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# abbreviated

«abbreviated» in Mova's school dictionary: **made shorter, especially a word or phrase written in a…** — its meaning for a pupil, its sense in the lessons and examples.

### part of speech

adjective (abbreviated); also past form of the verb abbreviate (abbreviate, abbreviates, abbreviated, abbreviating); noun abbreviation

### meaning for a pupil

1) Abbreviated means made shorter, especially a word or phrase written in a short form: «Mr» is the abbreviated form of «Mister». [tree →](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/school/A/abbreviated/#m1)

2) Abbreviated can mean shortened in time or length: an abbreviated version of the story. [tree →](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/school/A/abbreviated/#m2)

### sense in the lessons

In English and maths lessons, units and words are abbreviated: centimetre → cm, kilogram → kg, minutes → min, «for example» → e.g. In everyday life, text messages and signs use abbreviated words. Phrases: abbreviated to, abbreviated form, an abbreviated version.

### examples

- «Centimetre» is abbreviated to «cm». [tree →](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/school/A/abbreviated/#x1)
- «Doctor» is often abbreviated as «Dr». [tree →](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/school/A/abbreviated/#x2)
- We watched an abbreviated version of the film. [tree →](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/school/A/abbreviated/#x3)
- The United Kingdom is abbreviated to UK. [tree →](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/school/A/abbreviated/#x4)
- In maths, «kilogram» is abbreviated to «kg». [tree →](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/school/A/abbreviated/#x5)
- Sunday is sometimes abbreviated to «Sun.». [tree →](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/school/A/abbreviated/#x6)

### note

Spelling: double b — abbreviated. The short form is called an «abbreviation». An abbreviation made from first letters said as a word (like «NASA») is an acronym. Unit abbreviations usually have no plural s: 5 cm, not 5 cms.

### Trees and pragmatics

[Every meaning and example of «abbreviated» parsed by Mova](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/school/A/abbreviated/), each sentence with its dependency tree and frames.