Meaning of deabbreviate | Babel Free

Definitions

To expand (an abbreviation).

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Examples

“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’.”

“Eddy had sent two messages, and at the end of the second the service de-abbreviated his LOL. ‘P.S. Chateaubriand pls,’ the computer voice said. ‘Laughing Out Loud.’”

“I was asked to “deabbreviate the following,” which I did not understand until they pointed out the acronyms listed on the sheet below.”

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