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41 relations: Acronym, Acrostic, Adidas, Adolf Dassler, Amber alert, Apgar score, Blend word, CARES Act, DREAM Act, False etymology, Folk etymology, Gulliver's Travels, Hawaiian language, James Bond, Jonathan Swift, List of fictional espionage organizations, Mnemonic, Ocean liner, Pan-pan, Patriot Act, Persian language, Presidencies and provinces of British India, Radar, Recursive acronym, Retronym, Roll Call, Romani language, SARS-CoV-2, Satiric misspelling, SOS, SPECTRE, The Atlantic, The F-Word (book), United States Congress, United States Department of the Treasury, Urban legend, Urdu, Virginia Apgar, Wiki, Yahoo!, 113th United States Congress.
- Types of words
Acronym
An acronym is an abbreviation of a phrase that usually consists of the initial letter of each word in all caps with no punctuation. Backronym and acronym are acronyms and types of words.
Acrostic
An acrostic is a poem or other word composition in which the first letter (or syllable, or word) of each new line (or paragraph, or other recurring feature in the text) spells out a word, message or the alphabet.
Adidas
Adidas AG (stylized in all lowercase since 1949) is a German athletic apparel and footwear corporation headquartered in Herzogenaurach, Bavaria, Germany.
Adolf Dassler
Adolf "Adi" Dassler (3 November 1900 – 6 September 1978) was a German cobbler, inventor, and businessman who founded the German sportswear company Adidas.
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Amber alert
An Amber alert (alternatively styled AMBER alert) or a child abduction emergency alert (SAME code: CAE) is a message distributed by a child abduction alert system to ask the public for help in finding abducted children.
Apgar score
The Apgar score is a quick way for health professionals to evaluate the health of all newborns at 1 and 5 minutes after birth and in response to resuscitation.
Blend word
In linguistics, a blend—also known as a blend word, lexical blend, or portmanteau—is a word formed, usually intentionally, by combining the sounds and meanings of two or more words. Backronym and blend word are types of words.
CARES Act
The Coronavirus Aid, Relief, and Economic Security Act, also known as the CARES Act, is a $2.2trillion economic stimulus bill passed by the 116th U.S. Congress and signed into law by President Donald Trump on March 27, 2020, in response to the economic fallout of the COVID-19 pandemic in the United States.
DREAM Act
The Development, Relief, and Education for Alien Minors Act, known as the DREAM Act, is a United States legislative proposal that would grant temporary conditional residency, with the right to work, for illegal immigrants who entered the United States as minors—and, if they later satisfy further qualifications, they would attain permanent residency.
False etymology
A false etymology (fake etymology or pseudo-etymology) is a false theory about the origin or derivation of a specific word or phrase. Backronym and false etymology are etymology and folklore.
See Backronym and False etymology
Folk etymology
Folk etymology – also known as (generative) popular etymology, analogical reformation, (morphological) reanalysis and etymological reinterpretation – is a change in a word or phrase resulting from the replacement of an unfamiliar form by a more familiar one through popular usage. Backronym and Folk etymology are etymology and folklore.
See Backronym and Folk etymology
Gulliver's Travels
Gulliver's Travels, or Travels into Several Remote Nations of the World.
See Backronym and Gulliver's Travels
Hawaiian language
Hawaiian (Ōlelo Hawaii) is a Polynesian language and critically endangered language of the Austronesian language family that takes its name from Hawaiokinai, the largest island in the tropical North Pacific archipelago where it developed.
See Backronym and Hawaiian language
James Bond
The James Bond series focuses on the titular character, a fictional British Secret Service agent created in 1953 by writer Ian Fleming, who featured him in twelve novels and two short-story collections.
Jonathan Swift
Jonathan Swift (30 November 1667 – 19 October 1745) was an Anglo-Irish satirist, author, essayist, political pamphleteer (first for the Whigs, then for the Tories), poet, and Anglican cleric who became Dean of St Patrick's Cathedral, Dublin, hence his common sobriquet, "Dean Swift".
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List of fictional espionage organizations
Fictional espionage organizations with fancy-sounding acronyms are a common theme in spy fiction.
See Backronym and List of fictional espionage organizations
Mnemonic
A mnemonic device or memory device is any learning technique that aids information retention or retrieval in the human memory, often by associating the information with something that is easier to remember.
Ocean liner
An ocean liner is a type of passenger ship primarily used for transportation across seas or oceans.
Pan-pan
The radiotelephony message PAN-PAN is the international standard urgency signal that someone aboard a boat, ship, aircraft, or other vehicle uses to declare that they need help and that the situation is urgent, but for the time being, does not pose an immediate danger to anyone's life or to the vessel itself.
