Abbreviate :: Abbreviate (v. t.) To make briefer; to shorten; to abridge; to reduce by contraction or omission, especially of words written or spoken..
Abbreviate :: Abbreviate (v. t.) To reduce to lower terms, as a fraction..
Abbreviation :: Abbreviation (n.) The act of shortening, or reducing..
Abbreviation :: Abbreviation (n.) The result of abbreviating; an abridgment.
Abbreviation :: 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 :: Abbreviation (n.) One dash, or more, through the stem of a note, dividing it respectively into quavers, semiquavers, or demi-semiquavers..
Abbreviator :: Abbreviator (n.) One who abbreviates or shortens.
Abbreviator :: Abbreviator (n.) One of a college of seventy-two officers of the papal court whose duty is to make a short minute of a decision on a petition, or reply of the pope to a letter, and afterwards expand the minute into official form..
Abbreviatory :: Abbreviatory (a.) Serving or tending to abbreviate; shortening; abridging.
Abbreviature :: Abbreviature (n.) An abbreviation; an abbreviated state or form.
Abbreviature :: Abbreviature (n.) An abridgment; a compendium or abstract.
Achieve :: Achieve (v. t.) To carry on to a final close; to bring out into a perfected state; to accomplish; to perform; -- as, to achieve a feat, an exploit, an enterprise..
Achieve :: Achieve (v. t.) To obtain, or gain, as the result of exertion; to succeed in gaining; to win..
Achievement :: Achievement (n.) The act of achieving or performing; an obtaining by exertion; successful performance; accomplishment; as, the achievement of his object..
Achievement :: Achievement (n.) A great or heroic deed; something accomplished by valor, boldness, or praiseworthy exertion; a feat..
Achievement :: Achievement (n.) An escutcheon or ensign armorial; now generally applied to the funeral shield commonly called hatchment.
Achiever :: Achiever (n.) One who achieves; a winner.