Download or read book The Wordsworth Dictionary of Abbreviations and Acronyms written by Rodney Dale and published by Wordsworth Editions. This book was released on 1997 with total page 356 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Like it or not, abbreviations and acronyms are now an essential ingredient of everyday life. Since the first edition of The Wordsworth Dictionary of Abbreviations & Acronyms was published in mid-1997, the compilers have been diligently collecting further examples from many walks of life
Download or read book Short Cuts written by Steven Racek Kleinedler and published by McGraw-Hill Humanities, Social Sciences & World Languages. This book was released on 1997 with total page 324 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: This essential reference enables users to break through all the mysteries of abbreviated American English words and phrases. The guide concentrates on acronyms and initialisms found in common work and learning situations and covers 2,100 shortened words used in American English.
Download or read book Abbreviations Dictionary written by Dean A. Stahl and published by CRC Press. This book was released on 2018-10-08 with total page 1529 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Published in 2001: Abbreviations, nicknames, jargon, and other short forms save time, space, and effort - provided they are understood. Thousands of new and potentially confusing terms become part of the international vocabulary each year, while our communications are relayed to one another with increasing speed. PDAs link to PCs. The Net has grown into data central, shopping mall, and grocery store all rolled into one. E-mail is faster than snail mail, cell phones are faster yet - and it is all done 24/7. Longtime and widespread use of certain abbreviations, such as R.S.V.P., has made them better understood standing alone than spelled out. Certainly we are more comfortable saying DNA than deoxyribonucleic acid - but how many people today really remember what the initials stand for? The Abbreviations Dictionary, Tenth Edition gives you this and other information from Airlines of the World to the Zodiacal Signs.
Download or read book NTC s Dictionary of Acronyms and Abbreviations written by Richard A. Spears and published by McGraw-Hill Companies. This book was released on 1993 with total page 0 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: The most useful and up-to-date guide to American English acronyms and abbreviations.
Download or read book A Dictionary of Acronyms and Abbreviations written by Eric Pugh and published by . This book was released on 1989-01-01 with total page pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
Download or read book The Wordsworth Railway Dictionary written by Alan Arthur Jackson and published by NTC/Contemporary Publishing Company. This book was released on 1997 with total page 0 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: From Abadan to Zero Point, this dictionary provides an accessible guide to the language and lore which have developed around railways since their invention in the early 19th century. It defines railway terms and includes proper names of trains, lines, companies, periodicals and manufacturers, as well as clarifying the profusion of abbreviations, acronyms and initials. The dictionary also interprets and explains many foreign words and phrases, and the slang and colloquialisms used by professional and amateurs alike. The text is enhanced by many explanatory drawings and diagrams.
Download or read book The Oxford Dictionary of Abbreviations written by Market House Books Ltd and published by Oxford University Press, USA. This book was released on 1993 with total page 428 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Compiled from the resources of the Oxford English Dictionary and a wide range of newspapers and journals, this is the most up-to-date and comprehensive guide to abbreviations available in paperback. Covering all the most important business, scientific, and technical abbreviations, as well as those in everyday use, the dictionary has over 19,000 entries, and includes acronyms (ROM, NATO), initialisms (OED, CFC), shortenings (Sun. for Sunday), symbols and signs (e.g. K, HZ, and A4), and hybrid forms (A-bomb). Coverage is also international in scope, and graphic symbols such as proofreading marks, hallmarks, music, science, and weather symbols are all given in a series of appendices. Anyone who reads or writes current English will find this accessible reference useful, but it will be indispensable to professionals, businesses, technical writers, and journalists.
Download or read book Abbreviations Dictionary written by Robert S. Wachal and published by . This book was released on 1999 with total page 0 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Provides the meanings of more than 13,000 acronyms, and abbreviations.
Download or read book The Oxford Dictionary of Abbreviations written by John Daintith and published by Oxford University Press, USA. This book was released on 1992 with total page 438 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Compiled from the resources of the Oxford English Dictionary and a wide range of national newspapers and journals, this is a brand new and totally up-to-date guide to every kind of abbreviation. Covering the most important business, scientific, and technical abbreviation, as well as those in everyday use, the dictionary includes acronyms, initialisms, shortenings, symbols and signs, and hybrid forms. Graphics symbols such as proofreading marks, hallmarks, music, science, and weather symbols are all given in a series of appendices. Anyone who reads or writes current English will find this accessible reference useful, but it will be indispensable to professionals, businesses, technical writers, and journalists.
