abbreviation
(n.)
The result of abbreviating; an abridgment.
Abbreviation
(n.)
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.
Abbreviation
(n.)
One dash, or more, through the stem of a note,
dividing it respectively into quavers, semiquavers, or
demi-semiquavers.
Abbreviator
(n.)
One who abbreviates or shortens.
Abbreviator
(n.)
One of a college of seventy-two officers of the papal
court whose duty is to make a short minute of a decision on a petition,
or reply of the pope to a letter, and afterwards expand the minute into
official form.
Abbreviatory
(a.)
Serving or tending to abbreviate; shortening;
abridging.
Abbreviature
(n.)
An abbreviation; an abbreviated state or form.
Abbreviature
(n.)
An abridgment; a compendium or abstract.
Abdal
(n.)
A religious devotee or dervish in Persia.
Abderian
(a.)
Given to laughter; inclined to foolish or incessant
merriment.
Abderite
(n.)
An inhabitant of Abdera, in Thrace.
Abdest
(n.)
Purification by washing the hands before prayer; -- a
Mohammedan rite.
Abdicable
(a.)
Capable of being abdicated.
Abdicant
(a.)
Abdicating; renouncing; -- followed by of.
Abdicant
(n.)
One who abdicates.