Patriot Act
The USA PATRIOT Act (commonly known as the Patriot Act) was a landmark Act of the United States Congress, signed into law by President George W. Bush.
Persian language
Persian, also known by its endonym Farsi (Fārsī|), is a Western Iranian language belonging to the Iranian branch of the Indo-Iranian subdivision of the Indo-European languages.
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Presidencies and provinces of British India
The provinces of India, earlier presidencies of British India and still earlier, presidency towns, were the administrative divisions of British governance on the Indian subcontinent.
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Radar
Radar is a system that uses radio waves to determine the distance (ranging), direction (azimuth and elevation angles), and radial velocity of objects relative to the site.
Recursive acronym
A recursive acronym is an acronym that refers to itself, and appears most frequently in computer programming. Backronym and recursive acronym are acronyms and types of words.
See Backronym and Recursive acronym
Retronym
A retronym is a newer name for something that differentiates it from something else that is newer and similar; thus, avoiding confusion between the two. Backronym and retronym are Neologisms and types of words.
Roll Call
Roll Call is a newspaper and website published in Washington, D.C., United States, when the United States Congress is in session, reporting news of legislative and political maneuverings on Capitol Hill, as well as political coverage of congressional elections across the country.
Romani language
Romani (also Romany, Romanes, Roma; rromani ćhib) is an Indo-Aryan macrolanguage of the Romani communities.
See Backronym and Romani language
SARS-CoV-2
Severe acute respiratory syndrome coronavirus 2 (SARS‑CoV‑2) is a strain of coronavirus that causes COVID-19, the respiratory illness responsible for the COVID-19 pandemic.
Satiric misspelling
A satiric misspelling is an intentional misspelling of a word, phrase or name for a rhetorical purpose.
See Backronym and Satiric misspelling
SOS
SOS is a Morse code distress signal, used internationally, originally established for maritime use.
SPECTRE
SPECTRE ("Special Executive for Counter-intelligence, Terrorism, Revenge and Extortion") is a fictional organisation featured in the James Bond novels by Ian Fleming, as well as films and video games based in the same universe.
The Atlantic
The Atlantic is an American magazine and multi-platform publisher.
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The F-Word (book)
The F-Word is a book by lexicographer and linguist Jesse Sheidlower surveying the history and usage of the English word fuck and a wide variety of euphemisms that replace it.
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United States Congress
The United States Congress, or simply Congress, is the legislature of the federal government of the United States.
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United States Department of the Treasury
The Department of the Treasury (USDT) is the national treasury and finance department of the federal government of the United States, where it serves as an executive department.
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Urban legend
Urban legends (sometimes modern legend, urban myth, or simply legend) is a genre of folklore concerning stories about an unusual (usually scary) or humorous event that many people believe to be true but largely are not.
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Urdu
Urdu (اُردُو) is an Indo-Aryan language spoken chiefly in South Asia.
Virginia Apgar
Virginia Apgar (June 7, 1909August 7, 1974) was an American physician, obstetrical anesthesiologist and medical researcher, best known as the inventor of the Apgar score, a way to quickly assess the health of a newborn child immediately after birth in order to combat infant mortality.
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Wiki
A wiki is a form of hypertext publication on the internet which is collaboratively edited and managed by its audience directly through a web browser.
Yahoo!
Yahoo! (styled yahoo! in its logo) is an American web services provider.
113th United States Congress
The 113th United States Congress was a meeting of the legislative branch of the United States federal government, from January 3, 2013, to January 3, 2015, during the fifth and sixth years of Barack Obama's presidency.
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See also
Types of words
- -onym
- Acronym
- Acronyms
- Anglicisation
- Anglicism
- Aptronym
- Autological word
- Autological words
- Backronym
- Blend word
- Capitonym
- Content word
- Contraction (grammar)
- Contronym
- Demonym
- Demonyms
- Doublet (linguistics)
- English words without vowels
- Ethnonym
- Gallicism
- Hebrew abbreviations
- Heteronym (linguistics)
- Homonym
- Homonymy
- Homophone
- Longest word in English
- Matronymics
- Nonce word
- Nonce words
- Onomatopoeia
- Opposite (semantics)
- Paronym
- Patronymic
- Patronymics
- Phantonym
- Pun
- Reborrowing
- Recursive acronym
- Retronym
- Russianism
- Slavicism
- Synonym
References
Also known as BACRONYMS, Backcronym, Backronyms, Bacronym, Forced acronym, Mynorca, Port Out, Starboard Home, Port Outward, Starboard Home, Posh (nautical term), Reverse acronym, Reverse-acronym.