{"id":399,"date":"2026-05-27T00:05:01","date_gmt":"2026-05-27T03:35:01","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/englishline.ir\/?p=399"},"modified":"2026-05-27T00:05:29","modified_gmt":"2026-05-27T03:35:29","slug":"acronym-vs-abbreviation","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/englishline.ir\/index.php\/english\/399\/acronym-vs-abbreviation\/","title":{"rendered":"Acronym vs  Abbreviation"},"content":{"rendered":"\n<p><strong>ac\u2027ro\u2027nym<\/strong> \/ \u02c8\u00e6kr\u0259n\u026am \/ <em>noun<\/em> [ countable ]<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>a word made up from the first letters of the name of something such as an organization. For example, NATO is an acronym for the North Atlantic Treaty Organization.<br><br><strong>ab\u2027bre\u2027vi\u2027a\u2027tion<\/strong> \/ \u0259\u02ccbri\u02d0vi\u02c8e\u026a\u0283 <em>\u0259 <\/em>n \/ <em>noun<\/em><\/p>\n\n\n\n<p><strong>1 <\/strong>[ countable ] a short form of a word or expression<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p><strong>abbreviation of\/for<\/strong><\/p>\n\n\n\n<p><em><\/em><em>\u2018Dr\u2019 is the written abbreviation of \u2018Doctor\u2019.<\/em><\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>Register<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>In everyday English, people usually say <strong>be short for<\/strong> instead of <strong>be the abbreviation of\/for <\/strong>:<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p><em>W.H.O. <strong><em>is short for<\/em><\/strong> \u2018World Health Organization\u2019.<\/em><\/p>\n\n\n\n<p><strong>2 <\/strong>[ uncountable ] the act of abbreviating something<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>ac\u2027ro\u2027nym \/ \u02c8\u00e6kr\u0259n\u026am \/ noun [ countable ] a word made up from the first letters of the name of something such as an organization. For example, NATO is an acronym for the North Atlantic Treaty Organization. ab\u2027bre\u2027vi\u2027a\u2027tion \/ \u0259\u02ccbri\u02d0vi\u02c8e\u026a\u0283 \u0259 n \/ noun 1 [ countable ] a short form of a word or &#8230;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":400,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[4,13],"tags":[8],"class_list":["post-399","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-english","category-vocabulary","tag-vocabulary"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/englishline.ir\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/399","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/englishline.ir\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/englishline.ir\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/englishline.ir\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/englishline.ir\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=399"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/englishline.ir\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/399\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":401,"href":"https:\/\/englishline.ir\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/399\/revisions\/401"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/englishline.ir\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/400"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/englishline.ir\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=399"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/englishline.ir\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=399"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/englishline.ir\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=399"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}