Theme 3.3. Contraction, onomatopoeia, reduplication, reversion. Practical work no.7

Identification of the type of word-building.

Objectives: Identification of the type of abbreviation.

Ex.1.Each of the following sets contains a non-abbreviated word. Can you identify it?

1. A.ARM (US) adjustable-rate morgage

B.ARM antiradar missile

C.ARM atomic resolution microscope

D.ARM (usu. pi) a thing used in fighting, attacking or defending; a weapon

2. A.MAD Madeira

B.MAD mentally disturbed, deranged

C.MAD magnetic anomaly detection

D.MAD (Psychiatry) major affective disorder

3. A.VERT (SI.) a perverted person; esp., a person who practices sexual perversions

B.VERT. vertical; vertigo

C.VERT a convert

D.VERT In English forest law, everything within a forest that grows and bears a

green leaf, which may serve as a cover for deer; also the right to cut

green trees or wood.

4. A.ACORN the seed or fruit of the oak-tree

B.ACORN a classification of Residential Neighbourhoods (directory)

С.ACORN (Computing) associative content retrieval network

D.ACORN (Computing) automatic checkout and recording network

5. A.CAT computer-assisted tomography

B.CAT computer-assisted teaching

C.CAT a tripod having six feet; so called because it always lands on three feel,

however placed

D.CAT. catalogue

6. A.SAT (Education) standard assessment task

B.sat pt and pp of sit

C.SAT (US) scholastic aptitude test

D.Sat. Saturday

7. A.AIDS acquired immune deficiency syndrome

B.AIDS accident information display system

C.AIDS air force intelligence data-handling system

D.(Visual)

AIDS devices used to assist understanding or memory by displaying what is to

be understood or memorized in a visible form (picture, chart, etc.)

8. A.ACE (Engineering) advanced cooled engine

B.АСЕ an airman who has shot down a large number of enemy machines

C.АСЕ American Council on Education

D.ACE Association of Cultural Exchange

9. A.BASIC (Computing) beginners' all-purpose symbolic instruction code

(programming language)

B.BASIC of or at the base; essential

C.BASIC (in Basic English) a simplified vocabulary of 850 elementary English

words: British-American scientific, international, commercial

10. A.DARE demand and resource evaluation

B.D.A.R.E. (US) Drug Abuse Resistance Education

С.DARE first child born of English parents in the western hemisphere

D. DARE Dictionary of American Regional English

Ex.2. Each of the following sets contains an acronym. Can you identify it?

1. A.GLAM (Coll.) glamorous

B.GLAM (Coll.) greying, leasured, affluent, married

С.GLAM glamour: film-world hangers-on

D.GLAM. Glamorgan

2. A.MASH (US sl.) a lover

B.MASH (Aust. sl.) sentimental nonsense

C.MASH any soft substance beaten or crushed

D.MASH (US) mobile army surgical hospital

3. A.BOSS Bioastronautic Orbiting Space Station

B.BOSS the chief; the person in charge

С.BOSS (Teenagers fr. black and jazz musicians) excellent; wonderful; = COOL

D.BOSS a person or thing regarded as the best

4. A.CAT a catamaran boat

B.CAT a bulldozer or Caterpillar tractor (fr. Caterpillar, trade name)

С.CAT (Med.) computerized axial (or computer-assisted) tomography

D.CAT (Jazz musicians) A jazz musician

5. A.BEST most excellent; surpassing all others

B.BEST advantage

С.BEST to overcome; to defent; to excel

D.BEST British Expertise in Science and Technology (database)

6. A.COLA (USA) cost of living adjustment (clause in employment contracts)

B.COLA alternative pl. of colon (intestine)

С.COLA pl. of colon (prosody)

D.COLA a genus of trees found in Africa, whose nuts contain caffeine

7. A.SISTER (Coll.) woman; girl

B.SISTER Special Institutions for Scientific and Technological Education and

Research

С.SISTER (Black) a fellow black woman

D.SISTER (Brit.) a nurse, especially a head nurse

8. A.CLASS a number of people or things grouped together because of certain likeness

or common traits

B.CLASS high social rank or caste

С.CLASS a group of students taught together according to standing, subject, etc.

D.CLASS Computer-based Laboratory for Automated School Systems

9. A.PEEP pilot's electronic eye-level presentation

B.PEEP (Coll.) a word; a sound; the least utterance

C.PEEP the first appearance

D.PEEP a brief hasty look or restricted view

10. A.CHIPS (Brit.) French fried potatoes

B.CHIPS Clearing House Inter-Bank Payments System

C.CHIPS (US merchant marine) a ship's carpenter

D.CHIP(S) (Electronics) pl. a semiconductor body in which an integrated circuit

is formed or is to be formed

11. A.ABRACADABRA a mystical word used in incantations, on amulets, etc., as

a magical means of warding off misfortune harm, or illness

B.ABRACADABRA any charm or incantation using nonsensical or supposedly

magical words

С.ABRACADABRA Abbreviations and Related Acronyms Associated with Defence, Astronautics, Business, and Radio-electronics

Ex.3. One of the following sentences contains a non-blend word. Can you identify it?

1. A. floatel a hotel in which accomodation is provided in chalets constructed on

semi-permanently moored barges. Floaters should not be confused

with boatels. (Ayto)

B. boatel (a coinage of the mid-1950s), a waterfront hotel with facilities for

boat owners

C. motel a hotel designed for motorists

D. hostel a lodging place, esp. a supervised lodging place for young people

on bicycle trips, hikes, etc.: inn, hotel