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deabbreviate

deabbreviate verb: to expand (an abbreviation).

Verb

deabbreviate (third-person singular simple present deabbreviates, present participle deabbreviating, simple past and past participle deabbreviated)

  1. (rare) To expand (an abbreviation).
    • Simplified Main Stress Rule in Deabbreviated Form1973, Alvin L. Gregg, Capturing Native Intuitions: A Criticism of the Chomsky-Halle Auxiliary Reduction Rules
    • Deabbreviating means replacing an abbreviated name with a more understandable "natural" one consisting of whole English words. To deabbreviate, we "generate-and-test": We select candidates and abbreviate them various ways, trying to obtain a match with a given abbreviation.1994 March, Neil C. Rowe, Kari Laitinen, Semiautomatic Deabbreviation of Source Programs, Monterey, Calif.: Naval Postgraduate School, page 4
    Synonyms:
    unabbreviate

Examples of deabbreviate in a sentence

  • The first visualization construct is apt: it replaces three items (two arrows and the marker) by one item in a natural and clear-how-to-deabbreviate way.2002, Data & Knowledge Engineering, page 11:
  • I don’t actually think it makes it any easier to “deabbreviate” it – its^([sic]) Neuro Linguistic Programming.2007, Kirsty McKinnon, The Gift: A ‘How To’ for NLP with Real Life Experiences, Stanstead Abbotts, Herts.: MX Publishing Ltd, →ISBN, page...
  • STP […] Probably coined as an abbreviation of ‘serotonin triphosphate’ and as an allusion to the trademark name of a motor oil additive, and later deabbreviated to ‘serenity, tranquillity and peace’.2008, Tom Dalzell, Terry Victor, Vice Slang, Abingdon, Oxon; New York, N.Y.: Routledge, →ISBN:
  • I was asked to “deabbreviate the following,” which I did not understand until they pointed out the acronyms listed on the sheet below.2015, Robert B. Munson, Peacekeeping in South Sudan: One Year of Lessons from Under the Blue Beret, New York, N.Y.: Palgrave Macmillan...

Synonyms of deabbreviate

Forms of deabbreviate

third-person singular presentdeabbreviates
present participledeabbreviating
past participledeabbreviated
pastdeabbreviated

Origin of deabbreviate

From de- + abbreviate.

Questions about deabbreviate

What does deabbreviate mean?
Deabbreviate means to expand (an abbreviation).
How do you use deabbreviate in a sentence?
The first visualization construct is apt: it replaces three items (two arrows and the marker) by one item in a natural and clear-how-to-deabbreviate way.
What part of speech is deabbreviate?
Deabbreviate is a verb.
What is the past tense of deabbreviate?
The past tense of deabbreviate is deabbreviated.

Words near deabbreviate in the dictionary

  1. de-Zionification
  2. de-zombification
  3. DEA
  4. dea ex machina
  5. Dea Nutrix
  6. deabbreviate
  7. deabbreviated
  8. deabbreviates
  9. deabbreviating
  10. deabstraction
  11. deaccelerate

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