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.
Alleviate :: Alleviate (v. t.) To lighten or lessen the force or weight of.
Alleviate :: Alleviate (v. t.) To lighten or lessen (physical or mental troubles); to mitigate, or make easier to be endured; as, to alleviate sorrow, pain, care, etc. ; -- opposed to aggravate..
Alleviate :: Alleviate (v. t.) To extenuate; to palliate.