Smothering (food) A plate lunch of smothered steak and gravy served over boiled white rice from Garys Grocery in Lafayette, Louisiana. Smothering meat, seafood or vegetables is a cooking technique used in both Cajun and Creole cuisines of Louisiana.
An acronym is an abbreviation, used as a word, which is formed from the initial components in a phrase or a word. Usually these components are individual letters (as in NATO or laser) or parts of words or names (as in Benelux).hile initial letters are commonly used to form an acronym, the original definition was a word made from the initial letters or syllables of other words, for example UNIVAC from UNIVersal Automatic Computer. In English, acronyms pronounced as words may be a 20th-century phenomenon.
Abbreviation An abbreviation is a way to shorten a word to save space. For example Ave. stands for Avenue and Apt. stands for apartment. An abbreviation (from Latin bre â¦ vis short) is a shorter form of a word . More particularly, an abbreviation is a letter or group of letters, taken from a word or words, and employed to represent them for the sake of . For example, the word abbreviation can be abbreviated as abbr. or abbrev.