so if i have a sentence-"blonde women really are fine" the acronym is bwraf, but lets say i have a letter sequence badecf and i make a sentence-"buffalo and deer eat colorful frogs". what is that sentence called? (opposite of an aconym)
2007-09-20 16:05:33 · 8 answers · asked by Mark S 2 in Education & Reference ➔ Words & Wordplay
"backronym" - a meaning assigned to an acronym
2007-09-20 16:23:26 · answer #1 · answered by Anonymous · 0⤊ 1⤋
Opposite Of Acronym
2016-10-05 23:52:46 · answer #2 · answered by correia 4 · 0⤊ 0⤋
FIRST of all, you have confused acronyms and abbreviations. Acronyms spell things; e.g., CARE, MADD, etc. IBM is the initials for International Business Machines. IBM is NOT an acronym. IBM does not spell ANYTHING! SCUBA is an acronym, standing for Self-contained Underwater Breathing Apperatus. Nylon is NOT an acronym; it's just a made up word. RADAR IS an acronym. And son on. Get it?
SECOND, there is no such thing as the opposite of an acronym! What would be the opposite of a series of abbreviated letters that make a word? A car? A hot meal? Flatulence?
There is a game whereby people try to make cutesy sayings and such out of the first letters in each of the words in a sentence or the letters in someone's name, etc. But that has NOTHING to do with acronyms!
2007-09-20 16:18:52 · answer #3 · answered by Just_One_Man's_Opinion 5 · 2⤊ 1⤋
The opposite of an acronym is a phrase. The phrase is compressed into an acronym, backronym, or mnemonic.
2016-09-01 05:28:44 · answer #4 · answered by Karl 1 · 0⤊ 0⤋
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what is the opposite of an acronym (spelling?)?
so if i have a sentence-"blonde women really are fine" the acronym is bwraf, but lets say i have a letter sequence badecf and i make a sentence-"buffalo and deer eat colorful frogs". what is that sentence called? (opposite of an aconym)
2015-08-10 12:24:32 · answer #5 · answered by Anonymous · 0⤊ 0⤋
Probably the closest would be a Mnemonic.
Example: how to remember the planets names from the sun.
Man very early made jars stand upright nearly perpendicular.
Mercury, Venus, Earth, Mars, Jupiter, Saturn, Uranus, Neptune, Pluto.
2007-09-20 16:17:15 · answer #6 · answered by Robert S 7 · 0⤊ 0⤋
Potentially a mnemonic, as you use the letters to trigger a way to remember something
2007-09-20 16:18:04 · answer #7 · answered by Experto Credo 7 · 0⤊ 0⤋
synonym
2007-09-20 16:08:52 · answer #8 · answered by Aly Cat 2 · 0⤊ 1⤋
... a mnemonic...?
2007-09-20 16:10:09 · answer #9 · answered by Graycie 2 · 0⤊ 0⤋