Abbreviation vs. Masculine — What's the Difference?
Difference Between Abbreviation and Masculine
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Abbreviation
An abbreviation (from Latin brevis, meaning short) is a shortened form of a word or phrase, by any method. It may consist of a group of letters or words taken from the full version of the word or phrase; for example, the word abbreviation can itself be represented by the abbreviation abbr., abbrv., or abbrev.; NPO, for nil (or nothing) per (by) os (mouth) is an abbreviated medical instruction.
Masculine
Having qualities or appearance traditionally associated with men
He is outstandingly handsome and robust, very masculine
Abbreviation
The act or product of shortening.
Masculine
Of or denoting a gender of nouns and adjectives, conventionally regarded as male
Masculine pronouns
Abbreviation
A shortened form of a word or phrase used chiefly in writing to represent the complete form, such as Mass. for Massachusetts or USMC for United States Marine Corps.
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Masculine
The male sex or gender
The dance presents the world of the masculine, its raw energy
Abbreviation
The result of shortening or reducing; abridgment.
Masculine
Of or relating to men or boys; male.
Abbreviation
(linguistics) A shortened or contracted form of a word or phrase, used to represent the whole, utilizing omission of letters, and sometimes substitution of letters, or duplication of initial letters to signify plurality, including signs such as +, =, @.
Hants is an abbreviation of Hampshire.
Masculine
Characterized by or possessing qualities traditionally attributed to men, such as aggressiveness.
Abbreviation
The process of abbreviating.
Masculine
(Grammar) Relating or belonging to the gender of words or forms that refer chiefly to males or to things grammatically classified as male.
Abbreviation
(music) A notation used in music score to denote a direction, as pp or mf.
Masculine
(Music) Ending on an accented beat
A masculine cadence.
Abbreviation
(music) One or more dashes through the stem of a note, dividing it respectively into quavers, semiquavers, demisemiquavers, or hemidemisemiquavers.
Masculine
The masculine gender.
Abbreviation
Any convenient short form used as a substitution for an understood or inferred whole.
Masculine
A word or word form of the masculine gender.
Abbreviation
(biology) Loss during evolution of the final stages of the ancestral ontogenetic pattern.
Masculine
(Archaic) A male person.
Abbreviation
(mathematics) Reduction to lower terms, as a fraction.
Masculine
Of or pertaining to the male gender; manly.
Abbreviation
The act of shortening, or reducing.
Masculine
Of or pertaining to the male sex; biologically male, not female.
Abbreviation
The result of abbreviating; an abridgment.
Masculine
Belonging to males; typically used by males.
“John”, “Paul”, and “Jake” are masculine names.
Abbreviation
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.
Masculine
Having the qualities stereotypically associated with men: virile, aggressive, not effeminate.
Abbreviation
One dash, or more, through the stem of a note, dividing it respectively into quavers, semiquavers, or demi-semiquavers.
Masculine
(grammar) Of, pertaining or belonging to the male grammatical gender, in languages that have gender distinctions.
Abbreviation
A shortened form of a word or phrase
Masculine
(of a noun) Being of the masculine class or grammatical gender, and inflected in that manner.
The noun Student is masculine in German.
Abbreviation
Shortening something by omitting parts of it
Masculine
(of another part of speech) Being inflected in agreement with a masculine noun.
German uses the masculine form of the definite article, der, with Student.
Masculine
|of any word}} Having the vowel harmony of a back vowel.
Masculine
(grammar) The masculine gender.
Masculine
(grammar) A word of the masculine gender.
Masculine
That which is masculine.
Masculine
A man.
Masculine
Of the male sex; not female.
Thy masculine children, that is to say, thy sons.
Masculine
Having the qualities of a man; suitable to, or characteristic of, a man; virile; not feminine or effeminate; strong; robust.
That lady, after her husband's death, held the reins with a masculine energy.
Masculine
Belonging to males; appropriated to, or used by, males.
Masculine
Having the inflections of, or construed with, words pertaining especially to male beings, as distinguished from feminine and neuter. See Gender.
Masculine
A gender that refers chiefly (but not exclusively) to males or to objects classified as male
Masculine
Of grammatical gender;
`it' is the third-person singular neuter pronoun
Masculine
Associated with men and not with women
Masculine
(music or poetry) ending on an accented beat or syllable;
A masculine cadence
The masculine rhyme of `annoy, enjoy'
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