Crossword-Solution: ABBREVIATION
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| Word | Word Type | Definition |
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| 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. |
We have 20 clues for the answer “ABBREVIATION”
| Clue | Answers |
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| E.g. LOL or OMG | 1 answer |
| WORD shortened to save space and time | 1 answer |
| acronym | 11 answers |
| A SHORTENED FORM OF A WORD OR PHRASE | 11 answers |
| abridgment | 16 answers |
| curtailment | 46 answers |
| waning | 49 answers |
| Abridgement | 50 answers |
| Diminution | 54 answers |
| compendium | 56 answers |
| constriction | 61 answers |
| shrinkage | 61 answers |
| Shortening | 68 answers |
| Abatement | 72 answers |
| Contraction | 72 answers |
| Lessening | 76 answers |
| alteration | 76 answers |
| Reduction | 78 answers |
| Decline | 107 answers |
| CUT ___ | 133 answers |
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Hint 1 meaning
The transparent part of the coat of the eyeball which
covers the iris and pupil and admits light to the interior. See Eye.
Hint 2 anagram
NERCAO
Hint 3 another clue
COVER THE EYES
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Sentences with ABBREVIATION (5)
FYI An abbreviation for the phrase "for your information." There is also a series of RFCs put out by the Network Information Center called FYIs; they address common questions of new users and many other useful things.
Abbreviation for the phrase "Birds Of a Feather" (flocking together), an informal discussion group and/or bull session scheduled on a conference program.
Among these, the most formidable was a burly, roaring, roystering blade, of the name of Abraham, or, according to the Dutch abbreviation, Brom Van Brunt, the hero of the country round, which rang with his feats of strength and hardihood.
Father Kelly, the priest, had found the name of the Spanish maker on the sword and an abbreviation that stood for the city of Cordova.
The year date may be omitted where a pictorial, graphic, or sculptural work, with accompanying text matter, if any, is reproduced in or on greeting cards postcards, stationery, jewelry, dolls, toys, or any useful articles; and (3) the name of the owner of copyright in the work, or an abbreviation by which the name can be recognized, or a generally known alternative designation of the owner.
Quotes with ABBREVIATION (3)
... but I must reluctantly observe that two causes, the abbreviation of time, and the failure of hope, will always tinge with a browner shade the evening of life.
The proper ending for any story about people it seems to me, since life is now a polymer in which the Earth is wrapped so tightly, should be the same abbreviation, which I now write large because I feel like it, which is this one: ETC.
The name Alaska is probably an abbreviation of Unalaska, derived from the original Aleut word agunalaksh, which means "the shores where the sea breaks its back." The war between water and land is never-ending. Waves shatter themselves in spent fury against the rocky bulwarks of the coast; giant tides eat away the sand beaches and alter the entire contour of an island overnight; williwaw winds pour down the side of a volcano like snow sliding off a roof, building to a hundred-…