An article published in Harvard Men’s Health Watch in 2012 shows heavy coffee drinkers live longer. The researchers examined data from 400,000 people and found out that men who drank six or more coffee cups per day had a 10% lower death rate.
ABBREVIATED
abbreviated, brief
(adjective) (of clothing) very short; “an abbreviated swimsuit”; “a brief bikini”
abbreviated, shortened, truncated
(adjective) cut short in duration; “the abbreviated speech”; “her shortened life was clearly the result of smoking”; “an unsatisfactory truncated conversation”
Source: WordNet® 3.1
Adjective
abbreviated (comparative more abbreviated, superlative most abbreviated)
Shortened; made briefer.
Relatively short; shorter than normal, or compared to others.
Scanty, as in clothing.
Verb
abbreviated
simple past tense and past participle of abbreviate
Source: Wiktionary
Ab*bre"vi*a`ted, a.
Definition: Shortened; relatively short; abbreviate.
ABBREVIATE
Ab*bre"vi*ate, v.t. [imp. & p.p. Abbreviated; p.pr. & vb.n. Abbreviating.] Etym: [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.)
Definition: To reduce to lower terms, as a fraction.
Ab*bre"vi*ate, a. Etym: [L. abbreviatus, p.p.]
1. Abbreviated; abridged; shortened. [R.] "The abbreviate form." Earle.
2. (Biol.)
Definition: Having one part relatively shorter than another or than the ordinary type.
Ab*bre"vi*ate, n.
Definition: An abridgment. [Obs.] Elyot.
Source: Webster’s Unabridged Dictionary 1913 Edition
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