deabbreviate
Word Rarity
Very rare
Frequency: Zipf frequency 0.00 in modern English
20
Scrabble Score
12
Letters
5
Syllables
8
Unique Chars
Meaning
verb
To expand (an abbreviation).
Example Sentences
- "Simplified Main Stress Rule in Deabbreviated Form"
- "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."
- "To me there is no better way to define the slums than what the authors have done by deabbreviating SLUM (‘Sombre life of underprivileged mankind’)."
- "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 is NLP? Can it be any broader a title? Indeed, what is it? I don’t actually think it makes it any easier to “deabbreviate” it – its^([sic]) Neuro Linguistic Programming."
- "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’."
Etymology
From de- + abbreviate.
Word Breakdown
- Prefix: de