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AbbreviateAbbreviate Ab*bre"vi*ate, v. t. [imp. & p. p. Abbreviated;
p. pr. & vb. n. Abbreviating.] [L. abbreviatus, p. p. of
abbreviare; ad + breviare to shorten, fr. brevis short. See
Abridge.]
1. To make briefer; to shorten; to abridge; to reduce by
contraction or omission, especially of words written or
spoken.
It is one thing to abbreviate by contracting,
another by cutting off. --Bacon.
2. (Math.) To reduce to lower terms, as a fraction. Abbreviate
Abbreviate Ab*bre"vi*ate, a. [L. abbreviatus, p. p.]
1. Abbreviated; abridged; shortened. [R.] ``The abbreviate
form.' --Earle.
2. (Biol.) Having one part relatively shorter than another or
than the ordinary type.
Abbreviate
Abbreviate Ab*bre"vi*ate, n.
An abridgment. [Obs.] --Elyot.
AbbreviatedAbbreviate Ab*bre"vi*ate, v. t. [imp. & p. p. Abbreviated;
p. pr. & vb. n. Abbreviating.] [L. abbreviatus, p. p. of
abbreviare; ad + breviare to shorten, fr. brevis short. See
Abridge.]
1. To make briefer; to shorten; to abridge; to reduce by
contraction or omission, especially of words written or
spoken.
It is one thing to abbreviate by contracting,
another by cutting off. --Bacon.
2. (Math.) To reduce to lower terms, as a fraction. Abbreviated
Abbreviated Ab*bre"vi*a`ted, a.
Shortened; relatively short; abbreviate.
AbbreviatingAbbreviate Ab*bre"vi*ate, v. t. [imp. & p. p. Abbreviated;
p. pr. & vb. n. Abbreviating.] [L. abbreviatus, p. p. of
abbreviare; ad + breviare to shorten, fr. brevis short. See
Abridge.]
1. To make briefer; to shorten; to abridge; to reduce by
contraction or omission, especially of words written or
spoken.
It is one thing to abbreviate by contracting,
another by cutting off. --Bacon.
2. (Math.) To reduce to lower terms, as a fraction. Abbreviatory
Abbreviatory Ab*bre"vi*a*to*ry, a.
Serving or tending to abbreviate; shortening; abridging.
Abbreviature
Abbreviature Ab*bre"vi*a*ture, n.
1. An abbreviation; an abbreviated state or form. [Obs.]
2. An abridgment; a compendium or abstract.
This is an excellent abbreviature of the whole duty
of a Christian. --Jer. Taylor.
B brevicauda Duck mole. See under Duck.
Golden mole. See Chrysochlore.
Mole cricket (Zo["o]l.), an orthopterous insect of the
genus Gryllotalpa, which excavates subterranean
galleries, and throws up mounds of earth resembling those
of the mole. It is said to do damage by injuring the roots
of plants. The common European species (Gryllotalpa
vulgaris), and the American (G. borealis), are the best
known.
Mole rat (Zo["o]l.), any one of several species of Old
World rodents of the genera Spalax, Georychus, and
several allied genera. They are molelike in appearance and
habits, and their eyes are small or rudimentary.
Mole shrew (Zo["o]l.), any one of several species of
short-tailed American shrews of the genus Blarina, esp.
B. brevicauda.
Water mole, the duck mole. Breviate
Breviate Bre"vi*ate, v. t.
To abbreviate. [Obs.]
Breviature
Breviature Bre"vi*a*ture, n.
An abbreviature; an abbreviation. [Obs.] --Johnson.
BrevierBrevier Bre*vier" (br[-e]*v[=e]r"), n. [Prob. from being
originally used in printing a breviary. See Breviary.]
(Print.)
A size of type between bourgeois and minion.
Note: This line is printed in brevier type. Breviloquence
Breviloquence Bre*vil"o*quence, n. [L. breviloquentia.]
A brief and pertinent mode of speaking. [R.]
Brevipennate
Brevipennate Brev`i*pen"nate, a. [L. brevis short + E.
pennate.] (Zo["o]l.)
Short-winged; -- applied to birds which can not fly, owing to
their short wings, as the ostrich, cassowary, and emu.
Brevirostral
Brevirostral Brev`i*ros"tral, Brevirostrate
Brev`i*ros"trate, a. [L. brevis short + E. rostral, rostrate.]
(Zo["o]l.)
Short-billed; having a short beak.
Brevirostrate
Brevirostral Brev`i*ros"tral, Brevirostrate
Brev`i*ros"trate, a. [L. brevis short + E. rostral, rostrate.]
(Zo["o]l.)
Short-billed; having a short beak.
Hippocampus brevirostrisHippocampus Hip`po*cam"pus, n. [L., the sea horse, Gr. ? a
hippocampus (in senses 1 and 2); "i`ppos horse + ? to bend.]
1. (Class. Myth.) A fabulous monster, with the head and fore
quarters of a horse joined to the tail of a dolphin or
other fish (Hippocampus brevirostris), -- seen in
Pompeian paintings, attached to the chariot of Neptune.
--Fairholt. I brevicaudatusIndris In"dris, Indri In"dri, n. (Zo["o]l.)
Any lemurine animal of the genus Indris.
Note: Several species are known, all of them natives of
Madagascar, as the diadem indris (I. diadema), which
has a white ruff around the forehead; the woolly indris
(I. laniger); and the short-tailed or black indris
(I. brevicaudatus), which is black, varied with gray. Kogia brevicepsSperm whale Sperm" whale` (Zo["o]l.)
A very large toothed whale (Physeter macrocephalus), having
a head of enormous size. The upper jaw is destitute of teeth.
In the upper part of the head, above the skull, there is a
large cavity, or case, filled with oil and spermaceti. This
whale sometimes grows to the length of more than eighty feet.
It is found in the warmer parts of all the oceans. Called
also cachalot, and spermaceti whale.
Pygmy sperm whale (Zo["o]l.), a small whale (Kogia
breviceps), seldom twenty feet long, native of tropical
seas, but occasionally found on the American coast. Called
also snub-nosed cachalot.
Sperm-whale porpoise (Zo["o]l.), a toothed cetacean
(Hypero["o]don bidens), found on both sides of the
Atlantic and valued for its oil. The adult becomes about
twenty-five feet long, and its head is very large and
thick. Called also bottle-nosed whale.
Meaning of BREVI from wikipedia
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Brevi is an
Italian surname.
Notable people with the
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Brevi (born 1970),
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manager Giovanni Battista Brevi, Italian...
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brevis in Wiktionary, the free dictionary.
Brevis is the
Latin word for short, and may
refer to:
Brevis (note), a
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brevi" (transl. Short stories) is a song by
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Brevibacillus brevis (formerly
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human anatomy, the
fibularis brevis (or
peroneus brevis) is a
muscle that lies
underneath the
fibularis longus within the
lateral compartment of the...
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Brevisana brevis,
known as the
shrill thorntree cicada, is a
cicada found in
Africa and is
likely the
loudest insect on record. It has been
recorded producing...
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Demodex brevis is one of the two
species of face mite that
inhabit humans (the
other being Demodex folliculorum). They are
about half as long, at 0.15...
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human anatomy, a
brevis muscle derives its name from the
Latin brevis meaning "short", and can
refer to:
Extensor carpi radialis brevis muscle, a muscle...
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Giovanni Battista Brevi (Bergamo, ca. 1650; Milan,
after 1725) was an
Italian Baroque composer. His
later collections of
cantatas comprised three out...
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Missa brevis (Latin for 'short M****'; plural:
Missae breves)
usually refers to a M****
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