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.
Are you looking for the common acronyms? Acronyms are similar to abbreviations, in that they are a shorthand way of expressing an idea. However, unlike an abbreviation which may just be a shortened version of a word, (i.e. Mon. is short for Monday) acronyms have to stand for something. In other words, the first letter of other words or phrases come together to create acronyms. Here are lists of some of the most common acronyms in the English language.