What's the difference between abbreviation and kidding?

Abbreviation


Definition:

  • (n.) The act of shortening, or reducing.
  • (n.) The result of abbreviating; an abridgment.
  • (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.
  • (n.) One dash, or more, through the stem of a note, dividing it respectively into quavers, semiquavers, or demi-semiquavers.

Example Sentences:

  • (1) The profile includes three physiologic assessments and four variables which express the number, location, and severity of a patient's injuries in terms of 'Abbreviated injury scale' values.
  • (2) The results also demonstrate the effect of an outward current to prolong the action potential and the effect of an outward current blocker to abbreviate the action potential.
  • (3) We investigated the accuracy of the Hodkinson abbreviated mental test (AMT) as a screening instrument for dementia in an Italian population.
  • (4) The aberrant conformation is evidently forced upon the abbreviated constructs by the residual 5' precursor sequence, since its removal by the maturation endonuclease RNAase M5 precipitates the reordering of the mature domain into its native conformation.
  • (5) This abbreviated therapeutic approach may eliminate the need for serial electropharmacologic testing, long-term drug therapy, antitachycardia pacemakers, and surgical ablation.
  • (6) Challenge after abbreviation of primary infections at different stages of worm development showed that persistence of larvae beyond day 21 was critical in determining poor response to reinfection.
  • (7) An abbreviated review of behavioral animal studies provides additional support for the clinical investigations presented.
  • (8) Under simulated ischaemic conditions, lignocaine, propranolol and nicainoprol did not produce a concentration-dependent reduction in action potential duration whereas disopyramide and verapamil, respectively, prolonged and abbreviated both APD50 and APD90.
  • (9) The temperature-sensitive Drosophila developmental mutation, l(3)c21RRW630 (abbreviated RW630) disturbs oogenesis and has a maternal effect on embryogenesis.
  • (10) PEP I was prolonged, LVET I was abbreviated, while QS2 I remained unaltered.
  • (11) And, finally, the "R", an abbreviation for recommandé (registered), suggests that it would have contained the 100-franc allowance that Theo regularly sent his brother.
  • (12) A correlation and linear regression study was performed, to establish differences between the detailed and the abbreviated methods.
  • (13) An abbreviated form of the MMPI test was used in the clinical part.
  • (14) Abbreviated and full versions of the discharge summary were generated with very little interactive time required of the physician or record clerk.
  • (15) The lateral preferences of 959 Brazilian adults (471 males and 488 females) were assessed with the abbreviated form of the Edinburgh Inventory using the interview method.
  • (16) Two-thirds of hospitals performed a major antiglobulin crossmatch (rather than an abbreviated one) before all neonatal red cell transfusions.
  • (17) This report describes the development and validation of a computerized system for converting ICD-9CM rubrics to Abbreviated Injury Scale (AIS) scores.
  • (18) Third, MATa cells expressing a truncated but functional STE2 gene (in which the COOH-terminal 135-hydrophilic residues were deleted) produced a protein detected by cross-linking to 35S-alpha-factor of apparent molecular weight 33,000, close to the size expected for the predicted abbreviated STE2 polypeptide.
  • (19) The Interview Schedule for Social Interaction, could be abbreviated and simplified for the use in population surveys.
  • (20) The Italian MMPI abbreviated version was administered to all subjects.

Kidding


Definition:

  • (p. pr. & vb. n.) of Kid

Example Sentences:

  • (1) I felt a much stronger connection with the kids on my home block, who I rode bikes with nightly.
  • (2) Another, discussing public attitudes towards the police, said: "I've lost count of [the number of] people who said: 'It's only cos you've got a uniform … if you didn't have the uniform on, I'd come and fuck you and this, that and the other … I hope your wife dies of cancer and your kids die of cancer.'"
  • (3) His wrists were shown wrapped in tape with “MIKE BROWN” and “MY KIDS MATTER” written on them.
  • (4) Serum copper concentration also was measured in dams and kids in a control herd that had no history of ataxia.
  • (5) Reality set in once you got home to your parents and the regular neighborhood kids, and your thoughts turned to new notebooks for the school year and whether you got prettier while you were away and whether your crushes were going to notice.
  • (6) ‘Many of our kids become radicalized at some point’ – that’s what the government wants to hear, that’s what these folks want to hear.
  • (7) But I think this isn’t a problem only kids face – we’ve become a country of trashy readers.
  • (8) Now, people observe and see if the kids are OK. Based on that, they come around.” Growing acceptance came too late for 15-year-old Musu Allieu, whose parents both died of Ebola.
  • (9) That’s why when I heard from a family of 11 from my Walthamstow constituency whose holiday to LA had had to be abandoned, my first thought was for their kids.
  • (10) "I think that we've got to treat our kids well, but I don't think we ought to say there's no place ever for smacks.
  • (11) That’s why many parents in North Korea have started bribing government officers even before their kids graduate high school.
  • (12) My dream is that one day, young kids in Nepal won’t have to risk working on the mountain as porters or guides, they will be able to get an education and build better lives for themselves,” Sherpa told AFP.
  • (13) A s I watched Camila Batmanghelidjh being mobbed by the small crowd demonstrating about the closure of Kids Company outside Downing Street last week, it struck me that she was more like a character out of children’s book than a real person.
  • (14) This study addresses the use and appraisal of services by parents at the KIDS Family Centre, Camden, London, which offers a variety of family-focused services with differing degrees of parental involvement.
  • (15) Or perhaps it was just because I was a little kid and more interested in them Weetabix skinheads, Roland Rat and Knight Rider.
  • (16) My chief of staff, for instance, had two kids that were still in school.
  • (17) Behaving like the oldest kid on the block is just one of the things that Larry Clark's detractors hold against him.
  • (18) Kid can play #sb47 @ lengeldavid @ gdnussports February 4, 2013 No doubt about it.
  • (19) Facebook Twitter Pinterest ‘Our political leaders can’t bear to face the truth’: Camila Batmanghelidjh spoke to the Guardian’s Patrick Butler in July “So you can understand that I am taken aback by allegations which now present themselves, about which I knew nothing.” Kids Company, set up by the charismatic Batmanghelidjh in 1996, was known to have the firm support of David Cameron for its work on gang violence and disadvantaged children.
  • (20) So the kids then went and pulled out the computer, plugged in the modem and they found it on YouTube.