What's the difference between abbreviation and pyjama?

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.

Pyjama


Definition:

  • (n.) In India and Persia, thin loose trowsers or drawers; in Europe and America, drawers worn at night, or a kind of nightdress with legs.

Example Sentences:

  • (1) In its determination to probe the (semi) private lives of the nation's kings and queens, no imperial pyjama leg is left unplundered.
  • (2) He was wearing pyjamas.” A man later called on Trump’s behalf asking her to return to his room, she said, and she refused.
  • (3) Photograph: Alamy “The right to wear pyjamas on the school run, like those parents in Darlington?
  • (4) I was a typical ex-art-school kid, going to work in a baggy T-shirt and pyjama bottoms.
  • (5) Aware of the likely sensitivity around the issue, programme-makers had already made last-minute cuts to the New Year's Eve episode, including shots of a distraught Ronnie touching the cold hand of her dead baby, and Kat in blood-soaked pyjamas after her husband finds her haemorrhaging in her bed.
  • (6) On the night of 24 November, in his bedroom at Tamworth where he was still living, Nick Drake had been playing some new riffs and songs in his pyjamas and recording them on a cassette player.
  • (7) Photograph: Fox Searchlight Pajamas Striped prison pyjamas, right?
  • (8) Fatima Bourahli, 26, stood in the street with a coat over her pyjamas looking over at the police line.
  • (9) A man whose new efit image was released by police investigating the disappearance of Madeleine McCann was seen carrying a young blonde child, possibly wearing pyjamas, on the night in question, the officer leading the investigation has said.
  • (10) The many children killed in the attack, many of them wearing their pyjamas when the night-time attack took place, cry out for justice.
  • (11) The pronounced decrease in injuries attributable to ignition of children's nightclothes is likely to be the result of mandatory controls on children's nightclothes, increased use of pyjamas, and a steady decrease in use of open fires and portable electric heaters.
  • (12) In forty-one apyrexial adult male patients, who were clothed in light-weight cotton pyjamas, mean skin temperature was determined and, simultaneously, ambient temperature and the temperature of air space under clothing were measured.
  • (13) Senator Barnaby Joyce greets some protesting Bananas in Pyjamas out the front of Parliament House in Canberra this morning as the government prepares to deliver its first Budget.
  • (14) On stage, the duo wear only pyjamas, and their anything-goes plays are mounted without props, costumes or sets, with some parts improvised.
  • (15) Back in Beit Lahiya, Najia – still in pink pyjamas in the middle of the day – sees for the first time the photograph taken of her on the morning of the school shelling.
  • (16) Back in Morecambe on a doorstep in the Ryelands estate, one of the poorest parts of Lone’s constituency, one girl, still dressed in her pyjamas in the afternoon, describes how her sister recently lost her baby after breaking her back.
  • (17) The high-street version Topman Design , AKA TMD, has previously put trophy jumpers, Robert Mapplethorpe-inspired prints, pyjamas-as-daywear, grunge, tiny shorts and clutch bags on the catwalk.
  • (18) They told her to wear flannelette pyjamas and a woollen hat.
  • (19) The child he was carrying was aged three to four, blonde, and may have been wearing pyjamas.
  • (20) said Angela Dowling, a 44-year-old mother of two who came out into her front garden at 9am still in her pyjamas.

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