What is an abbreviation? Abbreviations with decoding: examples

Sometimes in speech there are words that consist of a set of letters or halves of words. It happens that the meaning of such words is unfamiliar. This is a whole group of tokens that are in our language. About them and talk. What is an abbreviation? We will try to find the answer to this question in the article.

Complex word

The word "abbreviation" in Italian means "reduction". This is a special kind of compound word, which requires decoding. Most often used in official and business documentation, typical for many languages.

To understand what an abbreviation is, consider at least one example in sufficient detail. Take the word MSU. At first glance, it is not clear to us. Just a set of letters. But a person who knows Russian at the level of the school curriculum will immediately say that each letter stands for a word. We decipher them: M - Moscow, G - state, U - university.

Thus, knowing the decoding, you can determine what the abbreviation stands for.

Acquaintance with the use of abbreviations in speech begins at school. For example, when studying biology, you can find such abbreviations: DNA - deoxyribonucleic acid, HIV - human immunodeficiency virus, etc.

Ways to form abbreviations

Difficult words sometimes mean familiar and close to us things. They may look different, but they have one thing in common: in order to correctly enter such a word into your speech, it must be deciphered and correctly coordinated in the sentence.

There are several ways of forming such words. Let us consider them in more detail.

1. Use the first few sounds from the word and put them together. For example, the word "subdivision" was formed as follows: (com) andir (div) izii; "Department store" - (universal) (mag) azin, etc.
2. Use of initial letters. For example, the Air Force ([vevees], air force); ORT ([oerte], Public Russian Television).
3. Using the initial sounds. When writing such abbreviations can have in their composition as uppercase and lowercase letters. For example, SMU ([smu], construction management); High school (higher education institution, higher educational institution).

In addition, in our speech, English abbreviations are widely distributed. They accompany the following areas: science, medicine, fiction. There are many abbreviations in the special literature.

Decoding complex words

After studying the theoretical material, it is easy to understand what an abbreviation is. The main thing here is to learn how to apply them correctly in your speech. To do this, you need to know how to decode such a complex word and then correctly agree on it in the sentence.

For example, in the sentence " After the repair, the NPP has increased the output of electricity, " the verb has the ending A. To correctly write it, you must first decipher the word. NPP is a nuclear power plant. The main word is "station", it is feminine.

Abbreviations with decoding will help correctly and correctly build speech. They also allow to expand the lexicon, since such a transcript introduces new words.

In addition, our speech constantly sounds abbreviations. Know them is necessary, otherwise you can be considered a person uneducated. In addition, knowledge of such words will make life easier.

For example, in order to know where this signage leads, it is necessary to decipher it. LEMZ is Lianozovo Electromechanical Plant.

Foreign Abbreviations

Most foreign complicated words are English abbreviations. These are abbreviations of English words. Among them there are simple, quick to remember, there are also complex ones. You must know them. They can be useful in work, while traveling, in business correspondence, in other areas of human life.

Here are some English words-abbreviations. They can be divided into groups:

1. Letter pronunciation: BBC [bibisi] (British Broadcasting Corporation), PC [pisi] (personal computer), USA [useei] (United States of America).
2. Acronym words (formed by initial sounds): NATO [nato] (North Atlantic Alliance).
3. The use of abbreviation only in writing, in speech sounds like a full-fledged word: Mr [mystar] - (mister), St [street] (street).
4. Use of abbreviation in the organizational structure of the language: etc. [Ethers] (and so on), NB [enby] (to the note).
5. Abbreviated words used in informal speech: TV [tivi] (television), Case [case] (briefcase).

If you are interested in the full version of English abbreviations and do their translation, then this will help to learn English. Such abbreviations with decoding also supplement the lexicon.

Abbreviations in our life

Words-abbreviations accompany us through life, starting with the birth in the hospital (maternity hospital), which is registered in the registry office (registration of acts of civil status). After attending the pre-school educational establishment, we still go the length of eleven years to the Municipal School of Public Education (municipal secondary school), where we attend lessons, sports sections (sports sections), drama circles (drama clubs), etc. Then we arrive In high school (higher educational institution) or college, we receive a specialty and work in the research institute (research institute) or LLC (limited liability company). Someone opens an emergency (private enterprise) and becomes an individual entrepreneur. We go to department stores (department stores), housing offices (housing office), we visit sports complexes (sports complexes), DC (culture houses), we work on PC (personal computer). And at this time serious passions are boiling in the EU (the European Union), the OSCE (Organization for Security and Cooperation in Europe), APEC (Asia-Pacific Economic Cooperation) ...

This is only a small part of the examples that show what an abbreviation is. All is not listed. But we come across them at every step.

The best

The origin of the most common English abbreviation OK has many options: it is associated with the name of American biscuits, with the term telegraphists "public key", with the initials of one of the US presidents, with the affirmative response of the Indians.

The longest abbreviation in Russia consists of 55 characters - NIIOMTPLABOPARMBETZHELBETRABSBORMONIMONKONOTDTEHSTROYMONT (Research Laboratory of Operations for reinforcing concrete and reinforced concrete works for the construction of prefabricated monolithic and monolithic structures of the construction and assembly department of the Academy of Construction and Architecture of the USSR).

The funniest abbreviation is ZAMKOM ON THE MORD (Reminder of the Comandir for Maritime Affairs).

The most ridiculous abbreviation is MUDO (Municipal Institution of Additional Education).