| 单词 | acronym |
| 释义 | acronym (once / 9657 pages) n Are the members of your after-school club tripping over the name Student Parachuting League & Aerial Team? Why not use each of the words’ first letters to make an acronym, and call the club SPLAT? There, that’s better. What do NOW, sonar, and scuba have in common? They are all acronyms. Not only does each letter come from the first letter of another word, but each group of letters is easy to pronounce as its own word. Though its roots are classic (acro means “tip” and nym means “name”), acronym is fairly new as English words go; it has only been around since the early 1940s. WORD FAMILYacronym: acronymic, acronymous, acronyms+/acronymic: acronymically/acronymous: acronymously USAGE EXAMPLESIraqi state TV said Hollande will discuss “increasing support to Iraq and the latest developments in the fight against Daesh,” the Arabic acronym for IS. Time(Jan 02, 2017) The name is an acronym for Society to Heal, Aid, Restore, Educate. New York Times(Dec 30, 2016) "Merry Christmas from the most forward TAA at the tip of the spear," James said, using a military acronym for the compound. Reuters(Dec 25, 2016) n a word formed from the initial letters of the several words in the name Hyper descriptor, form, signifier, word form the phonological or orthographic sound or appearance of a word that can be used to describe or identify something |
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