Abbreviation vs. Something — What's the Difference?
Difference Between Abbreviation and Something
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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.
Something
A remarkable or important thing or person
He thinks he is something in that uniform.
Abbreviation
The act or product of shortening.
Something
One who falls into a specified age range. Often used in combination
Fortysomethings who attended their class reunion.
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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Something
Of, relating to, or being a member of a specified age range. Often used in combination
"the lives and loves of hip, twentysomething city dwellers" (Joseph P. Kahn).
Abbreviation
The result of shortening or reducing; abridgment.
Something
A little; somewhat
She looks something like her mother.
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.
Something
(Informal) To an extreme degree
He drinks something fierce.
Abbreviation
The process of abbreviating.
Something
An uncertain or unspecified thing; one thing.
I must have forgotten to pack something, but I can't think what.
I have something for you in my bag.
I have a feeling something good is going to happen today.
The answer to four down is P something T something Y.
She looked thirty-something. (anything from thirty-one to thirty-nine years old)
Abbreviation
(music) A notation used in music score to denote a direction, as pp or mf.
Something
A quality to a moderate degree.
The performance was something of a disappointment.
That child is something of a genius.
Abbreviation
(music) One or more dashes through the stem of a note, dividing it respectively into quavers, semiquavers, demisemiquavers, or hemidemisemiquavers.
Something
A talent or quality that is difficult to specify.
She has a certain something.
Abbreviation
Any convenient short form used as a substitution for an understood or inferred whole.
Something
Somebody who or something that is superlative or notable in some way.
He's really something! I've never heard such a great voice.
She's quite something. I can't believe she would do such a mean thing.
Some marmosets are less than six inches tall. —Well, isn't that something?
Abbreviation
(biology) Loss during evolution of the final stages of the ancestral ontogenetic pattern.
Something
Having a characteristic that the speaker cannot specify.
Abbreviation
(mathematics) Reduction to lower terms, as a fraction.
Something
(degree) Somewhat; to a degree.
The baby looks something like his father.
Abbreviation
The act of shortening, or reducing.
Something
Used to adverbialise a following adjective
I miss them something terrible. (I miss them terribly)
Abbreviation
The result of abbreviating; an abridgment.
Something
Applied to an action whose name is forgotten by, unknown or unimportant to the user, e.g. from words of a song.
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.
Something
An object whose nature is yet to be defined.
Abbreviation
One dash, or more, through the stem of a note, dividing it respectively into quavers, semiquavers, or demi-semiquavers.
Something
An object whose name is forgotten by, unknown or unimportant to the user, e.g., from words of a song. Also used to refer to an object earlier indefinitely referred to as 'something' (pronoun sense).
Abbreviation
A shortened form of a word or phrase
Something
Anything unknown, undetermined, or not specifically designated; a certain indefinite thing; an indeterminate or unknown event; an unspecified task, work, or thing.
There is something in the wind.
The whole world has something to do, something to talk of, something to wish for, and something to be employed about.
Something attemped, something done,Has earned a night's repose.
Abbreviation
Shortening something by omitting parts of it
Something
A part; a portion, more or less; an indefinite quantity or degree; a little.
Something yet of doubt remains.
Something of it arises from our infant state.
Something
A person or thing importance.
If a man thinketh himself to be something, when he is nothing, he deceiveth himself.
Something
In some degree; somewhat; to some extent; at some distance.
I something fear my father's wrath.
We have something fairer play than a reasoner could have expected formerly.
My sense of touch is something coarse.
It must be done to-night,And something from the palace.
Something
A thing of some kind;
Is there something you want?
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