Download or read book Dictionary of Acronyms and Technical Abbreviations written by Jakob Vlietstra and published by Springer Science & Business Media. This book was released on 2012-12-06 with total page 703 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: This Dictionary covers information and communication technology (ICT), including hardware and software; information networks, including the Internet and the World Wide Web; automatic control; and ICT-related computer-aided fields. The Dictionary also lists abbreviated names of relevant organizations, conferences, symposia and workshops. This reference is important for all practitioners and users in the areas mentioned above, and those who consult or write technical material. This Second Edition contains 10,000 new entries, for a total of 33,000.
Download or read book Dictionary of Abbreviations and Acronyms written by Graham King and published by Vintage. This book was released on 1994 with total page 141 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
Download or read book The Oxford Dictionary of Abbreviations written by and published by Oxford University. This book was released on 1998 with total page 436 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Abbreviations are a part of everyday life and are becoming increasingly prevalent in the areas of banking, computers, and business. Compiled from the resources of the Oxford English Dictionary and a wide range of newspapers and journals, Dictionary of Abbreviations, Second Edition is the most up-to-date and comprehensive guide to abbreviations available in paperback. Covering all the most important business, scientific, and technical abbreviations, as well as those in everyday use, the dictionary contains over 20,000 abbreviations and 36,000 definitions. Included here are acronyms (ROM, NATO), initialisms (OED, CFC), shortenings (Sun. for Sunday), symbols, and signs (K, HZ, and A4), as well as hybrid forms (A-bomb). Coverage is also international in scope, and graphic symbols such as proofreading marks, hallmarks, music, science, and weather symbols are all provided in a series of appendices. This new edition, containing 1,700 new headwords and senses, also provides the latest abbreviations for organizations, terms used in advertising, computers and the internet, medicine, and government.
Download or read book The Wordsworth Book of Urban Legend written by Rodney Dale and published by Wordsworth Editions. This book was released on 2000 with total page 212 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: As a genre, the urban legend was recognised and named only in the mid-1970s. This book brings together a rich variety of these tales which continued to flourish and circulate, classified under different headings for ease of reference, and linked together by the author's narrative. Uncle Joe's ashes baked in a cake (Delicious!); Granny's corpse stolen along with the family car; sewers alive with alligators...all these alleged occurrences - and many, many others - are the stuff of urban legend: the extraordinary things that you're told happen to that elusive 'friend of a friend' (foaf); someone whom you can never pin down, however hard you try.
Download or read book Dickens Dictionary written by Rodney Dale and published by Wordsworth Editions. This book was released on 2004-11 with total page 456 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Few Victorian writers are as well remembered as Charles Dickens (1812-70). And many of his characters have been widely known since they first saw the light of day in books such as The Pickwick Papers, A Christmas Carol, David Copperfield, Oliver Twist and Great Expectations.
Download or read book Dictionary of Sports and Games Terminology written by Adrian Room and published by McFarland. This book was released on 2017-02-10 with total page 187 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: The specialized jargon of some sports can be quite esoteric. Non-Americans, for example, are likely puzzled by baseball terms such as bunt, cut-off man, and safety squeeze, while the non-British may pause over cricket's Chinaman, doosra, golden duck, off-break, popping crease, and yorker. This new dictionary gives the definitions of more than 8,000 terms used in sports and games from around the world, including mainstream sports like basketball and billiards alongside the more obscure netball and snooker. Entries cover sports equipment, strategies, venues, qualifying categories, awards, and administrative bodies, while a comprehensive system of cross-references offers assistance and clarification when needed. An appendix lists standard abbreviations of sports ruling bodies and administrative organizations.
Download or read book The Oxford Essential Dictionary of Abbreviations written by Berkley Publishing Group and published by Berkley Publishing Group. This book was released on 2004 with total page 0 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: From LAN to LOL, SWAT to SWAK, this dictionary contains full explanations of nearly 20,000 abbreviations for today's acronym-heavy world, including slang, the Internet, emoticons, and text-messaging abbreviations. Original.
Download or read book Abbreviations Dictionary written by and published by . This book was released on 1974 with total page 428 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
