Abbreviations Quotations

Know the official post office abbreviations for all 50 states without having to consult a list.

DNA is an abbreviation for deoxyribonucleicantidisestablishmentarianism, a complex string of syllables.

Artistic accounts involve severe abbreviations of what reality will force upon us.

Frequently, crashes are followed with a message like 'ID 02'. 'ID' is an abbreviation for idiosyncrasy and the number that follows indicates how many more months of testing the product should have had.

The abbreviations (e.g. NATO, UN, USSR - E.W.) denote that and only that which is institutionalized in such a way that the transcending connotation is cut off. The meaning is fixed, doctored, loaded. Once it has become an official vocable, constantly repeated in general usage, "sanctioned" by the intellectuals, it has lost all cognitive value and serves merely for recognition of an unquestionable fact.

Swear words and profanities are mere abbreviations of speech, similar to the abbreviations in writing.

SM is an abbreviation of both stock market and sadomasochism-- and there are those who think they are one and the same.

A pun, though despicable in itself, can be the noblest vehicle of an artistic intention by serving as the abbreviation of a wittyview. It can be a social criticism in the form of an epigram.

The word abbreviation sure is long for what it means.