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(obsolete, transitive) To shorten by omitting parts or details. / (obsolete, intransitive) To speak or write in a brief manner.

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abbreviate

IPA(Pronunciation)

/ə.ˈbɹiː.vi.eɪt/

obsolete transitive intransitive

Japanese Meaning

（省略や略記により）短くする、短縮する / （口語や文章で）簡潔に述べる

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In older manuscripts, scribes would abbreviate chronicles to fit them into limited margins.

Google Translation / DeepL Translation

古い写本では、書写者たちは年代記を余白に収まるように省略して短くまとめた。

Sense（1）

(obsolete, transitive) To shorten by omitting parts or details.

It is one thing to abbreviate by contracting, another by cutting off.

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Sense（2）

(obsolete, intransitive) To speak or write in a brief manner.

Sense（3）

(transitive) To make shorter; to shorten (in time); to abridge; to shorten by ending sooner than planned.

But as delivery schedules have dwindled into hours, even the gigantic warehouse full of stuff in a central place such as the triangle is proving insufficient. Now, companies also need smaller distribution centres around the country, to respond rapidly to orders and to abbreviate the last mile as much as possible.

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Sense（4）

(transitive) To reduce a word or phrase by means of contraction or omission to a shorter recognizable form.

bovine spongiform encephalopathy is more commonly known by its abbreviated form BSE.

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Sense（5）

(transitive, mathematics) To reduce to lower terms, as a fraction.

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