(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.
Shorthand
Definition:
(n.) A compendious and rapid method or writing by substituting characters, abbreviations, or symbols, for letters, words, etc.; short writing; stenography. See Illust. under Phonography.
Example Sentences:
(1) Neither is it clear that the Cyber Caliphate has a relationship with Isis, which does not use that English shorthand to refer to itself.
(2) As anyone who has witnessed one of its cake stall scrums knows, the WI has become shorthand for the finest homemade produce: it has a fearsome reputation to protect. "
(3) (His new movie, The Frozen Ground , has a limited cinema release and will be available on demand, which, given the demand for on demand, Cage wishes critics would stop using as shorthand for failure.)
(4) Neoliberalism is often used today as shorthand for any idea that is pro-market and anti-government intervention, but it is actually more specific than this.
(5) Taking the episodic and cyclic plasma gonadotropin fluctuations into consideration a shorthand system classifying the gonadotropin baseline (BI-BIV) and LH responses to 25 mug LRH (R0-R2) has been established and is referred to as Human Pituitary Gonadotropin Index (HPGI).
(6) Staubach later said he had closed his eyes and prayed – and the "Hail Mary" is now NFL shorthand for a last-gasp forward pass with little chance of success.
(7) He has long decried supposed British and American plots to deny the Iranian nation its "rights" – assumed shorthand for a nuclear bomb.
(8) The shorthand name for the new edition, the organisation's fifth revision of the Diagnostic and Statistical Manual, is DSM-5.
(9) I’ve started to communicate only in code,” she says, referring to the cryptic three-letter shorthand for a voter’s answers to three crucial questions that provide their profile – will you be voting Labour, did you vote Labour last time, and would you prefer a Labour government.
(10) In the US, the Victoria's Secret catalogue has become so infamous that it is now used as a shorthand for easy-access quasi porn in US sitcoms (Friends was especially fond of referencing it).
(11) The second problem is that the word “troll” has become shorthand for describing any behaviour online that may cause offence.
(12) He and Ryan discuss technical matters in shorthand.
(13) Its truth is secondary to its function as a crude shorthand for the negating of difference and change.
(14) There are signs that we will soon be exhausted by the Anthropocene: glutted by its ubiquity as a cultural shorthand, fatigued by its imprecisions, and enervated by its variant names – the “Anthrobscene”, the “Misanthropocene”, the “Lichenocene” (actually, that last one is mine).
(15) Nevertheless, in 1958 she left school with a favourable report: “Priscilla is suitable for office work.” She duly took a one-year secretarial and shorthand course at Anfield Commercial College, following which she landed a typing job at the offices of a construction company, BICC (British Insulated Callender’s Cables).
(16) For good or ill, the phrase stuck, and it's become an easy shorthand for people to fall back on when times get tough.
(17) If it has seemed sudden, it is because the breathless shorthand describing the crisis has disguised a fact that Iraq has been grinding towards this moment of existential truth for the past two years at least, a path from which none of its key actors has seemed able or willing to divert it.
(18) The government's vocabulary seemed to consciously echo the reunification process, with Merkel heralding an "Energie-Wende" – "die Wende" is the word for change which became shorthand for the fall of communism and reunification.
(19) For shorthand, let's call it a slow-motion apocalypse to distinguish it from an intergalactic attack out of the blue or a suddenly surging Genesis-style flood.
(20) Brexit” is shorthand for British exit from the European Union – a possibility that is looking more realistic by the day.